As you can see in the graph, I had severe packet loss in the evening yesterday, and it's starting again. Can't play online very well at the moment because of this.
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-large/267a8ad6bc62e2fa148266dc8933437b-13-10-2011.png)
I think we blamed Apple for yesterdays spike whether we can still do that now :dunno:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/13/ios-5-update-internet-traffic-spike
I'm having exactly the same problem here. Big spike of packet loss at around 6pm and then my minimum latency jumped up a bit and has stayed there, which I've not seen it do before. Everything's taking a lot longer to load, too. I logged onto Second Life at around 07:45pm (which tends to use quite a bit of bandwidth, hence the spikes in maximum latency after that). But I logged off last night (far left of graph) at about 09:45pm and the packet loss continued long after that.
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-large/f8217e7b8f318d38753241fb96ccdab5-13-10-2011.png)
Looking at Lonap, traffic is still relatively high tonight (see 2 hour average) but nowhere near yesterdays peak yet.
http://www.lonap.net/mrtg/lonap-total.html
LINX looks as busy as last night
https://stats.linx.net/aggregate.html
Probably all those BlackBerry users getting back online and checking their emails/updating Facebook, etc ;D
Out of curiosity, I just ran two speed tests and got wildly differing results. BT Speed Checker gave me a download speed of 4317 kbps and Think Broadband gave me a DL speed of 1326 kbps on a test started less than a minute later. Is there an accepted 'standard' tester that gives the most accurate results, or are those disparate results coming up because the line's yo-yo-ing (so to speak)?
I expected to see the same on my graph but it's clear tonight.
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/ec81eb8b0d50f2bb6ea105bdb67c8a79-13-10-2011.png) (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/ec81eb8b0d50f2bb6ea105bdb67c8a79-13-10-2011.html)
Quote from: Reya on Oct 13, 2011, 22:05:43
Is there an accepted 'standard' tester that gives the most accurate results, or are those disparate results coming up because the line's yo-yo-ing (so to speak)?
There all dependent on the speed tester server load and of course network activity. I've just tried http://speedtest.btcentralplus.com/beta/ and I'm only at 4Mbps I normally expect to be over 6Mbps even at this time of day.
5.41Mbps from that one, Steve. *scratches head* Oh well. I'll just regard it like my typical diet: 2lbs/Mbps off, 2lbs/Mbps on! :whistle:
As you can see with my charts, its just not IDnet getting packet loss..
IDnet Connection
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/dd70f8e0ea0cf820a05fe48051e189ef-13-10-2011.png) (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/dd70f8e0ea0cf820a05fe48051e189ef-13-10-2011.html)
BT Connection
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/1ad8a70c2d180b4ca3dd8c91e7440fea-13-10-2011.png) (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/1ad8a70c2d180b4ca3dd8c91e7440fea-13-10-2011.html)
Ok, have re-connected to IDNet as a few others here aren't experiencing packet loss. Am on a different gateway now (gw2), so hopefully it won't happen again this friday evening!
The gateways no long matter like they used to with the old BT centrals. These days, all gateways are routed over the same hostlink.
I manage a BT retail line for a client (it' a small office and this line handles Exchange and webmail) and if you think your packet loss was bad, take a look at this graph from Wednesday evening. :o This continued last night (but not quite as bad). The three IDNet lines I manage weren't affected nearly so badly.
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/483a504451cf60e872825a91e95ce474-12-10-2011.png) (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/483a504451cf60e872825a91e95ce474-12-10-2011.html)
Assuming this was due to the Apple update, I'd be interested to know if that level of packet loss was worldwide or restricted to the UK.
Berlin Internet exchange was reasonably busy last night compared to the average although it didn't reach the peaks of the previous night.
http://www.bcix.de/bcix/statistik/
I see we've still got significant packet loss tonight as well
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/3cd822117c784eb7c1e81b52146cda5e-14-10-2011.png) (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/3cd822117c784eb7c1e81b52146cda5e-14-10-2011.html)
Have emailed IDNet after having more packet loss again this evening. Waiting to hear back.
FTTC fine in comparison -
(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/94ffa3b16aae738e8a40a5e3e50b7087-15-10-2011.png) (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/94ffa3b16aae738e8a40a5e3e50b7087-15-10-2011.html)