TBQM: just intrigued . . .

[mervl]

My Broadband Ping

what might have caused this unusual excitement on my connection overnight? Apart from the couple of reboots, web pages took several attempts to load around midnight at the only time I was actively using the connection, and corrected errors sped up to several hundred thousand per minute (i.e. x100) according to the modem, but the connection was not otherwise in use (i.e. no connected devices overnight), and nothing otherwise unusual on the GUI (including no unknown connected devices and wireless security set throughout to WPA2). I can't see any exchange or network fault reported anywhere (EABOR).

For the last six months the connection has been as it was until the 6pm blip, and hopefully now might be returning to from 10am. (The post 8am blip was my usual breakfast downloading so not unexpected).

[Rik]

It's possible the exchange was heavily congested during that period. My own traces, both BT and Telefonica, show no issues.

[Glenn]

My FTTC line is flat for the same time period.

[esh]

Wow, that's pretty exciting. That doesn't look like normal congestion... sounds like a virtual path was switching around or some crazy routing glitches.

[lozcart]

My connection was not used last night except for any push emails to my phone and my graph shows some strange goings on around 1.00am and 3.00am which I've not had before.


My Broadband Ping

[Rik]

Exchange work?

[Steve]

This was mine earlier this year and it made no sense to me at all.

[Rik]

It looks like an RDF plot from the Battle of Britain, Steve, only inverted and more colourful. 

[Glenn]

And to think my dad could detect the planes flying in to/out of Berlin, from displays like that during the airlift.

[Rik]

I know what you mean, Glenn. When you look at early radar displays, you wonder how anyone could make sense of them.