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Originally posted by AdultWire
I have said it a thousand times.. Network latency is NOT the sole measure of general network performance. In fact, web browsers are designed to compensate for latency issues by opening multiple persistant connections to download a web page.
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Agreed trace and ping result just give an indication there are
several tricks you pull with this....like giving icmp packets a higher
priority...which will make the trace/ping look a bit faster... and
don't forget if you're pinging you sending 32byte packets...which
is next to nothing.
Better way to test is open port 9 (discard) on some box login
on another box and send a bunch of tcp packets the other way
rangin from small to very large....check that...then send as much
tcp packets the other way in order to measure throughput.
Run this test from several different networks if you are testing
for hosting then outgoing from the box you want to test is most
important ofcourse...(asynchronous) but once you're at it I would
test both directions..
a nice tool to run this test with is called testtcp search for it on
google...if you can't find it hit me I have the source of it somewhere.
DynaMite
