I used the terminal in OS X. You can type in the word ping, and then space, and type in a url like yahoo.com and hit enter. The screen will start showing the ping times in miliseconds. After it has ran for a few minutes you can press Apple+. (period) and it will show the results. The packet loss is shown as a percentage. You can also go to www.broadbandreports.com and on the left side of the page there is a menu called tools. click it and then scroll down to speed tests. Select one of the servers and press test. It will come back with a bar graph and a number. This gives you an idea how fast your connection is at that particular time. I don't know how accurate that test is so I only use it as an approximation.
How many other Insightbb users are experiencing this? Brian O'Neal On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Marta Edie wrote: How do you all know this? i have been having long waits lately for pages to load, too, but always thought it was the site I was to reach rather than the Insight Connection. How can you tell? I used to do this test Lee suggested to the group and I had fast connections then. But I am so dumb when it comes to these numbers and ports and pops and IP addresses that I have no idea what belongs to whom and who belongs to what , but I have been having loading troubles lately. Marta On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:47, Brian O'Neal wrote: > I have no idea if it is related or not, but I have been fighting > with insight for the last month to get their act together. I have > been experiencing really bad connectivity issues. > When I started to look closer, I was having really high packet > loss, up to 40%. Also really high ping times, from 150ms and way > higher from many different sites. I did several tests from > broadband reports and was getting anywhere from 750KBps tp 1.5 MBps > It fluctuated. Sometimes it would drop out completely for 10 > minutes. Pages would load part-way and sit there for minutes before > they would complete. > > Check your connection. Check it a few times. Mine was intermittent > as to how severe the problem was. > > Brian O'Neal > > > > > > On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > > Hey folks, > > This is a pretty specific question: has anyone else found problems > recently when communicating with home computers over insight? > > Up until, oh, say, 3 weeks ago (at the most), I was having no > trouble logging into (via ssh), transferring files from, etc. my > computer at home when working on my laptop at work. Now, everything > works fine when I'm at home using the internal lan with the > internal IP addresses, but I cannot get to anything by using either > my dynamic domain name (rising.homedns.org) or the current IP > address assigned to me (12.220.208.25). I didn't change any > configurations anywhere, so I'm a bit at a loss for the sudden lack > of communication. I tried restarting the home computer, the cable > modem and the wireless router, but nothing helped (and the IP > address remained constant). I tried stopping and restarting all the > services that I use on the Sharing preference pane. > > Yesterday, when I tried to ssh into my home computer, I got timeout > errors. Today, I'm getting "connection refused" errors, even though > portforwarding is forwarding things to the machine which has the > sharing turned on. > > What gives? Anyone have any trouble-shooting advice? > > Thanks, > > Bill > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051222/4b1d36c8/attachment.html
