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#2906 - 09/01/16 11:06 PM What does this mean?
Octavius_Maximus Offline


Registered: 09/01/16
Posts: 1
[img]https://postimg.org/image/6de5bkull/[/img]

I have been trying to come to grips with the local internet after I moved here.

It is an ADSL2+ line internet and we are pretty far from the local node (a couple of km) but I feel that that isn't enough to register pings of up to 1000m/s(!!!)

Australia has notoriously bad internet, but where I lived was pretty much equidistant from the same node and I had pretty awesome internet there.

So, in short, what does this mean?!

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#2907 - 09/02/16 07:36 PM Re: What does this mean? [Re: Octavius_Maximus]
Phillip Offline
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Registered: 12/30/15
Posts: 49
Loc: Boise, Idaho
Greetings Octavius_Maximus,

After taking a look at this scary screenshot (yikes!), it *looks* an awful lot like bandwidth saturation.

There are a few possible solutions to this problem:

* Use less bandwidth.
* Buy more bandwidth.
* Get a device between you and your ISP that limits overuse by big consumers (throttling, but the good kind).
* Put up with it.

If possible, it's nice to correlate the activity on your network with these results so you can act to minimize the affect (maybe you can download that ISO late at night when no one is watching a movie).

Bandwidth saturation can come from two directions - overuse, or under supply. If this happens regularly and you can't figure out why, you might want to get with your provider to have them help you troubleshoot.

Here is more information on bandwidth saturation, and ways you might be able to rectify this:

http://www.pingplotter.com/manual/scenariosaturatedpipe.html

Hopefully this helps out! If you should find yourself with any other questions, or needing any other assistance - please don't hesitate to email us at support@pingplotter.com. 

Cheers! 

-Phillip

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