Ping Time

saleen2002 · 01-30-2003

I am kind of new to all this stuff and i was wondering if making a home made antenna would affect ping times at all?

Mr.White · 01-30-2003

hhhuuuuunnnngguuuhhh............

Jaffo · 01-30-2003

Yes it will! I have also found that wrapping your head in tinfoil helps receive signals from MotherShip faster.

No, seriously, ping time shouldn't be greatly affected unless you have a really crappy signal to begin with...and then your going to have problems on the 'physical' layer, most likely making 'ping' a figment of your imagination.

CCN[A,P]'s present? Make a liar of me? Am I wrong?

Pikachu · 01-31-2003

Mister CCNP agrees with you well enough....ping time mainly has to do with the bottom 2 or 3 layers...but if the hardware is crap it wont matter anyways ^_^

kmitchel46787 · 02-07-2003

Run ping with the -t and -l options (Windows, I'm assuming). -t runs continuosly so you can get a better average time. And the -l specifies the amount of data to send, by default it's 32 bytes. Try 2048, 4096, etc. This will make the latency times more consistent with what you will experience when sending real data across the link.

01-30-2003	#1 (permalink)
saleen2002 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1	Ping Time I am kind of new to all this stuff and i was wondering if making a home made antenna would affect ping times at all?

01-30-2003	#2 (permalink)
Mr.White OH such tacos will I give Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,049	hhhuuuuunnnngguuuhhh............ __________________ A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby." -Jack Handey

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Jaffo zenstumbler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Colorado Posts: 43	Yes it will! I have also found that wrapping your head in tinfoil helps receive signals from MotherShip faster. No, seriously, ping time shouldn't be greatly affected unless you have a really crappy signal to begin with...and then your going to have problems on the 'physical' layer, most likely making 'ping' a figment of your imagination. CCN[A,P]'s present? Make a liar of me? Am I wrong? __________________ Jaffo Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -- plaque on Albert Einstein's office wall

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Pikachu Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Colorado Posts: 38	Mister CCNP agrees with you well enough....ping time mainly has to do with the bottom 2 or 3 layers...but if the hardware is crap it wont matter anyways ^_^ __________________ -"Nothing is perfect. I am Nothing, therefore I am perfect"

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02-07-2003	#5 (permalink)
kmitchel46787 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 4	Run ping with the -t and -l options (Windows, I'm assuming). -t runs continuosly so you can get a better average time. And the -l specifies the amount of data to send, by default it's 32 bytes. Try 2048, 4096, etc. This will make the latency times more consistent with what you will experience when sending real data across the link.