[LUNA] [OT] quickie ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 07/11/15 22:33, Bob Nance wrote:
> If you drop pings to the other side it might be a dud. A lot of inexpensive routers deliberately lower the importance of ping responses since they have so little horsepower. Do a ping -c 10000 and let it run to some well maintained public site and base your decision on the percentage. If you lose more than 2-3% it's probably your router.
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>   Bob Nance
>   Novation Systems
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> (iPhone-flavored)


 From earlier this evening:


[wam at kabini1, ~, 10:08:55pm] 508 % ping fly.hiwaay.net
PING fly.hiwaay.net (216.180.54.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.180.54.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=60.659 ms
64 bytes from 216.180.54.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=62.061 ms
64 bytes from 216.180.54.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=61.944 ms
64 bytes from 216.180.54.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=47 time=71.006 ms

--- fly.hiwaay.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 60.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 60.659/63.917/71.006/4.129 ms
[wam at kabini1, ~, 10:09:13pm] 509 % ping 216.180.54.1
PING 216.180.54.1 (216.180.54.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.180.54.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=47 time=68.144 ms
64 bytes from 216.180.54.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=47 time=61.929 ms

--- 216.180.54.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 80.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 61.929/65.037/68.144/3.107 ms
[wam at kabini1, ~, 10:09:26pm] 510 % ping 207.98.174.1
PING 207.98.174.1 (207.98.174.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 207.98.174.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=8.433 ms
64 bytes from 207.98.174.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=9.274 ms
64 bytes from 207.98.174.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=11.691 ms
64 bytes from 207.98.174.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=63 time=10.182 ms
64 bytes from 207.98.174.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=63 time=9.382 ms

--- 207.98.174.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 50.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 8.433/9.792/11.691/1.099 ms
[wam at kabini1, ~, 10:09:39pm] 511 % ping gateway
PING ipcop (192.168.0.254): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.302 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.284 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.254: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.318 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.254: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.309 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.254: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.282 ms

--- ipcop ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 50.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.282/0.299/0.318/0.014 ms
[wam at kabini1, ~, 10:09:54pm] 512 %


Not 10000, I will try that momentarily .... 207.98.174.1 is Wowway's 
gateway, BTW, i.e. 1 hop away (past the router) ....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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