Why does windows2000 ping have a resolution of 10ms?

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From: Duncan
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:40

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I just noticed all the pings from a windows2000 pc on a LAN are always
n*10 ms i.e 

Pinging 158.152.1.222 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 158.152.1.222: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=254
Reply from 158.152.1.222: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=254
Reply from 158.152.1.222: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=254
Reply from 158.152.1.222: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=254

Looking at other peoples trace routes in winnt it seems this is common
but no one seems to ask why. Is windows adding some latency or is it
just that its ping timing is inaccurate? 
-- 
Duncan

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From: Duncan <duncan@little.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Why does windows2000 ping have a resolution of 10ms?
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:40:35 +0000
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