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Old 08-12-2012, 15:36   #91
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

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What time did you switch what on that is connected to own SH?

What's attached to the VM SH and when is that switched on/off?
On my own SH we have
Xbox (wired)- was on last night for 3 hours, off until 2.45pm, on for 45 mins
2x laptops (1x wired and 1x wireless) - Wired laptop was on standby all night, turned on around 12pm. Wireless laptop on from around 6pm, on all night and still on now, not running anything overnight (that I'm aware of )
Network hard drive - on all the time, never been switched off but not used within this time I don't think.
2x phones (wireless) - On constantly. Not used from 1am - 12pm
1x Wireless iPad - not used hardly at all for a couple of days but on.


Nothing is connected to the test superhub (it's not been turned off at all since thursday), except for my laptop now (wireless) in case it's my laptop that's causing the issues!
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Old 08-12-2012, 15:54   #92
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

With my engineering sort of hat on, I'd look at the effect of the difference in what's connected.It's just before 08:00 that things diverge. If you switched them all off right for two hours (or rather took them off the network) now except for one laptop you're using, that would eleminate unknown traffic from those devices. If that proves right (which it prolly won't) we can take a look at the devices.
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

My parent's came round, so I've only just seen this.

I'm going to remove everything connected to the superhub in a second, and turn my laptop off so it's not connected by wireless.

The only thing then will be mine and my other half's phones that will be connected to it... I'll see how it looks in the morning then.

it's still going wild


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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

Nah - nothing to be connected. You can't eleiminate the phones and background apps if you don't tuen wi-fi off on them.
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

Fair point. I'll make sure we turn WiFi off both and see how things look in the morning!

How sad is it that I'm kind of excited to see what results I get?!

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Wait!!! Look at the graph.

It's already changed!!!

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I've plugged the network drive back in... seeing if that's the culprit
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

what was connected?
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The Xbox which wasn't turned on.
Other halfs laptop which was on.
Network drive which was on.

I unplugged them all, the graph sorted itself out, I've just plugged the network drive back in and that's it to see if that's the culprit.
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

looks like it is. torrents? virus scan it with malwarebytes, kaspersky or any other decent scanner.
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We don't download from torrents! We probably download about 3x tv shows per week and we're pretty sure we don't have any viruses. I don't on my laptop anyway.

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Looks like plugging the network drive back in has caused it to go crazy again... why would it do this? Is this common for a network drive? Does it just not agree with the superhub? Confused...
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

which external HDD have you got, make and model?

give it a virus scan.
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

Ok I've just switched the network drive over onto the test hub and off my hub.

Time for sleep. .. will see how it looks in the morning.

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Definitely the NAS drive then...

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Seagate something or other... my boyfriends so I'm not sure of the make or model.

I'll do some investigating tomorrow. I'm too tired to mess with it now, just happy we've solved the mystery!!
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

Connect it to a proper router and monitor the traffic coming in and out of it. It could either be lots of traffic coming from the device, or certain types of traffic confusing the Shrub.

I only need to send one packet with the right data in it to make my Shrub baulk and cut off internet access for everybody...
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

I wonder if you got someone snooping on your NAS?
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

Good move switching the NAS to the other SH. Lucky you've still got it.

Chrys has an interesting point that I thought of before but dismissed. The NAS shouldn't have any effect on the outgoings from your SH unless it's being accessed externally, like your wi-fi has been hacked. That can be checked on the SH or router when the TBB goes strange by examining the DHCP log - which MAC addresses are accessing the system; they should count up to the number of accountable devices.

Another thing you can try is turn wireless off in the middle of an episode to narrow the field down further.

But your experiment to switch the NAS onto the other SH is capital.
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Re: Poor VM Connection, strange TBB quality monitor etc..

exactly, if its affecting external latency it suggests its been accessed.
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