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To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20296)6/7/2001 2:18:57 PM
From: Graystone   of 110655
 
Simple Tests
or
While you're at it.

Try this, open up am MS-DOS window and type the following command

>ping www.freerealtime.com

You should get back something like this

Pinging freerealtime.com [63.104.51.246] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=242
Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=205ms TTL=242
Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=206ms TTL=242
Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=242
Ping statistics for 63.104.51.246:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 203ms, Maximum =  231ms, Average =  211ms


If that doesn't work it is important to record the message you receive back. They could vary :

"Request timed out"
"Destination host unreachable"
"Destination net unreachable"

I have encountered situations where a modem that functioned fine on one ISP's system did not work on another. I am guessing that you have not changed ISP's though, did you add any other hardware or software ? Piss somebody off ? <g> (DenialOfService functions in a similar manner.) #reply-5261511

PS Both Nemer's and bosquedog's solutions are good ones as well
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