Increasing consistent small packet loss

[Baz]

Anyone else notice a drop in IDNet yesterday at 2PM Packetloss shows 100% so not quite sure what happened. Its shown very clearly on IDNets dedicated TBBQM. Its also on a few other peoples BBM that I can see.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/3e9f40bbdf719aef79db49d8d5f4522c.png

Yes I did Gary.

[colirv]

IDNet does an RSS feed just for status incidents. That's how I knew.

[Bill]

IDNet does an RSS feed just for status incidents. That's how I knew.

I knew because I was relaxing in an armchair listening to a Radio 3 stream and it suddenly went quiet!

Couldn't get anything to work, so rang support who told me there'd been an outage, and to call again if still offline after half an hour or so.

[mervl]

I knew because I was relaxing in an armchair listening to a Radio 3 stream and it suddenly went quiet!

I just use FM. Better sound and never suffers with these problems.

[Bill]

I just use FM. Better sound and never suffers with these problems.

I'd prefer to, but FM reception here without an external aerial is rubbish and DAB is marginal... Radio 3 streams at 320Kbps so it's a lot better than you might expect compared to most.

(I stream it via iTunes where I can choose which stream I want, I find iPlayer has a habit of dropping back to the 48Kbps stream )

[esh]

All my packet loss has gone away again. Temporary congestion or something perhaps?

[Gary]

Have to agree, things are flying along here and have been for a while, its great. 

[zappaDPJ]

My connection is as dreadful as ever. I had one decent week after my congestion issue was mysteriously fixed and then my connection dropped...



That was around 10 days ago and it's been the same pattern of packet loss ever since...

[Gary]

My connection is as dreadful as ever. I had one decent week after my congestion issue was mysteriously fixed and then my connection dropped...



That was around 10 days ago and it's been the same pattern of packet loss ever since...

That is awful, Zap. What have support said? Has to be local again though I would have thought  Could it be your router attributing to it? That packetloss is constant

[zappaDPJ]

To be honest I've given up on it so I haven't contacted support and probably won't bother. I rent an office and go there if I need to use the Internet for anything important. I only use this connection for streaming now and although I get the occasion buffering it seems to work most of time.

[Technical Ben]

Hmmm. My line is whisper quiet again (but with occasional small blips).
The only reason to get FFTC here would be for stream uploading. Packet loss would be a bit of a problem though. I'll have to think twice about it.

[Gary]

Hmmm. My line is whisper quiet again (but with occasional small blips).
The only reason to get FFTC here would be for stream uploading. Packet loss would be a bit of a problem though. I'll have to think twice about it.

Most people don't get packetloss at all, its only a few exchanges and maybe lines and possibly router issues. Mines fine now and has been for a while, the benefits out way any small chance of issues tbh. Its more stable than ADSL as well as far as DLM. I would never go back. Upstream has never been an issue either.

[sobranie]

My speed at the mo. is down from 75 to 7.

Red curtain has descended.

Now, what's the b....y excuse!!!!!!!!!

[Gary]

Speed down to 16Mbps here, guess I spoke to soon  Spoke to support who have no idea, they show under 50% utilisation on the network so god knows I'll go look at Zens fault page and AAISP's

Edit: Just checked a Zen one and it shows the same packetloss and a dropout too, so its not IDNet its external. BT playing up again it seems

[sobranie]

Slight improvement on speed at the mo.

[jameshurrell]

It's not all IDNet lines that are affected today: 2 out of the 3 I monitor have the red curtain. All different exchanges.

On the 2 other lines I monitor (BT Business and PlusNet) no sign of anything.

[mervl]

The IDNet line here has it, but not the non-IDNet connection. I note that A&A say "BT are actually providing more data now that shows where each circuit will use network components within their network" which is helping them correlate with congestion reports to try and "point BT in the right direction". Are IDNet doing the same, I hope? 

[Baz]

My speed at the mo. is down from 75 to 7.

Red curtain has descended.

Now, what's the b....y excuse!!!!!!!!!

mine down too and same red curtain at the same time.....I havent had it this bad before.

Edit: Just checked a Zen one and it shows the same packetloss and a dropout too, so its not IDNet its external. BT playing up again it seems

Strangely I was chatting with another ISP support over the weekend and they told me they havent had any notification from customers about packet loss issue on their service, so no we've had no bother...were his words.......Hmmmm makes me wonder now whether to go to a new provider or not, are they all the same and dont let on 

[Gary]

mine down too and same red curtain at the same time.....I havent had it this bad before.

Strangely I was chatting with another ISP support over the weekend and they told me they havent had any notification from customers about packet loss issue on their service, so no we've had no bother...were his words.......Hmmmm makes me wonder now whether to go to a new provider or not, are they all the same and dont let on 

A salesman will tell you just what you want to hear, until they have got you...always research and never just go with the blurb. As I said Zen were showing the same packet loss today, so god knows what it is but its not IDNets fault.

[psp83]

Speed down to 16Mbps here, guess I spoke to soon  Spoke to support who have no idea, they show under 50% utilisation on the network so god knows I'll go look at Zens fault page and AAISP's

Edit: Just checked a Zen one and it shows the same packetloss and a dropout too, so its not IDNet its external. BT playing up again it seems

My BQM by any chance ?

If it is, then yeah I'm getting the same problem since 9am and the drop was me turning the modem off to do something 

[Simon]

Perhaps it's people downloading Game of Thrones?   

[Gary]

My BQM by any chance ?

If it is, then yeah I'm getting the same problem since 9am and the drop was me turning the modem off to do something 

It was indeed  sh*t happens to all networks sometimes I'm sure it will be fine later (famous last words)

[Gary]

Perhaps it's people downloading Game of Thrones?   

[psp83]

It was indeed  sh*t happens to all networks sometimes I'm sure it will be fine later (famous last words)

It has to be a BT fault somewhere to cause issues to more than 1 ISP.

Zen has already checked my connection, did a line check and everything came back fine.

I've also allowed them to setup their own monitoring system / graph on my IP so they can trace anything..

[esh]

Back to dodginess again. Might have to get this looked at. It's bloody annoying.