Bah yerself! ping measures the time between two hosts, whereas bing measures bandwidth. I specified bing so that you could get a better idea of the bandwidth across your PPP link.
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:37, Michael wrote: > > >bing yourexternalIP IPofotherendofPPPlink > >That will roughly estimate the effective bandwidth of your link. > > Bah, Maths! Using ping (instead of bing), I came up with 311.590 msec > average. I didn't specify the source address. I'd expect an average > anywhere around 100msec from a 56k connections wouldn't I? > > >Who are you using for an ISP? > > Canterbury University - I get a true 50k connection on my w**doze machine > with them. > > Michael.
