The first ping is to the first hop that comes up on a Trace Route.

The list of ping times was to my ISP and was the third hop on a
Trace Route.

Chrissy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Broadley" <drew@iplaynz.com>
To: "'ChrissyR'" <ChrissyR@home.gen.nz>
Cc: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:18 PM
Subject: RE: Ping TImes

> 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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