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Re: Intermittent System Outage returns.
Gwalk900, (AmandaandLizmay find the latter part of this of interest as well.) In working on a reply to your post, I discovered something very important. I will get to that in a moment. First, let me point out that during these tests, at no time have I used the wireless WiFi facilities of the Belkin router. I normally connect the router only so that we have WiFi access via a Samsung tablet elsewhere in the house. All of my PING tests run on my PC which is hard wired via an Ethernet cable to either the router or directly to the satellite modem, depending on the scenario being tested. I would suggest that there are, in fact, 3 loops when my PC is connected directly to the modem and 4 loops when the PC is connected to the router which is then connected to the modem. What I found hard to understand was that there are far fewer, if any, dropped PING messages when the router is added to the scenario. Therefore, I was postulating that perhaps there is something about the electrical connection between my PC and the satellite modem that is aided by having the router in between them. While writing this reply, I thought more about that and performed a PING test between the PC and the satellite modem itself with them being directly connected via an Ethernet cable. Then the scenario contains only 1 loop. To perform this test, I typed the following statement into a command box: PING /n 1000 192.168.0.1 Of the 1000 PING messages sent, 37% were dropped, a really poor result for a direct hard wired Ethernet connection. More than a third of all PING messages couldn't even make the round trip just across the Ethernet cable to the satellite modem and back to the PC. By the way, the longest round trip time of those messages that did make the round trip successfullywas 1 millisecond. Then I repeated the test with the router in the circuit. This constituted a 2 loop test. This time, 0% of the PING messages were dropped. Every PING message from the PC made the full round trip. However, while the average round trip time was still 1 millisecond, the maximum round trip time was 40 milliseconds. Some further testing showed that only 1.3% of the PING messages are ever taking longer than 1 millisecond in this 2 loop test. So while it is desireable to remove my router to eliminate it as a source of problems when troubleshooting some issues, I find that my apparent overall performance is improved by having the router between my PC and the satelllite modem, even when I am not using the WiFi functionality the router provides. I am already well aware that there is a connectivity test available for testing the link between the satellite modem and the gateway but that does not test the communications in a way that truly emulates normal traffic timing such as takes place during a PING test. It would be desireable to know the IP address of the server at the gateway which is serving my communication channel. It would be valuable to me to be able to perform PING tests between my PC and that gateway server, thereby eliminating the internet itself as a source of issues. Is there any chance I can get the IP address of that gateway server? Where would I look for it?
