Cable users: ping your default gateway please...

[FoBoT]

i am on satellite at home , would those results be helpful?

 

[futuristicmonkey]

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I live in Winnipeg, have Shaw Cable, and a WHOIS lookup shows the default gateway is in Calgary :|

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: TheGoodGuy
Pinging 24.10.40.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=254
Reply from 24.10.40.1: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=254

Ping statistics for 24.10.40.1:
Packets: Sent = 17, Received = 17, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 12ms, Maximum = 115ms, Average = 31ms

Ouch.

Ouch?

Look at this:

PING 69.169.32.1 (69.169.32.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=107.7 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=41.2 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=97.6 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=43.6 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=109.3 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=254 time=76.4 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=254 time=86.8 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=254 time=73.4 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=254 time=80.1 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=254 time=78.7 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=254 time=224.7 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=254 time=310.4 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=254 time=70.9 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=254 time=75.1 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=254 time=61.0 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=254 time=74.3 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=254 time=62.1 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=254 time=71.4 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=254 time=93.5 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=254 time=138.1 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=254 time=69.3 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=24 ttl=254 time=64.6 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=25 ttl=254 time=72.7 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=26 ttl=254 time=132.7 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=27 ttl=254 time=203.0 ms
64 bytes from 69.169.32.1: icmp_seq=29 ttl=254 time=117.1 ms

--- 69.169.32.1 ping statistics ---
121 packets transmitted, 102 packets received, 15% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 34.4/97.6/310.4 ms

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: ndee
ok, I don't get this thread. What does pinging your gateway has to do with cable?!

If you have a "slow" connection on cable, no cable company will take any ping results that are pinging anything beyond the gateway that you connect to. If your connection is/has a problem, then you'll see it there. If it's just fine but pinging, say, yahoo.com and everything else turns up with problems, it's not the ISP's problem and they'll tell you too bad.

But that doesn't have anything to do with Cable or ADSL, does it? And what's the use if I ping MY default gateway when HE has a problem?

Call in for tech support to your cable ISP for a speed problem and that's one of the first things they'll run you through. I worked for lots of cable ISPs. It's all about the structure of a cable connection. I don't have a clue when it comes to DSL.

 

[Trente]

kt - damn man!

talk about jumpy pings and packet loss...