Re: [PLUG] Verizon DSL modem/bridge

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

William H. Magill wrote:

> > Internet:
> > 100 packets transmitted, 69 received, 31% loss, time 99143ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 75.164/111.823/411.404/44.874 ms
> >
> > Wireless link:
> > 20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% loss, time 19044ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.470/3.737/4.021/0.188 ms
>
>
> What are these counters looking at?
>
> Are these pings? to where? Are you pinging your local ISP's gateway to 
> your DSL connection? or something up-stream from that?

The first is a set of pings to a host on the Internet.  The second is a 
set of pings to the wireless router.

> I also forgot to ask earlier -- is this a new connection? If it is, 
> the problem is most likely with the ATM cloud behind the DSLAM which 
> connects you to your ISP. My experience has been that it takes "a 
> while" (more than one iteration) to get that circuit provisioned 
> correctly... especially if the changes don't get backed up and they 
> have to reload the CO switch with yesterday's parameters.

I think the connection is only a couple weeks old.  I just heard that 
Verizon admitted having a problem at their end last night.  I did have 
some trouble today, but it's working fine now.  Nothing has changed on 
our end, so it must be a problem on Verizon's end.

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