On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 22:52 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 22:05, Michael Still wrote: > > Slashdot isn't a good ping test because they do blocking of icmp packets > > I believe. I'd try some other hosts to do ping tests. > > ping test with www.yahoo.com or even www.test.com ;) -Jim P.