How to check ping?

[Topsy Krett]

I've searched, and tried multiple ways but since I have been gone it has been so long that I forgot!

I thought it was for example: ping atlantic.owo.com if you wanted to ping Atlantic... Am I missing something?

I keep getting... 'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command...

Thanks in advance.

 

[drinkbeerallday]

seems to me like that should be working

make sure ping.exe is in C:\WINDOWS\system32

 

[Salmar]

Another good test would be to use tracert atlantic.owo.com from a command prompt.

On Windows XP:
Click Start, then Run and type cmd.
Press enter and type tracert atlantic.owo.com (or whatever server you want) and enter to see the path the packets are taking.

You can see any hiccups or slow spots this way.

 

[Phaen Grey]

aye the command is tracert not ping

 

[Desperado_SE]

aye the command is tracert not ping

Doesn't really explain why ping works then on my system when I just tried if its not the right command...

 

[laurlo]

good topic, I didn't know how either..

 

[Phaen Grey]

I keep getting... 'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command...

ping.exe is not on his system, however commonly if ping is not there tracert is.

 

[Snakeman]

Just use This (UO trace Utility)

http://support.uo.com/latency.html

All you have to do is put in the servers or servers you need to ping to. If thats too hard use thsi (cut & paste these)

[GameServers]
0=AOL Legends (aollegends.owo.com),0
1=Arirang (arirang.owo.com),0
2=Asuka (asuka.owo.com),0
3=Atlantic (atlantic.owo.com),0
4=Baja (baja.owo.com),0
5=Balhae (balhae.owo.com),0
6=Catskills (catskills.owo.com),0
7=Chesapeake (chesapeake.owo.com),0
8=Drachenfels (drachenfels.owo.com),0
9=Europa (europa.owo.com),0
10=Formosa (formosa.owo.com),0
11=Great Lakes (greatlakes.owo.com),0
12=Hokuto (hokuto.owo.com),0
13=Izumo (izumo.owo.com),0
14=Lake Superior (lakesuperior.owo.com),0
15=Mizuho (mizuho.owo.com),0
16=Napa Valley (napavalley.owo.com),0
17=Oceania (oceania.owo.com),0
18=Pacific (pacific.owo.com),0
19=Siege Perilous (siegeperilous.owo.com),0
20=Sonoma (sonoma.owo.com),0
21=Test Center D (testcenterd.owo.com),0
22=Test Rewards (testrewards.owo.com),-1
23=Wakoku (wakoku.owo.com),0
24=Yamato (yamato.owo.com),0
25=Login (login.owo.com),0

Yes some are OLD, tells ya how long I have had it & using it

 

[Flutter]

ping shardname.exe.com -t
Works on my system. Then ctrl/c to stop.
I usually let it run for a while to get a good read of what's going on.
Only if I get packet loss or high ping times do I run tracert to find out where the issue lies.

 

[Fink]

What can be done with the information once you've run the trace? Say one point along the way spikes really high, is there a way of going around that point rather than through it?

 

[drinkbeerallday]

through a proxy

 

[Topsy Krett]

seems to me like that should be working

make sure ping.exe is in C:\WINDOWS\system32

I think 'drinkbeerallday' (great name btw lmao) is right... I just noticed that on my school lappy I am defaulted in a different directory which may be causing the problem. I don't think I can switch out...

I'll have to find out...

 

[Topsy Krett]

Just use This (UO trace Utility)

http://support.uo.com/latency.html

All you have to do is put in the servers or servers you need to ping to. If thats too hard use thsi (cut & paste these)

[GameServers]
0=AOL Legends (aollegends.owo.com),0
1=Arirang (arirang.owo.com),0
2=Asuka (asuka.owo.com),0
3=Atlantic (atlantic.owo.com),0
4=Baja (baja.owo.com),0
5=Balhae (balhae.owo.com),0
6=Catskills (catskills.owo.com),0
7=Chesapeake (chesapeake.owo.com),0
8=Drachenfels (drachenfels.owo.com),0
9=Europa (europa.owo.com),0
10=Formosa (formosa.owo.com),0
11=Great Lakes (greatlakes.owo.com),0
12=Hokuto (hokuto.owo.com),0
13=Izumo (izumo.owo.com),0
14=Lake Superior (lakesuperior.owo.com),0
15=Mizuho (mizuho.owo.com),0
16=Napa Valley (napavalley.owo.com),0
17=Oceania (oceania.owo.com),0
18=Pacific (pacific.owo.com),0
19=Siege Perilous (siegeperilous.owo.com),0
20=Sonoma (sonoma.owo.com),0
21=Test Center D (testcenterd.owo.com),0
22=Test Rewards (testrewards.owo.com),-1
23=Wakoku (wakoku.owo.com),0
24=Yamato (yamato.owo.com),0
25=Login (login.owo.com),0

Yes some are OLD, tells ya how long I have had it & using it

Heh, this works great actually... Just easier to do it in the 'CMD' but this got me the answer I was looking for! Thanks!

