Comments on: PingTest.Net

By: How the Common Man Sees It

How the Common Man Sees It — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:57:59 +0000

uhhh, speaking of ‘pings’ Barry:

Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/gps-data

By: ToNYC

ToNYC — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:32:01 +0000

start
cmd
ping ritholtz.com

107ms (Comcast, left coast)

By: bitjockey

bitjockey — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:21:00 +0000

I’ve been using it’s developer’s site, SpeedTest.net, for quite a while – it also performs upload and download tests which most ISP allocate at different bandwidths.

The feature I find most useful for both sites is not the actual test but that it archives your results so that you can compare the results from the current test to previous results. While they don’t yet let one test multiple preconfigured sites (star test) , one can select from a large variety of test hosts world wide.

http://www.speedtest.net

By: some_guy_in_a_cube

some_guy_in_a_cube — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:40:52 +0000

BR. are the great unwashed masses really ready for packet loss and jitter?

By: Mike in Nola

Mike in Nola — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:36:59 +0000

It’s very important if you’re playing Left4.dead.

By: huxrules

huxrules — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:19:03 +0000

sory for the dupe – something put http:// in my above comment – just sayin

By: huxrules

huxrules — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:18:07 +0000

too lazy to type it in?

$ ping http://www.ritholtz.com
PING ritholtz.com (97.107.138.xxx): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 97.107.138.xxx: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=175.675 ms
64 bytes from 97.107.138.xxx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=170.815 ms

from tel aviv – still pretty good speed

By: tagyoureit

tagyoureit — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:06:42 +0000

Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only.

By: bogwad_seigneur (the smelly one)

bogwad_seigneur (the smelly one) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:38:06 +0000

Sorry all, I’m on a flaky connection, keystrokes are not echoed correctly, BR: pls delete duped comment. I
do apologize to everyone, that URL screwup was the result of bad typing, and not seeing the result immediately in my interface.

By: bogwad_seigneur (the smelly one)

bogwad_seigneur (the smelly one) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:35:13 +0000

Perhaps a more meaningful test might be using simple-ping.com/a> which gives you ping times from (currently) 47 locations worldwide. It’s a useful tool in seeing what it takes for people to reach your site in terms of raw time;

http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritholtz.com%2F&c=&s=ping!

This is infinitely more significant than any of those so-called (charlatan and mostly worthless) “speed tests” out there. If you’re a site operator, you need to know how rapidly your site is resolved by your target audience (and where it might NOT be successfully resolved) and so, then, a broad based “star ping” set of results is much more important.