Been there, done that.
No change....
In very basic terms.... when you send a message across the internet (or any
network), the message passes through "switching centers" called ROUTERS.
They are sort of like the traffic cop standing in the middle of an
intersection.
TRACEROUTE is a command that documents each "stop" along the path from
sender to receiver. Part of that documentation is the length of time for a
message to travel from the originating location to each of the routers
along the path.
On a healthy network, the transmission time for a packet should be in the
neighborhood of about 20milliseconds. The modem adds another 100 or so
milliseconds, so the total should be in the range of about 150 msec. My
system USED TO register anywhere from 140 - 200 msec (with most being on the
low end).
Somewhere in the last 2-3 weeks I noticed that MSIE 5 was having
difficulties connecting to a LOT of web sites. The failures were all showed
the same error message -- Unable to connect....server timed out (or
something like that). That's when I started fooling with the TRACEROUTE and
notice that my response times had suddenly jumped up to the 550-600 msec
range for traceroutes. Through various tests, I have confirmed that the
problem IS inside my machine. But I can't figure out what is causing such a
big delay.
As I said, I installed FrontPage 2000 and Corel Office 2000, during that
same time frame, but I did not notice any major performance changes
immediately after either installation.
Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jim McKnew <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Slow modem/DUN response
> Jim -
>
> How about your MY CONNECTION/SERVER TYPE settings. Last time I
> fiddled with mine, I came up with the following:
>
<SNIP>
>
> This is all kind of shot-in-the-dark, as I don't have a good feel
> for your problem. Is the onlt detectable difference when you are
> doing traceroutes?
> How are you doing the traceroutes? Any chance the packet size
> got changed?
>
> Let me know, I love puzzles.
>
> :}
Jim
> =================================================================
> =====
> Jim,
>
> Thanks for the tip.
> iSpeed definitely increased my download speed --- by almost
> double!
>
> BUT ....
> it had no affect on my latency problem.
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