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Old 11-02-2016, 06:00 PM  
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Originally Posted by AdultKing View Post
processing on a page ? seriously ?

Ping time is measured as the time it takes for an icmp echo request to leave your network interface and the reply to return back again from the target host.

So to simplify, it's measured from the network port of the computer.

If you want to measure latency across a network you can use traceroute

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Commun..._Networks/Ping
So it is counting how long it takes to get through the network I am on, including multiple routers, extenders etc. - That makes sense - Thanks...
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