On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

> PL is usually 0%, but there is almost always a yellow number in the drop
> column all the way to the right. Its usually in the 600 range, but
> sometimes goes red into the 1100's!

That's the number on the left if it changes color. That is
your ping time. Your computer is basically taking 0.6 sec to
1.1 sec to exchange information with the server. I'm frankly
amazed you're able to twist at all as I basically gave up when
UUNet was crapping out and giving me 600ms pings. You're not
playing in Antarctica or Africa or something are you? :-)

Get a new ISP. (It might not really be your ISP's fault - it
could be their default route is through a flakey backbone far
upstream from them. But the only way to fix it is to change
ISPs.)

The number on the right is the data rate, and shouldn't really
matter unless it starts to get up beyond what your modem can
handle.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...