ping -f -l 1465 ??

If I try to ping www.microsoft.com using the packet size ping it times out.
Annoying as it tells you to do that on their website:
http://www.xbox.com/support/live/rou...tworkerror.htm

Quite a few .com addresses will time out
It works fine to most .co.uk domains,
and cocacola.com worked fine to.

So my router and modem are fine for that size packet ?

But I'm dropping out of MM3 games too often for gamer satisfaction. :-(

Any ideas ?
Is there an address / IP I can trace route to for Xbox Live,
so I can see where the hold up is ?

Richard wrote:
> If I try to ping www.microsoft.com using the packet size ping it
> times out. Annoying as it tells you to do that on their website:
> http://www.xbox.com/support/live/rou...tworkerror.htm
>
> Quite a few .com addresses will time out
> It works fine to most .co.uk domains,
> and cocacola.com worked fine to.
>
> So my router and modem are fine for that size packet ?
>
> But I'm dropping out of MM3 games too often for gamer satisfaction.
> :-(
>
> Any ideas ?
> Is there an address / IP I can trace route to for Xbox Live,
> so I can see where the hold up is ?

You cant ping Microsoft.com, their routers reject icmp packets.

try www.google.com

"Richard" <news.richardNO@SPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> If I try to ping www.microsoft.com using the packet size ping it times
out.
> Annoying as it tells you to do that on their website:
> http://www.xbox.com/support/live/rou...tworkerror.htm
>
> Quite a few .com addresses will time out
> It works fine to most .co.uk domains,
> and cocacola.com worked fine to.
>
> So my router and modem are fine for that size packet ?
>
> But I'm dropping out of MM3 games too often for gamer satisfaction. :-(
>
> Any ideas ?
> Is there an address / IP I can trace route to for Xbox Live,
> so I can see where the hold up is ?
>
>

Sounds like it is working

"Richard" <news.richardNO@SPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "vortex" wrote...
> > try www.google.com
>
> Pinging www.google.com [216.239.39.99] with 1465 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from 216.239.39.99: bytes=1465 time=113ms TTL=49
> Reply from 216.239.39.99: bytes=1465 time=108ms TTL=49
> Reply from 216.239.39.99: bytes=1465 time=108ms TTL=49
> Reply from 216.239.39.99: bytes=1465 time=108ms TTL=49
>
> Ping statistics for 216.239.39.99:
> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
> Minimum = 108ms, Maximum = 113ms, Average = 109ms
>
>

"vortex" wrote...
> Sounds like it is working

Any ideas why I get dropped out of games then ?
MM3 and GR :-(

> "Richard" wrote...
> > Any ideas why I get dropped out of games then ?
> > MM3 and GR :-(

vortex" wrote...
> What speed is your connection?

I had 600Kb, but I upgraded to 1Mb just to make sure it wasn't that.
Speed tests are always fine.
It's some sort of latency thing I think.
There's never much lag in the games, no indication it's going to drop.
It just does. :-(

"Richard" <news.richardNO@SPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> > "Richard" wrote...
> > > Any ideas why I get dropped out of games then ?
> > > MM3 and GR :-(
>
> vortex" wrote...
> > What speed is your connection?
>
> I had 600Kb, but I upgraded to 1Mb just to make sure it wasn't that.
> Speed tests are always fine.
> It's some sort of latency thing I think.
> There's never much lag in the games, no indication it's going to drop.
> It just does. :-(
>
>

When using large downloads or watching streaming video do you have to
restart it or see a lot of buffering pauses in the video?

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:27:29 +0100, "Richard"
<news.richardNO@SPAMntlworld.com> wrote:

>"xTenn" wrote...
>> When using large downloads or watching streaming video do you have to
>> restart it or see a lot of buffering pauses in the video?
>
>Not that I've noticed.
>Can you recommend any clips I can download that should stream smoothly ?
>Thanks for the replies.

There's a broadband speed tester at
http://www.adslguide.org/tools/speedtest.asp which might give you some
more information.

--
neil h.
Anya : "I provide much needed sarcasm"
Xbox live : neil hopkins

Cheers Neil.
I think it's an upload problem rather than download.
Both NTL and Xbox Support are now digging deeper for me.

It does sounds like the line speed isn't consistant, however it could be up
or down stream so I'm not really sure how to test it.....

You could download a large file using StarDownloader and watch the speed, it
dosn't graph but if the speed suddenly drops you know you have a problem.

Using a download client that has a graph
"Richard" <news.richardNO@SPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> > Weirdly it's currently working fine.
>
> Grrrr. Spoke too soon. The game just dropped out to menu. :-(
>
>