This has me scratching my head.
My access to
www.rv.net is extremely slow. With both Konqueror and
Firefox. And yet others say they have good access times.
I'm running a fully up to date F12 installation.
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon
Jan 18 20:06:44 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ping
www.rv.net
PING
www.rv.net (12.17.249.39) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
---
www.rv.net ping statistics ---
31 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 30371ms
Pinging Google gives me:
$ ping
www.google.com
PING
www.l.google.com (74.125.127.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from
pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53
time=35.5 ms
64 bytes from
pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53
time=94.5 ms
64 bytes from
pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53
time=117 ms
64 bytes from
pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53
time=53.3 ms
64 bytes from
pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=53
time=35.2 ms
64 bytes from
pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=53
time=43.1 ms
^C
---
www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5608ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.266/63.190/117.264/31.485 ms
What gives ?
ping sends icmp echo requests. If a router or the end device silently
drops icmp packets you'll get 100% packet loss. ping is not always a
good network diagnostic tool....unless you knew ahead of time what
worked and what didn't.