How to Ping Your ISP

EricDraven · 03-09-2006, 12:41 PM

hey guys, I'm basically a total nub at the whole pinging concept but lately I have a 250+ ping to every server for every game I'm playing and my machine is pretty fresh no spyware that I could find at all not to mention offline games run perfectly...I wanna call up my isp and bitch them out but first I'd like a little more concrete evidence, could someone maybe post a how to on pinging your isp? thanks a lot

=nsn=Captpat · 03-09-2006, 01:15 PM

start>run>type 'cmd' in the box(no quotes)

a DOS-like window will popup. in that window type ' tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ' again, no quotes and put the ip address you want to trace in place of the XXX's

Stryker412 · 03-09-2006, 01:20 PM

Don't ping your provider. Do a tracert to a few gameservers. See at which hop where your ping goes up.

Also read this thread:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15556763

Those forums are a great resource when having connection issues.

EricDraven · 03-09-2006, 01:52 PM

sweet thanks a lot guys and believe it or not cycle booting actually solved my problem, normally it doesn't do jack sheet but this time it worked though I'm gonna save that site and the cmd prompt in case i do need to, thanks a lot

=nsn=Captpat · 03-09-2006, 07:11 PM

What is cycle booting?

Dvshadow · 03-09-2006, 07:14 PM

most likely power cycling his router...connection cache prolly got filled up, bogging down your router.

been filesharing lately?

=nsn=Captpat · 03-09-2006, 08:11 PM

Thanks man, I never heard the term I was curious.