[GRLUG] Newbie Network Quality Question

[Bob Kline]

We have Comcast too, in GR.  This morning
it just dropped out.  Not for long as it turns
out, but it just went dead for some minutes.

   -- Bob


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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