Not sure if this is in the right category or not, but what exactly does a ping test mean?


I did this test on my site and got the following however its taking up to 2 minutes to load the front page.

Is this not a good ping test below? If not what is?

IP address: 208.44.85.112

28.06/69.245/148.021 ms


Whats a traceroute for? Any information or links that explain this would be helpful.

Thanks

Just pinged it again and got this:

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 35.014/232.085/395.941 ms

a good one should be under 100ms anything over 150 is slowww at best :(

basic explaination is to trace a connection/packet from point A to point B, the gurus on this forum can explain further :)


elijaH

Try these:

Ping - http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/1999b/0621gearhead.html

Traceroute - http://www.rjsmith.com/tracerte.html
HTH

[Edited by alchiba on 02-12-2001 at 02:05 PM]

I did a trace at: http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/ping.pl

too for various locations and got all kinds of different numbers. My current host is in California so the ones that I used in California traced well but outside of California they didn't trace very well with an average over 150ms.

I take it on the above site its tracing from whatever location that you click on to my server?

And I take it that Avg. is the key number to look at?

Is anyone familiar with the-web-presence-group hosting company?

Thanks for the links.

Depending on what connection you are on ping times should be low. The best way I would say to compare speeds of a host is to do this

ping http://www.yahoo.com

ping http://www.hostname.com


if you see that hostname.com > yahoo.com by a bunch then you should look elsewhere :)

James R. Clark II
http://www.nethosters.com - Affordable Linux Hosting

Speaking of Yahoo!, they've got a very reliable traceroute feature that I use often:
http://net.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/trace.sh

Originally posted by Matrix
I did a trace at: http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/ping.pl

too for various locations and got all kinds of different numbers. My current host is in California so the ones that I used in California traced well but outside of California they didn't trace very well with an average over 150ms.


With the power problems in California, which it appears are destined to get worse, why any host would set up on servers located in that State is beyond comprehension. I would certainly be concerned about any major commercial web site housed on a server there. Some may have back up power but I would bet a lot don't.

<i>With the power problems in California, which it appears are destined to get worse, why any host would set up on servers located in that State is beyond comprehension. I would certainly be concerned about any major commercial web site housed on a server there. Some may have back up power but I would bet a lot don't.</i>

LOL check out this colo facility http://www.dynamic.com and http://www.dynamic.net, this place is like 5-7 miles away from my house. Now, if there prices were only reasonable, id go with them but it ain't.


elijaH :)