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Uploads causing problems with the internet connection

  • 19-11-2014 12:32pm
    #1
    LFCFan
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,817 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Anytime I do any uploading there is a lot of timeouts on my internet connection. e.g. when I start pinging when there are no uploads everything is fine with ping times averaging 15ms and 1% packet loss but as soon as I start uploading, e.g. Google Drive uploads, average ping times increase to around 40ms and 40-50% packet loss. I am on e-Fibre. Does anyone else have this issue? I'm pretty sure my connection hasn't been this flaky up till recently.


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    What's your sync speed? If you are on say 30/10 then a cloud service could consume all of your upload, this would congest your own link and cause high latency. Rate limiting will to 50-80% of upload speed will prevent this.

    Also bear in mind torrent seeding creates a lot of tcp control traffic that can make things worse again.


  • #3
    LFCFan
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,817 Mod ✭✭✭✭LFCFan


    My sync speed is 40/10. Even if I just run a speedtest.net test while a ping is running, as soon as the upload speed test starts the timeouts start. Seems very unstable. Is it possible to configure the Eircom router to implement rate limiting?


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    The idea of the speed test is it runs half a dozen threads to saturate your connection and read tthe highest posible value. This will cause icmp drops as real traffic is prioritized over icmp. Its fine.

    Dropbox/gDrive etc have a setting to rate limit. Put 500k in there and away you go.


  • #5
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    LFCFan wrote: »
    Anytime I do any uploading there is a lot of timeouts on my internet connection. e.g. when I start pinging when there are no uploads everything is fine with ping times averaging 15ms and 1% packet loss but as soon as I start uploading, e.g. Google Drive uploads, average ping times increase to around 40ms and 40-50% packet loss. I am on e-Fibre. Does anyone else have this issue? I'm pretty sure my connection hasn't been this flaky up till recently.

    I had that exact same problem earlier this year. I'm on a FWA connection and it turned out the CPE gear in my antennae was flaky - had been exposed to the elements for 5 years or so :eek:.

    Replacing that sorted it out.

    Don't know what gear eFibre uses, but sounds like an Eircon support call to me.


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