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[UncleUB]

Just seen this on the www.speedtest.net site

www.pingtest.net

Not sure what it all means,but this was my test result.

[roseway]

That looks excellent to me. Whatever server I try from that site, I get 100% packet loss recorded.

If you click on the 'Learn more' button you'll get an explanation of what it's all supposed to mean.

[tuftedduck]

It's telling me that I suffer from "100% packet loss"

 :cry2:

What does that mean please..? The "learn more" tab just says that anything over a 0% loss is a problem, but there is no further explanation.

[GunJack]

I tried this last night....ran back-to-back tests with the same serveers on speedtest then pingtest, all the speedtest ping results were higher than the pingtest results so used the feedback form to let them know.

With it being a Beta release, the more peeps who try it and provide feedback the more chance they/we've got of getting a very useful end product, in my humble opinion

[roseway]

I think that the packet loss report must be a bug in the system, because 100% packet loss would presumably mean that there was no good data received at all. I've submitted a report to the site.

[djnield]

I just tried and got the following

[jeffbb]

Hi

these are my results  seems to work ok  could be handy for gamers .


Regards Jeff

[orainsear]

I think that the packet loss report must be a bug in the system, because 100% packet loss would presumably mean that there was no good data received at all. I've submitted a report to the site.

You haven't got ICMP disabled?

[geep]

Cheers,
Peter

[roseway]

You haven't got ICMP disabled?

I'm embarrassed to admit that I did. But now that I've enabled it I still get 100% packet loss reported.

[waltergmw]

It is definitely a feature of this beta software. I've tried two different Zen lines from THCN.
One reports 100% packet loss on two occasions. The other had one from three with 100 %.
My own Virgin cable line reports that it can't do the packet loss calculation.

Kind regards,
Walter

[GunJack]

Reading through the FAQ, this little gem popped out at me....very handy, I would think, if trying to resolve behind-the-exchange network faults maybe....

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip

[tickmike]

Well I've tried this four times and it's crashed my browser each time it tries to load the page.

[jid]

I like this site... Good idea.

Seems a bit glitchy with Packet Loss though...

[roseway]

I've had a reply to my bug report:

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It is possible this is due to your system not having Java installed. Please confirm you have the required install:

http://www.pingtest.net/help.php#q6

Alternatively, if you have a hardware or software firewall blocking UDP traffic over port 5060, this would also cause the test to fail. We will be making a few changes that result in showing packetloss as N/A in instances where this occurs.
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I do have Java installed of course, but all incoming ports are blocked by the router, so that's probably the explanation. I've temporarily opened port 5060 for UDP traffic to test it, but at present I can't access the PingTest site.

It does make me think that those of you who didn't get a 100% packet loss result ought to check your firewall settings to make sure that you don't have other ports open to the world...