Re: Zyxel Prestige 314 & latency

From: W1QE (w1qe@mindspring.com)
Date: 11/29/02 

From: "W1QE" <w1qe@mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:30:52 -0500

I have a Netgear RT314 which I believe to be the same as your Zyxel RT314. I am DSL connected and get 27 - 30ms RTT.

Try running the ping directly from the router. You can access the maintenance functions of the router via telnet. The System Maintenance - Diagnostic menu 24.4 has the ping option. That will get your local host out of the loop. You should be able to ping the router and modem and any other network reachable address on your local network or cable attached network from the diagnostic ping function. The router and modem ping should be 1 ms or less. That should allow you to isolate where your problem lies.

My guess is that you have a local host problem. What do you get when you run ping from your local host to 127.0.0.1? It should be 1ms or less.

Al
"BobD" <stuff1@respond-to-group-not-me.alt-tab.cc> wrote in message news:mCXE9.46079$3j6.1290352@twister.kc.rr.com...
> Have a Zyxel Prestige 314 (new) connected to a Road Runner Surf Modem
> SB4100. I'm getting high ping times when I run a tracert - on the order of
> 300 ms per hop. My download speed is great put getting to sites seems slow.
> If I connect the cable modem directly to my computer leaving the Prestige
> out of the circuit I get tracert ping times in the two digit range (20, 30,
> 50, etc. ms). Anybody have experience with this? The Prestige 314 is
> supposed to be a kick-*** device.
>
> Also, when I do a tracert I seem to bounce from the lan side address of the
> Prestige (192.168.x.x ) to another private ip address of 10.48.x.x. before
> it hits an external address. The wan side address of the Prestige is a
> 65.3x.x.x number. Is this normal? I was seeing this same address phenomena
> on the Barricade that went bad (hence the Prestige).
>
> I've been to Tier 2 with RR several times because of intermittent
> connectivity issues and they've been as helpful as they can be. I really
> can't gripe about their response. I would like to know if the Zyxel inserts
> long ping/tracert delays or if I may have a funky unit. It has been
> upgraded with the 3.50 firmware upgrade.
>
> Thanks -
>
> Bob
>
>

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