>>That's my local Shaw upstream gateway. Like many such gateways it's configured to not respond to pings or traces.
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>>Many web sites (or to be more precise their Internet-facing routers) are configured to not respond to ping. This prevents ping flood and other related attacks.
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>...and that doesn't exclude the possibility of packet loss in that router. lol
Yeah, lol - not likely in a carrier-grade gateway. Besides, it's the same gateway that I was using when I was getting really good performance.
Regards. Al
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