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Does cable length affects response time of ping?

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The question is above.
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Yes, it does – theoretically

The ping time is the sum of

  • the processing and send time on the initiating side,
  • the signal transport time on the cable,
  • the receive time,
  • processing time
  • and send time on the replying side,
  • the signal transport time on the cable
  • the receive and processing time on the initiating side.

In modern copper wire the signal speed is about 85% of the speed of the light in vacuum, so you get something like 26cm per ns. If you compare the shortest possible cable to the longest possible cable in the CAT5/CAT6 ethernet domain you will find the difference is ca. 400ns – which is typically much less than any of the other time slices.

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