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This is the support site for Andrews & Arnold Ltd, a UK Internet provider. Information on these pages is generally for our customers but may be useful to others, enjoy!
These are tests you can from your computer, some of them (eg the ping) will need you to use a command prompt or terminal to enter the commands. Do gen in touch if you need help with how to do that.
#'''Ping tests:''' <br> running ping tests from the 'command line' can help see if there is any strange loss or latency. <br> ''Expected results'': The ping results should show 0% loss and the latency should be below 20ms, any thing else would need further investigation.
## '''ping your router:''' <br> This will test your local connection. eg, if your router (gateway) is 192.168.0.1 then run this to send 100 pings: <syntaxhighlight>(on windows) ping -n 100 192.168.0.1</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight>(on Mac) ping -c 100 192.168.0.1</syntaxhighlight> and let us know the last few lines containing the results, which show any loss, the latency and jitter, eg:<syntaxhighlight>
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
## '''Ping our network:''' <br>This will ping 100 times through your router to us, and therefore tests your connection to our network <syntaxhighlight>(on windows) ping -n 100 81.18781.187</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight>(on Mac) ping -c 100 81.18781.187</syntaxhighlight>
##'''Ping with larger packet sizes''' <br> normal pings send small packets, sometimes a problem can affect large packets, so try these two pings, and send in the results: <syntaxhighlight>(on windows) ping -n 100 -f -l 1400 81.18781.187</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight>(on windows) ping -n 100 -f -l 1472 81.18781.187</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight>(on Mac) ping -c 100 -D -s 1400 81.18781.187</syntaxhighlight> <syntaxhighlight>(on Mac) ping -c 100 -D -s 1472 81.18781.187</syntaxhighlight>
#'''Speed test web sites:''' <br>Use ours and some other 3rd party ones to check up and download speeds run these at different times of day as this can help track 'peak time congestion'. note - many http speed testers are not very good for testing 1G connections - always take results with a pinch of salt. That said, ''Expected results:'' The speeds tests should show around 900Mb/s download speed ▼
▲#'''Speed test web sites:''' <br>Use ours and some other 3rd party ones to check up and download speeds run these at different times of day as this can help track 'peak time congestion'. note - many http speed testers are not very good for testing 1G connections - always take results with a pinch of salt
## https://speedtest.aa.net.uk
## https://www.fast.com
# '''iperf''' <br> Ask us about testing with ''''iperf'''' - as this is generally better than http speed test websites. See: https://support.aa.net.uk/Windows_iperf3
# ...'''get in touch'''.
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