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Speedtest and pingtest??
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#1 - danthebangerboy
Speedtest and pingtest??
I am having hideous problems tonight with my net, so slow its unbelievable, to the point of taking at least 1 minute to just open the main page of any given forum, thats if it didnt give the 'this page cannot be displayed' error, and it took at least 3 minutes for speedtest page to finally load fully.

You know the drill, click to a new page, resolving host....connecting...waiting for.....

But, according to speedtest, and their newest addition, pingtest, everything is fine..





I don't believe the above results for one moment, as how can i have a speed of nearly 3meg when i cant even open pages and browse without it taking at least 60 seconds to load a page, with non loading errors in between?

Is there a more reliable connection test than these, as i cant believe those results at all, 2 results for ping, 4 minutes between tests, but a difference of nearly 200ms between them, despite a 'jitter' (latency??) of only 6ms??
#2 - UncleBenny
Totally off topic but after running the test at work, I'd really like to be able to download torrents here.

#3 - J@tko
Check pings on LFS Server list?
#4 - DevilDare
Sometimes my Virgin connection just drops dead. Takes forever to load....

Usually happens at the evenings which is highly frustrating.
#5 - danthebangerboy
Thats what i thought, its just crapping out for whatever reason, i just wish speedtest wouldn't lie to me and say its all fine when it isnt lol.
#6 - UncleBenny
What websites are you trying to load? Couldn't your connection to London(the server SpeedTest claims to be using) be fine, but something is screwed up beyond that?
#7 - danthebangerboy
Quote from UncleBenny :What websites are you trying to load? Couldn't your connection to London(the server SpeedTest claims to be using) be fine, but something is screwed up beyond that?

Its possible i suppose, I will do a traceroute test now and see whats going on.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7100]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\dan>tracert google.co.uk

Tracing route to google.co.uk [216.239.59.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 672 ms * 607 ms 172.31.157.238
2 735 ms * 827 ms 195.50.90.197
3 844 ms 869 ms * ae-1-51.edge3.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.73]
4 * 707 ms 768 ms unknown.Level3.net [212.113.15.186]
5 485 ms 778 ms 669 ms 209.85.255.78
6 748 ms 600 ms 726 ms 209.85.251.190
7 513 ms * 579 ms 66.249.95.169
8 777 ms 698 ms 899 ms 216.239.49.114
9 782 ms 699 ms 1634 ms gv-in-f104.google.com [216.239.59.104]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\dan>


why the frick are my packets sent all around the interwebs just to find google??
#8 - Bob Smith
Quote from danthebangerboy :why the frick are my packets sent all around the interwebs just to find google??

Heh, I'm 14 hops from that IP.

It takes me one hop to get to my router (I'm behing an AP), a few hops to get out of my ISP, a few more to traverse the internet, before finally hitting google. A lot of hops doesn't necessarily mean your packets are going all over the internet, just that there are a lot of pieces of hardware on the cables that connect you to google.
#9 - danthebangerboy
Ahh, right! So, every hop is my data going from one piece of hardware to another, as that would make sense, unless of course there is some kind of stupidly long cable that goes from my 3g dongle all the way to googles big computer room, which is unlikely.

Cheers for that bob, at least i know how it works now!
#10 - Luke.S




bah shitty connection tis supposed to be 8mb/s up and down
#11 - JackCY
sometimes I'm not even able to run those test, that's how bad the connection is sometimes
you are lucky
#12 - Falcon140
That's not all over the interwebs, this is:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Justin>tracert google.com

Tracing route to google.com [74.125.53.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms adsl-90-2-250.mob.bellsouth.net [98.90.2.250]
2 14 ms 11 ms 13 ms adsl-90-2-1.mob.bellsouth.net [98.90.2.1]
3 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms 72.157.48.45
4 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 72.157.48.47
5 20 ms 21 ms 22 ms 72.157.48.249
6 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms ixc00mob-ge-1-0-0.bellsouth.net [205.152.191.64]

7 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms axr00mgm-ge-7-3-2.bellsouth.net [65.83.237.24]
8 22 ms 18 ms 22 ms 65.83.238.5
9 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms pxr00msy-3-0-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.38]
10 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms 12.83.2.156
11 20 ms 22 ms 21 ms 12.83.2.147
12 52 ms 53 ms 51 ms 74.175.192.82
13 95 ms 91 ms 95 ms cr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.140.186]
14 100 ms 102 ms 102 ms cr1.nsvtn.ip.att.net [12.122.28.106]
15 106 ms 106 ms 106 ms cr2.nsvtn.ip.att.net [12.122.28.70]
16 100 ms 102 ms 102 ms cr1.cl2oh.ip.att.net [12.122.28.74]
17 106 ms 106 ms 106 ms cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.2.205]
18 106 ms 106 ms 106 ms cr1.st6wa.ip.att.net [12.122.31.162]
19 92 ms 91 ms 93 ms 12.122.146.25
20 101 ms 99 ms 101 ms 12.89.209.14
21 93 ms 91 ms 92 ms 209.85.249.34
22 115 ms 117 ms 115 ms 209.85.241.210
23 109 ms 164 ms 110 ms 209.85.249.18
24 101 ms 102 ms 102 ms pw-in-f100.google.com [74.125.53.100]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Justin>

#13 - DanielC
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#14 - senn


At work, not home thank god. I have a feeling downloads are limited. Also it's not less than 50miles to the server. It's approx 2500+km
#15 - gethwh
Quote from DanielC ::hide: ...

i tried ping test here
whoisxy
my results are
Reply from 173.203.189.224: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 173.203.189.224: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 173.203.189.224: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 173.203.189.224: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 173.202.190.224:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

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