Why times elapsed connecting to a server are different?

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Published on 2013-10-28T02:31:14Z Indexed on 2013/10/28 3:58 UTC
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I have a small program which connects to a server of my choice and measures the time elapsed to do so. Each time I run it it returns different result. My question is what does this time depend on ?

Network congestion for one.

If I choose a server that has multiple addresses e.g. google.com the length of physical link may differ from time to time ? Is it safe to assume that it also affects connection time ?

Are there any other factors in place ?

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