<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:14 PM, PairOfTwins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PairOfTwins@mindspring.com">PairOfTwins@mindspring.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All:<br>
<br>
A friend on Earthlink DSL, eight miles from my own Earthlink DSL, had<br>
lousy speed tests despite all our complaints. NOW her Mac gets over<br>
3000 kbps at speakeasy's speedtest.<br>
<br>
However, when sites took 10 - 20 sec to bring up any content, I did a<br>
bunch of pings:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a> ave 1313 ms, 12% loss<br>
<a href="http://2wire.com" target="_blank">2wire.com</a> ave 1661 ms, 4% loss<br>
<a href="http://earthlink.net" target="_blank">earthlink.net</a> ave 1466 ms, 0% loss<br>
<br>
while my own Earthlink 3 mbit connection shows ave 85 - 140 ms, with 0%<br>
loss.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Try mtr ( <a href="http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/">http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/</a> ) to see where the packet loss is occurring. <br><br>-Tony<br></div></div>