[GRLUG] Newbie Network Quality Question

[Bob Kline]

So far, I've never had a hardware
issue when Internet access goes
down, and it usually just goes away.
You could flog yourself, and call
Comcast, but maybe best to just
do something else for a while, and
hope.  I test a few times each day.
Call it neurotic, or call it vigilance.
But I've done this long enough to
see that Comcast is mostly stable
in this area now, but is not more often
than one wants to believe...

   -- Bob




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

> Thanks for the suggestions
>
>
> Share and Enjoy
> Ben
>
>
> 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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