ping troubles Options

[Crazy Canuck]

curious if anyone else has been experienceing ping problems lately! My ping to most servers as of late have been in the range of 300 - 500, with the exception of a few which i'm assuming are closer to me in the west.

i normally run around 85 - 150 with most servers so this is quite a jump. I've checked for spyware with a few different programs as well as viruses with norton and found nothing, so not sure whats going on!

starting to get the jitters here as i've been unable to play for about 4 days now!

[Crazy Canuck]

well....that ping plotter tool is pretty cool. i go through 19 routes to get to 8.9.4.79 and my trouble starts on 15 in sanjose and continues to chicago! i'd post a screenshot for ya if you thought you could help me more from it.....thanks for your efforts so far!

ps-pinged my gateway and it was 15ms so that wasn't the issue!

thanx all!



This post has been edited by Crazy Canuck: 09/18/06 10:39pm

[miked]

well....that ping plotter tool is pretty cool. i go through 19 routes to get to 8.9.4.79 and my trouble starts on 15 in sanjose and continues to chicago! i'd post a screenshot for ya if you thought you could help me more from it.....thanks for your efforts so far!

ps-pinged my gateway and it was 15ms so that wasn't the issue!

thanx all!

OK now it gets interesting. In general, most networks are setup to go from "Point A" to "Point B" via the path that has the shortest number of hops. But what you sometimes discover is that the shortest hops don't always equal the smallest latency and shortest ping.

I just pinged University of Saskatchewan and got there with a Ping of 99ms. But, my traffic did not go through San Jose, it went first to DC, then to Chicago, then into CA on Shaw Cable's
lines to www.usak.ca.

I know that Saskatchewan is big, but it's kind of weird that your path is taking the REALLY long way round to chicago. You are probably going to have to call your providers help desk and deal with people who are going to try to make you go away until you reach someone who says "aha, here's the problem."

Go ahead and post the screen shot. That will tell us your provider and I can try to find the info for their NOC (Network Operations Center). The NOC for most providers is "The one ring that rules them all." Or at least they can tell you what is down and causing a problem.

miked

miked