Why so many dropped packets?

What's going on here?

My Broadband Ping

What is the recent BQM history of the same?

Is connection otherwise performant and good?

What router and ISP?

Here are a few random days:
1 Jan, seems fine.... My Broadband Ping
25 Jan
My Broadband Ping
31 Jan
My Broadband Ping
10 Feb seems poor
My Broadband Ping
A week later is different
My Broadband Ping

So it comes and goes. But I don't obsessively check. I actually went to see about disabling it as I don't look at it much.

Performance seems OK considering my line. According to my Zen provided FritzBox 7530 I'm getting 53 down, 15 up on an 80/20 FTTC service.

I'm also on Zen FTTC with similar speeds. Not a million miles from you either if you are in Woolwich (I am in BR3).

My BQMs often looked like your 25/01/23 one, although your latest ones are worse than I ever saw on mine. I think it's just down to the Fritzbox software not responding to pings reliably as they are low priority. It baffled me that it would come and go though.

I still use the Fritzbox but I installed OpenWRT on it (which now supports the in-built modem if you use the snapshot versions). That cleaned the BQM up. See my sig.

I only did that to get away from a wifi channel bug that was causing me grief with another device. I never noticed any internet connection issues using the stock software.

Note, I wouldn't actually recommend installing OpenWRT unless you are already familiar with it or are prepared for a steep learning curve. I got there but it ate up a few evenings....

In reply to a post by Woolwich:

What's going on here?

My Broadband Ping

A quirk of the Fritzbox being too aggressive with dropping/ignoring ICMP Pings.
If you really had that much packet loss your broadband would be unbearably slow, unresponsive and many applications simply wouldn't work.

Some users can happily run 1 BQM on a Fritzbox but I've never managed to run 2 without it blocking pings.
Zen also run their own monitoring on lots of lines.
So if you have 2 BQM's, cancel 1. If you only have 1, check Zen don't have monitoring running on your line.

It's a very very common thing with Fritzboxes and there are many users who just can't run a BQM with their device.

The BQM sends 100 pings per minute, every minute. It isn't exactly normal traffic so really the Fritzbox isn't doing anything wrong by not responding to all the pings. It's just a bit frustrating for anyone wanting to run a BQM.

Thanks for all the infos. I'm disabling my BQM for the minute. As I say its not something I have much of a use for.