Traveling Through a Network

Hey blog readers in the textbook Computing technology for all, its described that the internet moves data by breaking it into packets that it then sends through the users ISP that is sent through a series of connected devices which is known as a hop. On the other end the user receiving the data has the packet go through the other users internet service provider and then is received by the user. 






The data showed that the only website that had a slow ping was the website leading to the South African government website https://www.gov.za I also pinged the Japan government website https://www.japan.go.jp and lastly Google as instructed. Google was the fastest as expected but not by much since the Japan government website was pretty quick itself. Ping and Traceroute can give you insights on connection issues and what exactly may be causing the problems by looking at the data and finding where the packet is lost. The trace route data made me really think because from that data you can see the Japan hops far out number the hops to South Africa however the South Africa ping showed us communicating with that network happened much slower then my two other pings. I would have to guess that possibly the South African government server may be older or something like that since it was so much slower or possibly something is interrupting the connection. Ping or Trace Route may timeout if the other side has a firewall preventing the user from getting the information or it could be showing a problem in the server connection to get to the other user. I thought using these tools really helped show internet at work rather than the textbook just explaining it to us. I did expect the trace route for Japan and South Africa to be in much higher numbers but overall I enjoyed this discussion and got a better understanding of how networks work.


Resources:

Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2019). Computing technology for all. zyBooks.

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