Beat ya by 5 seconds

I was trying to find a picture for "Who is this?" as Glenn keeps getting them right too quickly!

FWIW here's mine so far. IDNET, profile was 31Meg since Sept, but sometime over Christmas dropped to 28 Meg

My Broadband Ping

Ignore the first hour, hadn't enabled ping response on my router.

The internet connection was in use until 11pm, is that why the max ping settles down after that point ? Big spike at 4:15am though !

Edited by broadbandjockey (Thu 17-Feb-11 07:12:49)

Keith

You might like to look at this thread from the IDNet forums. It might help to explain the issues and what IDNet have done to resolve the issue for other users.

http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,24...

is that why the max ping settles down after that point

yes, this type of graph always shows that effect of load. I imagine it is because router CPUs are busier doing routing rather than replying to pings ? or the ping packets are queued up in other traffic perhaps.

In reply to a post by broadbandjockey:

The internet connection was in use until 11pm, is that why the max ping settles down after that point ?

Pretty normal looking trace... as Phil said, the ping settles down when your router is less busy.

But the effect is quite marked on yours... were you downloading most of the evening? If not, then I'd guess your router only has 10/100Mbps ports with a corresponding processor, and it's struggling a bit to keep up with an FTTC connection. It's not uncommon to see a significant increase in speed if the router is changed for one with gigabit ports.

For comparison, here's mine: My Broadband Ping

Big spike at 4:15am though !

Spikes happen . Only worth investigating if they're regular.

Edited by billford (Thu 17-Feb-11 08:18:32)

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by broadbandjockey:

The internet connection was in use until 11pm, is that why the max ping settles down after that point ?

Pretty normal looking trace... as Phil said, the ping settles down when your router is less busy.

But the effect is quite marked on yours... were you downloading most of the evening? If not, then I'd guess your router only has 10/100Mbps ports with a corresponding processor, and it's struggling a bit to keep up with an FTTC connection. It's not uncommon to see a significant increase in speed if the router is changed for one with gigabit ports.

Yes, it's just a Netgear WG614, nothing fancy. Nothing heavy going on last night with traffic, me surfing the web and Usenet, the wife on Facebook, and (most significantly) both our teenage sons out for the evening

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Yes, it's just a Netgear WG614, nothing fancy.

Yeah, that's got 10/100 ports. If you're happy with the speeds you're getting then it's not worth upgrading, but a point to bear in mind for the future.

and (most significantly) both our teenage sons out for the evening

Ah, yes, that's likely to have much more effect than the speed of your WAN port

Edited by billford (Thu 17-Feb-11 09:54:09)

Just to let people know,two weeks have gone by from my first post about the trouble with
my FTTC and it has settled down now,the ping has went back to where it was(about 18ms-19ms)from where it had been(between 32ms -130ms)for a reason only know to itself.
There is one thing for sure IDNET had nothing to do with it.And also when i seen the ping had got better i re-booted the modem and my ip profile went up to 37.5MBPS with know help from them at all........

So thanks everyone for there input


Saboo1690

My tbb BQM graph was basically just murmurs above an average of 11ms for my first few days, Feb 18-21,then started going odd on the afternoon of 22, then very erratic till just before midnight this morning.

Now flat again.

How do you know it wasn't IDNet? I tried to pin it down but failed.