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Originally Posted by hardflex

ok that makes sense I guess..

When I did the tracert the 1st series times out no matter what ip I trace. What is that? Can't I speed up my internet response by not have those "time out's

That first hop is probably your router. No, it wouldn't speed up your Internet access to get rid of those timeouts. Traceroute is a diagnostic tool that functions differently than regular Internet traffic.

Regular Internet traffic is only worried about the source and the destination. It passes through lots of stuff in between, but it doesn't really care anything about that stuff.

Traceroute is specifically interested in the stuff in the middle, as much or more than it's interested in the destination. So traceroute askes every device in the line to respond. Some devices for whatever reason (usually security) don't like to respond, and to do their normal job, they don't need to respond so it's not a big deal.

Since normal web traffic doesn't require your router to actually respond, only to pass traffic, having it not respond to a traceroute won't affect the speed of your Internet traffic.