tracert times out

I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times out, yet
I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?

"Ritter 197" wrote in
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I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times out, yet
I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?

Note: This is not a hardware issue. microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
was removed from my reply.

Have you tried upping the timeout? It's a command-line parameter to
'tracert'. If you are using a firewall, did it allow both TCP *and* UDP
traffic for that application? Some firewall are screwed up as delivered
at install-time by blocking ALL ping requests, including the return from
tracert (Comodo v3 was like that and I don't know if they fixed it).

I use TREND MICRO Pro. Ping always times out. Time out is 2 seconds.
I do not know where to increase the time out period. When I go into the
TREND Micro database and search for "ping" or "timeout" it finds nothing.

"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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"Ritter 197" wrote in
:

I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times out,
yet
I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?

Note: This is not a hardware issue. microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
was removed from my reply.

Have you tried upping the timeout? It's a command-line parameter to
'tracert'. If you are using a firewall, did it allow both TCP *and* UDP
traffic for that application? Some firewall are screwed up as delivered
at install-time by blocking ALL ping requests, including the return from
tracert (Comodo v3 was like that and I don't know if they fixed it).

So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt window it
times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...
I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times out, yet
I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?

yes, mine times out. have tried it now many times.

"neil" wrote in message
...
So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt window it
times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...
I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times out,
yet I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?

Ritter 197 wrote:
yes, mine times out. have tried it now many times.

"neil" wrote in message
...
So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt
window it times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...
I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times
out, yet I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?


I've been *told* that a single hop timeout is not an issue. Especially
if it gets to the end of the route.

ALL hops timed out. 30 of them.

"Big Al" wrote in message
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Ritter 197 wrote:
yes, mine times out. have tried it now many times.

"neil" wrote in message
...
So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt window
it times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...
I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times out,
yet I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?


I've been *told* that a single hop timeout is not an issue. Especially
if it gets to the end of the route.

Ritter 197 wrote:
ALL hops timed out. 30 of them.

There is some background information on traceroute here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracert

What if an important port number was blocked by Comcast
for their own customers ? That might mean the difference
between a Comcast customer running the test, and those
of us outside the Comcast network running the test.
I didn't have any problem running traceroute here,
against either www.comcast.net or just comcast.net,
and I'm outside Comcast.

Maybe you can make enough sense out of that Wikipedia
article, to come up with another test. Perhaps your
own firewall is the reason the test failed.

Comcast had some issues just recently, and may have
made adjustments to their network in an effort to
figure out the problem. And in any case, like any
ISP, if you phone up and ask them a question, you'll
get that "we're innocent" routine. Tech support will
never admit to any filtering, even if it is for good
and logical reasons.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11925

Paul


"Big Al" wrote in message
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Ritter 197 wrote:
yes, mine times out. have tried it now many times.

"neil" wrote in message
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So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt
window it times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...
I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times
out, yet I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?


I've been *told* that a single hop timeout is not an issue.
Especially if it gets to the end of the route.

Try this from a command prompt:

-make sure you are the C:\ if an extension is there type cd .. as many
times needed until you only see C:\
-After that type nslookup you should see the comcast service provider
as you DNS host
-Then do a CRTL C on the key board to take you back to the C:
-try your tracert again and it should work.


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See the following help. You can alter the timeout period for tracert.

Usage: tracert [-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout] target_name

Options:
-d Do not resolve addresses to hostnames.
-h maximum_hops Maximum number of hops to search for target.
-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.
-w timeout Wait timeout milliseconds for each reply.

You may find that your trace is much longer that others because sometimes you are transitioning through more routers than other people. You will also get timings that you can use to kick Comcast with see that most of your delays will be inside comcast.

Try doing a speakeasy speed test http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
and see if your are getting what you are paying for.

Regards
Oviraptor

Originally Posted by Paul

Ritter 197 wrote:
ALL hops timed out. 30 of them.

