50M : Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS)

[pabscars]

Well in the interest of balance I will give a progress report on my Sky Unlimited BB, the first few weeks were ok, the router was syncing at 4.1kbps down and approx 800 Up. Jitter is usually below 4 to 5 ms and my ping is in the region of 40 to 60 ms (wireless)

Gaming has been generally ok, with stable pings since I changed from a saturated 30/3 virgin media package but all has not been particularly well with Sky so far.

The router just wont respond to the TBB ping monitor so Ive given up trying, and I can also say hand on heart that the superhub is better, there you go I've said it.

The standard issue sagemcom modem/router Sky now issue is just shocking in terms of it's port forwarding and DMZ capabilities, neither of which work full stop on either the PS3 or xbox, and the only way I can get just a moderate NAT is by allowing UPnP to do it's stuff.

After the first few weeks I noticed the router speed had dropped considerably and was now syncing at just 2 meg while the upload remained unchanged, this wasnt the only issue as the broadband kept dropping out randomly and the also when the landline rang.

After a few phone call's and a little head shaking, I've managed to get my speed increased to 3.5 Mbps and it appears to be stable again but it still reboots randomly a couple of times a day, in total in the 4 or 5 weeks I've had this service I've gone through 2 routers and 3 filters which isn't a good start.

Gaming has improved overall but because I'm at the end of a long copper line I'm not feeling the benefit as much as I had hoped.

I do hope VM get to grips with the local issues causing their service (for me) to be pants but I wont hesitate once it's fixed, to move back to vm.

I might have a bit more of a play and see if I can't get the TBB ping monitor to work because I'm interested to see just how stable Sky's BB is now after all the faffing about, and if anyone has successfully managed to get it to work please let me know.

[BeafSalad]

Only just notice a drop in speed over the past few weeks and have just set up a ping monitor today. Have a gander at this and see what you think.




I think its terrible and online gaming is impossible. Been on to the 50Meg tech today and they say congestion and he gave me a date of the end of this month for a fix, yeh right.

[zekeisaszekedoes]

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Notice they all have that double spike packet loss at around 11pm... what are you up to, VM?

BeafSalad, that is the worst result I've seen in a long time. Talk above massively oversubscribed.

[pabscars]

Zeke, it's always possible it could be the TBB servers causing it but I suspect not, I suppose it could be another tweak to the P2P policy mentioned earlier

[JonM1988]

Is it a bad thing when pingtest.net cant tell your packet loss?

[zekeisaszekedoes]

True, it could be TBB's fault. Would be nice to see some results from folks on BT or Sky packages: if they lack those synchronous packet loss spikes we can rule them out.

[Chrysalis]

red spikes could be one of many things, routing changes, tbb server issues, vm side issues. If the red mark isnt on pip's graph who is on BT then it would suggest either a vm side issue or transit issue between tbb and vm.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

red spikes could be one of many things, routing changes, tbb server issues, vm side issues. If the red mark isnt on pip's graph who is on BT then it would suggest either a vm side issue or transit issue between tbb and vm.

No, it's not on my graph.

[Neo-Tech]

Think its a TBB fault, it's on my school's connection as well.



Have had to reboot the SuperHub twice in two days. Once the Ethernet ports locked up, and second time wireless went haywire. Getting sick of this thing.

[zekeisaszekedoes]

Originally Posted by Neo-Tech

Have had to reboot the SuperHub twice in two days. Once the Ethernet ports locked up, and second time wireless went haywire. Getting sick of this thing.

Sounds like you got one of the same bottom of the barrel units I did, where almost everything makes it lock up.

[Neo-Tech]

The thing is, it was working perfectly fine for the past few months and only decided to **** up now. Grrr.

My friends VM connection on the 10Mb tier in Newcastle:


Looks awesome when it's idle.

[Chrysalis]

before and after speed uplift around the red bit. Bit of an ouch.

[pip08456]

Something was going on with BT yesterday but OK now.

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[pabscars]

Originally Posted by pip08456

Something was going on with BT yesterday but OK now.

I want your broadband, gizit,,, go on gizit now pip.

I noticed a plethora of BT vehicle's round our way yesterday doing some ground work, unfortunately I dont think it's anything to do with Infinity, as far as I know there are no plans to do Birchwood before 2015 which is a bit naff.

[Chrysalis]

no plans for FTTC here at all full stop.

I been thinking about something ignition said on the VM forums tho.

For VM to supply 100mbit service which comes with 10mbit upload and if they want the user to be able to get 10mbit upload on speedtests then they are going to have to keep utilisation below about 45% on the upstream because the upstream port is only about 18mbit of useable bandwidth. If they do this then I would assume jitter would improve significantly. However I dont think is/will be the case.

Currently with 5mbit been the hghest upload in many areas VM would need to keep utilisation below about 70% and they failing to do that as some areas dont see full upload speeds at peak.

Judging by some of the graphs I seen here I would think 100mbit will be a disaster in some areas, yesterday my upload slowed down to 0.8mbit at its worst on a 3mbit upload, yet previously before they oversubscribed the bandwidth with the uplift I had a solid 1mbit upload 24/7, 0.8mbit upload on the 100mbit product would be a disaster.