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Has ping / tracert been blocked on 5g network?
Before yesterday (10/17/2022), I’ve always had a command prompt window (MS Windows) up running a constant ping at 3 second interval - so I can tell when the network starts to degrade or just stops re...
I am in east TN with the Nokia gateway and I ran a quick test with a Macbook Pro and a Linux client. With the Macbook Pro the pings have a significant delay where several request time out messages were reported prior to an actual response typically 140+ ms between responses. I went to a Linux client and did a forced ipv6 ping based upon a prior test. I get a similar response performing IPv6 and IPv4. Both have extreme delay times and are not very useful Of the forced 23 ipv6 ping packets 5 were received with a ~78% loss. So, yes it appears T-Mobile has jacked up the use of ICMP as a trouble shooting tool.
Based upon the two tests I ran it appears pings with IPv4 fail much worse than IPv6 pings but the use of pings now is pretty much useless.
I fail to see why they feel this would be positive for users. Make it more difficult for users to identify potential issues so they are totally blind. It just makes calls to TMO support less productive when users with such basic knowledge cannot tell support what they do not see.
