I'm not sure what your ultimate goal is but wouldn't it be useful to store this information over time and compare current results to an average?
Just a thought, Steve Smith Oakbridge Information Solutions Office: (519) 624-4388 GTA: (416) 606-3885 Fax: (519) 624-3353 Cell: (416) 606-3885 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.oakbridge.ca > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Shubert > Sent: November 26, 2002 1:51 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Ping Rate-Off Topic > > > It's something like this, in the internet: > > 1-10 ms (milliseconds): Excellent (typically local 10/100 network) > 11-50 ms: Typical for T1s, T3s, etc. > 51-100 ms: Typical for Frame Relay, DSL, ISDN etc. > 101-300 ms: Typical for 56K dial-up Modems > 301+ ms: getting bad, probably some congestion > 1000+ ms (1 second): horrible, mis-route or some other failure > > You should always do about 10 pings and get the average, since a packet > drop, a route build, or a collision can cause the occasional packet to > be hundreds of ms more than it should be. > > Robert Shubert > Tronics > > "Campbell, Steve V." wrote: > > > > Since this seems to be the topic at hand: > > > > I created an application that goes out and runs a set of externals that > > returns ping rates on IP's and Port Numbers. > > > > The hard part of this application I received help with from this list, > > but, the last part of this application I have ran into a wall. > > > > I need to know where I can be "steered" out on the web to find out ping > > rates and what is considered good, okay and bad. I am trying to assign > > different images to different ping rates, but, to be honest, I have no > > idea what is considered good or bad AND, I don't even know where to > > start on the web trying to find that information. > > > > Any knowledge in this area or help would be greatly appreciated! Thank > > you! > > > > Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Johansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:37 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Ping > > > > Who server is it now :-) > > > > Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com > > Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm > > Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Web Dude > > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:26 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Ping > > > > Poing! > > > > >Pong! > > > > > >I was wondering if there was a problem too... > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Fogelson, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >Sent: 25 November 2002 22:46 > > >To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > > >Subject: Witango-Talk: Ping > > > > > > > > >My web services were down this weekend. Just wanted to make sure I > > didn't > > >get bounced from the list. > > > > > >Thanks > > > > > >Steve Fogelson > > >Internet Commerce Solutions > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > _ > > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > > _ > > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > > > -- > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body