Graham M
21-03-2007, 11:01
OK this may or may not belong here, im not really sure
Anyway, I use VOIP and I had people telling me I was cutting out earlier so I decided to investigate and found I was getting about 10% Packet Loss.
So I phoned up Virgin to try and get it sorted and the phone was answered by a very friendly person from Mumbai (maybe not Mumbai... but anyway...) He checked the line and wasn't finding any Packet Loss, asked had I rebooted my Set Top Box, etc and so on and one of the things he suggested was to make sure I wasn't running any P2P software and I wasn't.
So then he started going on through the normal script and I told him to stop and went to check my brother's PC, which was, in fact, running uTorrent, but not using any massive Download (about 100kb/s) or Upload (about 0.9kb/s) but anyway I decided to try stopping it and the mysterious Packet Loss disappeared. And I cannot for the life of me think why.
Can anyone shed some light?
Thanks
Graham
Anyway, I use VOIP and I had people telling me I was cutting out earlier so I decided to investigate and found I was getting about 10% Packet Loss.
So I phoned up Virgin to try and get it sorted and the phone was answered by a very friendly person from Mumbai (maybe not Mumbai... but anyway...) He checked the line and wasn't finding any Packet Loss, asked had I rebooted my Set Top Box, etc and so on and one of the things he suggested was to make sure I wasn't running any P2P software and I wasn't.
So then he started going on through the normal script and I told him to stop and went to check my brother's PC, which was, in fact, running uTorrent, but not using any massive Download (about 100kb/s) or Upload (about 0.9kb/s) but anyway I decided to try stopping it and the mysterious Packet Loss disappeared. And I cannot for the life of me think why.
Can anyone shed some light?
Thanks
Graham