Hello Paul, Thursday, 04 December 2003, you wrote:
PM> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Mark Robinson wrote: >> I'm having trouble proving to Demon that there are problems with an >> ADSL connection. It's _really_ slow at times, comes to a halt, then >> everything seems to load. We've had pings with 19% packet loss to one >> of Demon's own name servers! PM> Sounds like a dodgy ADSL link: 19% packet loss is enough to seriously PM> upset TCP. It got worse and worse. 56% loss for 1500 packets... PM> Try MTR PM> http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ PM> Really, its nothing more that an automated traceroute + ping, but its PM> still useful. Very useful, and the guy I got on Demon's support line not only knew about it, but was actually going to get me to install it! We have been moving people away from Demon for a while, but I have to say that this time they were very good. The guy was very helpful, and while the fault process is extremely long and drawn out it all went through fine. It turned out to be the ethernet side of the router (the last mtr I ran with 500 packets only returned 13 packets!), and they got BT out to replace it before lunch the following day... Mark. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
