Big Slowdown

[Mick]

My dial up downloading speed has taken a nose dive this month, from 4.5Kbps to 2.8Kbps. Phone company (5 miles away) says it's fixed, ISP (10 miles away says I'm the only one having problems. Is there a software that can tell me exactly where the slowdown is happening, hopefully free. I need to know who to nag.:)

Mick

P.S. I am worm and virus free

[omendata]

go to the dos prompt
and type

tracert www.microsoft.com

or preferably one of the sites that you are trying to download from

the slowest router will either
you may find some sites and routers do not reply to icmp so you may not get a reply/description from them but you will still see the latency on each router along the way - i would monitor your isps routers as they will most likely be the problem 9/10

You can also use a program called Neotrace (very good)

[Mick]

Thanks "O", I have tried tracert, but when it's done the window closes and I lose the information. How can I save it or print it out before it closes? Is it in a .log file somewhere?

Thanks

[omendata]

tracert www.microsoft.com >c:\mylogfile.txt

[Mick]

You misunderstand, when tracert finishes, the window closes "automatically" before I have a chance to save it. Thanks for Neotrace, it is a nice little program, but I would like to know how to use tracert also.

[DVOM]

Mick, open an MSDOS (98) or cmd (W2K&XP) window first, then run the tracert command. It won't close when it's finished.

"start>run>command"

or

"start>run>cmd"

[omendata]

The command i gave you saves it to a file in the c: root called my logfile.txt - open it in notepad!!!

[Mick]

Thanks for your patience with my noobiness

Mick