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I've been using ICUK for a few months now, and having this issue more or less since i started, but wanted to see if the problem might be temporary, or if i could tie it down to something other than the ISP before going any further with it. Now i'm looking to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problems, or if anyone might be able to suss this one out.
I've been having an on and off problem with anything latency sensitive, specifically in the evenings usually from 8pm to 11pm+ UK time. Most obviously with voice comms but also online gaming in multiple games. It's hard to pin down the problem as my up/down transfer rate during this time is fine, and if i ping the servers i'm using with these applications via a command prompt i don't see any apparent problem. However i've tried this from 2 different PCs, and i've tried switching over to a 3G dongle connection during the time this is happening, and it certainly appears to be ISP related in some way.
As a specific example, i use a program called Mumble which is a standard voice chat app ala Ventrilo, and connect to a server based in germany. 90% of the time this is flawless and everything is crystal clear, however on odd days, sometimes several days in a row between 8-11/12pm this application will become basically unusable. During this period anything anybody else says on mumble will be broken up, with indicators for incoming sound flicking on and off rapidly. During this time anyone i speak to can hear me perfectly, as if the issue is purely downstream.
In a variety of games the same problem seems to occur with the same timing, and for a period of a few hours if i connect to a game and start doing anything that might require a significant amount of data transfer, i stop responding and then get disconnected from the server after a few seconds. During the evenings when this is happening, i can happily download through http / stream youtube videos etc just fine, and pinging the Mumble server i'm using reports a normal ping, but these applications (which will be connecting through odd ports) are unusuable. During this time if i switch to connecting through a 3G modem instead of ICUK, it works fine, go back to ICUK and i get the problem again.
I've tried fiddling with settings specifc to the network adapter to spot anything at my end that the 3G modem doesn't rule out, have toggled options for QoS / Flow control etc. and nothing appears to have any impact. I'm hooked up to a Netgear DGN2000, have checked everything i can related to the router, and this problem only started shortly after moving to ICUK. I'm now fairly confident that although strange, it has to be ISP related, but i don't have any real knowledge of the ISP side of things to pin down the cause. I'm left to speculate that it may be something along the lines of traffic shaping, priority or throttling on certain ports, something QoS'y.
I had ignored it for a while as for the last couple of weeks it hadn't impacted me at all, but tonight starting around 8pm again i'm back to the same issue. I've tested this with multiple games and with different servers for the voice comms i'm using, which run on different ports; i don't have the ports or server addresses of all of them to hand, but for a really mainstream example: - tonight it booted me out of World of Warcraft. I've just flicked back and forth from the 3G modem again to confirm it's only happening on ICUK, and nobody else i was playing with was affected. I'm using the BT package as LLU isnt available where i am, any input on the cause would be welcome.
I've been having an on and off problem with anything latency sensitive, specifically in the evenings usually from 8pm to 11pm+ UK time. Most obviously with voice comms but also online gaming in multiple games. It's hard to pin down the problem as my up/down transfer rate during this time is fine, and if i ping the servers i'm using with these applications via a command prompt i don't see any apparent problem. However i've tried this from 2 different PCs, and i've tried switching over to a 3G dongle connection during the time this is happening, and it certainly appears to be ISP related in some way.
As a specific example, i use a program called Mumble which is a standard voice chat app ala Ventrilo, and connect to a server based in germany. 90% of the time this is flawless and everything is crystal clear, however on odd days, sometimes several days in a row between 8-11/12pm this application will become basically unusable. During this period anything anybody else says on mumble will be broken up, with indicators for incoming sound flicking on and off rapidly. During this time anyone i speak to can hear me perfectly, as if the issue is purely downstream.
In a variety of games the same problem seems to occur with the same timing, and for a period of a few hours if i connect to a game and start doing anything that might require a significant amount of data transfer, i stop responding and then get disconnected from the server after a few seconds. During the evenings when this is happening, i can happily download through http / stream youtube videos etc just fine, and pinging the Mumble server i'm using reports a normal ping, but these applications (which will be connecting through odd ports) are unusuable. During this time if i switch to connecting through a 3G modem instead of ICUK, it works fine, go back to ICUK and i get the problem again.
I've tried fiddling with settings specifc to the network adapter to spot anything at my end that the 3G modem doesn't rule out, have toggled options for QoS / Flow control etc. and nothing appears to have any impact. I'm hooked up to a Netgear DGN2000, have checked everything i can related to the router, and this problem only started shortly after moving to ICUK. I'm now fairly confident that although strange, it has to be ISP related, but i don't have any real knowledge of the ISP side of things to pin down the cause. I'm left to speculate that it may be something along the lines of traffic shaping, priority or throttling on certain ports, something QoS'y.
I had ignored it for a while as for the last couple of weeks it hadn't impacted me at all, but tonight starting around 8pm again i'm back to the same issue. I've tested this with multiple games and with different servers for the voice comms i'm using, which run on different ports; i don't have the ports or server addresses of all of them to hand, but for a really mainstream example: - tonight it booted me out of World of Warcraft. I've just flicked back and forth from the 3G modem again to confirm it's only happening on ICUK, and nobody else i was playing with was affected. I'm using the BT package as LLU isnt available where i am, any input on the cause would be welcome.
