For the Ping test I need a cognac first to have a stable hand. Everything in the computer's belly scares me . The broadbandreports is the one I used before with good results. I shall try them again after I make my spaghetti salad for the company I am expecting . Thanks Brian. And I shall overcome someday and march into that hell hole of unix inside my computer. Marta
On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:40, Brian O'Neal wrote: > ?I used the terminal in OS X. You can type in the word ping, and then > space, and type in a url like yahoo.com and hit enter. The screen will > start showing the ping times in miliseconds. After it has ran for a > few minutes you can press Apple+. (period) and it will show the > results. The packet loss is shown as a percentage. > You can also go to www.broadbandreports.com and on the left side of > the page there is a menu called tools. click it and then scroll down > to? speed tests. Select one of the servers? and press test. It will > come back with a bar graph and a number. This gives you an idea how > fast your connection is at that particular time. I don't know how > accurate that test is so I only use it as an?approximation. > > How many other Insightbb users are experiencing this? > > > Brian O'Neal > > > ? > On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > > How do you all know this? i have been having? long waits? lately for > pages to load, too, but always thought it was the site I was to reach > rather than the Insight Connection. How can you tell? I used to do > this test Lee suggested to the group and I had fast connections then. > But I am so dumb when it comes? to these? numbers and ports? and pops > and IP addresses? that I have no idea what belongs to whom and who > belongs to what , but I have been having loading troubles lately. > Marta > > On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:47, Brian O'Neal wrote: > >> ?I have no idea if it is related or not, but I have been fighting >> with insight for the last month to get their act together. I have >> been experiencing really bad connectivity issues. >> When I started to look closer, I was having really high packet loss, >> up to 40%. Also really high ping times, from 150ms and way higher >> from many different sites. I did several tests from broadband reports >> and was getting anywhere from 750KBps tp 1.5 MBps It fluctuated. >> Sometimes it would drop out completely for 10 minutes. Pages would >> load part-way and sit there for minutes before they would complete. >> >> Check your connection. Check it a few times. Mine was intermittent as >> to how severe the problem was. >> >> Brian O'Neal >> >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Bill Rising wrote: >> >> Hey folks, >> >> This is a pretty specific question: has anyone else found problems >> recently when communicating with home computers over insight? >> >> Up until, oh, say, 3 weeks ago (at the most), I was having no trouble >> logging into (via ssh), transferring files from, etc. my computer at >> home when working on my laptop at work. Now, everything works fine >> when I'm at home using the internal lan with the internal IP >> addresses, but I cannot get to anything by using either my dynamic >> domain name (rising.homedns.org) or the current IP address assigned >> to me (12.220.208.25). I didn't change any configurations anywhere, >> so I'm a bit at a loss for the sudden lack of communication. I tried >> restarting the home computer, the cable modem and the wireless >> router, but nothing helped (and the IP address remained constant). I >> tried stopping and restarting all the services that I use on the >> Sharing preference pane. >> >> Yesterday, when I tried to ssh into my home computer, I got timeout >> errors. Today, I'm getting "connection refused" errors, even though >> portforwarding is forwarding things to the machine which has the >> sharing turned on. >> >> What gives? Anyone have any trouble-shooting advice? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24? at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
