Packet Loss on 50mb connection

[qasdfdsaq]

Can't see it - there's just a blank in that part of your post before the "was my result from thinkbroadband"

[Petronia]

ah right will post result now

[OwenO]

Hi there,

+1 ! 50mb Virgin, fine download speeds, regular loss of packets or something going on interupting gaming.

Yep Ive been having the same issue for weeks. I've raged complained, accused housemates of sercretly downloading terrabytes of pron and so on and so on.

I've fiddled with MTU's reset back to defaults, Applied and removed QoS, tried ethernet, the list goes on.

One recent lead i have come across came about when running netanlyzer (http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/) a nice bit of kit. Anyway I got this report

"Network buffer measurements (?): Uplink 1300 ms, Downlink 74 ms
We estimate your uplink as having 1300 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time.
We estimate your downlink as having 74 msec of buffering. This level may serve well for maximizing speed while minimizing the impact of large transfers on other traffic"

I am lead to believe this large uplink buffer is controlled by Virgin and could be the cause of these jitters, When i started searching for methods of reducing this uplink buffer (to no avail) I found people experiencing a similiar issue to myself in online gaming.

I am no techie, minimal knowledge. But does this sound appropriate?

[alt_guy]

Originally Posted by OwenO

Hi there,

+1 ! 50mb Virgin, fine download speeds, regular loss of packets or something going on interupting gaming.

Yep Ive been having the same issue for weeks. I've raged complained, accused housemates of sercretly downloading terrabytes of pron and so on and so on.

I've fiddled with MTU's reset back to defaults, Applied and removed QoS, tried ethernet, the list goes on.

One recent lead i have come across came about when running netanlyzer (http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/) a nice bit of kit. Anyway I got this report

"Network buffer measurements (?): Uplink 1300 ms, Downlink 74 ms
We estimate your uplink as having 1300 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time.
We estimate your downlink as having 74 msec of buffering. This level may serve well for maximizing speed while minimizing the impact of large transfers on other traffic"

I am lead to believe this large uplink buffer is controlled by Virgin and could be the cause of these jitters, When i started searching for methods of reducing this uplink buffer (to no avail) I found people experiencing a similiar issue to myself in online gaming.

I am no techie, minimal knowledge. But does this sound appropriate?

Hi OwenO,

I've just done a test on mine -

Network buffer measurements (?): Uplink 430 ms, Downlink is good

seems ok for me, but I still have the packet loss issues.

I don't think there's any way to fix these, the issues seem to be deep in Virgin's network and problems this deep often go undetected by the average internet user, which is why they're not too bothered I'd imagine.

ADSL (Be) is probably the only option if you require a rock-solid connection. Slower but reliable.