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Originally Posted by Masque
Once the routing goes outside of the Virginmedia network the is no way to ensure that every traceroute or speedtest follows the exact same path as it will always choose the shortest and fastest route so if the is heavy traffic elsewhere it will automatically reroute, so as you cannot control the exact route it one takes how can you be sure of any accuracy due to these inconsistencies.
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You dont need it to be consistent. If you do 10k pings over a week then you have a good baseline. You mitigate the routing inconsistencies by having such a huge sample size that it is irrelevant as to where the packets are going via and the only really consistent thing is the startpoint (which we are interested in) and destination. Do another 10k over a week with another modem and then you have your data.