PREFACE: There is a fair bit of information that I am providing for this question, so please be patient.

Run Traceroute between a source and destination at three different time of the day, summarize your findings at each of the times in terms of average and standard deviation of the round-trip delays, number of routers in the path, and explain your findings.

My findings are as follows:

First run of Traceroute:

16:43 Monday June 11, 2018

traceroute to whc.ca (158.69.149.142), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets

1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 4.260 ms 3.089 ms 6.874 ms

2 10.139.32.1 (10.139.32.1) 18.479 ms 10.948 ms 14.555 ms

3 toroonnlbr00.bb.telus.com (154.11.11.57) 105.252 ms 62.394 ms 58.732 ms

4 mtl-1-6k.qc.ca (142.44.208.120) 161.086 ms 59.888 ms 75.111 ms

5 be100-1325.bhs-g2-nc5.qc.ca (192.99.146.142) 62.664 ms 61.965 ms 88.868 ms

6 * * *

7 * * *

8 * * *

9 whc.ca (158.69.149.142) 61.750 ms 61.719 ms 61.492 ms

Second run of Traceroute:

10:44 Tuesday June 12, 2018

traceroute to whc.ca (158.69.149.142), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets

1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 2.947 ms 2.509 ms 72.229 ms

2 10.139.32.1 (10.139.32.1) 8.355 ms 9.030 ms 9.391 ms

3 toroonnlbr00.bb.telus.com (154.11.11.57) 176.041 ms 58.653 ms 59.745 ms

4 mtl-1-6k.qc.ca (142.44.208.120) 73.904 ms 58.504 ms 319.701 ms

5 * be100-1325.bhs-g2-nc5.qc.ca (192.99.146.142) 229.538 ms 61.322 ms

6 * * *

7 * * *

8 * * *

9 whc.ca (158.69.149.142) 61.186 ms 63.492 ms 61.565 ms

Third run of Traceroute:

13:38 Tuesday June 12, 2018

traceroute to whc.ca (158.69.149.142), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets

1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 4.010 ms 2.131 ms 1.973 ms

2 10.139.32.1 (10.139.32.1) 8.716 ms 9.346 ms 11.031 ms

3 toroonnlbr00.bb.telus.com (154.11.11.57) 124.737 ms 62.751 ms 144.529 ms

4 mtl-1-6k.qc.ca (142.44.208.120) 63.313 ms 58.761 ms 86.794 ms

5 be100-1325.bhs-g2-nc5.qc.ca (192.99.146.142) 63.310 ms 61.948 ms 87.319 ms

6 * * *

7 * * *

8 * * *

9 whc.ca (158.69.149.142) 60.071 ms 60.273 ms 60.120 ms

I have no clue how to find the times in terms of average and standard deviation. As for the number of routers, there are nine (9) for each of the the three trials. It appears that in each of the trials that routers 6, 7, & 8 experienced packet loss. Perhaps I am overthinking the math involved in this question, but am I to take the average time for each router in a particular trial, add that to the average time for each of the other routers in the same trial, then take the average of these totals as the average delay for the entire trial? Can someone please show me the math for all of this? I am sure there is a simpler way to approach this question but I haven't got a clue.