Help please

[Mr fncypants]

What does that do

[iAmMoDBoX]

What does that do

 

https://www.dslreports.com/faq/13843

[Mr fncypants]

smoke cali

[Mr fncypants]

smoke michiagan

[Mr fncypants]

smoke kansas

[iAmMoDBoX]

Let it go for at least a day to see what it shows at all times of the day... I typically go with Michigan as it's the most accurate and stable. Kansas is actually Virginia, but it goes a little wild at times.

 

Overall I'd say that's a typical cable connection

[abc123]

i always do 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, since dns servers respond much more reliably 

[iAmMoDBoX]

i always do 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, since dns servers respond much more reliably 

 

Eh.. I've had pretty bad luck with google dns dropping alot of packets on their end

[Mr fncypants]

Why can't I get smooth buffer bloat tests? The idle and down load is usually high? How can I fix that

[Mr fncypants]

I have had the same drama with google too dropping packets. Why is that? Which dns server should I use? Should I run dns bench mark?

[Mr fncypants]

last night

[Zennon]

Its a good cable line I think, I have seen some atrocious plots in the past and yours fine for the type of broadband you have, is it affected by time of day? say peak time 7pm onwards.

 

I also see bad results sometimes to Google's DNS I feel for people using it in their consoles etc.

 

I use OpenDNS you can use DNS Bench to find one that suits you.

[Mr fncypants]

Its a good cable line I think, I have seen some atrocious plots in the past and yours fine for the type of broadband you have, is it affected by time of day? say peak time 7pm onwards.

 

I also see bad results sometimes to Google's DNS I feel for people using it in their consoles etc.

 

I use OpenDNS you can use DNS Bench to find one that suits you.

how is it used

[Zennon]

how is it used

All the info on use is on the website https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

[iAmMoDBoX]

last night

 

Check your smokeping, it went crazy during the day today

[Mr fncypants]

I'm just getting home from work, worked a 16 hour shift restoring power very crazy day today because of Highwinds

[Netduma Fraser]

Keep us updated!

[Mr fncypants]

why is my router highlighted in pink. i wanted to try .5 seconds. this is what happened

[XSXS]

Too fast sampling time, i usually lose packets at almost every hop including my LAN when set to .5

[Mr fncypants]

Too fast sampling time, i usually lose packets at almost every hop including my LAN when set to .5

so nothing to worry about 

[iAmMoDBoX]

so nothing to worry about 

 

Yeah the lowest I've tested without problems is 1 second. That's what doing a ping command in command prompt does and it works fine so pingplotter should be okay too. Other say use 2.5, even their website says it.. But I find it to be too slow

[ColonicBoom]

why is my router highlighted in pink. i wanted to try .5 seconds. this is what happened

 

Too fast sampling time, i usually lose packets at almost every hop including my LAN when set to .5

 

Yeah the lowest I've tested without problems is 1 second. That's what doing a ping command in command prompt does and it works fine so pingplotter should be okay too. Other say use 2.5, even their website says it.. But I find it to be too slow

 

They seem to have removed the sub-1-second interval now, it's missing from my Mac version at least.

I can't remember if the 1 sec interval used to bug out too or if it was just sub-1 interval, either way it seems to be fine now.

I've only tested it briefly though.

[XSXS]

My ping to Google, i think your is better

[Mr fncypants]

smoke

[iAmMoDBoX]

smoke

 

I prefer Michigan... but for Virginia that looks normal.