Packet Loss in two evenings now

Aaron · Oct 13, 2011, 21:21:21

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.

Steve · Oct 13, 2011, 21:38:38

I think we blamed Apple for yesterdays spike whether we can still do that now

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/13/ios-5-update-internet-traffic-spike

Reya · Oct 13, 2011, 21:48:55

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.

Steve · Oct 13, 2011, 21:57:28

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

Reya · Oct 13, 2011, 22:05:43

Probably all those BlackBerry users getting back online and checking their emails/updating Facebook, etc

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)?

.Griff. · Oct 13, 2011, 22:13:11

I expected to see the same on my graph but it's clear tonight.

Steve · Oct 13, 2011, 22:13:33

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.

Reya · Oct 13, 2011, 22:21:39

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!

psp83 · Oct 13, 2011, 22:46:10

As you can see with my charts, its just not IDnet getting packet loss..

IDnet Connection

BT Connection

Aaron · Oct 14, 2011, 02:17:31

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!

Lance · Oct 14, 2011, 08:27:29

The gateways no long matter like they used to with the old BT centrals. These days, all gateways are routed over the same hostlink.

jameshurrell · Oct 14, 2011, 10:44:25

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.

This continued last night (but not quite as bad). The three IDNet lines I manage weren't affected nearly so badly.

zappaDPJ · Oct 14, 2011, 18:20:30

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.

Steve · Oct 14, 2011, 18:23:50

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/

Steve · Oct 14, 2011, 23:28:06

I see we've still got significant packet loss tonight as well

Aaron · Oct 15, 2011, 01:32:22

Have emailed IDNet after having more packet loss again this evening. Waiting to hear back.

.Griff. · Oct 15, 2011, 02:44:42

FTTC fine in comparison -