Is this ping test result crap

Pythagorous

Here's the ping result from the wireless windows xp laptop.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1148764339.png

Result looks just as bad although when i use the interent from the laptop I don't really notice it being slow the way I do when on the mac!

GunJack

the command in XP CMD prompt is "tracert www.bethere.co.uk" without the quotes

Toxteth_OGrady

its tracert in windows

GunJack

BTW, have you tried rebooting your router ??? Went to a callout on Sat, their ping was 800-odd ms, rebooted router and back down to 50-odd

kwikbreaks

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

OK, you've got a 100ms delay from your mac to your router. This should be < 1ms. Is that wireless or wired?

It's Be so it will be a Thomson Speedtouch and for some unknown reason they always show that rather iffy time for the first hop. It can be ignored as ping bbc.co.uk etc. will normally show way less than that but the first hop will still show as 99 or 100 in a tracert

Pythagorous

Thanks again guys. The tracert in windows is showing lots of 100+ ms as well (won't allow me to copy and paste the info).

Just going to try and reboot the router by turning it off and on again for 30 secs

Pythagorous

just tried reboot on the router both via unplugging and also the paperclip method, but seem to still be getting a bad ping result http://www.speedtest.net/result/1148799323.png

GunJack

just a thought, try several of the other speedtest servers, because each of them will give different results, e.g. if I use manchester, milton keynes and maidenhead, I get 26ms, which is the same as if I tracert bbc.co.uk, however, if I use London (namesco) the ping reads 80ms.

Pythagorous

GunJack wrote: »

just a thought, try several of the other speedtest servers, because each of them will give different results, e.g. if I use manchester, milton keynes and maidenhead, I get 26ms, which is the same as if I tracert bbc.co.uk, however, if I use London (namesco) the ping reads 80ms.

Yeah but regardelss of the speedtest result the interent does seem to be running slow.

debitcardmayhem

Perhaps it's just me but try this

1) try pinging to say your gaming host or bbc.co.uk from an online ping server

2) ping the online ping server from your pc and see what that's like

3) Ask yourself why is ping time important

4) Research into Internet Protocols and form your own opinions

c.f. - ICMP (udp) and Useful work eg FTP/POP/HTTP (oh I know udp is faster than TCP)

the ping(ED: shurely{Junior ED: surely you mean surely} you mean thing) is it's all relative, wait until we all go IPv6 then let's see what is that's going to bring.

Uncle Debit :rotfl::rotfl: