Re: Why does windows2000 ping have a resolution of 10ms?

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From: Bob Cousins
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:33

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Nick Webster wrote:

>From here, using 2000 and XP, pinging localhost, other LAN machines, 
>default gateway, and hosts on the Net, all produce pings with various 
>times that are not n*10.

Thats funny, all the ping times I have ever seen from many NT and 2000
boxes have been in 10ms granularity. I assumed this was because the
resolution of the Windows Timer function is 10ms. I wonder what is
different about your systems?
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Bob Cousins.
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From: Bob Cousins <bob@$NOSPAM$lintilla.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why does windows2000 ping have a resolution of 10ms?
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