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Title: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Tilt on February 19, 2010, 11:57:40 AM

(http://www.btinternet.com/~fulltilt/AH/loss.jpg)

Just to show my ISP the in game effect

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Heater on February 20, 2010, 09:18:16 AM

Tilt,

The best is to use something like ping plotter or use tracert and pathping from the OS... this will give you and the ISP a better idea of what is going on...


Cheers

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Tilt on February 20, 2010, 04:36:20 PM

Quote from: Heater on February 20, 2010, 09:18:16 AM

Tilt,

The best is to use something like ping plotter or use tracert and pathping from the OS... this will give you and the ISP a better idea of what is going on...

Cheers

Yeah Heater  btinturdnet has loads of my ping plots  I was just trying to scream something new at them...............

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Swoop on February 20, 2010, 05:12:41 PM

Yeah see there's your problem, dealing with BT.

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: chewiex on February 21, 2010, 07:47:24 AM

I thought the "variance in delay" was a result of the CPU load and how it processes the inbound info from the servers. Could have sworn I read that somewhere in the "help and support" section.  :huh

Mine ( variance in delay graph) bounces around like a rubber ball for a minute or so after I first log on and then flattens out with the very occasional spike here and there.  :joystick:

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Skuzzy on February 21, 2010, 08:04:11 AM

Spikes in Variance are normally an indicator something is taking the CPU away from running the game.  Th8is could be anything from a background process to network requests (extended, DoS...) or anything else that would require the CPU to respond.

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Tilt on February 21, 2010, 09:16:55 AM

Quote from: Skuzzy on February 21, 2010, 08:04:11 AM

Spikes in Variance are normally an indicator something is taking the CPU away from running the game.  Th8is could be anything from a background process to network requests (extended, DoS...) or anything else that would require the CPU to respond.

Thks Skuzzy...and the notches in the host queue time ? is zero host queue time = no host queue time?

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Skuzzy on February 22, 2010, 06:16:34 AM

The host queue bouncing between 0 and 10ms is normal.  That is the clock resolution for the server.

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Estes on February 22, 2010, 10:25:13 AM

Eeek! If it is packet loss or internet related, good luck dealing with your ISP about it. Everytime i've had to deal with my ISP about that kinda stuff I can never talk to anyone who isnt just reading from a script. And if I get lucky and get someone who remotely knows what they are talking about, I get the typical "its not on our side, its your fault" response.

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Tilt on February 22, 2010, 10:51:58 AM

The best I usually get is some discussion re interleaving................

If it was previously on the advise to have it switched off....if it was previously off they advise to have it switched on  :headscratch:

Thanks for the answers Skuzzy.

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: airbull on February 23, 2010, 06:24:09 AM

On my sons line he had lots of trouble with BT with packet loss. They took line interleaving off & there was a vast improvement.  :aok

Title: Re: Could packet loss look like this?
Post by: Wizer on February 23, 2010, 07:26:25 AM

Quote from: Estes on February 22, 2010, 10:25:13 AM

Eeek! If it is packet loss or internet related, good luck dealing with your ISP about it. Everytime i've had to deal with my ISP about that kinda stuff I can never talk to anyone who isnt just reading from a script. And if I get lucky and get someone who remotely knows what they are talking about, I get the typical "its not on our side, its your fault" response.

Sounds as though you have been dealing with AT&T. :mad: