What IS going on with the network
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What IS going on with the network
24-09-2008 8:51 PM
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What is going on with peak time connections. Every night for the last couple of weeks, there are lots of gold drops, speedtests are terrible and browsing laggy for me anyway. Tonight just capped it off, even after a number of gateway hops, speeds under 1000k, on a 5meg profile. As a check, and as I am PAYG, switched to the RIN network, and everything absolutely fine (4777k). Is there a capacity issue or something. The only gateway dropping no gold traffic is PCL-AG02, but I have never been able to get onto this. This appears to be a recent thing, but it needs resolving, or is ot only me. There is no issue with my line, as a BT engineer has been out today, for another issue, and replace the section of cable from where the line entered my house, to the NTE5, and I am still connected into the Master test socket. I would like some form of explanation.
Re: What IS going on with the network
24-09-2008 9:38 PM
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I wasn't aware that we were dropping significant amounts of Gold traffic but I'll check in the morning.
I believe that we're due to add further capacity before too long, but again, I'll need to review our various graphs before making any further comment.
Bear in mind though that we did some Gateway maintenance work last night, so there are likely to be some side affects, so I wouldn't necessarily point at capacity issues.
Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 9:01 AM
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Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 10:51 AM
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What the heck is a 'gold drop'?
Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 10:53 AM
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Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 10:54 AM
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Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 11:00 AM
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Some types of use need these packets to get where they are going as quickly as possible - other types of use are less time-sensitive. (Voip =sensitive, P2P = not sensitive, HTTP = somewhere between)
So, the packets get classified into different groups - Bronze, Silver, Gold
Gold packets get a higher priority, whereas Bronze get the lowest.
As the network approaches its busiest time, packets can collide/get lost (for various reasons, and again, trying to keep it simple)
Bronze packets would be the first to experience problems, then Silver, then when the network is at its very busiest, Gold packets start to have some issues.
So, Gold packets dropping is an indication that the network was very busy at that time.
(Incidentally, don't worry about the packets being dropped - the nature of IP traffic allows for this, and the packets are asked to be re-transmitted, but its this re-transmission and subsequent queuing of packets that makes things seem slower at times.)
Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 11:00 AM
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That would suggest that PCL-AG02 is the quietest of all of our Gateways and hence not dropping traffic.
Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 11:07 AM
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Sorry James dont follow.
Am building up my networking lexicon but not a technical term I've come across.
Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 11:09 AM
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Are you referring to his post, before mine, or mine?
Look at Reply#6
I'll also have a look for that blog post.
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25-09-2008 11:10 AM
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http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/traffic_prioritisation.shtml
The page also contains useful linky's for additional reading if you have the time (and interest)
Re: What IS going on with the network
25-09-2008 11:37 AM
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Must get out of the habit of skim reading or just reading first two sentences.
Apologies.
Thank you.
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