said by bluepoint:Okay, so seems you're not sure if it was done. I asked because two days ago I've seen it answer with 2000+ ms, an indication of a busy gateway.
Sometimes you can gauge the gateway's performance through the next hop to it, however, it's not always true. I've seen a very long response from the gateway but very short response from the next hop after it.
That doesn't mean the gateway is busy. It means the card management processor may be configured to put ICMP on a lower priority or the card manager is busy, but that frequently doesn't affect the packet passthrough on the gateway to another router.
Also, 2000+ms response time could be from your own network slowing down pings to the hops after it.
Again, though it could be private addresses are blocked at the WAN port of your home router causing the no response.
Lots of possibilities.... especially after a wide spread power outage.