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I am still a Yahoo! pinger as well. ~ ping yahoo.com PING yahoo.com (74.6.231.20): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.6.231.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=42.36

by nertzy 1y ago

I am still a Yahoo! pinger as well. ~ ping yahoo.com PING yahoo.com (74.6.231.20): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.6.231.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=42.366 ms ^C --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 42.366/42.366/42.366/0.000 ms

oreilles 1y ago
I just tried, pinging Yahoo is about 20 times slower than pinging Google...
- firefax 1y ago
  I decided to run a small experiment ping -c 20 -i 5 google.com; ping -c 20 -i 5 yahoo.com [snip] --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.746/19.939/25.057/3.153 ms [snip] --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.561/20.883/25.080/2.675 ms They look comparable to me?
  - theshackleford 1y ago
    It would depend on where you are pinging from and if they have anything closer to you to respond. From where I am, google averages 4ms, yahoo is at 200ms+. Obviously because they dont have the money or marketshare to bother putting anything for me to route closer too.
  - jedberg 1y ago
    Same experiment from my gigabit link in Silicon Valley. Looks like Yahoo is about 3 times slower but far more consistent --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 6.918/23.419/294.037/62.272 ms --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 78.056/78.940/80.940/0.811 ms Although what's interesting is that Yahoo is really more like 10 times slower (almost every ping was in the 6-8ms range), it's just that there was just that one packet at 300ms and other at 30ms that really blew out the average.
jen729w 1y ago
Shortest, fastest? ping 1.1
- ycuser2 1y ago
  What do you mean by "safest"? How is pinging 1.0.0.1 safer that yahoo.com? With pinging 1.1 you exclude DNS from your chain, but is that safer anyhow?
  - jen729w 1y ago
    You mis-read me. I said 'shortest'.
    - ycuser2 1y ago
      Oops
qingcharles 1y ago
It's a muscle memory now after 30 years of doing it. Always the first thing I ping when testing a connection.

by nertzy 1y ago

oreilles 1y ago

I just tried, pinging Yahoo is about 20 times slower than pinging Google...

firefax 1y ago
I decided to run a small experiment ping -c 20 -i 5 google.com; ping -c 20 -i 5 yahoo.com [snip] --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.746/19.939/25.057/3.153 ms [snip] --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.561/20.883/25.080/2.675 ms They look comparable to me?
- theshackleford 1y ago
  It would depend on where you are pinging from and if they have anything closer to you to respond. From where I am, google averages 4ms, yahoo is at 200ms+. Obviously because they dont have the money or marketshare to bother putting anything for me to route closer too.
- jedberg 1y ago
  Same experiment from my gigabit link in Silicon Valley. Looks like Yahoo is about 3 times slower but far more consistent --- google.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 6.918/23.419/294.037/62.272 ms --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 78.056/78.940/80.940/0.811 ms Although what's interesting is that Yahoo is really more like 10 times slower (almost every ping was in the 6-8ms range), it's just that there was just that one packet at 300ms and other at 30ms that really blew out the average.

jen729w 1y ago

Shortest, fastest? ping 1.1

ycuser2 1y ago
What do you mean by "safest"? How is pinging 1.0.0.1 safer that yahoo.com? With pinging 1.1 you exclude DNS from your chain, but is that safer anyhow?
- jen729w 1y ago
  You mis-read me. I said 'shortest'.
  - ycuser2 1y ago
    Oops

qingcharles 1y ago

It's a muscle memory now after 30 years of doing it. Always the first thing I ping when testing a connection.