Hop

A hop may refer to any of the following:

1. With a network, a hop is an intermediate connection between the source and destination. With the traceroute command, you can see how many hops it takes to reach a destination.

As shown in the example below, connecting from an example computer to Computer Hope took three hops. Traceroute displayed each of the servers, routers, and their response time for each hop.

1	169 ms	190 ms	160 ms	slc1-tc.xmission.com [166.70.1.20]
2	159 ms	160 ms	190 ms	cisco0-tc.xmission.com [166.70.1.1]
3	165 ms	189 ms	159 ms	www.computerhope.com [166.70.10.23]

2. In IRC (Internet Relay Chat), a HOP is short for half operator and is a user that doesn't have every right, but can kick, ban, voice, and change topic.

AOP, Computer abbreviations, Network terms, OP, Trace, Traceroute