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To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (972)	4/9/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: Robert C. Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32918

Ben, Thank you for your kind reply. I am a Luddite lost in cyberspace and don't have the foggiest idea what a node is or any thing else you said...but I appreciate the the time you took to try to help a computer-challaged idiot...thanks again....nysebob2

To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (972)	4/9/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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]