Ping round trip times (ms)

Benchmarking test, 5 packets sent.

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Just for the heck of it, can we do a little benchmarking on round trip times for your sites. I use a program called WS_FTP Ping that allows me to perform basic domain tests, one of those being a Ping Utility.

I've currently got it set up to make 5 trips. As of this moment, I'm seeing these types of numbers in ms...

12/13/12/13/14

Average 12.8 ms

[freeflight2]

hmmm ping webmasterworld.com takes here about 2.3ms (texas DC)
pinging an other box on the same 100mbit intranet takes 0.163 ms

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WebmasterWorld
49/47/47/46/46

Google
82/80/80/80/79

Yahoo!
20/19/19/19/18

My Test Site Today 20060113
12/12/13/12/12

So, what is it that determines the round trip times when Pinging?

[jimbeetle]

Okay, I'll play.

WebmasterWorld
67/66/67/66/66

Google
44/44/44/43/43

Yahoo
32/32/33/33/31

My Test Site
23/26/24/25/24

[emsaw]

WebmasterWorld 65/65/72/65/65
Google 80/81/80/81/81
Yahoo 81/80/85/80

Site1 21/21/21/20/21
Site2 84/81/81/82/81

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WebmasterWorld
48/49/49/47/47

Google
80/81/79/80/81

Yahoo!
80/82/81/81/80

My Test Site Today 20060117
13/13/13/12/13

I'm wondering if me sitting on top of an OC192 connection has anything to do with my extremely low ping times? Who out there really understands all this and what effect does it have overall?