50M : Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS)

[pabscars]

Originally Posted by rwbarrett

I'm very jealous of most of the graphs in this thread. Virgin tell me their numbers say theres no problem with my connection.

decide for yourself after looking at my thinkbroadband chart below -

Classic high utilisation, have you rang up when your connection is bad and asked them to check your downstream/upstream utilisation.

Also what speed are you supposed to be on and which modem are you using

[rwbarrett]

Yes - Im on 30MB and have the superhub - before I was on 20 MB with no problems. Take a look on the community.virginmedia forum and you'll see plenty of people on the same UBR as me complaining but virgin say its below the level needed for them to take action despite me yesterday getting a speedtest result of 0.18 MB !!

[Neo-Tech]

Mine for today:



My old 10Mb one, what the hell has happened?!



My friend's TBB graph stopped working last night, as his IP changed and turns out he's been moved to a different 'cpc', whatever that is. The one above is on a completely different UBR to him and it's just got massive spikes like that all of a sudden.

Intriguing. The UBRs above are heck6-2-0, and the one my friend's connected to is heck4-0-0, and his new graph/UBR is worse.

Reseg, perhaps?

[pip08456]

No. Don't think so.

Put simply there are 4 downstream channels available, all 4 are used for 50&100Mb and one of them for the lower tiers.

The lower tiers eg 30mb can lock onto any of the 4 channels. The IP won't change if the modem is switched on neither will the "channel" connected to. If there is work on the UBR a restart may be forced on the modem by VM to "realign" it.

[Neo-Tech]

Should have mentioned that it's a DOCSIS 1 UBR and his modem did not reboot.

[Chrysalis]

mine the last 24 hours has looked rough.

what I have defenitly observed is when I am using moderate traffic the graph noticebly spikes, on the superhub it wouldnt show. That doesnt concern me but what is bothering me is the much higher peak time spikes, so far since I have put the modem in place I havent used my connection at peak as I have not been able to for various reasons. So dont know if it actually translates to performance issues or is just how the modem handles peak time conditions on pings. Could even be the dir615 rather than the modem as its that doing the ping responses.

My own smokeping monitoring doesnt show the same spikes however.

[pabscars]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

mine the last 24 hours has looked rough.

what I have defenitly observed is when I am using moderate traffic the graph noticebly spikes, on the superhub it wouldnt show. That doesnt concern me but what is bothering me is the much higher peak time spikes, so far since I have put the modem in place I havent used my connection at peak as I have not been able to for various reasons. So dont know if it actually translates to performance issues or is just how the modem handles peak time conditions on pings. Could even be the dir615 rather than the modem as its that doing the ping responses.

My own smokeping monitoring doesnt show the same spikes however.

Mine was crap from just after 9 till past midnight gaming wise, could browse OK but playing Black Ops was proper laggy so I gave up after an hour.

My Sky phone line is currently in the process of being ported over and the kind BT Engineer this morning fitted me a new master socket as there was a fault on the old one.

Soon I will be able to sample Sky's broadband offering and will set up the TBB monitor to compare both services.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by pip08456

No. Don't think so.

Put simply there are 4 downstream channels available, all 4 are used for 50&100Mb and one of them for the lower tiers.

The lower tiers eg 30mb can lock onto any of the 4 channels. The IP won't change if the modem is switched on neither will the "channel" connected to. If there is work on the UBR a restart may be forced on the modem by VM to "realign" it.

30Mb is only available through a Pooper Hub, it uses channel bonding as well, only legacy 20Mb and 10Mb connections don't use channel bonding.

The channel connected to on the downstream can and does change with restarts, modems are allocated to channels by load, first they connect to the legacy VXR then are retuned to the primary channel of the overlay CMTS which then retunes them to the lowest utilised downstream in its group, so someone on ex-Telewest could easily bounce from 331MHz to 299MHz before finally ending up on 323MHz.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

30Mb is only available through a Pooper Hub, it uses channel bonding as well, only legacy 20Mb and 10Mb connections don't use channel bonding.

The channel connected to on the downstream can and does change with restarts, modems are allocated to channels by load, first they connect to the legacy VXR then are retuned to the primary channel of the overlay CMTS which then retunes them to the lowest utilised downstream in its group, so someone on ex-Telewest could easily bounce from 331MHz to 299MHz before finally ending up on 323MHz.

Thanks for clearing that up Igni, as usual you are far more eloqent than I .

[_wtf_]

This morning!!

[craigj2k12]

Originally Posted by _wtf_

This morning!!

_WTF_

[gap30]

my first ever post, upgraded to 50 meg virgin 3 weeks ago and its been a nightmare, they keep fobbing me off with high utilisation crap, this was last night i think (still getting used to this) anyway i upgraded to play games online and its been awful, apparently in Liverpool its just awful full stop

[craigj2k12]

Originally Posted by gap30

<a title="Broadband Ping" href="http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/abcf12e12f15a473881e553295a2b10c-16-04-2011.html"><img alt="My Broadband Ping - 50meg virgin" src="http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-large/abcf12e12f15a473881e553295a2b10c-16-04-2011.png" /></a>

my first ever post, upgraded to 50 meg virgin 3 weeks ago and its been a nightmare, they keep fobbing me off with high utilisation crap

looks okay to me (for a virgin line anyway)

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much better now!

[webrosc]

mines been like this for the past 4 days now

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sorry if i annoy the guys with bad graphs lol

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by webrosc

mines been like this for the past 4 days now



sorry if i annoy the guys with bad graphs lol

LOL.

It' good to see graphs like this so we know what's good/bad.

Question for the techies. Apart from enable ping from wan are any of the other settings for the router involved in the results graph, i.e. does the tbb monitor just hit your modem/router and nothing else should interfere with the results?