> Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > % Like everyone else in IT I get a lot of "the internet is slow"... > % without going into all the details, I'll often run traceroute to a known > % target (in my case, www.bikefriday.com) as a comparison. > % > % When the net is "fast" it goes thru all 15 hops pretty quick, as you'd > % expect. > % > % When it's "slow", *all* the hops are slow. > % > % I'd expect there to be a bottleneck at some leg, but not everywhere. > % > % I don't know how to interpret what traceroute is telling me when I see > this. The 'bing' tool is also useful for looking at connectivitiy between two intermediate hosts. It works pretty well as long as the hosts aren't too close together.
You might check the upload/download throughput ratio. Could be your provider is experiencing upstream network congestion at peak times. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
