Spikes: I suffered with them for a long time and tried tyo find out the reason - with not joy. I got rid of them by moving from an ECI modem to a Huawei which resulted in a speeed drop. They were, like yours, happening at regular intervals, with an occasional double spike.

Unfortunately the BPM does not hold records over 6 months old so I cannot link to it.

I also suffered same, never got to the bottom of it.

However nobody has ever reported it causing a problem so far as I know, and loads of us have had them. It doesn't seem anything to worry about.

Agreed!

Problem no, niggle yes.

If a large download was running and a a spike occurred then the download could stall for a few seconds which if you were looking at a remote system capability on a satellite link then you needed to be aware.

Not necessarily. The BQM and similar only show what is happening to pings, not data traffic.

Your example needs a little more definition anyway. If you are talking about domestic or even business internet connections via satellite then the latency on those is a completely different order of magnitude and variability in the first place.

If you are talking about mission-critical control systems such as the control of telecoms or any other sort of satellite the networks we are on will not be in use.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 18-Jun-16 11:47:03)

Yes, it does show what is happening to the pings but the cause of that can also affect data - as I have experienced.

When running test on satellite connectivity I would have an MES uploading continually on a connection at maybe 20, 30 or 40 Mbps. Then via the satellite it would be landed at a GES and routed to me via a normal connection. When running a test for significant periods of time I would see notches in the received data rate the timing of which correspond with the BQM spikes.

Are MES and GES acronyms I should be familiar with? I'm not going to look them up. Because of them your post is even less clear than your previous one.

You say it was a test. If you were losing data or the data was time-critical you proved my point.

How were you sending? Through your normal connection to a sending station or what?

Clear as mud .

I was one of the first to try one of these. The problem was got to the bottom of long ago - Caused by the wireless. Switch it off and go wired to prove!

19th June 2016. With no input from me it seems to have resolved itself.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/967ea7a66ef...