[lug] Traceroute question

[D. Stimits]

Michael Deck wrote:

> >When you look out through that slower pipe, you see the world in 200 ms
> >hops, when you go from the fast remote world  to your computer with
> >traceroute, it's only the last hop showing the 200 ms.
> 
> Why would I see the world in 200ms hops? I thought that traceroute
> presented the inter-hop time? That was really my question...
> 

Possibly traffic in one direction (the slower) was heavier? For example,
people doing ftp downloads use up one direction more than another.