Weird ping

[supervegeta41]

My tracert always shows the 6th hop being quite high but the others are all nice and low, any ideas?

Tracing route to saix.net [196.25.1.204]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms ti-224-32-01.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.32.1]
3 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms ti-224-0-06.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.6]
4 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms ti-224-0-13.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.13]
5 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 165.165.216.221
6 34 ms 32 ms 32 ms wblv-ip-essr-1-atm-2-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [1
96.43.11.22]
7 wblv-ip-essr-1-atm-2-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.11.22] reports: Dest
ination net unreachable.

Trace complete.

 

[steel_dog]

I'm with Afrihost. Here's a comparative to saix.

Tracing route to saix.co.za [196.25.1.204]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 5 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
2 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms 105-236-240-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.240.129]
3 13 ms 10 ms 11 ms 41.181.201.94
4 40 ms 11 ms 12 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-c.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.198.188]
5 15 ms 11 ms 11 ms unc-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.8]
6 13 ms 9 ms 9 ms tb-pr-1.za--tb-cr-2.za-a.mtnns.net [196.44.18.143]
7 13 ms 12 ms 9 ms wblv-ip-se-2-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.165.197]
8 14 ms 11 ms 10 ms 196.43.25.205
9 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms wblv-ip-essr-1-atm-2-0-0-2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.11.30]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * wblv-ip-essr-1-atm-2-0-0-2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.11.30] reports: Destination net unreachable.

Trace complete.

I wouldn't worry about the slight jump unless you're experiencing issues.

Here's similar to Afrihost.

Tracing route to www.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 4 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
2 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms 105-236-240-129-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.240.129]
3 13 ms 10 ms 11 ms ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]
4 11 ms 10 ms 9 ms tb-dca-2.za--qux-c.za.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.198.188]
5 13 ms 10 ms 13 ms compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
6 15 ms 12 ms 12 ms ct-cr-2.za--tb-cr-1.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.134]
7 36 ms * 45 ms rb-cr-1.za--ct-cr-2.za.mtnns.net [196.44.31.69]
8 32 ms 34 ms 32 ms 196.44.31.97
9 57 ms 31 ms 34 ms 196.31.220.10
10 36 ms 40 ms 38 ms tengigabitethernet1-1.gw21.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.220.21]
11 33 ms 31 ms 33 ms tengigabitethernet5-2.hr15.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.31.63.194]
12 36 ms 34 ms 33 ms cms-gm.afrihost.com [197.242.144.102]

Trace complete.

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
I agree with Steel dog. Not much to worry about.

Of course if it gets worse then it would be some cause for concern.

Regards

Tim