Is this right?

[jsbush]

I can ping one of my friends on cable that lives about 15min from me at 10ms, but if I ping my cable company (cgocable) I get like 60-80ms. Hows this?

[DrewWiley]

are you pinging the company's website or what? Because you might only be a few hops from your friend while you might have to go through several hubs and such to get to your cable company's website.

[jsbush]

I'm pinging my dns sever (205.151.69.200)

[DrewWiley]

Is your friend on the same cable service as you?
Do me a favor, do a tracert to your friend and to your DNS server and post the results here.

[jsbush]

It does three hopes for my dns and two for my friend, and yes he is on the same cable service as me.

Tracing route to indyweb.cgocable.ca [205.151.69.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 172.24.0.1
2 70 ms 70 ms 50 ms 172.30.4.97
3 71 ms 80 ms 60 ms indyweb.cgocable.ca [205.151.69.200]


Trace complete.

C:\>tracert 24.226.197.12

Tracing route to 197-12.lr.cgocable.ca [24.226.197.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 172.24.0.1
2 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms 197-12.lr.cgocable.ca [24.226.197.12]

Trace complete.

[glc1]

jsbush, the DNS server is being used by many while your friend's PC isn't, barring any servers that he may be running. Thus, one can expect DNS pings to be higher.

[ 02-11-2001: Message edited by: glc1 ]