Any problems on Friday, on ptw-ag01, or in general ?
Did anyone have any problems with packet loss on Friday? Either related to ptw-ag01, or on some routes out of Plusnet? Anything specific to FTTC connections?
I had problems throughout the day, but have no real explanation of what caused them.
The first I noticed was with problems using my PC to access any number of websites, but not all websites. Some responded fine, while some didn't.
This was with my PC connected wirelessly to the router (TP-Link WDR3600), and I was attached to ptw-ag01.
I initially used my TBB BQM to check behaviour, and it seemed to be fine - no packet loss whatsoever. I've attached it below.
I later checked with my SamKnows tests, which showed packet loss of more than 10% starting at 7AM and running until 17:30 when I rebooted the router. The Samknows box doesn't use wireless, ruling that part out.
I also checked the modem (HG612) but it wasn't reporting any noticeable amount of CRC or ES different from the norm.
Whatever the problem was, it was seen by 2 machines, wired and wireless, suggesting the problem lay in a common section, from router back up the network. But, with nothing obvious on the BQM that pings the router, that appeared fine. The modem appeared fine too (both had been up & running for 20 days)
I rebooted the router at 17:30 (hence the red spike on the BQM), and connected via pcl-ag03; I saw no sign of a problem after that - suggesting that the problem must have been either the router or gateway.
I'm a bit flummoxed, but mostly suspect the router. Anyone have any other ideas?
I had problems throughout the day, but have no real explanation of what caused them.
The first I noticed was with problems using my PC to access any number of websites, but not all websites. Some responded fine, while some didn't.
This was with my PC connected wirelessly to the router (TP-Link WDR3600), and I was attached to ptw-ag01.
I initially used my TBB BQM to check behaviour, and it seemed to be fine - no packet loss whatsoever. I've attached it below.
I later checked with my SamKnows tests, which showed packet loss of more than 10% starting at 7AM and running until 17:30 when I rebooted the router. The Samknows box doesn't use wireless, ruling that part out.
I also checked the modem (HG612) but it wasn't reporting any noticeable amount of CRC or ES different from the norm.
Whatever the problem was, it was seen by 2 machines, wired and wireless, suggesting the problem lay in a common section, from router back up the network. But, with nothing obvious on the BQM that pings the router, that appeared fine. The modem appeared fine too (both had been up & running for 20 days)
I rebooted the router at 17:30 (hence the red spike on the BQM), and connected via pcl-ag03; I saw no sign of a problem after that - suggesting that the problem must have been either the router or gateway.
I'm a bit flummoxed, but mostly suspect the router. Anyone have any other ideas?
I'm seeing packetloss from the AAISP/fibrebrick (F8lure)
Traceroute from the AAISP firebrick
Traceroute
No Time(ms) IP Address Note Name
1 0.383 90.155.6.178 Progress 178.6.155.90.in-addr.arpa
2 4.265 217.169.11.89 Progress a.needless.mh.aa.net.uk
3 4.687 81.2.80.198 Progress a.aimless.tch.aa.net.uk
4 4.739 90.155.53.41 Progress a.aimless.thn.aa.net.uk
5 5.007 195.66.224.10 Progress linx1.ukcore.bt.net
6 5.327 195.99.126.139 Progress
7 5.591 212.159.0.241 Progress te8-1.ptw-gw01.plus.net
8 6.635 212.159.2.145 Progress link-a-central10.ptw-ag01.plus.net
9 18.231 84.92.87.11 Reply firnen.flying-beast.net
But not from the F8lure pinger itself (Rapidswitch server)
http://f8lure.mouselike.org/index.asp?DoAction=ViewHost&HostName=firnen.flying-beast.net
I also had problems connecting to arcade games in starcraft 2 earlier, it would just hang on entering lobby, I was able to connect when VPN'd although that was less than ideal as I was getting a jot of stuttering (probably jitter from the VPN, luckely I was playing a tower-defence map so it didn't matter to much)
I'd look into the starcraft issue in more detail but I'm far to tied to start trying to figure out what it's connecting to which i'd need to do before I can attempt any further diagnostics.
Edit:
Looking at my PPPoE logs it looks like the last gateway I auth'd with is indeed PTW-AG01, Annoyingly whoever designed the PPPoe client in Vyatta/EdgeOS didn't implement time-stamping of log entries
Traceroute from the AAISP firebrick
Traceroute
No Time(ms) IP Address Note Name
1 0.383 90.155.6.178 Progress 178.6.155.90.in-addr.arpa
2 4.265 217.169.11.89 Progress a.needless.mh.aa.net.uk
3 4.687 81.2.80.198 Progress a.aimless.tch.aa.net.uk
4 4.739 90.155.53.41 Progress a.aimless.thn.aa.net.uk
5 5.007 195.66.224.10 Progress linx1.ukcore.bt.net
6 5.327 195.99.126.139 Progress
7 5.591 212.159.0.241 Progress te8-1.ptw-gw01.plus.net
8 6.635 212.159.2.145 Progress link-a-central10.ptw-ag01.plus.net
9 18.231 84.92.87.11 Reply firnen.flying-beast.net
But not from the F8lure pinger itself (Rapidswitch server)
http://f8lure.mouselike.org/index.asp?DoAction=ViewHost&HostName=firnen.flying-beast.net
I also had problems connecting to arcade games in starcraft 2 earlier, it would just hang on entering lobby, I was able to connect when VPN'd although that was less than ideal as I was getting a jot of stuttering (probably jitter from the VPN, luckely I was playing a tower-defence map so it didn't matter to much)
I'd look into the starcraft issue in more detail but I'm far to tied to start trying to figure out what it's connecting to which i'd need to do before I can attempt any further diagnostics.
Edit:
Looking at my PPPoE logs it looks like the last gateway I auth'd with is indeed PTW-AG01, Annoyingly whoever designed the PPPoe client in Vyatta/EdgeOS didn't implement time-stamping of log entries