If you want to know how badly lagged you are when you play a game, or if you're potentially having your web traffic hijacked, there is a command that can help.
It's called a Trace Route. In windows, you run it from the command prompt, A.K.A "The Dark Place". You type in tracert then the IP address or the url you want to follow.
You'll get a lot of stuff that you may need some help to read but it will tell you the following -
The number of "hops" or computers you pass through to get to the next step.
The time it took to go from point A to point B.
The IP Address and the URL of the destination.
Someone had a little fun.
You see you have a lot of latitude in naming those routers that are out there. Apparently people weren't checking to see what people were calling them. Someone figured that out and decided to name them oddly.
They pieced them together and made a story.
So if you went to Start, Accessories, Command Prompt and typed
tracert 216.81.59.173
You get the following results. Or at least I did when I typed the stuff in at 750AM ion Sunday Feb 10, 2013. If you miss the story, jump to step 12 and read the words in Italics.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Bill>tracert 216.81.59.173
Tracing route to FIN [216.81.59.173]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms <1 192.168.1.1="" br="" ms="" nbsp=""> 2 27 ms 43 ms 69 ms (My address was here, sorry folks)111
3 25 ms 23 ms 26 ms xe-9-2-0-0-sur03.pompanobeach.fl.pompano.comcast
.net [68.86.163.129]
4 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms te-0-1-0-2-ar03.northdade.fl.pompano.comcast.net
[68.87.162.217]
5 50 ms 35 ms 36 ms he-2-7-0-0-cr01.miami.fl.ibone.comcast.net [68.8
6.93.81]
6 29 ms 29 ms 22 ms pos-0-0-0-0-pe01.nota.fl.ibone.comcast.net [68.8
6.87.102]
7 27 ms 27 ms 26 ms 66.208.233.18
8 42 ms 41 ms 47 ms xe-2-1-0.atl11.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.184.21]
9 45 ms 106 ms 44 ms epik-networks-gw.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.69.158]
10 52 ms 53 ms 51 ms po0-3.dsr2.atl.epikip.net [216.81.59.2]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 104 ms 93 ms 87 ms Episode.IV [206.214.251.1]
13 97 ms 90 ms 91 ms A.NEW.HOPE [206.214.251.6]
14 88 ms 89 ms 90 ms It.is.a.period.of.civil.war [206.214.251.9]
15 90 ms 93 ms 88 ms Rebel.spaceships [206.214.251.14]
16 88 ms 87 ms 88 ms striking.from.a.hidden.base [206.214.251.17]
17 89 ms 91 ms 89 ms have.won.their.first.victory [206.214.251.22]
18 90 ms 88 ms 93 ms against.the.evil.Galactic.Empire [206.214.251.25
]
19 89 ms 88 ms * During.the.battle [206.214.251.30]
20 89 ms 90 ms 93 ms Rebel.spies.managed [206.214.251.33]
21 89 ms 95 ms 90 ms to.steal.secret.plans [206.214.251.38]
22 96 ms 90 ms 93 ms to.the.Empires.ultimate.weapon [206.214.251.41]
23 92 ms 94 ms 89 ms the.DEATH.STAR [206.214.251.46]
24 94 ms 104 ms 103 ms an.armored.space.station [206.214.251.49]
25 96 ms 88 ms 93 ms with.enough.power.to [206.214.251.54]
26 107 ms 93 ms 96 ms destroy.an.entire.planet [206.214.251.57]
27 2194 ms 83 ms 117 ms Pursued.by.the.Empires [206.214.251.62]
28 91 ms 91 ms 91 ms sinister.agents [206.214.251.65]
29 90 ms 90 ms 90 ms Princess.Leia.races.home [206.214.251.70]
30 104 ms 88 ms 92 ms aboard.her.starship [206.214.251.73]
Trace complete.
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