When I run an trace from China to Singapore, I usually have about 25 hops. I understood that the latency from the final hop is the closest thing to overall latency from point A to poing B.

In our run, the middle hops (where are problem starts) have latency that is much higher than the final hop. How can this happen if the data has to run through the entire path to get to the destination router. Below is an example from the txt file:

"10/31/2002 3:32:32 PM",0,3,3,2,5,4,4,7,5,9,10,29,32,34,29,64,64,68,*,35,894,891,894,938,275,78

Any help would be appreciated. I am actually using the trial version of your tool, but if I can make sense of this, I am interested in buying quite a few copies as I've found it very helpful identifying bottlenecks for our Internet users.

Thanks