[GRLUG] Newbie Network Quality Question

[Benjamin Flanders]

Weird it must have been something with our internet provider.  It just
cleared up.


Share and Enjoy
Ben


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess the only difference is it isn't afforded the niceties of TCP or
> UDP - in my experience it seems to be less fault tolerant when sending
> larger packets. Also, I'm sorry I mis-spoke.  The maximum packet-size for
> the body of an ICMP-Echo request is 65507 bytes.
> I don't really have any documentation to back this up, but it has been my
> personal experience that when you have weird cable/driver/card issues ICMP
> with large packets usually breaks.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:36 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Ben DeMott wrote:
>>
>> > Run a ping with larger packet sizes.  Ping's usually go fine even when
>> > there are damaged network cables.  One time drove myself nuts and all it
>> > was was a bad 5e cable.  Ping with 4096 byte payload (maximum) would
>> > typically fail - and thats when I knew it was a problem with sustained
>> data
>> > transer.
>> >
>> Is there something wrong with speedtest.net??
>>
>>         Lee
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