[nmglug] ping -p ff , bad checksums, isp 5GHz wireless, lost packets?

[a]

Nick;

As you can see the md5sum resolve Thanks for the providing the test
files and usage clarification.

You may no have noticed,last e-mail further down on the page was a
rambling sort of explanation to one of the questions you had posed
posed.

Thanks for your generous assistance in solving this puzzle..

Best

Anthony

@desktop:~$ cd /Downloads
bash: cd: /Downloads: No such file or directory
a at desktop:~$ cd ~/Downloads
a at desktop:~/Downloads$ md5sum
testfile1-Jan-09-2011.binf4404f2a9c9699213c75d4bc2502b058
testfile1-Jan-09-2011.bin
a at desktop:~/Downloads$ md5sum testfile2-Jan-09-2011.bin
be2cedfd4a0c1ed319056aa169723d19  testfile2-Jan-09-2011.bin
a at desktop:~/Downloads$ md5sum testfile3-Jan-09-2011.bin
31a20fd8dd432bd81560b39ddbe5193a  testfile3-Jan-09-2011.bin



On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 15:11 -0700, Nick Frost wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:56 PM, a wrote:
> 
> >
> > Nick
> > We have a case here of a senior linux fellow,Nick, talking to someone
> > contentedly splashing in the kiddie pool.I appreciate your efforts.
> > Your instruction with "for files in *.bin ... do the checksums match
> > after downloading?
> 
> Sorry.  You can skip/ignore that first line, it was from an hasty copy/ 
> paste operation.  The idea was simply to give you an independent  
> download test of three files (at the links provided) to see if the  
> checksums match to determine if data corruption is occurring on  
> downloads over your Internet connection.
> 
> So, if you want to test for that you can download those three files  
> and then do "md5sum <filename" on each, for example after downloading  
> the first file at: http://www.frostitute.com/testfile1-Jan-09-2011.bin
> 
> you would then do;
> 
> md5sum testfile1-Jan-09-2011.bin
> 
> and the checksum should be;
> 
> >> f4404f2a9c9699213c75d4bc2502b058
> 
> as listed to the left of the file in the previous post.
> 
> I hope that helps,
> 
> -Nick
> 
> 
> 
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