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SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
24-05-2011 11:20 AM
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However I have received no acknowledgement or notification of its appearance on the network from Samknows. Has anyone else joined the monitoring trials fairly recently? How long after the box went lived did you get the e-mails ( is it the end of the first week?, month?
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
24-05-2011 11:29 AM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
24-05-2011 11:32 AM
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Mathew
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
24-05-2011 11:36 AM
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i have recently signed up for this.
how long from signing up to getting anywhere was it?
are we talking months?
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
24-05-2011 11:55 AM
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Peter - my e-mail traffic shows I got an acknowledgement of signing up on the 27th April, which asked me to run the speed tests. I think I originally volunteered at the beginning of January ( based on my browser history)
After running the tests on the 28th April I got the acknowledgement E-mail which asked me to agree to the T's & C's on the 17th May, which I did. The Box shipped on the 18th and arrived on the 20th. Hope this helps.
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Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
25-05-2011 9:37 AM
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I have an odd setup over DHCP, so I've emailed a tech question to check it will work OK. Lets see what answer I get...
Using FTTC since 2011. Currently on 80/20 Unlimited Fibre Extra.
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
27-05-2011 10:49 PM
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All working well ( and plusnets stats look good!!)
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
30-05-2011 11:57 AM
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That's roughly in line with dvorak's two weeks.
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
30-05-2011 2:28 PM
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Because of the way my DHCP works, I suspect that the box is measuring DNS response times for my internal caching name server, rather than realistic ones, What kind of numbers are you seeing there? I'll post mine later, but I can't get on right now...
Using FTTC since 2011. Currently on 80/20 Unlimited Fibre Extra.
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
31-05-2011 9:19 AM
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Phil
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
31-05-2011 9:37 AM
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Quote from: WWWombat Same here. Some interesting graphs...
Because of the way my DHCP works, I suspect that the box is measuring DNS response times for my internal caching name server, rather than realistic ones, What kind of numbers are you seeing there? I'll post mine later, but I can't get on right now...
Have you put your internal DNS server in to your router's configuration?
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Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
31-05-2011 10:47 AM
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Quote from: WWWombat I suspect that the box is measuring DNS response times for my internal caching name server, rather than realistic ones, What kind of numbers are you seeing there? I'll post mine later, but I can't get on right now...
The daily averages for DNS Response times on my graphs are consistently 30ms. The highest maximum is in the low 50's the lowest minimum is just under 25ms.
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
31-05-2011 10:58 AM
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jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
31-05-2011 5:55 PM
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Quote from: jelv Have you put your internal DNS server in to your router's configuration?
No - the router isn't running my DHCP; I handle that on the same machine that runs the DNS cache. IIRC, I originally did things that way to distribute data related to Netbios in the DHCP configuration, and to be able to load my own software onto a machine using Bootp - both things which couldn't be added to the router's DHCP implementation. Putting the DNS cache data there was a side-effect, although I now make some small use of it in Master mode for internal things, that would break if I just deferred to the router as a DNS server.
I checked with Samknows, and they can cope just fine with the DHCP server sitting on the LAN side of the white box, instead of the WAN side. I've not had an answer back about how they evaluate the DNS response times - whether by using their own servers, or by hooking into the router's config (thereby depending on the DHCP data).
I've had one go at configuring my DHCP daemon to give different DNS servers to different hosts - but I broke my whole DHCP setup doing that, and haven't had chance to try again yet.
Using FTTC since 2011. Currently on 80/20 Unlimited Fibre Extra.
Re: SamKnows Ofcom Monitoring
31-05-2011 6:14 PM
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Quote from: wisty The daily averages for DNS Response times on my graphs are consistently 30ms. The highest maximum is in the low 50's the lowest minimum is just under 25ms.
Thanks. How does those compare to the latency you see over the DSL connection - either from traceroute or ping commands?
My results show 13-15ms mostly, but sometimes up to 20ms, whereas my minimum ADSL latency seems to be about 13ms (ping time to the first plusnet central, and that matches my TBB graph). If I were hitting the cache, I'd have thought I'd be getting lower single-digit values: I can get 1-2ms results using dig on a linux box, when I think the cache is involved, so there's no reason why the white box can't get the same.
Those numbers suggest that the box is not hitting the cache - but if that is the case, how is the box measuring *my ISP's* DNS response time? Or perhaps it hits my DNS server in such a way that it the name is not found in the cache, and it always forwards the request out to Plusnet.
It calls for some experimentation, but I'm a little loath to play too much. Someone else is going to be believing the results here,,,
Using FTTC since 2011. Currently on 80/20 Unlimited Fibre Extra.
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