On 14 Jul 2001 17:17:20 +1200, Craig Whitmore wrote:

> > Here's some ping statistics (if packets were being trashed would
these
> > be so low?):
>
> Ping Times are not really a good indication of "goodness". Try using
> different packet sizes. With Radio Singnals I've found when its not
> "going so good" small packets work 100% but large packets crap
> themselves out.

How large is large? How about 1008 bytes? I'd do it to Web Internet:

ping -c 10 -s 1000 www.win.co.nz

--- www.win.co.nz ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 30.7/30.9/31.3 ms

OK now 2008 bytes:

ping -c 10 -s 2000 www.win.co.nz

--- www.win.co.nz ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 52.1/62.4/80.0 ms

In comparison a 64 byte packet is:
 
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 5.9/6.3/8.8 ms

So what's your prognosis?

Regards,
Adam

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Received on Sat Jul 14 17:31:35 2001