This is an interesting read about ISP malpractices.
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=45
my ping = 86ms
So I guess they are not screwing, but are just plain bad ?
# mtr -n -r -c 100 8.8.8.8
Start: Sat Mar 3 17:22:30 2018
HOST: Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 192.168.1.1 0.0% 100 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.8 0.0
2.|-- 96.120.xx.xx 0.0% 100 8.0 8.3 6.2 26.0 2.8
3.|-- 69.139.210.5 0.0% 100 10.1 10.7 5.9 41.1 4.3
4.|-- 68.85.244.81 0.0% 100 8.1 10.4 6.1 39.6 4.8
5.|-- 68.86.92.61 0.0% 100 14.4 15.5 9.0 43.8 4.3
6.|-- 68.86.85.194 0.0% 100 13.2 13.6 9.3 23.4 1.4
7.|-- 66.208.228.66 0.0% 100 12.8 14.4 9.7 35.9 3.7
8.|-- ??? 100.0 100 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
9.|-- 108.170.229.115 0.0% 100 15.4 14.9 9.3 51.6 4.1
10.|-- 8.8.8.8 0.0% 100 12.4 13.6 8.6 31.5 2.5
# mtr -n -r -c 100 8.8.8.8
Start: Sun Mar 4 04:56:20 2018
HOST: Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 192.168.1.1 0.0% 100 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.7 0.0
2.|-- 122.169.xx.xx 0.0% 100 27.1 28.9 26.0 53.0 5.3
3.|-- 59.145.160.65 0.0% 100 28.0 27.8 26.1 44.0 1.7
4.|-- 182.79.198.218 0.0% 100 81.1 81.6 78.5 116.6 6.3
5.|-- 72.14.197.166 0.0% 100 79.3 80.1 78.5 95.1 1.6
6.|-- 74.125.242.146 0.0% 100 82.2 82.0 80.4 89.0 1.1
7.|-- 209.85.248.251 0.0% 100 114.7 116.6 112.4 154.2 8.5
8.|-- 216.239.51.61 0.0% 100 111.5 114.1 110.9 130.1 4.5
9.|-- ??? 100.0 100 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Indeed i did. Corrected that.I think you mixed up (swapped) the airtel/comcast pings ?
@desktop ~ $ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=63.6 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=63.4 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=63.4 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=63.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=47 time=62.9 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 62.994/63.455/63.764/0.385 ms
@desktop ~ $ ping 8.8.4.4
PING 8.8.4.4 (8.8.4.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=3.71 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=3.62 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=4.01 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=3.69 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.4.4: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=3.73 ms
^C
--- 8.8.4.4 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.620/3.758/4.018/0.135 ms
@desktop ~ $
Isn't this because Google co-locates their DNS servers close to ISPs worldwide? Nothing sinister, right?