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Vonage It’s too bad that I/we don’t have access to the perfect test, but right now, PingPlotter
It’s too bad that I/we don’t have access to the perfect test, but right now, PingPlotter seems to be giving me the best picture of any of the testing options that I have available to me. The MySpeed test may use internal information or criteria that PingPlotter does not, but since that information is not presented to me, all I can tell is that my connection tests badly. I really need a tool that will lead me to a solution, rather than just reporting that there is an unknown problem.
Whatever the cause of the packet loss, tracing to 64.210.19.18 is problematic if only because of the fact that there are so many packets being lost that it makes the graph hard to read! Is there no better destination to trace to?
If I set PingPlotter to use ICMP packets, that seems to eliminate the packet loss problem at the destination, but if I am trying to test for UDP traffic, I’m not sure what that proves. Pinging from a command line returns similar results.
The default “acceptable delay” is 200 ms, but it can be configured to show whatever one wants it to show. My average round-trip on the 205.234.111 server trace was only 59 ms whereas the trace to the Vonage server averaged 103 ms. It is true that there were some delays on the first hop but I don’t think it’s fair to say that this indicates an ISP problem any more than it would be fair to say that the Vonage server is dropping 65 percent of the packets. The fact that successive hops do not show any significant errors or delays indicates to me that the router simply does not always respond to the pings in as timely a manner as I would hope. Admittedly, there is no way to say for sure with the server dropping so many packets, but it seems to me that most of the delay and errors occurred at the final destination, since that is the boundary where the average round trip time gained 37 ms. That is one reason that it would be much better to trace to a server that is more responsive.
I don’t know what 4.71.12.17 is, but apparently it’s part of Level3.net. My interpretation of the results is that most of the delay in this trace (other than the Vonage server) is within the level3 network. I’m not sure if that’s Roadrunner’s fault or not and I would not know who to call to gripe about it.
I followed your link, but I am not familiar with that software, and I have to admit that I did not understand exactly what I was looking at. My only comment would be that although I can certainly see that the performance suffers at certain times, I cannot see the source of the problem…you may have access to more information that is not presented in the linked page, but I, personally, would not be able to say that the ISP is the source of the problem by looking at this information.
Read The Full Thread: UPDATED: VoIP Speed Test
• I wanted to call your attention to our upgraded VoIP Speed Test .
Instead of
• That is a neat-looking test...but if one's "jitter" tests as "too unpredictable",
• Same issue here, everything looks great(12Mb down, 2mb up, 0 packet loss, however
• Having had a look at the FAQ for this app on the MyVoIPSpeed site it seems to me that
• After you run the test, click on the applet and then press your "i" key. That should
• Well...speaking for myself, I would not be willing to put up with the malfunctioning
• Yes, that number is correct 32k BITS per second!
I know I should put the RT31P2
• ArnB:
You might want to start a new thread for this.
:)
• [quote="trillian"]
IMHO not when the faulty RT31P2 throttles the download
• Ok will do, but I was really wanting to know how to get the Jitter problem fixed-suggestions?
MrMark posted "It’s too bad that I/we don’t have access to the perfect test, but right now, PingPlotter" on 06/11/2006 |
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