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To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (972)4/9/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) of 32918
 
Ben and Robert, re PING: I downloaded and installed "tjping" from
tucows.iwebstudio.com
For a definition of pinging, please see below.
Tjping installs easily, just note: the address you want to
ping must be in this form www.exchange2000.com
(no other symbols - or it will fail).

I did send my ping report to Pacbell (my ISP) and they requested
I run a trace instead (details on request - it's a Win95 routine).
I sent that to them and they replied the problem seemed to be
alter.net (alias of uu.net). I contacted alter.net with the data
and they said they're working hard to improve capacity and BTW,
unicom seems to be partly at fault. It has been very informative.
When - just for kicks - I tried to ping www.microsoft.com it failed every time (100% packet loss). Yet, I could access the MS site in record time. Guess MS just does not accept pings.

If nothing else, pinging is educational. Can't wait for TCI to
offer cable modem access in my area.

Gottfried

"Ping is a method of checking to see whether or not a
particular system is on-line. Some packages will send
packets of data to test the connection. NSLookup will
search and present information on any domain located on
the Internet." [from the tucows site]
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