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plan.com (o2 via scancom) packet loss during weekdays

twenty4

Regular Member
I have an o2 scancom sim in a MC801A.

I'm close to a tower and I get pretty good speeds but only during the night and sometimes during the weekends.
I don't mind the throughput drop during the day but the packet loss is terrible.

here are some metrics:
(there are 4 pictures here, make sure to click the arrows)

my route goes through some rfc1918 IPs initially
(10.250.245.133) is the one that I'm monitoring then it goes through some IPs that reverse to bethere.co.uk (87.194.17.158) - and these never have any packet loss.
So that excludes radio/cell tower congestion.

Once the packets exit their network, massive packet loss shows up during business hours.

you can also see in that graph the throughput which goes upwards of 300mbps between 7pm-8am. Upload seems constant though so I assume that's a limitation on the radio (and they have sufficient backhaul).

I assume there's nothing I can do (changing APNs probably won't do much, I use the one recommended by scancom (data.plan.com).

my fping sends 10 icmp packets every minute and collects the data. I ping multiple endpoints (in the odd chance that I may use a different upstream carrier) and all of them report packet loss.

Anyone else noticed that? This has been going on for at least a year.

Unfortunately I don't have any EE/3 coverage. I have good Vodafone coverage but their backhaul is even worse (tested multiple times with a vodafone postpaid).
 
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