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fatboy18 said:
God knows what's going on with my network, my pc is running like an old steam train 
I keep loosing my wirless connection and have no idea why when everything was working fine a few days ago?
Any help out there?
Edited by fatboy18 on Monday 18th April 22:12
Looks like some overtime coming up Baz http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/me...
neilsfishing said:
Wats the ping
A Ping is an ICMP echo request sent from the host to the target server, the target server then responds with an ICMP echo response. The time shown in the speed tests is the total time for the request to be transmitted from the client to the server, the server to process (usually pretty quick, not much to do) and the return trip time of the echo response to return to the client. What it is telling you in the speed test is an indication of latency of your connection, Ie you may be able to get 80mbs down you cable but each request for data will take this long to process on the round trip. a small value is better. Think of it like your download speed is the diameter of your garden hose pipe, Bigger pipe more water comes out the end, the ping time is how long it take you to run to the tap, turn the tap on and then get back to grab the other end before SWMBOs washing on the line gets wet from the flailing hose.Generally for surfing the web the ping time isn't going to make a whole heap of difference, obviously a low number will be quicker but unless you are getting to the crap numbers like my office connection you probably wont notice when browsing or downloading. It will though make a huge difference in multi-player online gaming where all the clients are sending lots of tiny position update packets. if i was skiving off playing a shoot them up game in the office, with our long ping time i would probably be dead before i knew there was someone there i should be shooting.
IT peeps will also use ping to check that there is a connection to a server or other device or that the device at an ip address is turned on and connected to the network (providing it conforms to the RFC standards) Don't bother pinging my firewall from the Internet as it will not reply (does not conform to the RFC requirements) as far as anyone on the Internet is concerned, I'm not here unless i talk to them first.
Glad you asked now....
Edited by ViperDave on Thursday 21st April 20:00
ViperDave said:
A Ping is an ICMP echo request sent from the host to the target server, the target server then responds with an ICMP echo response. The time shown in the speed tests is the total time for the request to be transmitted from the client to the server, the server to process (usually pretty quick, not much to do) and the return trip time of the echo response to return to the client. What it is telling you in the speed test is an indication of latency of your connection, Ie you may be able to get 80mbs down you cable but each request for data will take this long to process on the round trip. a small value is better. Think of it like your download speed is the diameter of your garden hose pipe, Bigger pipe more water comes out the end, the ping time is how long it take you to run to the tap, turn the tap on and then get back to grab the other end before SWMBOs washing on the line gets wet from the flailing hose.
Generally for surfing the web the ping time isn't going to make a whole heap of difference, obviously a low number will be quicker but unless you are getting to the crap numbers like my office connection you probably wont notice when browsing or downloading. It will though make a huge difference in multi-player online gaming where all the clients are sending lots of tiny position update packets. if i was skiving off playing a shoot them up game in the office, with our long ping time i would probably be dead before i knew there was someone there i should be shooting.
IT peeps will also use ping to check that there is a connection to a server or other device or that the device at an ip address is turned on and connected to the network (providing it conforms to the RFC standards) Don't bother pinging my firewall from the Internet as it will not reply (does not conform to the RFC requirements) as far as anyone on the Internet is concerned, I'm not here unless i talk to them first.
Glad you asked now....
WOW thanks Generally for surfing the web the ping time isn't going to make a whole heap of difference, obviously a low number will be quicker but unless you are getting to the crap numbers like my office connection you probably wont notice when browsing or downloading. It will though make a huge difference in multi-player online gaming where all the clients are sending lots of tiny position update packets. if i was skiving off playing a shoot them up game in the office, with our long ping time i would probably be dead before i knew there was someone there i should be shooting.
IT peeps will also use ping to check that there is a connection to a server or other device or that the device at an ip address is turned on and connected to the network (providing it conforms to the RFC standards) Don't bother pinging my firewall from the Internet as it will not reply (does not conform to the RFC requirements) as far as anyone on the Internet is concerned, I'm not here unless i talk to them first.
Glad you asked now....
Edited by ViperDave on Thursday 21st April 20:00
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