I have the same thing on two of my lines - several days clear, then a day or two with up to 10% packet loss, then back to clear. The trigger seems to be around 1am-2am

I have reported it to Zen, but after having to run without a phone for over a week, and then being asked to remove all equipment connected by ethernet for another week, I lost patience and decided to just live with it.

Interestingly, Zen consider packet loss up to 10% acceptable

This is how mine looks at random times of day/night, i use the free router provided by zen.


https://i.ibb.co/ZxFZhQW/Screenshot-2023-05-31-14322...

Edited by gnt (Wed 31-May-23 14:38:53)

In reply to a post by ukwiz:

I have the same thing on two of my lines - several days clear, then a day or two with up to 10% packet loss, then back to clear. The trigger seems to be around 1am-2am

I have reported it to Zen, but after having to run without a phone for over a week, and then being asked to remove all equipment connected by ethernet for another week, I lost patience and decided to just live with it.

Interestingly, Zen consider packet loss up to 10% acceptable

Are you using the Zen Fritzbox routers?

In reply to a post by jimbof:

Are you using the Zen Fritzbox routers?

Yes, the 7530 with OS 7.56 (new today - was 7.50)

Edited by ukwiz (Wed 07-Jun-23 14:11:20)

You're basically doomed then if you are expecting to get any reliable BQMs over time. They can and do exhibit the dripping blood often. I'm no fan of Zen myself, but berating them over dropped packets would be wrong until you've tested with another router that doesn't have ping rate limiting.

Quite.

I have always had this, on and off, using the Fritzbox stock configuration.

I flashed my 7530 with OpenWRT (which now supports VDSL for these) and I don't get it now. I use OpenWRT for other reasons, not the dripping blood, but it didn't seem to affect internet connections in any way that I noticed. See my sig for BQM with 7530+OpenWRT.

I have had Dripping Blood on my Vodafone connection on and off for long time. Some days I have none at all

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...

Edited by penpusher (Fri 09-Jun-23 14:00:00)