Tracert to www.comcast.net help?

[Homework]

1 141 ms 40 ms 3 ms 192.168.0.1
2 55 ms 32 ms 24 ms 96.120.60.137
3 469 ms 361 ms 618 ms xe-11-0-3-0-sur04.vancouver.wa.bverton.comcast.
et [68.85.149.145]
4 598 ms 739 ms 495 ms et-17-0-0-1-0-ar03.troutdale.or.bverton.comcast
net [68.87.216.53]
5 345 ms 390 ms 227 ms he-0-4-0-5-11-cr02.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.94.233]
6 304 ms 321 ms 56 ms he-0-10-0-0-pe04.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net [
8.86.85.58]
7 229 ms 241 ms 234 ms 50.242.150.198
8 739 ms 883 ms 583 ms a96-17-8-74.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [96.1

 

[i7Baby]

How can we help?

 

[Homework]

I need to understand what the hops mean

 

[i7Baby]

There's lots of info available on the web eg http://www.howtogeek.com/134132/how-to-use-traceroute-to-identify-network-problems/

 

[Pooneil]

Those are the IPs and names of the various computers that your internet packets follow as they go through Comcast's network on the way to the broader world. Akami is a company whose various content delivery services include optimizing how video is streamed to make efficient use of bandwidth relative to the receivers ability to process the data.