help with net speed ISDN or DSL?????

[Colin Mc Donald]

on dec 23/02 I ran a net speed test and recieved these results...
Download speed 970 kbs...upload 131...ping 132
(this is using PC Pitstop)
today Jan. 17/02 upload speed 909kbs...upload 92 Ping 522
I am using Bell sympatico High speed edition...dedicated service 10/100 ethernet nic. should my ping vary this much with the same site?

do I have ISDN or DSL?

tx in advance
Colin

[Jon]

If that site was under heavy load, it's possible. If the route between you and that site has changed since then, it's more than possible. There are many different variables that can cause a ping to fluctuate between you and another site, especially if you have a long route to travel.

If you're using NT, Win2K or XP you may want to try this. Go to Start-->Run-->type in CMD and open a command prompt. Type in TRACERT <IP address or .com name> and then enter. Example:

C:\>TRACERT GTE.NET

Tracing route to GTE.NET [206.46.189.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 150 ms 130 ms 121 ms 209.14.22.221
3 110 ms 120 ms 131 ms ga0025.calancr01.aleron.net [206.185.236.89]
4 120 ms 110 ms 140 ms at-000102.calanrr01.aleron.net [206.185.236.169]

5 161 ms 140 ms 130 ms at-0007.casncrr02.aleron.net [206.84.253.90]
6 140 ms 140 ms 130 ms at-0300.capalcr01.aleron.net [206.84.226.6]
7 130 ms 140 ms 131 ms a4-0-1.snjpca1-cr1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.145.1]
8 120 ms 141 ms 120 ms p1-0.snjpca1-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.9.133]
9 151 ms 140 ms 140 ms p9-0.lsanca2-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.5.57]
10 140 ms 140 ms 130 ms p15-0.lsanca2-br2.bbnplanet.net [4.24.5.46]
11 180 ms 170 ms 171 ms p9-0.crtntx1-br2.bbnplanet.net [4.24.5.62]
12 191 ms 180 ms 180 ms p15-0.crtntx1-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.10.113]
13 160 ms 190 ms 170 ms p1-0.dllstx1-cr1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.5.82]
14 180 ms 170 ms 181 ms h0.verizonol.bbnplanet.net [4.25.56.42]
15 170 ms 181 ms 170 ms fa0-0-0.core1.dfw-tx.west.verizon.net [206.46.16
0.253]
16 180 ms 180 ms 211 ms www.gte.net [206.46.189.11]

Trace complete.

You can see from the ping results where you might be getting a bad connection.

[Yodums]

I'm in your province and the Sympatico provided in Ottawa is basically the same in your area although I don't have Sympatico I ran it at my brothers, sister-in law's house and it was on and off and the bandwidth was horrible.

You should call up their tech support and ask them to run something like a health check could be a bad modem too, or NIC.
Or something else.

Yodums