Reading TBB Ping Graphs
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Reading TBB Ping Graphs
06-02-2013 10:53 AM
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Looking at the attached image I would have thought that my gaming and Skype would be all over the place, as I appear to be getting huge latency spikes. Oddly enough, my gaming/Skype have actually improved recently (a brief period last night with dropped connection notwithstanding), with only very occasional lag. So how do I read the graph? Does it show issues, which has not been my general experience, or does it show a stable connection? If so, how?
Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
06-02-2013 12:59 PM
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Too much of is the Red loss coming from the top, I've had the router cable too the phone socket getting damaged and causing that in the past. When online gaming and you get packet loss you will see others skipping about.
The green part shouldn't change or change by much unless you reboot/reconnect your router and get a different gateway, but the PN fault that has been around for the last 3 weeks has been doing that e.g. of the attached, the spike from 10.30pm too 11pm was a fault with the PN hardware.
It can also be used to check if you connection is being used when you know it shouldn't be, e.g. the wife or kids say they aren't on youtube etc but they really are, ok with unlimited that is not an issue, but if PN revert back it might be a future issue once again if a monthly bandwidth cap is an issue.
Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
06-02-2013 1:37 PM
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thanks for your reply. I get the bit about less being better and that packet loss will cause jerky gaming, but looking at my graph I'm getting pings constantly in the 100s, which should mean to my mind that I would notice excessive lag in gaming (I play Black Ops mostly), but lately I haven't really (apart from the odd glitch here and there).
Looking at this topic the poster had a graph seemingly much better than mine but was using it to prove that his connection was horrible and gaming (and Skype) unworkable. Why is his graph, seemingly more stable to my layman's eyes, proof of a poor connection while mine, which to me looks like someone's gone crazy with the colour palette, is given by a stable line?
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Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
06-02-2013 2:17 PM
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One thing to mention gaming and online browsing/skype/youtube don't mix unless you have a good connection with spare bandwidth/speed to handle the load. Doing those while in a online game will badly affect your game pings
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06-02-2013 2:59 PM
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06-02-2013 3:03 PM
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Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
06-02-2013 4:51 PM
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As others have mentioned unexplained packet loss shown by the monitor *is* of concern.
Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
07-02-2013 11:40 AM
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07-02-2013 11:58 AM
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As for the high pings - have a look at your usage stats with PN. I would imagine you're putting through a fair amount of data.
Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
07-02-2013 11:59 AM
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First if not enabled, change your wifis security to WPA2 and change the password, see if you have a leeching neighbour.
Sons pc/console, turn them off and see if he has anything that was active online, the graph will tell you if he was if it drops
Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
07-02-2013 12:33 PM
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Quote from: shure latest snapshot. Yesterday I was getting a reasonable amount pf packet loss but tbh only really noticed it for a brief 10-15 minute period around 7:30 or so. This morning between 7-8 it was just light surfing, while from 8:30-11:30 Xbox live (no other streaming etc). Weird that almost exactly half of the latter period (8:30 to 11:30) shows very high pings, while the second half not so much, while I did nothing different for the entire period. Any ideas why such a marked difference with no change is usage?
Does your graph usually have all that yellow and blue?
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Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
07-02-2013 12:41 PM
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I'm pretty sure it's not a leeching neighbour. Although I only have WEP (my son has a DS, which doesn't do WPA, unfortunately) I live in the middle of nowhere and my neighbours have their own BB. Aside from anything else, usage corresponds exactly with when I have been online. Yesterday everybody was home and using the BB accordingly (facebook, Youtube etc), but today after 8am it was just me here and I made sure everything else was off so that I could run an experiment as per your suggestions yesterday. Only the Xbox was on and it wasn't updating, just playing BLOPS II. Strange that playing the same game would show such markedly different usage stats, and with such a definite cutoff around 10am, too.
My router didn't drop connection, either. I'm still on the same gateway (ptn-ag01).
Fair enough on packet loss. Touch wood it hasn't had much of an impact yet. Still don't understand why gaming usage would fluctuate so wildly
Re: Reading TBB Ping Graphs
07-02-2013 12:45 PM
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It's worth seeing what is attached to it when you think everything is turned off. Looks like something is transferring a lot of data from that graph.
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07-02-2013 12:45 PM
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yep, someone's going wild with the colour palette. Here's one I made when connected to the test socket a few days back:
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07-02-2013 12:52 PM
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