In reply to a post by seb:

Ah.. yes.. that is what I was seeing.. We were talking to Adrian K. about coding to detect this kind of pattern (among others).

I remember asking you about it when you launched the BQM - I still don't understand what the thomson is doing to delay packets, especially when its in bridge mode - that doesn't seemingly affect downloads.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I still don't understand what the thomson is doing to delay packets, especially when its in bridge mode - that doesn't seemingly affect downloads.

IIRC all of my Speedtouch/Thomson/Technicolor (or whatever they're called this week) routers give very low priority to pings (always show up as a stupidly high ping on the first step of a traceroute) do you think it's the same low priority for incoming pings?
Probably whoever coded the Thomson firmware thought the router would be better spending its time routing than mucking about giving instant responces to pings.

From the 2 BQM and 2 f8lure graphs Ive been monitoring, there is an upward increase onward from 8pm which peaks at about 10pm and then starts to fall again until it returns to normal at about 12am

Doesn't happen with the 780WL or I beleive the 585v6 with v6 firmware, so something introduced with v7

I think BE believe it is something to do with upstream QOS, but that stuff is beyond my knowledge

In reply to a post by nredwood:

Doesn't happen with the 780WL

I stupidly sent one of those back to BE, when I cancelled our office connection last year.
I should have kept it and sent back the useless 585 I've got at home!