Talktalk will probably just conclude wifi problems and suggest using wired as mich as possible

your original post possibly describes a broadcast storm, whereby something on your internal network is causing a loop or not properly handling broadcast packets.

This manifests itself as a mass of broadcast traffic that will saturate your LAN completely, just like a DDoS attack.

If you are using any form of wifi extender.. don't.. they are the most significant cause of this.

also check you do not have a device with wifi and cable connection connected at the same time.

bill

It does seem primarily to be a wifi problem, yes. I'm looking into trying out powerlines for my PC to at least get off the wifi. Problem is though, every other device such as phones/ipads etc are still wireless and getting told to 'get wired' won't help them

Kijoma thanks for the informative reply, it does sound like thats happening. I'm happy to report I'm not using a wifi extender. My PC is the only thing with wired/wireless possibility and i'm just using wifi for now, all other adapters are disabled. On the early posts though thats when the broadband monitor was just monitoring my PC. Its had a good 24hrs on just monitoring my router now and its literally not reporting any problems. (spikes of red were when it was rebooted a few times)

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Edit 12.06.15 #2 and possible solution

I've just bought 500mbps powerlines and plugged them in. As I disconnected my high latency wifi and enabled my LAN once more, my ping is now 19ms +- 1.6.
Speed test;
http://i.imgur.com/hePUaEk.png
Ping;
http://www.pingtest.net/result/124922982.png


I'll have to see how it goes now for me. I'm just wondering if it was my PC that was prehaps stuck in a 'broadcast storm', dragging every other device into slowless. Who knows.

I'll be monitoring my connection and see how everyone elses devices perform now my PC is off the wifi. If anyone can shine some light on the current router stats still, I'd appreciate it. It'll be interesting to see if its still reporting send errors on my super router wireless stats page.

Edited by deleted (Fri 12-Jun-15 16:08:07)

In reply to a post by Wolves42:

If anyone can shine some light on the current router stats still, I'd appreciate it. It'll be interesting to see if its still reporting send errors on my super router wireless stats page.

It is interesting that the wireless stats show a problem with "send errors", but like a lot of statistics, it doesn't help you understand *why*.

I guess it is likely that the error counter comes from the WiFi chipset, and reports the packets that never got sent out over the air because they never got approval through the CSMA mechanism. If that happens, it suggests something else is transmitting in a way that doesn't let your packets out, or delays them significantly. That "something" may well be a rogue wifi box that isn't obeying the rules. Or perhaps it is something that isn't wifi, and is just stomping across the spectrum.

Had you tried changing channels?

As the problem seemed to extend to a wired LAN connection, but still didn't affect the WAN (I think **), suggests that your LAN is getting overloaded. Perhaps you needed to be running some simple, long-lived, ping tests within the LAN.

I once encountered a problem where the LAN was being hogged ... by a network-attached printer.

** BTW: Your links to your BQM's are all ones to the live graph. As I come to this thread a few days later, I'm not able to see what the graphs showed a few days ago, so can't comment on them. It is usually better to post a link to the graph for the specific day, rather than the live graph, so they remain visible later...

Just thought I'd 'close' this thread by stating after being on powerlines for over a month now I've had 0 issues. None of this wifi interference to worry about ever again. It's such a relief!