INTERNET TOOLS

This excercise turned out to be a complete eye opener, You dont realise whats happening in the background and the speed of which it happens when you are using the internet.
I used centralops for part a of the task -


TraceRoute to 134.7.179.53 [curtin.edu.au]
Hop
(ms)
(ms)
(ms)

IP Address
Host name
1
11
6
6

72.249.0.65
-
2
10
8
6

206.123.64.22
-
3
7
6
6

216.52.189.9
border4.te4-4.colo4dallas-4.ext1.dal.pnap.net
4
16
6
8

216.52.191.103
core1.tge5-2-bbnet2.ext1.dal.pnap.net
5
8
6
6

144.228.250.113
sl-st20-dal-8-2-1.sprintlink.net
6
8
7
13

144.232.9.192
sl-crs1-fw-0-2-0-1.sprintlink.net
7
42
49
36

144.232.18.144
sl-crs2-ana-0-14-5-0.sprintlink.net
8
46
50
45

144.232.20.101
sl-crs2-sj-0-9-0-0.sprintlink.net
9
55
46
46

144.232.20.7
-
10
50
49
55

144.223.243.26
sl-aarne-46053-0.sprintlink.net
11
219
216
213

202.158.194.173
so-3-3-1.bb1.a.syd.aarnet.net.au
12
211
206
209

202.158.194.198
ge-0-0-0.bb1.b.syd.aarnet.net.au
13
225
219
219

202.158.194.33
so-2-0-0.bb1.a.mel.aarnet.net.au
14
230
232
233

202.158.194.17
so-2-0-0.bb1.a.adl.aarnet.net.au
15
264
255
256

202.158.194.5
so-0-1-0.bb1.a.per.aarnet.net.au
16
262
262
257

202.158.198.178
gigabitethernet0.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au
17
259
257
257

202.158.198.186
gw1.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au
18
Timed out
Timed out
Timed out


-
19
Timed out
Timed out
Timed out


-
20
Timed out
Timed out
Timed out


-
21
262
258
257

134.7.179.53
-
Trace complete

There were 21 hops completed although 3 of these timed out.
The average speed was 257 milliseconds.
Curtins IP Address is 134.7.179.53

For part b I used a tool called VISUALROUTE from VISUALWARE.COM.
It took 23 hops to trace from their site in the USA to Curtin with a maximum response time of 313milliseconds. The site is a great toll which gives you a breakdown of each hop as well as graphical data to help better understand the process.
This test not only took longer to complete it also used more hops, which suggest the distance between the two sites was the possible cause.

Part c from my own PC was completed extremely quickly - with an average time of 87ms.
This task has shown me there is always more than meets the eye when working with computers and the internet. It is a complex process operating in the background which enables users to experience speedy internet.