There is some background information on traceroute here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracert

What if an important port number was blocked by Comcast
for their own customers ? That might mean the difference
between a Comcast customer running the test, and those
of us outside the Comcast network running the test.
I didn't have any problem running traceroute here,
against either www.comcast.net or just comcast.net,
and I'm outside Comcast.

Maybe you can make enough sense out of that Wikipedia
article, to come up with another test. Perhaps your
own firewall is the reason the test failed.

Comcast had some issues just recently, and may have
made adjustments to their network in an effort to
figure out the problem. And in any case, like any
ISP, if you phone up and ask them a question, you'll
get that "we're innocent" routine. Tech support will
never admit to any filtering, even if it is for good
and logical reasons.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11925

Paul


"Big Al" wrote in message
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Ritter 197 wrote:
yes, mine times out. have tried it now many times.

"neil" wrote in message
...
So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt
window it times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...
I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times
out, yet I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?


I've been *told* that a single hop timeout is not an issue.
Especially if it gets to the end of the route.

How about firewall interference?

Ritter 197 wrote:

ALL hops timed out. 30 of them.

"Big Al" wrote in message
news:nXG0k.1093$jX.28@trnddc04...

Ritter 197 wrote:

yes, mine times out. have tried it now many times.

"neil" wrote in message
...

So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt
window it times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...

I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times
out, yet I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?



I've been *told* that a single hop timeout is not an issue.
Especially if it gets to the end of the route.

yes, mine times out. have tried it now many times.

"neil" wrote in message
...
So when you type "tracert www.comcast.net" into a command prompt
window it times out, I've just tried it and it's ok in 9 hops.
Neil
"Ritter 197" wrote in message
...
I want to do a tracert on comcast.net (my ISP) and it always times
out, yet I can get e-mail and see newsgroups.

What does it mean then and what to do to do a tracert?


Most of the Comcast servers will not respond to a tracert probe. It's
normal and not under your control. Many ISPs to it to limit traffic
during high traffic times and/or to prevent probes from internet static.
Nothing you can do about it.

Hi Oviraptor,

Schedule a Chkdsk with both options checked and reboot to run and see
what happens.


--
thecreator

"Oviraptor" wrote in message
...

For some time now I have noticed that several applications will not
shutdown properly and will other use up memory very quickly. Also some
applications will not start if an existing copy is running.
I am getting this with several well known applications. Outlook,
Winword, Powerpoint, Corel paint shop pro X2, Firefox (although the
latest version downloaded seems to have fixed it for Firefox).
I can easily stop them by using taskmaster to kill the processes, but I
should not need to do this.
This was very insidious, and I cannot be sure when it started, but
recent downloads may be a factor. I am running XP Pro, SP3, Microsoft
Office 2003 fully up to date.
I have recently downloaded/installed Logmein Pro, and installed Norton
360. I am a very experienced Windows user, but this one has got me
beat.

Any suggestions please?

(BTW I always virus scan, remove adware and other spybots, and have
active protection on all the time. I do not think it is a virus, but
these things are never certain.




--
Oviraptor

Norton 360????

How much RAM?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Do you leave the computer on 24/7

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk
Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Oviraptor wrote:
For some time now I have noticed that several applications will not
shutdown properly and will other use up memory very quickly. Also some
applications will not start if an existing copy is running.
I am getting this with several well known applications. Outlook,
Winword, Powerpoint, Corel paint shop pro X2, Firefox (although the
latest version downloaded seems to have fixed it for Firefox).
I can easily stop them by using taskmaster to kill the processes, but
I should not need to do this.
This was very insidious, and I cannot be sure when it started, but
recent downloads may be a factor. I am running XP Pro, SP3, Microsoft
Office 2003 fully up to date.
I have recently downloaded/installed Logmein Pro, and installed Norton
360. I am a very experienced Windows user, but this one has got me
beat.

Any suggestions please?

(BTW I always virus scan, remove adware and other spybots, and have
active protection on all the time. I do not think it is a virus, but
these things are never certain.