How do I check my ping rate?

netwhizkid

I hear so much talk about ping etc. I don't game online my self but how do i check the pin rate i am getting on my internet connection? I'd really like to know.

RuggieBear

open your commannd prompt and type

ping www.boards.ie

or "ping" whatever website/server you are trying to reach

masteroftherealm

To ping

Start>Run> Type: "cmd" > Type: ping "www.yoursite.com" > resullt.

And while were at it a traceroute is

Start>Run> Type: "cmd" > Type: tracert "www.yoursite.com" > resullt.

masteroftherealm

What ruggeh said ^^^

RuggieBear

masteroftherealm wrote:

What ruggeh said ^^^

OOH yeah!!!!

netwhizkid

Thanks for that info, Now as i don't know anything about ping rates and that would this test and this test be a good or a bad indicator of my suitability for online gaming. What do the abbreviations mean and which is my "ping"

RuggieBear

tbh they're pretty shocking, perhaps you have a firewall delaying them

basically it's taking 443 or so milliseconds for a packet of info to go from your computer and to come back.....it took around 43ms on mine when I pinged boards

Fionn_McCool

Those are extremely bad results if you wish to game on the connection.

The main thing you are looking at in those results is the "time"

In your results your ping to boards is constantly over 400milisecends.

in gaming terms, this would mean, if you were playing an fps, if you clicked your mouse to shoot your weapon it would take an extra 400milisecends for the server to register you as shooting, which is a long time.

Ideally, for a good gaming connection your ping should be 50miliseconds or lower, the lower the better really, although in some games pings off 100miliseconds or slightly higher are ok

netwhizkid

Oh right now i understand the basics of pinging, I wasn't expecting it to be good as I'm not on broadband connection per-say only a Satellite one-way, i often wondered how it fared ping wise compared to ADSL now i know thanks ruggie. Give me some of that cool, clean smooth duff bear. ....... Marge I'm going to Moe's.

Fionn_McCool

ahh Ruggie bet me to it

netwhizkid

Latest Ping, after pinging boards, With the Satellite Connection,

450 milliseconds
451 milliseconds
464 milliseconds

Pinging With the Skydsl (satellite side of it turned off)

212 milliseconds
203 milliseconds
203 milliseconds


Surprisingly the Dialup easily beats the Skydsl. Would ISDN be any faster? What sort of ping is required for Voip? I’m not actually expecting to get any good results but I’m just curious is all.

masteroftherealm

Thast unusable for voip man. And yes ISDN would be lot better.

nutzboutstuff

voip will work over 56k, i've done it before, sure you can get crystal clarity over it as long as you use better codec's . As for ping times, this is over a standard eircom DSL line:


oracle:~ dave$ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.183.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.183.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=45.446 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.183.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=45.534 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.183.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=248 time=43.233 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.183.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=45.892 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.183.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=248 time=43.321 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.183.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=247 time=46.167 ms
^C

(from a mac by the way)
If you want to see how a host handles traffic send them a file (if its your mate) network conditions change with high volumes of traffic.
Personally i have business broadband at home, ping times are about 30ms. Don't game, apart from quake3 arena the odd time (compiled on my mac)

Capt'n Midnight

Satellite ? that's like 36,000 Km each way of course it will be slow since the signal can't go faster than 300,000 Km per second

Try a ping to www.westnet.com.au for comparision

Snowbat

I'm currently in Brazil and I get way better pings to boards.ie than that (route goes via New York and London)

PING www.boards.ie (82.195.136.250) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from boards.ie (82.195.136.250): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=263 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (82.195.136.250): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=261 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (82.195.136.250): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=264 ms

ISDN will give you pings only slightly higher than RADSL and a solid 64kbit (or 128kbit) link, not the stuttering attempt at 40-50kbit you get on dialup. Get thyself ISDN. Even browsing must be a pretty horrible experience on that satellite link.
You could of course use ISDN in conjunction with your satellite service and it will improve the situation a little but I doubt you'll bother after trying ISDN on its own.


