Ip cant be pinged?

Altema · Post by **Altema** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 2:27 pm

See @ bottom

http://www.dslreports.com/quality/nil/1221537

I thought it was my router, but i took t hat out....i thought it was my firewall and i shut that off. I still cant be pinged and i cant run line quality tests >_<. Any idea whats up?

TrevGlas · Post by **TrevGlas** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:00 pm

Wow I should finish the whole message before I post a reply. Nevermind.

zxc47 · Post by **zxc47** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:02 pm

Verizon 640/90 lines will 'fail' the medium bandwidth test due to low upload speed

Altema · Post by **Altema** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:15 pm

Originally posted by zxc47
Verizon 640/90 lines will 'fail' the medium bandwidth test due to low upload speed

Im on adelphia 3000/256 o_o. The test was in t he morning too. I know my adelphia has problems but in the morning it has no problems.

Altema · Post by **Altema** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 5:18 pm

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:17 pm

Check with your ISP - they may be port-blocking. I couldn't ping a buddy of mine on camcast in DC because they blocked it to prevent DoS attacks on their customers - at least that's what they told him.

Skye

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:33 pm

Originally posted by cyberskye
Check with your ISP - they may be port-blocking. I couldn't ping a buddy of mine on camcast in DC because they blocked it to prevent DoS attacks on their customers - at least that's what they told him.

Skye

Yeah my ISP blocks them now too...pings, and tracerts.

Necko · Post by **Necko** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:20 pm

They just blocked the ICMP protocol
so that computer wont be pinged to death