CMD Ping Test Timout

[MasterLow]

Hi im getting P Oed with this stupid ping test i used to run 24/7 on my pc to check my ping, it was cmd then in cmd i type ping 192.168.1.1 -n 100000. what am i doing wrong cause it keeps timing out on me?

 

[mariushm]

First of all, that would be pointless because you're testing how fast the connection (latency, not speed) is between your connection and your router / modem / whatever (192.168.1.1) - it doesn't do anything to test the latency between your router and your isp or other internet places.

 

Then, ping is basically useless because a lot of devices outright don't reply at all to ping requests because in the past it was used a lot to perform DDOS attacks (make the other computer slow being busy replying to ping requests) or filter the ping requests and reply only to some and only if the data packets are small enough (for example you can ask to reply with a 32 KB data packet and the server won't do it, but may reply if you ask for a 64 byte data packet)

 

If it times out, make sure there is actually something on 192.168.1.1 , maybe the router or the computer you had there received another IP address.  Then, make sure that ICMP service (icmp replies to ping requests) is enabled and not blocked in firewall.

Also, make sure you didn't install some antivirus software or some firewall software that blocks outgoing ICMP or incoming ICMP (ping commands going out or ping replies coming in)

 

If you truly want to test how well the connection between you and a website / server is, my advice would be to try WinMTR which also tells you where between you and that server may be a problem slowing down the connection : http://winmtr.net/download-winmtr/

 

 

 

 

 

[MasterLow]

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

First of all, that would be pointless because you're testing how fast the connection (latency, not speed) is between your connection and your router / modem / whatever (192.168.1.1) - it doesn't do anything to test the latency between your router and your isp or other internet places.

 

Then, ping is basically useless because a lot of devices outright don't reply at all to ping requests because in the past it was used a lot to perform DDOS attacks (make the other computer slow being busy replying to ping requests) or filter the ping requests and reply only to some and only if the data packets are small enough (for example you can ask to reply with a 32 KB data packet and the server won't do it, but may reply if you ask for a 64 byte data packet)

 

If it times out, make sure there is actually something on 192.168.1.1 , maybe the router or the computer you had there received another IP address.  Then, make sure that ICMP service (icmp replies to ping requests) is enabled and not blocked in firewall.

Also, make sure you didn't install some antivirus software or some firewall software that blocks outgoing ICMP or incoming ICMP (ping commands going out or ping replies coming in)

 

If you truly want to test how well the connection between you and a website / server is, my advice would be to try WinMTR which also tells you where between you and that server may be a problem slowing down the connection : http://winmtr.net/download-winmtr/

 

 

 

 

 

hey man thats hella great info and thanks heaps but I was more or less wanting this test because the latency on it would say it was 32 or 22 ms which is good for me and that would mean im running 80 - 100 Ping on my game Rainbow six which measures how was the connection between the servers are with ping but I will definitely check this out, thanks heaps

[mariushm]

10 minutes ago, MasterLow said:

hey man thats hella great info and thanks heaps but I was more or less wanting this test because the latency on it would say it was 32 or 22 ms which is good for me and that would mean im running 80 - 100 Ping on my game Rainbow six which measures how was the connection between the servers are with ping but I will definitely check this out, thanks heaps

Pings between your computer and the router in your house  or whatever has the ip 192.168.1.1 should be under 5 ms, usually 1ms... if it's wired.

If you have so high pings my guess you're probably using wireless of some sort and you have a router with wireless.

Powerline networking also has higher latency but it's not so common so my guess is you have a wireless connection.

 

In that case, it's somewhat normal for higher latency because the data packets have to be converted to radio signal that goes through air and then when they arrive to the router decoded and converted back to regular data packets so all that process adds some processing time.

You may be able to reduce this by configuring your wireless router to use only 5 ghz or only 2.4 ghz and you can use some applications to see which wireless "channels" are less busy and then configure your wireless router to listen for communication on those less busy channels. The more busy some channels are, the harder it would be for data packets to be decoded so there's risk of higher latency.

 

Higher latency is OK for gaming, as long as that latency is stable over time ... games are smart enough to counteract that latency and predict where your character will be in the game a few ms while it waits for new data from your computer to arrive and work with it, so a gamer with 50ms latency could be just as good as one with steady 80-100ms latency but only as long as it's stable over time.

Use WinMTR and enter there the game servers address to see how the connection between you and the game server is.

 

You can use something like the Resource Monitor in Task Manager, or Process Explorer from SysInternals Suite to see to which IPs the game is connecting to, and you'll probably be able to figure out which IP is the actual game server and which are other players in the game (depends on the game, some games are p2p only, so there's no actual central server).

 

ps. Try not to quote my whole message when you're replying right after me, there's no point to fill the screen with huge blocks of text, and it annoys some people.