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freeway

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Sep 11, 2000
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C:\>ping forums.anandtech.com

Pinging forums.anandtech.com [216.151.100.105] with 32 byte

Reply from 216.151.100.105: bytes=32 time=671ms TTL=117
Reply from 216.151.100.105: bytes=32 time=661ms TTL=117
Reply from 216.151.100.105: bytes=32 time=541ms TTL=117
Reply from 216.151.100.105: bytes=32 time=581ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 216.151.100.105:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 541ms, Maximum = 671ms, Average = 613ms

Oh Yea, the joys of DirecPc!! If I could just get real broadband.....
 

Mountain

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Dec 7, 2000
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Pinging forums.anandtech.com [216.151.100.115] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.151.100.115: bytes=32 time=324ms TTL=113
Reply from 216.151.100.115: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=113
Reply from 216.151.100.115: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=113
Reply from 216.151.100.115: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=113

Ping statistics for 216.151.100.115:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 180ms, Maximum = 324ms, Average = 223ms
from south louisiana, from dial up 56/44k, now what does this mean?
 

Eug

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ping is usually around 40 ms from Toronto (Canada), on Rogers cable at 10 pm.

Note that you can trace it using "tracert" instead of "ping" from the command line (at least in Win 2000).