Talk:Hopcount

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Can someone explain how hop count is a measure of distance? The number of hops has nothing to do with distance. One hop will get you from NYC to London England. One hop will get you from NYC to NYC.Vegaswikian

"Distance" in this case is not a physical measure (eg. metres). It is a count of the number of network nodes a packet must travel through, in order to reach its destination. The greater number of nodes, the "further" it must travel.

In your example, if the number of hops between the two NYC computers were 10 and the number of hops between the NYC and London computers were 5, then the two NYC computers would have the greater distance between them. (This simplistic case does not take into account other factors such as transmission medium, etc).

TheParanoidOne 19:51, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Logical distance vs. physical distance" might have summed it up more succintly than the above.

TheParanoidOne 20:00, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That's the real right answer. That needs to get put into the article. The logical distance is the more important one, all other factors being equal. The larger the hop count, the more chance to run into an overloaded router or some other form of network delay. Vegaswikian 07:01, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)