Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 25-07-2008, 19:31   #12728
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by Peter N View Post
A general request for the tech-experts (texperts?)

Can one of you post a laymans explanation of the use of traceroutes and how it relates to this issue? It may help some of the non-techys amongst us to understand the significance of all of these posts.
Trace route would be like the post office writing on the back of a letter all the places the letter went on route

1 you taking it from your house to the post box (hop one)
2 the van to the sorting office,
3 the sorting office to the truck,
4 the truck to the sorting hub,
5 the hub to the correct local delivery office
6 local delivery office to the post man
7 postman to final destination.

Now it could get misrouted, say SG14 read as SO14 and sent to the wrong sorting office (Southampton, not Stevenage) and then need correcting so that would add other hops, a truck could break down and so a replacement truck would add into the list adding more hops.
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