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Check the quality of my DSL connection? I think I am experiencing packet loss and or excessive latency and want to check it out. anyone know how I can check this? Also how do i find out what might be causing the problem?

cheers
paul

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check packet loss by clicking start > run then type cmd then at the command screen type ping www.bbc.co.uk and check your results

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Thanks for the reply, below are the results, how do i pin down the cause?

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

C:\Documents and Settings\Paul>ping www.bbc.co.uk

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.251.195] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=118
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=118

Ping statistics for 212.58.251.195:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 25ms, Average = 23ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Paul>

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Try running a ping bbc.co.uk -n 1000
to get a clearer picture.

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BBC Webmaster: "Crikey, we're getting a lot of ICMP ping messages from Virgin Media users"

Must account for half of their traffic :rolleyes: :D LOL

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4 32 byte packets are hardly going to overload their data centre :p:

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that a bit over the top

if y9u are goign to do it do it 30-50 times if more than 5 drop then there packet lose some where

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Depends if their servers were run by I-Web! ;) LOL

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Virgin must use that lol

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Just to clarify before i run this, what am i telling my pc to do? ping the bbc 1000 times? Isn't that a bit much? would 100 do?

thanks for you help
paul

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Yep, that's exactly what you're telling it to do.

100 will do the job, 1000 would give a better diagnostic.

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ok, running it now. i'm gussing that you guys don't want to see all 1000 results just the total % loss?

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pretty much done it tbh someone said above if u get more than 5 lost theres packet loss

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45 (4%)lost, mintrip time = 26ms, maximum 855ms, average = 64ms

not looking good is it? lol

so what do i do next?

---------- Post added at 20:49 ---------- Previous post was at 19:36 ----------

repeated the 1000 ping with the router disconnected and going in direct to the modem. the results are as follows:

total lost=22 (2%) min trip time=19ms, max = 915 average = 26

so it looks like there is a problem somewhere, how do i resolve it?

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So can nobody tell me what I am to do about my packet loss?