What is a good ping for @home?

andrewe77 · Post by **andrewe77** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 6:58 pm

I get a 57ms ping time on average to [url=http://www.yahoo.com,]www.yahoo.com,[/url] which is 16 hops away. Is this a good rate???

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 7:04 pm

What do you get when you ping your gateway?

andrewe77 · Post by **andrewe77** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 7:52 pm

When I ping my gateway...

Min=10ms Max=70ms Avg=27ms

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 7:55 pm

W/cable in general, anything under 60ms to your gateway is good, and anything under 200-300ms to a site -- depending on how far away it is -- is good.

[This message has been edited by glc1 (edited 12-06-2000).]

jcmeyer5 · Post by **jcmeyer5** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 2:18 pm

I was told by @home techs that gateway pings should be 7-10ms... Brief and occasional spikes to 30 and 40 are normal, but if you are getting constant 60+ pings, that there is a problem (somebody running a server) or the network is maxed.

BlackLoti · Post by **BlackLoti** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 3:00 pm

the new town upgrade has me pinned at <10ms to my gateway every time.

steve · Post by **steve** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 3:47 pm

ping to my gateway yielded min 9ms max 21ms and avg of 12ms.

andrewe77 · Post by **andrewe77** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 3:54 pm

I gave it another shot..

56 packets sent
Min=9ms
Max=91ms
Avg=19ms

I'm behind ICS so that may have something to do with it.

Another question. Why do all my tracrt's to the internet go through 10.84.68.1 at the first hop??? This doesn't look like an @home IP address to me.

quickfoot · Post by **quickfoot** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 4:02 pm

Maybe because of ICS?

schaltegger · Post by **schaltegger** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 4:58 pm

Originally posted by andrewe77:
I gave it another shot..

Another question. Why do all my tracrt's to the internet go through 10.84.68.1 at the first hop??? This doesn't look like an @home IP address to me.

It's probably the IP address of your NIC itself

damaged · Post by **damaged** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 5:25 pm

That is your modem gateway. (different from the other gateway)

Rand · Post by **Rand** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 6:50 pm

I usually get anywhere from 50-150 avg pigns to game servers... My gateway is the source of the problems... If gose from 1 or 2 ms to 30 or 40... I hate the thing. Thats @home for ya.

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 7:23 pm

Originally posted by Rand:
My gateway is the source of the problems... If gose from 1 or 2 ms to 30 or 40...

Those are good pings. Anything under 60ms to your gateway is good. Most people, like me, have pings all over the place.

HalfLifer · Post by **HalfLifer** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 7:45 pm

blarg

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 43ms, Maximum = 113ms, Average = 66ms

IndyOST · Post by **IndyOST** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 7:53 pm

Through my Linksys router here in Indy:

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>ping 24.xx.xxx.1

Pinging 24.xx.xxx.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 24.xx.xxx.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=255
Reply from 24.xx.xxx.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=255
Reply from 24.xx.xxx.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=255
Reply from 24.xx.xxx.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=255

Ping statistics for 24.xx.xxx.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 9ms, Maximum = 17ms, Average = 12ms

Most peoples pings that I see here locally echo the above...

IndyOST · Post by **IndyOST** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 7:57 pm

Originally posted by andrewe77:

Another question. Why do all my tracrt's to the internet go through 10.84.68.1 at the first hop??? This doesn't look like an @home IP address to me.

That ip is the gateway to your modem ip. Everyone has basically 2 ip's, one for your computer and one for the modem. The tracert goes through the modem gateway ip and then out to the net, which explains the 10.84.68.1 address.

psyche777 · Post by **psyche777** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 9:08 pm

my cleo reference on speed says anything under 150 is "acceptable" over that it should be "investigated"

bETAbILLY · Post by **bETAbILLY** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 9:55 pm

One night I pinged my gateway and averaged 667ms and when I complained to the AT&T@SLEEP online support I was told "667ms is a good and normal ping to your gateway, so your connection problem is caused by bad connections at the distant site."

jcmeyer5 · Post by **jcmeyer5** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 10:04 pm

I dont get 7-10 normally, cause there is some prick runnign a server, screwing it up for everyone on my gateway. However, a couple months ago before he started his server, it was ALWAYS 7-10, occasional 20.

the_mp3_refuge · Post by **the_mp3_refuge** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 10:19 pm

with @Home i'd say... 750ms j/k. With @Home you shouldn't see anything about 150ms or its really not worth in unless you never game. Your supposed to get 30-50ms to the @Home backbone and i guess another 7 to yahoo puts u right where you should be. But i'm no cable expert cuz I dont have it... YET

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num1rage · Post by **num1rage** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 10:22 pm

Argghh!! when I ping www (@Home backbone) it goes from 90 - timed out.

Gawwwwd!!!!!