A computer communicates via the Internet by sending a packet containing information like an address for a destination computer, the data size, and the data itself (email message, web page, piece of video, etc.) ( Vahid & Lysecky 2017). Typically, the packet will travel through your ISP via a router or switch, depending on the destination address of the information. Looking in-depth at my ping test, it seems at the beginning; all traffic follows the same path. I am assuming that the last IP, which is 65.99.53.35, is most likely the last Ip before it goes outside the ISP network. If you look at the types, they are pretty similar worldwide no matter what destination you are trying to hit. I would say the main reason for this is the availability of fiber almost worldwide. I am currently stationed in Japan, and we have one gb of speed.
In my current job, we use tracert and ping tests quite often. Once we have configured the network and assume all commands are correct, we start pinging things within our known network. A real-life example was recently when we could not ping our call manager or our server stacks, yet we could get outside the network. We had established adjacency with the network providing services. We could ping external websites and certain things inside the network but not everything. We realized by doing a tracert and going through configurations is that we had an incorrect IP address assigned to an encryption device. Without having these tools, it would have been difficult to understand why we were having issues within our network.
There a few reasons why your ping test and tracert would fail when running the test. Some of the issues you could encounter are the ISP is down, a DNS is down, or an offline website. When you run the test, and it times out, something between the host and destination is unreachable. Depending on your access to the network, that is where you can begin to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017). Computing technology for all. Retrieved from zybooks.zyante.com/
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