Greetings. My $0.02 worth :) 180ms does not sound too bad. I get 1.1ms pinging from my Win95 pc to the Linux server on the local 10Mbs ethernet. Then an average of 180ms pinging our ISP (connected thru a 33600 modem, pppd 2.2.0). Then it is about 230ms to the next hop and so on. On the network here that gives acceptable access times to the internet. If the 230ms goes over about 1500ms, then things really start to slow down, but otherwise it is fine. And possibly it is not just the modem speed that dictates what times you get to ping requests, if the system you are pinging is overloaded you will get increased ping response times, and possibly dropped packets too. Each ICMP echo request (which is what I believe a ping is) is only 64 bytes, which should take a negligible time to transfer regardless of modem speed which is what makes me think it is the time it takes the remote system to either respond or to forward the request on to the next node. Dave -----Original Message----- From: John Summerfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 9:35 AM To: Sigis Jermolovicius Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ping? On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Sigis Jermolovicius wrote: > Hi, guys! > > I get ping 180ms and I think this is too slow...How is posible to > increase > the speed of ppp connection. I have Creative ModemBlasters(52b), RH > Linux 5.0 > (2.0.32 ), I use mgetty, ppp-on scripts. > Depends. On Modem speed on line contention I used to get 5000 msec plus which I thought, in all the circumstances, quite reasonable. Whether you can use better settings depends on those you're using now. like my sig!! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
