Depend's who your are pinging.

Could be their servers connection.

- Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org
> [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On Behalf Of ChrissyR
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: ADSL List User'
> Subject: Ping TImes
>
>
> If I ping the first hop from a Trace Route (the server IP
> from the PPP properties) with continuous pings I get times of
> 27ms to 35ms averaging about 32ms most of the time.
> Sometimes (about every 50 to 100 pings if pinging is
> continuous) I get a bunch of pings which range from 200ms to
> 2,000ms. This happens no
> matter what time of the day or night I try it.
>
> I have an internal ADSL card and I am nothing else is running
> at the times I am doing the pings.
>
> Telecom said my line tests ok - perfect was the word they used.
>
> What can I do to improve this? Is this an ISP issue or an
> issue with my line or my computer?
>
> If I do the same and ping the third hop - My ISP - then I get
> this same inconsistent
> pattern but it happens every 50 odd pings and goes for about
> 10 pings. My ISP
> said it is just the way things are but I am wondering if it
> is the way things should be.
>
> I have pasted the pings to my ISP which I got about 5 mins ago.
>
>
> Chrissy.
>
>
> Pinging ???.???.???.??? with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=259ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=218ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=152ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=235ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=253
> Reply from ???.???.???.???: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=253
>
>
> ...
>
>
> Ping statistics for ???.???.???.???:
> Packets: Sent = 49, Received = 49, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
> Minimum = 36ms, Maximum = 259ms, Average = 64ms
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