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Why does one particular hop in the route often show a really bad time – but the hop right after it performs well?

April 26, 2017bad hop particular performs right route time

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Why does one particular hop in the route often show a really bad time – but the hop right after it performs well?

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It appears that some routers just don’t prioritize timed out ICMP requests very high (ICMP requests where the TTL equals 0 after reaching them). If the hop right after consistently performs well, just don’t factor this hop into your troubleshooting equation (i.e. ignore it).