The Need For Speed

[xortam]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Colin Morey:
rather than pings, what would be best would be traceroutes, (tracert under nt)
this will help confirm connectivity., which is another big factor in the reliability of the company.</font>

Starting to sound argumentative here, but ... there's no difference between ping and tracert when it comes to confirming connectivity: They'll both show that you've connected to the host and how long it takes to roundtrip a control packet. tracert does help show where congestion lies among the routers between the client and server and if a router isn't passing the packet.

[Liquid Snake]

Well, perhaps Ant can find some of the sites these guys host and ask the webmaster how it is. There's no real way to measure all of this from the outside, without actually getting a site hosted.

[Colin Morey]

connectivity, sorry I should have said _peering_ connections to multiple backbones, which won't show up on a normal pin, but on a traceroute.