How do I find out time for packet hops without traceroute

[willhart]

Hey guys, I was just curious to find out my new DSL's latency. My old DSL Verizon in washington sucked, it took 20ms to get to my gateway and then it took 3 more hops before I left their routers and by the time I left their last router and was out on the web I was already at 45ms. Most of my friends on different DSL's or Cablemodems ping their gateway and by the time they leave their last router and are out on the web they're still <10ms. I'm a big game player and network latency is something big to me. On both my new and old DSL's I'm getting pretty much max 756 and 128kbs upload, but I'm finding out that I'm getting pretty much the same latency on games which is 100ms minimum, while most others on a server will have 40-60ms.

My question to you guys is how to find out packet trip time without using ping or tracert on a windows XP system. For some stupid reason my new DSL has claimed that the blaster worms are using both ping and traceroute, so they've blocked all traceroutes and pings because they were getting flooded and their routers were crashing. I've already tried to convince them to turn it back on, but they won't budge. They say they will probably turn it back on soon, but not yet. In the mean time I need to try to find out a way to basically do the same thing a traceroute will do, but without using traceroute.

Do any of you network Guru's know of a program that will help me out?

 

[cmetz]

There are flavors of traceroute that use UDP, ICMP, and TCP packets - get a flavor other than Windows tracert and see if that works better.

Who's your new provider? Please allow us the opportunity to publicly haze them...

 

[willhart]

My provider is Ice House. Here is their website http://www.icehouse.net/

The only reason I picked them was because after you pay the first month the next 3 months are free. I'm a college student and I don't have the money so I picked them because they were the cheapest.

 

[willhart]

I looked for many different programs and I can't find anything really that works. I found one that tries to connect with a winsock connection, but nothing that lets me change UDP or TCP. I thought the protocol for Pinging was the ICMP where it's basically it's own type of packet where it doesn't TCP or UDP ports specifically? But that's all really hazy for me. Does anyone have any advice to a specific program?