Tips on doing PING & TRACERT?

[JAGeorge72]

I am trying to do some tests to see where my speed problems are, but could probably use a few tips.

Through the command prompt, I type PING, then my "gateway" address. It pings the address with 32 bytes of data. It does it 4 times, then it's done. Is there a way to have it send larger packets? More times? It just doesn't seem like a very thorough test to me.

Also......a TRACERT to www.yahoo.com will do what? Show the path & times to Yahoo? For each address it goes to, there are 3 times (in milliseconds). Why 3 "times"?

ACTUALLY........
Are there any cool programs, or BETTER ways to check for packet loss & retransmissions? Websites?

Thanks! I'm slowly getting a better grasp of what the hell's gong on here!!

[C.M. Weaver]

You can set a switch with your ping command to specify the number of bytes to send with each ping.

Example:
ping -l 128 www.yahoo.com

This will ping yahoo with 128 bytes instead of the default of 32. You can specify any number of bytes as long as you place the -l switch after the ping command.

To specify the number of echo requests to send you use the -n switch.

Example:
ping -n 10 www.yahoo.com

this will ping yahoo with 10 echo requests instead of the default of 4. You specify any number of requests as long as you place the -n switch after the ping command.

For a complete list of command switches type ping /?. If your running an NT system you can use the pathping command to do an extensive ping, however it takes a while. You may also consider dumping the output to a text file for saving. You accomplish this by type the command followed by > and the path and file name to save it.

Example:
pathping www.yahoo.com > c:\pathyahoo.txt

[glc1]

Originally posted by JAGeorge72
Are there any cool programs, or BETTER ways to check for packet loss & retransmissions? http://www.pingplotter.com
http://wwwmics.er.doe.gov/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl
http://www.dslreports.com/linequality - you need to login for this one

[C.M. Weaver]

Visual Route (http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/index.html) is also excellent.

[ace]

Originally posted by C.M. Weaver
Visual Route (http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/index.html) is also excellent.

that is a sweet site..:)

[glc1]

Originally posted by a0c2e4


that is a sweet site..:) Check out the programs, it's even better.:)