BQM interpretation

Hi

What does my BQM graph say about my connection? I have included various days and a live

It slows down during peak times. VDSL connection

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Wow, that looks like quite a mess. I am sure the more technical people will be able to give you more info, but such a chart certainly backs up that your connection is going to give a poor experience.

One or more of the following is what it looks like

1. Something is using your connection a lot (upload or download) and you are not aware of it
2. The ISP has massive congestion issues - finding out what others with the same ISP are seeing will help to see if its just you or more people

My initial comment is that you either have a line that is behaving very poorly or you are absolutely hammering the connection doing almost permanent downloads.

What are you using the connection for?

If you could post the stats from your router, so we can see error rates, etc. that would help in coming to a firmer conclusion.

It would be super useful to be able to tag BQMs with things like the ISP, postcode, exchange, cabinet number etc to make it possible to search for them to aid troubleshooting like this.

Hi

Thanks for all the replies. Some stats from my modem

I don't think I have any background download/uploads. If my isp has congestion issue then won't I need to check for others with the same isp in my area?

Stats recorded 25 Nov 2020 17:15:38

DSLAM type / SW version: IFTN:0xd086 (208.134) / v0xd086
Modem/router firmware: AnnexA version - A2pv6C038m.d24j
DSL mode: VDSL2 Profile 17a
Status: Showtime
Uptime: 16 hours 33 min 42 sec
Resyncs: 0 (since 25 Nov 2020 10:45:35)

Downstream Upstream
Line attenuation (dB): 24.3 0.0
Signal attenuation (dB): Not available on VDSL2
Connection speed (kbps): 32400 7447
SNR margin (dB): 6.7 6.1
Power (dBm): 11.4 4.7
Interleave depth: 1039 1
INP: 3.50 0
G.INP: Not enabled Not enabled
Vectoring status: 5 (VECT_UNCONFIGURED)

RSCorr/RS (%): 0.2200 0.0102
RSUnCorr/RS (%): 0.0015 0.0000
ES/hour: 21.9 12.6

Stats recorded 01 Dec 2020 12:32:38

DSLAM type / SW version: IFTN:0xd086 (208.134) / v0xd086
Modem/router firmware: AnnexA version - A2pv6C038m.d24j
DSL mode: VDSL2 Profile 17a
Status: Showtime
Uptime: 2 days 14 hours 44 min 23 sec
Resyncs: 0 (since 01 Dec 2020 12:29:08)

Downstream Upstream
Line attenuation (dB): 24.3 0.0
Signal attenuation (dB): Not available on VDSL2
Connection speed (kbps): 32400 7359
SNR margin (dB): 6.9 6.0
Power (dBm): 11.4 4.4
Interleave depth: 1375 1
INP: 8.00 0
G.INP: Not enabled Not enabled
Vectoring status: 5 (VECT_UNCONFIGURED)

RSCorr/RS (%): 6.4386 0.0135
RSUnCorr/RS (%): 0.0109 0.0000
ES/hour: 0 0

What ISP are you with?

talktalk

I've been monitoring my bandwidth via my DD-WRT.

Roughly using 1 out 7 mbps upload and 5 out of 30mbps down

Could it be possible a work laptop VPN connection could be the issue. Although wouldn't expect that to be connected practically 24/7 even if the laptop was left on sleep

1 out of 7 upload - the instant you looked? Or averaged out over the course of a month? If the 1 Mbps is an average over the month that sounds high.

You need to disconnect the work laptop from the Ethernet and WiFi, it is possible something is using bandwidth.

Some IT departments push out Windows updates over VPN connections so its best to turn off (not sleep) your device as the network connectivity could still be active

Were any of your devices disconnected/powered off between 02:30 and 03:30 today (01/12/2020)? That time period your graph looks perfectly normal.

Thanks for all replies.

Following suggestions of a device causing the issue

I turned off the wifi overnight and the graph looks normal. Over that period. Until it got switched on again. Must be a wifi device causing the spikes

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