Another seriously bad connect night

[easymo]

 Its one plane wonder time kieren. Stick to the 1c until it clears up. Sometimes that wont even work. But planes like the P51 are hopeless.

[Camel]

Minotaur,

Im using MTUspeed to change my packet size.
Im sending out packets of 576 from which I understand is common for ISP's, Windoze defaults packet size to 1500 which most ISP's fragment. It has seemed to have helped.

Do a search for MTUspeed, if you cant find it ill look it up.


ok, found it www.mjs.u-net.com

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[Minotaur]

Thanks Camel  

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Mino
The Wrecking Crew

[Kieren]

Hey, checking out the MTUSpeed software... people have made reference to this in the past, but I didn't realize there is software to do it.

Going through the whole system maintenance routine, and will try this too.

Thanks for the help all of you guys!  

[Swager]

Well Kieren must of got his connection fixed, because at about 10-10:30 EST tonite he was kickin some major league poody!  I had to race to a con to try and get a shot!    But oh no!  There's Kieren  "Dak a Dak a Dak a Dak....Boom!"  Kieren man, you were hot when we were taking that field.  I love flying with ya, but Kieren dude, save some scraps for the rest of us!!    

I salute you sir!!!!!

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Swager
-XO- II/JG2~Richthofen~
"Damn.....I can't believe I missed that shot!!!"
 
JG2 "Richthofen"

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[Kieren]

Swager-

Thanks, but a bigger thanks goes to Camel and all the others that gave me some direction to go. I downloaded the MTU optimizer, and hopefully that did the trick. I found that tonight, though I saw warp at times, nothing was unmanageable. I could even land hits on planes!  

Also did a defrag on the harddrive, along with freeing up a bit more space. Heck, I'd polish the screws on the case if it made it connect cleaner.  

BTW, what traceroute program you all use? I'd like to look at a few to see if I can find one that lists all the places my packets go.

Thanks!

*crosses fingers and hopes the bad spell is over for a while*

[Camel]

np Kieren!

Hope it helps!

I still use "tracert"(in MSdos) to trace, but would also like to hear about another(free hopefully).
 

Quick note about your ping post, just in case.
Use -n # after the IP adress for more pings.

example;   ping 216.91.192.19 -n 10

Ive nver gone over 100, so dont know how high you can go.  

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[Torque]

Sorry I didn't explain it better. BTW Kieren it works the other way to, tweak it up and see how fast that isdn can go, I have a 10 mbp modem it went 1.7 mbps but was mostly corrupt.

Kieren your pingtime seems pretty high for isdn, also I always us alt route (even tho I do ping both at the same speed usually low 80's) alt-route has a few more nodes but it plays cleaner. Get Neotrace ( http://www.neoworx.com/neotrace/download.asp  ) or a similar traceroute apps it will let you identify router that is pork’n your packets When you ping the AH server for a precise view best to ping 100 times and at the fastest ms delay apps will allow. Then you’ll see the packets that frag.


Here is one TJPing   http://www.topjimmy.net/tjs/  



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[Saintaw]

http:www.visualroute.com is what you need  


Saw

[Saintaw]

 http://www.visualroute.com  is what you need  


Saw

[Kieren]

Thanks again!

From the above suggestions I have been able to trace my problems to Sprint; apparently they are dropping the ball. I wonder (aloud) is there any way to force a route?

There used to be a selectable route menu in the other sim- wonder if there is a way to do it manually?

[Skuzzy]

 

Originally posted by Kieren:
Thanks again!

From the above suggestions I have been able to trace my problems to Sprint; apparently they are dropping the ball. I wonder (aloud) is there any way to force a route?

There used to be a selectable route menu in the other sim- wonder if there is a way to do it manually?

Ahhhh, good old Sprint.  I am not sure what the deal is with Sprint.  They consistently have problems on Fridays, somewhere on their network.

But to answer your question, unfortunately, routes are set by the routers, assuming they are using BGP4 (routing protocol).

Routes can only be altered by BGP table updates, or manually by an ISP, assuming the ISP has multiple connections to the Internet, and has portable address space.  I think Sprint may not know about the manual part  .



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Roy "Skuzzy" Neese
President, AppLink Corp.
http://www.applink.net
skuzzy@applink.net

[Saintaw]

They're prolly having it handled by a Marketting guy  

[Minotaur]

 

Originally posted by Camel:
Minotaur,

Im using MTUspeed to change my packet size.
Im sending out packets of 576 from which I understand is common for ISP's, Windoze defaults packet size to 1500 which most ISP's fragment. It has seemed to have helped.

Do a search for MTUspeed, if you cant find it ill look it up.


ok, found it www.mjs.u-net.com

[This message has been edited by Camel (edited 04-09-2000).]

I noticed this one was for Win95.  Is MTU switching not required for Win98 or does it just require another utility?

Thanks!  



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Mino
The Wrecking Crew

[Camel]

Mino,

Im trying to check this out but Im having a bad connection to the internet today.

I installed it like 5 months ago on my machine with Win98se. I remeber reading that it would work with win98 somewhere.

I would love to hear a comment from Skuzzy and what he thinks of this MTU stuff. Like is it worth it, and if it is, what setting might be best?

Thanks
Camel