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

And now Ladies and Gentlemen: Where else has the bump reared its ugly head?

[ferretuk]

Originally Posted by jempalmer

And now Ladies and Gentlemen: Where else has the bump reared its ugly head?

Not here...

[tdadyslexia]

Live Graph

Slight bump at 16:00 and no it was not me I was out shopping!

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by craigj2k12

If I found my own findings then they would be my own findings, I'm trying to findings your findings but I'm finding that you don't have any findings, so it seems you don't have any findings and you are wasting my timings

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by jempalmer

And now Ladies and Gentlemen: Where else has the bump reared its ugly head?

Not sure if this is a bump or a mountain range.



What these periodic returns to a normal profile mean I do not know, or why I am getting raised maximum latency. After years of a virtually flat graph, these last few weeks have dented my high opinion of my VM service.

That is very..erm..spiky? RB. Although, by comparison with mine, your minimum latency is flat. My connection was very slow this afternoon which was odd since there was nothing on TBB that was out of the ordinary (I am smiling as I type "ordinary")

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Wiggz

Well here's mine today...what on earth. Average is still acceptable, but look at the sea of yellow!!!

Using the superhub in Modem only mode so I thnk there is a limit to what I can get from it in terms of data, am I right?

Any ideas guys?

The "what on earth" seems a bit strong to me.

It needs only one TBB ping out of hundreds to be high and you get the graph you've displayed. It's the average (blue) that matters.

As regards what data you can get in modem mode, there isn't any data that you further need IMO. There's nothing in the SH that could be screwing up your experience. I didn't see anything about what was going wrong in terms of broadband performance.

BTW, here's my graph (now upgraded from 50/5 to 100/5):



I was still getting 89 Mbps during the routing/peering wobbly (for that's what I think happened inside the VM system) at 22:00

This discussion seems to have gone slightly off track. I am not a networking guru (you can ALL stop sniggering now qas).
My question is twofold:
1. Does this weird behaviour have a huge detrimental impact upon our connections? (With the obvious exception if lots of red stuff).
2. Why are VM not telling us why this is happening and, perhaps more importantly, why do they not fix it?

It's clearly a problem yet no one can explain why it's going on (off?) or what they're doing to rectify this.

[Sephiroth]

Jem

The "weird behaviour" according to my observations affects the upstream worse than the downstream. It makes gaming very difficult and web pages take a long time to load.

As for VM's silence - they lay themselves open to speculation that they have not allocated sufficient peering bandwidth - when those peering points come under stress (whether through innocent load or by some sort of attack), you see these effects in TBB.

That's not the only reason - if you see it and others don't then there's something going on in your network segment. hence the value of a thread like this.

[buckleb]

Bump aside, everything seemed to be OK here until around 8:30am when my SH lost connection. Hopefully this is a planned outage and not a fault (though the 'never-knowingly-helpful' status page just says that I might have difficulty connecting to the My Virginmedia page)

Thank you Seph for your succinct and informative reply to my query. I was rather extracting the Michael . Nonetheless I do appreciate you taking the time to reply. It just irritates me when the service doesn't work as it's supposed to, and when you ring for assistance you are told that there isn't a problem. Both BB and TV went down last month simultaneously. Called CS (in India) to be informed that there is no fault. No internet connection and light flashing on Tivo indicating no BB connection. Still they lie

[craigj2k12]

Looks like I got a "bump" at 2am

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[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by craigj2k12

Looks like I got a "bump" at 2am

Hardly a congested time of day! What's their excuse for that?

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by jempalmer

And now Ladies and Gentlemen: Where else has the bump reared its ugly head?

On O2 and Be's network, apparently:

[craigj2k12]

Originally Posted by roughbeast

Hardly a congested time of day! What's their excuse for that?

Well seeing as latency drops by about 5ms, id hardly blame congestion