Here's a traceroute for anyone interested...
traceroute to www.boards.ie (82.195.136.250), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.697 ms 1.780 ms 1.407 ms
2 200.217.72.24 (200.217.72.24) 37.757 ms 36.195 ms 35.602 ms
3 200.195.51.253 (200.195.51.253) 36.021 ms 37.078 ms 35.714 ms
4 Fa2-5.ARC-RJ-ROTD-03.telemar.net.br (200.222.121.33) 35.476 ms 39.638 ms 39.499 ms
5 PO11-0.BOT-RJ-ROTN-01.telemar.net.br (200.223.131.161) 35.435 ms 37.284 ms 35.580 ms
6 200.223.131.246 (200.223.131.246) 171.876 ms 175.770 ms 179.917 ms
7 So1-0-2-0-grtnycpt2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.51.149) 179.689 ms 180.148 ms 183.059 ms
8 So7-2-0-0-grtnycpt3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.37.230) 179.467 ms 178.686 ms 179.481 ms
9 so4-0-0-0-grtlontl1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.38.158) 243.579 ms 241.377 ms so1-1-0-0-grtlontl1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.38.222) 247.979 ms
10 GE11-0-grtlontl2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net (213.140.38.106) 243.108 ms 242.676 ms 243.672 ms
11 195.50.112.237 (195.50.112.237) 244.072 ms 247.120 ms 243.644 ms
12 unknown.Level3.net (212.187.131.179) 240.290 ms unknown.Level3.net (212.187.131.163) 246.569 ms ge-7-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net (212.187.131.131) 245.375 ms
13 panama.hosting365.ie (82.195.128.2) 256.843 ms 257.402 ms 258.767 ms
14 corerouter1.hosting365.ie (82.195.128.7) 257.295 ms 256.758 ms 255.334 ms
15 boards.ie (82.195.136.250) 256.875 ms 257.534 ms 258.625 ms

masteroftherealm

nutzboutstuff wrote:

voip will work over 56k, i've done it before, sure you can get crystal clarity over it as long as you use better codec's .

Please enlighten me!!!

Sparky

masteroftherealm wrote:

Please enlighten me!!!

i only know of Skype working.

btw you can use pingplotter aswell, i use the freeware one http://www.pingplotter.com/downloads/pngplt_1.exe

ive heard people saying never to use satellite for gaming.

raheny red

OK I never knew about these pings so I just did a test for boards. The results were as follows;

Time=11ms
Time=9ms
Time=13ms
Time=11ms

Is this good enough for gaming!

By the way I'm with IBB.

RuggieBear

raheny red wrote:

OK I never knew about these pings so I just did a test for boards. The results were as follows;

Time=11ms
Time=9ms
Time=13ms
Time=11ms

Is this good enough for gaming!

By the way I'm with IBB.

yes:)

Sparky

raheny red wrote:

OK I never knew about these pings so I just did a test for boards. The results were as follows;

Time=11ms
Time=9ms
Time=13ms
Time=11ms

Is this good enough for gaming!

By the way I'm with IBB.

very good, you must be within 3 mtrs of a mast

aidan_walsh

netwhizkid wrote:

I hear so much talk about ping etc. I don't game online my self but how do i check the pin rate i am getting on my internet connection? I'd really like to know.

You can't WHAT!?!

DemonOfTheFall

lol, just what i was thinking myself aidan...

Canis Lupus

I just keep looking at his name then to the thread title and back again. I giggle every once in a while while I'm at it.

masteroftherealm

raheny red wrote:

OK I never knew about these pings so I just did a test for boards. The results were as follows;

Time=11ms
Time=9ms
Time=13ms
Time=11ms

Is this good enough for gaming!

By the way I'm with IBB.

Let me take a wild guess and say breeze 2mb off RTE mast?

raheny red

Well I'm in Edenmore, Raheny with 2mb breeze but I don't know what mast I'm on?