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In this task students were asked to find how many hops appeared as a result of our search, the following steps were conducted to achieve this:

1- Download the programme. The programmes are found on these websites: www.pingplotter.com

2- This link takes you directly to the 3d Traceroute
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/3dtraceroute.html

3- I used the two programmes. 3d Traceroute provides bar graphs (which you can rotate, move and zoom, for example) and table graphs. The Pingplotte provides graphs and tables and is able to save results.

4- The links below take you to Network Ping 1.1
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/free/128_s/index1.htm

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/network/fwtraceroute.html


5- After downloading, I performed a tracing route to "curtain.edu.au", where I found 18 hops (first result), the last hops being Curtin's server and the IP curtin.edu.au address is 134.7.179.53

6- After several traces to"" webct.curtin.edu.au" 134.7.180.156, I found 25 hops (second result).

The difference between the first and second result is that the devise is located in the United
States (for example), therefore the ping will be at its greatest. The most important element noted about tracing routes is that there seems to be a direct relationship between a ping size and the distance between the two devises the ping is being transferred to and from .