 

[gunneroforgin]

Heh, this works great actually... Just easier to do it in the 'CMD' but this got me the answer I was looking for! Thanks!

i noticed that origin in not on you wonderfull list. You might want to add it to the list.

 

[Cear Dallben Dragon]

sir,

some windows operating systems require that you run cmd and type the following

ping -a atlantic.owo.com

 

[Topsy Krett]

sir,

some windows operating systems require that you run cmd and type the following

ping -a atlantic.owo.com

Never heard of that... tried it though, and no luck with it.

 

[drinkbeerallday]

sir,

some windows operating systems require that you run cmd and type the following

ping -a atlantic.owo.com

Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]
            [-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]
            [-w timeout] target_name

Options:
    -t             Ping the specified host until stopped.
                   To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;
                   To stop - type Control-C.
    -a             Resolve addresses to hostnames.
    -n count       Number of echo requests to send.
    -l size        Send buffer size.
    -f             Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.
    -i TTL         Time To Live.
    -v TOS         Type Of Service.
    -r count       Record route for count hops.
    -s count       Timestamp for count hops.
    -j host-list   Loose source route along host-list.
    -k host-list   Strict source route along host-list.
    -w timeout     Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.

 

[angeldeepa]

if you don't know the command, just query here http://www.whoisxy.com/ping.aspx .Through this you can perform your ping test.

 

[Old Man of UO]

Just use This (UO trace Utility)

http://support.uo.com/latency.html
...

UO Trace is 32 bit code and doesn't work with Windows 7 x64bit.

 

[SirZ]

Just use This (UO trace Utility)

http://support.uo.com/latency.html
...

UO Trace is 32 bit code and doesn't work with Windows 7 x64bit.

What? It work's fine with win 7 x64.

 

[Old Man of UO]

Just use This (UO trace Utility)

http://support.uo.com/latency.html
...

UO Trace is 32 bit code and doesn't work with Windows 7 x64bit.

What? It work's fine with win 7 x64.

Hmmm... just recently downloaded it. When I try to run it, in any compatibility mode, it tells me that I need to get the proper X86(32 bit) or x86(64 bit) code. What else could that mean?

 

[SirZ]

Just use This (UO trace Utility)

http://support.uo.com/latency.html
...

UO Trace is 32 bit code and doesn't work with Windows 7 x64bit.

What? It work's fine with win 7 x64.

Hmmm... just recently downloaded it. When I try to run it, in any compatibility mode, it tells me that I need to get the proper X86(32 bit) or x86(64 bit) code. What else could that mean?

Hm, try to download it again, maybe you downloaded a broken file.

 

[Old Man of UO]

Hm, try to download it again, maybe you downloaded a broken file.

Weird... but that worked! Thanks!

 

[MalagAste]

That is excellent my highest trace route is 60ms.... awesome and that's with the EC running.

 

[Llewen]

What can be done with the information once you've run the trace? Say one point along the way spikes really high, is there a way of going around that point rather than through it?

Just about the only thing you can do is make a note of the bad hops and send the information to someone like Mesanna and ask them if they can get EA's network engineers to look into it. They would have to contact the network service provider with the issue and see if the problem can be resolved.

You can also try contacting your ISP and ask that it be elevated to a network engineer so they can try to do the same thing from their end. If you can figure out whose network the problem is in you can also try contacting the network service provider yourself and see if you can get any assistance that way, although your best bet is to try to get EA's network engineers to do it, they are more likely to be able to contact the right people and ask the right questions.

 

[Llewen]

That is excellent my highest trace route is 60ms.... awesome and that's with the EC running.

Man, a few years ago that would have made you the leet of all leets. These days that's not especially good, although that's what I ping and I am very happy with it. The most important thing though, more important than the ping number itself is that the pings are stable and there is no packet loss.

 

[CorwinXX]

How can I check my ping to shards?
"ping drachenfels.owo.com" doesn't get answer ("send 4, get 0, lost 4").
UO trace can't get servers list (write something like "socket error")

 

[Llewen]

I noticed starting a month or two ago UO servers stopped responding to ping requests.

 

[Triberius]

If you're one of the handful of Linux Junkies playing UO take a look at this post http://vboards.stratics.com/1974225-post1.html I use Conky as a system monitor and the post explains a way to add a server Ping to the data it displays...

 

[Ender]

Yeah it looks like you can't do this anymore. Wtf.

 

[Triberius]

Yeah it looks like you can't do this anymore. Wtf.

Sure you can, what happened is the servers were moved off the old owo addresses, and have new IP's and the re-direct from the old location was finally removed.. Stratics has the info on the updated server addresses, UO Stratics - Server Information

Use the IP addresses when doing your Ping/Tracert and you'll be ok. If you try say

tracert chesapeake.owo.com

you don't get anything because that address doesn't exist anymore.

 

[Ender]

So I'm guessing there's an updated IP for Great Lakes that Stratics doesn't have? Because it's not listed under the updated ones, and the old one doesn't work.

