50M Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS) - Page 251

buckleb · 27-05-2013, 12:06

Things have been pretty stable here in my part of Crawley since they increased channels and speed.

I'm moving house in a couple of weeks, to another VM enabled area, let's hope the service is as good there!

Neptune_Twilight · 29-05-2013, 09:24

Things were OK until yesterday

Any thoughts?

Sephiroth · 29-05-2013, 09:53

Not much to go on there. were you using the circuit during the daytime period? Uploading? What was going wrong? Poor gaming? Poor web site loading? Poor what? The average ping (blue) was stilll lowish.

Neptune_Twilight · 29-05-2013, 10:42

Thanks for that, the connection wasn't in use in the day at all, the maximum latency is usually lower. I did reboot the router around 10pm accidentally though which seemed to change things. Maybe it was ready for a re-boot I leave the router on 24/7? I don't have many problems apart from the last couple of days websites have been a little slow in initial loading though speed tests always show 126 & 11 ish. Thanks, I'll leave well alone then.

Sephiroth · 29-05-2013, 11:55

Assuming the router to be the Superhub 1, then yes - it sometimes does that. It gets itself cluttered and then gets busy trying to sort the clutter out and in the meantime, TBB is pinging all the time.

The SH2 is much better in that regard. I've posted my TBB graphs in router mode in this thread and it's been perfect for three or four weeks now.

Neptune_Twilight · 29-05-2013, 18:17

Looking now it's not bad again, thanks.

jarrodstrachan · 30-05-2013, 09:35

Superhub went offline this morning for around 5 minutes, checked the router status after coming back online and it seems upstream bonding has started on my connection. I hope this helps my latency as I'm in an over utilised area and anything during the evening is painful.

Before upstream bonding:

After upstream bonding: (lets hope it stays decent)

Also, Seph - I'm running the Superhub in modem mode under a Server converted to router running ClearOS . Does the Superhub 2 help latency even in modem mode? Also, would the Superhub 2 use upstream bonding too?

Cheers in advance

Sephiroth · 30-05-2013, 09:46

Hi Jarrod

Just looking at your nascent bonding TBB, it looks like there is upstream congestion, although that can be in the server you've converted to be a router (though instinctively I'd regard that as unlikely). I'm afraid I know very little about that aspect of your setup.

Regarding the SH2 - it works no differently in modem mode from the SH1. There is no latency difference that I've discerned in modem mode between the two. In route rmode, I have noticed a big difference and my latency (see what I've posted somewhere in this thread) is nearly the same as in modem mode. Very low.

The SH1 & SH2 work identically as regards channel bonding.

If you have a freestanding router, you could attach it for a couple of hours and see if your latency changes on TBB - but I doubt that it will. The question to put to VM on the VM forum is whether or not the bonded upstream has been accompanied by additional upstream capacity or is there work still outstanding.

jarrodstrachan · 30-05-2013, 09:53

Cheers for the response buddy, will be sure to ask on the forums whether extra capacity has been added, but I doubt it as the "fix date" for my overutiliastion is not until the 7th of August

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I envy your graph. so. so. much.

EDIT:

Upstream bonding seems to have made my pings worse, by quite a bit

Sephiroth · 30-05-2013, 11:09

Are your modem stats in spec? If they've changed something on your network there can be a period of instability as I noticed when my downastreams changed from 4 to 6 (now 8) and I went onto a different CMTS.

Though when I went to bonded upstream, the TBBs instantly changed to the sort of graph I've posted. Note that I'm currently in router mode as part of the SH2 trial - it's quite a surprise to me as VM haven't explained why it's like that. Nobody else in router mode on the SH2 trial has posted a graph like main, AFAIK.

jarrodstrachan · 30-05-2013, 11:25

Upstream stats :

Downstream stats:

They look good to me, seems that they've just spread overutilisation from one channel onto two

Sephiroth · 30-05-2013, 11:38

Yes - they're absolutely nominal. I think your analysis is correct. The two channels would have been allocated prior to bonding on a load balanced basis. If they are saturated, they'll remain saturated when everyone in your node is sharing the same pair of channels.

Blairhoyle · 30-05-2013, 18:53

Simm · 30-05-2013, 19:57

Wow Blair..............something get fixed????

I dream of that connection

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Blairhoyle · 30-05-2013, 20:04

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Originally Posted by Simm

Wow Blair..............something get fixed????

I dream of that connection

yeah mate I was in bed on my phone trying to search something then my phone stated that there was no internet connection.

came down stairs and noticed that my hub wasn't working, it was late and I couldn't be bothered checking what was up, when I got back from work I checked TBB and that is what I got.

Odd because I had something similar a few weeks back until the status quo appeared over the last few weeks.

I got an email saying that I had been upgraded also.