Post Your Fibre Think Broadband Ping Graphs (Not VirginMedia Cable)

Qtx · 19-12-2012, 01:35

Nothing exciting to see on these yet but i'm interested to see any consistency or differences between everyone.

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Mick Fisher · 19-12-2012, 12:04

You can just see that test torrent I'm downloading.

qasdfdsaq · 19-12-2012, 17:35

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Qtx · 19-12-2012, 18:59

qas

Get your point

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Although I have never witnessed it personally, there seems to be a little latency spike about every 5 hours and 45 minutes. Would that be DLM related?

Mick Fisher · 19-12-2012, 19:37

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qas

Get your point

Although I have never witnessed it personally, there seems to be a little latency spike about every 5 hours and 45 minutes. Would that be DLM related?

I dunno? I have a feeling it might be the sky router sending it's credentials to the server.

qasdfdsaq · 20-12-2012, 04:08

It wouldn't be DLM. DLM gives you a red line once a day between 2am and 6am.

pabscars · 20-12-2012, 08:21

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From a couple of months ago now, I dont leave the monitor running 24/7 I dont see the point

Kymmy · 20-12-2012, 08:28

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qasdfdsaq · 20-12-2012, 11:03

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From a couple of months ago now, I dont leave the monitor running 24/7 I dont see the point

I do, lets you proactively see any developing faults and essentially gives you a constant log of past issues as well. In my case for example I can tell when interleaving was switched on my line and its exact effect.

Qtx · 20-12-2012, 11:21

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(not cable) to (Not VirginMedia Cable)

Thought it should be obvious as this is in the sub section Other ISPs Discussion. Figured with just Cable in the title only we could keep the Smallworld riffriff out too

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It wouldn't be DLM. DLM gives you a red line once a day between 2am and 6am.

Good to know. Not actually seen any of them yet.

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I do, lets you proactively see any developing faults

This!

pabscars · 20-12-2012, 12:38

Fair point gents but the other reason I failed to mention was the router stops responding to pings when the DMZ is used.

I use the DMZ pretty much all the time so it's not always convenient

qasdfdsaq · 20-12-2012, 12:57

Yeah, I wouldn't keep running it at the cost of actually impairing the usability of your own network. But when it affects nothing and can be of benefit I always leave it running.

driz · 20-12-2012, 13:04

Can't figure out how to set up a TBB one, but:

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Fastpath but dodgy BT routing means latency higher than it should be. Used to get 6ms on Be fastpath.

Chrysalis · 20-12-2012, 19:50

I keep mine running but now dont check it much.

My graph is pretty much the same as Qas's except I have a thicker blue line which suggests I have a bigger gap between min and average latency. Is a bit odd but its nothing major.

My graph is fast path but like driz some may be mistaken for thinking its interleaved due to BTw routing. Also in terms of yellow spikes that seem at regular intervals it could be router related, my billion 7402NX when I was using it had yellow spikes on my FTTC, but now on the asus rt-n16 they gone.

qasdfdsaq · 21-12-2012, 10:40

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Can't figure out how to set up a TBB one, but:

Fastpath but dodgy BT routing means latency higher than it should be. Used to get 6ms on Be fastpath.

Do a traceroute? 20ms doesn't look like fastpath to me, then again fastpath doesn't exist on FTTC

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My graph is pretty much the same as Qas's except I have a thicker blue line which suggests I have a bigger gap between min and average latency. Is a bit odd but its nothing major.

Differences like that tend to be down to differences in the way our two routers handle pings. That's not unusual, the constant yellow fluff on Sagem routers is another example (e.g. Sky)

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My graph is fast path but like driz some may be mistaken for thinking its interleaved due to BTw routing. Also in terms of yellow spikes that seem at regular intervals it could be router related, my billion 7402NX when I was using it had yellow spikes on my FTTC, but now on the asus rt-n16 they gone.

BT may use N+N redundancy which means load is always spread across all available paths (including the backup ones) even when the main isn't faulted. Just my speculation.

In any case it varies a lot based on IP, and reconnecting your PPPoE session can change your ping quite a bit. I've seen differences of +/- 5ms even when connected to the same PPPoE gateway. Mine varies between 18ms minimum and 23ms maximum depending on my IP so when my session drops (if ever) I tend to redial frantically till I get one with the lowest latency then keep it there :-P