 

[Merion]

So I'm guessing there's an updated IP for Great Lakes that Stratics doesn't have? Because it's not listed under the updated ones, and the old one doesn't work.

Same for Drachenfels. I know the devs posted all the new IPs at that time, but I can't find it anymore.

 

[Storm]

here are some of the new ones
65.216.123.32 Origin
65.216.123.33 Pacific
65.216.123.34 Baja
65.216.123.35 Sonoma
65.216.123.36 Lake Austin
65.216.123.37 Napa Valley
65.216.123.38 Oceania
63.117.27.137 Lake Superior
63.117.27.138 Chesapeake

UO Stratics - Server Information

 

[SixUnder]

Alt + f4

 

[Cetric]

Wonder what great lakes' ip is

 

[Storm]

63.117.27.139 try this for great lakes

 

[Llewen]

I've checked both url addresses and the ip addresses, the ip's within EA's domain no longer respond to ping or trace requests. You can trace as far as EA's network, but none of the addresses beyond that will respond.

 

[Ender]

63.117.27.139 try this for great lakes

Didn't work for me. The others do though. Hmm.

 

[Storm]

I know, I have been having problems with my connection to them it is running 200+ms but when i ping up to the ea server io am at 100 ms or less so leads me to believe my problem is with the EA servers but I have no idea how to tell for sure sense I am not geting ping from them!

 

[Malador]

greatlakes is host233.ea.com or 63.117.27.233 but you cannot pig the name and tracing the ip gets host unreachable. So as someone said you cannot ping great lakes right now

 

[Lord Gandalf]

Europa, ec, ping address pls
is it 213.71.25.65???

 

[Lord Obsidian]

Europa, ec, ping address pls
is it 213.71.25.65???

Yep.

More details on the UO Tech board: http://vboards.stratics.com/uo-tech/249180-new-shard-ip-addresses-2011-a.html
and on UO Stratics: UO Stratics *New* | Server IP Addresses

 

[Lord Gandalf]

Ping 213.71.25.65 is 120ms
When i try ping europa.owo.com i get no response and 100% loss
Well thats not all... When i log in to My EC latency is 250ms
How do u explain this???

 

[Llewen]

Ping 213.71.25.65 is 120ms
When i try ping europa.owo.com i get no response and 100% loss
Well thats not all... When i log in to My EC latency is 250ms
How do u explain this???

As far as I know EA's servers no longer respond to ping requests. The best you can do is do a trace to that address and then poll the last address that responds to see if there are any issues up to EA's networks.

As far as your latency goes, the first question is, what country are you trying to connect to the Europa server from? The next question is, are you running any p2p applications in the background, or are you downloading anything while you are playing the game? Have you scanned for both viruses, and spyware recently?

By "p2p" applications, I mean applications like Bit Torrent, uTorrent, Limewire (I guess I'm out of touch, Limewire is no more...), etc.

 

[Lord Gandalf]

Thank you, another question, if im running uo with a 1mb connection, and if i upgrade my connection to 4mb or 10mb lets say, the latency (ping) will remain the same?

 

[Llewen]

Thank you, another question, if im running uo with a 1mb connection, and if i upgrade my connection to 4mb or 10mb lets say, the latency (ping) will remain the same?

For the most part gaming doesn't really take that much bandwidth. What takes a lot of bandwidth is downloading large files like movies, and file sharing. So if you think you want to download movies, etc., then the "faster" connection will make a big difference to you, and you will also download patches faster. However, for actual game play, if all other factors are the same, a 4mb or 10mb connection will provide no benefit over your 1mb connection.

And just a little tip. When it comes to latency, cable is still the best type of service for gaming on. FiOS is overrated when it comes to gaming. I've helped a friend run direct test comparisons between FiOS and cable, and the cable provided the lower latency, more responsive service for gaming. However, FiOS is better than dsl or adsl, neither of which are particularly great for gaming on.

 

[Sevin0oo0]

no matter how (ping or tracert) to atlantic i get 100% loss, dies in Kansas - this is while logged in to Atlantic so i know it's up. don't they have an option to not answer pings and such?

 

[Storm]

yes pings can be blocked

And for gaming your upload speed is as important if not more important then your download speed and in most cases your upload speed is way smaller than your download provided by your isp

 

[Llewen]

yes pings can be blocked

And for gaming your upload speed is as important if not more important then your download speed and in most cases your upload speed is way smaller than your download provided by your isp

For the most part these days upload and download bandwidth are irrelevant for gaming, unless you are still unlucky enough to be playing on dialup, or you are doing something stupid like downloading or file sharing while you game. Most games won't use even a small fraction of the bandwidth available with broadband service of any kind - even the least expensive.

What does matter is latency, and for that cable is still king, followed by FiOS/FibreOP, followed by dsl/adsl, and last of all, wireless.

And as I posted further up, EA's servers have been configured to not respond to any ping, trace, or polling requests, so the best you can do is trace up to their network and see if there are any issues between you and EA's network. If there aren't then it is probably time to contact EA's technical support if you are still experiencing problems.