John Miller wrote: > > I have 2 windows machines connected to my linux which is connected to the > Internet via cable modem. The connection was working fine yesterday when I > retrieved my e-mail. To night the windows machines can't get out and when > I ping from windows to linux I get packet loss. When I ping from linux to > the windows machines I get about an 11% loss. On the ping lines time = 501 > to about 587 usec. I am not sure what the 'u' stands for I am used to > seeing an 'm' there. usec = microsecond, msec = millisecond. A microsecond is 1000 times smaller than a millisecond (if you've forgotten your tiny metric units), so a 501 usec ping time is nothing to sneeze at, being less than one millisecond. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ How do you write zero in / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Roman Numerals? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]