> Well, to start with, it can't be three milliseconds, because that would only be for the outgoing packet to arrive at its destination. You have to get a response, too, before the timeout will be aborted. Shouldn't it be six milliseconds?

> Of course. This is one of the details I skipped in the story. It seemed irrelevant, and boring, so I left it out.

I don't understand, so it was in fact 6 ms?