Continual intermittent dropped packets
allenjamieson84 wrote:also im experiencing the dropped packets, i checked filters etc, found the filter to be smelling of burning (also copper was a greenish color) looks like it may have somehow fried? removed that as i have a filtered faceplate (cheers BT Man) but still experiencing packet loss, not as much but does affect my VPN to work (just get kicked off)
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/83deac905fecb48895332fa36361b7e3.html
There's no evidence of packet loss on that graph 
@Maxam wrote:
There we go, 11pm and the speed shoots from 10mb to 30mb. Something is wrong.
I'm not sure this is going to be the product of any packet loss. Are you able to provide any evidence to suggest packets are being lost (traces, external monitors etc.)? If not, then might be an idea to keep the reduced throughout observations to the other thread here.
@allenjamieson84 wrote:
I thought Plusnet done traffic management up until 11pm (read it somewhere and can't find it again to back myself up)
No, there's no additional management in place during the evening. It was the case in the past, but isn't nowadays.
@rca212 wrote:
Hi Bob,
most of the time there's nothing even connected (just a raspberry pi so I can get the graphs from thinkbroadband)
From where I'm sat, something doesn't look right though. Average response time of your router (or rather the Raspberry Pi?), is over half a second! I suspect the Pi is struggling to respond to the ICMP probes in a timely fashion, or it's doing something else at the same time that's hogging resource. Is it connected via an ethernet cable?
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 192.168.1.254 0.0% 71 3.9 4.2 3.6 14.2 1.4 2. lo0.central10.pcn-bng02.plus.net 0.0% 71 12.3 12.8 11.7 19.3 1.4 3. 411.be6.pcn-ir02.plus.net 0.0% 71 13.2 13.1 12.3 15.7 0.5 4. ??? 5. ??? 6. 75.213.9.51.dyn.plus.net 0.0% 70 616.6 620.4 51.2 828.6 269.1
zombies wrote:It almost seems as if there is packet loss but intermittent - I don't have a tbb graph yet, I've registered and set-up the monitor so am just waiting for it to fill with data.
Can't see anything obvious so it'll be interesting to see your graphing.
@zombies wrote:
... not sure if enabling PING from WAN is safe or not, I've always kept it disabled as a matter of course.
It's pretty safe, as long as it's only ICMP/PING responses you're opening up.
@herojan wrote:
Colindale is worse than southbank, avoid both, if you can.
People will find this increasingly hard over time.
Any issues are definitely not across the board. Speaking personally, I'm on pcn-bng02, there's no packet loss on my TBB monitor and I was able to download at full line capacity (~73mbps) for a good couple of hours between 6pm-9pm last night.
If your issues are specific to throughput/download speeds rather than packet loss, then it's worth sticking to the other thread to avoid muddying the packet loss investigations.
Hmmmmm.........
Thought things were all OK again till this afternoon when unfortunately my home had a short power outage, which off course meant the router got rebooted.
This graph is interesting:
Until the power outage just before 2pm, I was still on gateway pcn-bng01 at Colindale. As you can see, I have been getting a good service there.
When power came back about 2.30pm, my router came back up OK and the WAN was reconnected, but I could get no internet access. So, didn't bother checking which gateway I was on, just reset my PVC and things started working.
Checked and I was now connected to pcn-bng02 at Colindale, but as you can see above, I was getting erratic latency issues and some small packet loss again.
So at around 4.45pm, I reset my PVC again and connected to pcn-bng03 at Colindale.........didn't wait any time there, but reset my PVC again and was pleased to come back up on pcn-bng01 at Colindale, where I have now left things to see if I get back to the same quality of service I had before the power outage.
This once again makes me think that different PN Gateways route you through some very different quality network paths..........be interesting to see how things look after a while back on pcn-bng01.
This is what I have at present - I was on Southbank but the router reconnected itself to Colindale (pcn-bng03) - I don't know which Southbank gateway it was at start.
This is making online gaming difficult at best, sometimes it's ok and sometimes it means the responses to my actions are a few seconds ahead of my actions - in short, I'm hitting 'fire' and that action doesn't happen for a second or 2. Not good.