IDNet network problems

[zappaDPJ]

What's yours up to Zap?

I really can't say, although the BQM doesn't show it and my PC seems to think it's connected to the Internet, I have almost no throughput i.e. web pages take minutes to resolve or never connect at all. I've no idea what's going on.

[Bill]

This is getting silly... are you still using the Billion, or have you tried reverting to the Netgear?

[zappaDPJ]

I still don't know what's going on. Windows diagnostics thinks I was connected but it still showed sporadically as being down on the network icon. Checking the speed of throughput on the Local Area Connection Status pop-up I could literally count the bytes off making my throughput speed somewhere in the region of 120 bytes per minute.

I rebooted my PC a few times, same result. I restarted the Billion, same result. I changed the network cable, same result. I then plugged the network cable into another port on the Billion and everything burst into life. However when I tested the first port with a laptop it worked

So, my connection. It's been better insofar as I haven't been getting 10-30 second lag spikes and there's been no significant packet loss. My latency is less, less stable if that makes sense but it's still nowhere near what I'd expect on an FTTC connection (it's still four times higher than it was a couple of months ago). I still have exactly the same pattern of background chatter for want of a better term but it's impact has been significantly reduced. As expected things are also looking better because it's the weekend.

The short version, the problem remains but it appears to be less of a problem.

[Bill]

Once again, prior to midnight your BQM is remarkably similar to mine... the problem may have reduced somewhat but, lacking any explanation as to why, I can think of no good reason why it shouldn't simply come back again.

Especially if it is traffic related- internet traffic levels only go in one direction

[zappaDPJ]

I agree. I'm definitely not holding my breath at the moment.

[Bill]

Yesterday's BQM:



Not good... didn't affect browsing etc too much, but the indicated congestion also showed up on a tbb speedtest:



The low single single-thread speed compared to the six-thread is indicative of congestion somewhere: Link.

[Adrian]

I have noticed on the IDNet BQM that at around 10:00pm the last two nights there has been a significant increase in latency which is mirrored in my own BQM.

[zappaDPJ]

Now that the weekend is over it's back to the same pattern for me.



One thing I think I can say now is whatever the problem is, it's not having the same impact as it was a week ago. There's nowhere near as much packet loss and my latency while high is confined to a much narrower band of extremes. Throughput is generally better although it's still very erratic.

[Gary]

That probably explains me dying and other loading glitches playing Destiny online when in a fireteam as what I'm shooting at is not there anymore   

[Bill]

Tuesday's:



Not perfect, but if it stays like that I'll stop complaining... 

But I'd be happier still if I knew what changed

[zappaDPJ]

I agree, some indication of what's been done would certainly help give me a little more confidence for the future. Here's my monitor for the same period.

[pctech]

They've aligned the Dilithium crystals Zap.

They (or BT sorry Openreach) have probably replaced something somewhere.

[zappaDPJ]

Probably

[Bill]

And another day passes, with a slightly cleaner BQM:

[Simon]

+1!   

[Gary]

I noticed IDnets supposed official server (not sure if it is or not) is having its 10pm latency peak on craigs. But its not showing on the two other IDNet graphs. Simon D said it wasn't theirs so who knows.  My speeds are fine, just keep that ECI **** up of G.inp away from my line.    F.E.C.K is censored here 

[Gary]

Great news Bill, that looks much better   

[Bill]

Great news Bill, that looks much better   

I'm desperately trying to avoid feeling even slightly optimistic in case the Great God of Fibre changes his mind... we need a smiley showing a geek in prayer

[Adrian]

I noticed IDnets supposed official server (not sure if it is or not) is having its 10pm latency peak on craigs. But its not showing on the two other IDNet graphs. Simon D said it wasn't theirs so who knows. 

As I observed above, I see the same blip in latency on my own BQM

[zappaDPJ]

I've had to switch back to my BT/Netgear hardware. The WiFi on the BiPAC 8800NL seems unusable, so slow it took the best part of 5 minutes to send a document to the printer. I tried a reboot, different settings but I couldn't get it to work.

[Bill]

Mine's been fine

It was streaming video (from iTunes) to the MacBook earlier without a murmur, but I ran a speedtest just to see- 65Mbps down, 15Mbps up, not much slower than wired.

Odd.

[zappaDPJ]

It is odd, I've established it's nothing to do with proximity/signal strength. I guess it must be something to do with the way it's set up.

The first two in the list were after I switched back to the BT/Netgear hardware.

[Bill]

It is odd, I've established it's nothing to do with proximity/signal strength.

Probably not channel number then... unless it's on Auto maybe? That always causes problems ime.

Mine is on defaults- all I changed was the SSID and password. It selected channel 6 for itself, which seems reasonably clear (I'd probably have chosen 11 but there's not much in it).

The speedtest I mentioned was done at 5GHz, just tried one at 2.4 and it's not as good- 30 down and 9 up. But nowhere near as bad as yours.

Can't help

[Bill]

I think I've been re-routed



(Ignore the red- most of it was me. The green and yellow are looking very satisfactory so far )

[zappaDPJ]

Surely that proves without a shadow of a doubt that someone, somewhere knows what's going on?