Is my wireless slow in a hotel?

[Nick]

nick$ ping www.google.co.uk
PING www.l.google.com (209.85.175.104): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=1654.734 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=1485.350 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=776.341 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=150.421 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=368.430 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=802.969 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=6 ttl=51 time=454.212 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=7 ttl=51 time=109.252 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=8 ttl=51 time=107.620 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=9 ttl=51 time=109.988 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=10 ttl=51 time=111.777 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.175.104: icmp_seq=11 ttl=51 time=110.051 ms
^C

Not the most savvy on the old millisecond front but left the ping running and just wondering is this the average connection speed for wireless? Or is this kind of pants (feels like it!)

[aZooZa]

Try speedtest.net.

[uthink]

its slow, I have 20meg and get 16ms when i ping google uk

[aZooZa]

Originally Posted by uthink

its slow, I have 20meg and get 16ms when i ping google uk

Lucky. At home I have 1.5 Mb - recently upgraded from 512K.

dale:~ dale$ ping google.co.uk
PING google.co.uk (74.125.230.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=53.120 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=52.789 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=60.863 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=52.748 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=54.374 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=53.095 ms
c64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=6 ttl=51 time=54.699 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=7 ttl=51 time=52.512 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.147: icmp_seq=8 ttl=51 time=54.417 ms

[Aaron Clifford]

Pinging google.co.uk [74.125.230.116] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.230.116: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=57
Reply from 74.125.230.116: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=57
Reply from 74.125.230.116: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=57
Reply from 74.125.230.116: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=57

That's mine if that helps?

[jimm]

Latency != speed.
Plus in a hotel of any size they should have a decent network which manages traffic and ICMP will be low down the list so can appear to have higher latency.