Is it typical that ping times be higher when ping'ing machines within my LAN because I'm using wireless clients and encryption on top of that?
ie. Computers "lan3" and "lan5" are wireless laptop machines on my LAN connected by a Linksys WAP54G, BEFSR41, WPC54G, and a DELL MiniPCI WLAN card. The first response is always high then the ping time are normal. Either at 1ms or 3ms.
C:\Documents and Settings\win05>ping lan3
Pinging lan3 [192.168.0.3] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.3: bytes=32 time=285ms TTL=255 Reply from 192.168.0.3: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255 Reply from 192.168.0.3: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255 Reply from 192.168.0.3: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.3: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 285ms, Average = 72ms
C:\Documents and Settings\win05>ping lan5
Pinging lan5 [192.168.0.5] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.5: bytes=32 time=284ms TTL=255 Reply from 192.168.0.5: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255 Reply from 192.168.0.5: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255 Reply from 192.168.0.5: bytes=32 time