[Noisebridge-discuss] Packet loss at Noisebridge

[Jonathan Lassoff]

There has been a fair bit of upstream earlier, but nothing too crazy. It's
hard to tell where we congest without visibility into Monkeybrains'
hardware.

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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:26 PM, William Sargent <will.sargent at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> I'm getting some really odd lag from the Noisebridge network:
>>
>> [15:19:42] wsargent:~ $ ping google.com
>> PING google.com (74.125.224.40): 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=388.703 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=516.701 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=895.076 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=781.850 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=501.712 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=196.522 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=774.152 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=455.544 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=121.375 ms
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.40: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=97.818 ms
>>
>> Is this something new, or this happens all the time when someone is
downloading porn / torrents over the wifi?
>
> It depends.
>
> Since we switched over to the Vyatta box, we're no longer doing any
> prioritization or controlled queueing of traffic. So, it could be that
> someone is pushing heavy upstream and is causing collateral damage to
> other TCP ACKs, for example.
>
> It could also be that the WiFi is too congested. Try out the
> "noisebridge-a" network if you have a suitable adapter, or try
> plugging into a wired port.
>
> Cheers,
> jof
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