On 9 Nov 99, at 22:04, Yui Shin wrote:

> David A. Abbe wrote:
>
> > Tracing route to mail.ionet.net [206.41.128.16]
> > over a maximum of 30 hops:
> >
> >   1   125 ms   116 ms    93 ms  bartnas1.ionet.net [38.193.96.3]
> >   2   150 ms   122 ms    99 ms  nbbart.ionet.net [38.193.96.1]
> >   3   173 ms   124 ms   149 ms  tul-bart-link.ionet.net [206.41.130.49]
> >   4   135 ms   137 ms   150 ms  mail.ionet.net [206.41.128.16]
> >
> > Trace complete.
>
> Your modem sent 3  test data packets to determine how many servers it
> connects to before reaching the destination and their lag times.
> I ran the same tracert and I hit 4 Earthlink servers, 2 routers, and 2
> servers
> in your Ionet before final destination www.ionet.net.
> If you have to make 13 or more hops to connect that's too many.
> Also, if you experience high lag times with your ISP all the time you may
> want to change.
> Your results look fine.
>
> I'm glad you tried it.
> Now try it on web sites you frequently have delays and determine if the
> high lag times are from your ISP or the rest of the world.

  There's a nifty shareware (freeware?) utility out there called
"Ping Plotter" that uses the traceroute mechanism, but graphs the
numbers -- and colours them green, yellow, or red depending on how
"acceptible" they are.  Keeps a list of places you've tried
recently....

David G

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