Packet loss

[jumpingrat]

Just throwing a ? out here. I have Adelphia and my formerly good service has become very spotty (I wonder why?:) ).

The main problem is large amounts of packet loss, but the ones that get through have good ping times.

Adelphia sent a guy out here who ran a line test and said "Yep, there is lots of loss. Our fault, sorry". This is intermitant. Any suggestions on what to do on my end to help an otherwise "I'm stuck with it til they get their s**t together" problem?

Thanx in advance.:D

[SkiLLtoN]

i'm gettin packet loss too...
mine starts at the first hop...
i talked to some guy on the rbua.org forums and he said he got a honest answer from a rogers tech... he said alot of the gateways are fried... i dun know exactly what it means and i'm not on the same isp as u but since adelphia is broke i'm thinking the same thing happened to them and they dont have the money to fix em

[tweakfreak]

Interesting. I'm from Ottawa Canada and I noticed that I am getting alot of packetloss. I do a traceroute and the 3rd one times out. I've been trying to determine if it's the router we got 3 days ago or rogers?

Any suggestions?

[Kip Patterson]

If one hop always times out, that is intentional. Some ISP's configure some of their routers to not respond to the ICMP packets which Ping and Traceroute use.

Kip

[SkiLLtoN]

yea my hops time out from 4-8 unless i ping them with packets under 45bytes... i use visualroute and u can set the packet size and pings per hop so i just trace with 32byte packets now i can see all the hops... my packet loss was almost gone last nite... it seems to be back to "normal" now