How to Ping or Traceroute GoldToken

Are your games having problems loading?

Try running a traceroute to find if there are interuptions (a bottleneck) in internet connections between yourself and the database.

You can find out where the problem is in the connection to any given site using the command-line Traceroute or Tracert utility:

To trace the route from your computer to goldtoken.com:

Click Start | Programs | MS Dos Prompt.

• At the C:\ command prompt type:
  • tracert goldtoken.com
  • and press Enter.

You will then see a list of all the routers between your computer and the one you specified, along with three sample RTTs for each router. You can sometimes identify a problem with your connection by finding one router (or "hop") that has much higher RTTs than the hop before it. If your response times are slow and the connection is consistently timing out somewhere along the route, you may want to notify your ISP.

EXAMPLE

Tracing route to goldtoken.com [66.70.93.140]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

 1     7 ms     3 ms     6 ms  vsat-162-64-158-134.c005.g4.mrt.band.net [162.64.158.134]
 2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 3   861 ms   833 ms  1836 ms  172.30.9.254
 4  1858 ms   855 ms  1862 ms  misc-168-76-247-2.pool.band.net [168.76.247.2]
 5   832 ms   833 ms   875 ms  atl-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.90.73]
 6  1862 ms  1881 ms     *     ash-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.80.141]
 7   854 ms  1859 ms   833 ms  qwest-119092-ash-bb1.telia.net [213.248.88.178]

 8   856 ms  2888 ms   872 ms  dcx-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.251.57]
 9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
10  1919 ms   897 ms  1923 ms  ewr-cntr-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.17.146]
11   853 ms  1991 ms  1025 ms  63.146.100.66
12  873 ms  873 ms  1475 ms  core3.ewr.datapipe.net [63.146.101.14]
13   832 ms   873 ms  1881 ms  vl12.dist1-2.ewr.datapipe.net [64.106.128.28]
14  873 ms   875 ms  1881 ms  apache.goldtoken.com [66.70.93.140]

Trace complete.

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Above, you will see that the bottleneck is located at 2 and 9 of my traceroute but is fine between 10 and 14..the total number of connections it took the computer to connect to the server. If you note, there are numbers next the the letters ms..that denotes the speed of the connection process. Speed is rated like this:

Ping Time	Explanation
less=100 ms	Great, typical of a high-speed cable or DSL connection.
100 to 200 ms	Good, common for cable and DSL connections.
200 to 400 ms	Fair, usually seen with dialup connections or faraway sites.
400 to 600 ms	Slow, either the connection or the remote site is slow.
600 to 1999 ms	Poor, high latency. Typical for satellite connections.
> 1999 ms	No response, the ping was blocked or the site did not reply.

Pinpointing a Problem/Testing Other Sites

You can test your connection to other sites using the command-line Ping utility on your computer.

To ping goldtoken.com:

Open a command prompt (Start | Programs | MS Dos Prompt).

• At the C:\ command prompt type
  • ping goldtoken.com
  • and press Enter.

This will give you a low, high, and average RTT value. You can test any URL this way.

Example

DNS Location	Average	Ping1	Ping2	Ping3
pcpitstop.com Dallas, TX, USA	1178	2000	875	919
yahoo.com (various)	886	896	923	862
google.com (various)	1452	2000	2000	904
cnet.com (various)	1199	938	2000	929
espn.com (various)	1462	2000	2000	923
blogger.com (various)	1186	941	2000	901

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Things that can affect internet speed besides your ISP

Extreme heat, cold, storms etc. Then there is the rainy day effect: On rainy days everyone surfs. When that happens, contention ratio comes into play and the speed drops. That is a condition that arises when two or more data stations attempt to transmit at the same time over a shared channel, or when two data stations attempt to transmit at the same time in two-way alternate communication or to the competition that applies specifically to the number of people connected to an ISP who share a set amount of bandwidth.


Update 9.28.07 by Badger:

I just ran a ping again for comparision...to copy yours, right click, select all, then hit Ctrl and the C key at the same time..it copies it to your mouse...then paste. Note my copy of the route above is different than the one I just did below. This is because the path is an always changing feature of the internet. The speeds are different too. They vary depending on blockage, weather and a hundred other possibilities much like any freeway and the traffic on it.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\Mary>tracert goldtoken.com

Tracing route to goldtoken.com [66.70.93.140]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1     9 ms     4 ms     3 ms  vsat-148-64-156-105.c005.g4.mrt.band.net [148.64.156.105]
2     *        *        *     Request timed out.

3   844 ms   832 ms  1003 ms  172.30.9.254
4   855 ms   897 ms  1026 ms  misc-148-78-245-2.pool.band.net [148.78.245.2]
5  1026 ms  1023 ms  1026 ms  atl-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.90.73]
6   984 ms  1001 ms  1025 ms  ggr2-p3121.attga.ip.att.net [192.205.33.41]
7  2050 ms  1003 ms   983 ms  tbr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.20.206]
8  1008 ms   983 ms  1026 ms  cr1.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.17.65]
9   919 ms  1025 ms   961 ms  cr2.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.1.174]
10  1025 ms  2082 ms   956 ms  cr2.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.3.37]
11  1002 ms   961 ms  1089 ms  tbr1.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.16.134]
12   960 ms  1067 ms   961 ms  gar1.nwrnj.ip.att.net [12.123.0.153]
13   922 ms   854 ms   898 ms  corel.ewr.datapipe.net [12.119.140.22]
14   878 ms  1066 ms   984 ms  vl12.dist1-1.ewr.datapipe.net [64.106.128.29]
15   903 ms  1067 ms  1048 ms  apache.goldtoken.com [66.70.93.140]

Trace complete.