Turbocpe
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Re: New tool - smokeping
Hopefully it's OK to reply here in regard to the new tool. I signed up my cable IP address and it's showing packet loss, which is not unusual for my connection.
However, I must be ignorant because I cannot really figure out how to read the graph itself.
Can someone explain it? I feel like an idiot because it doesn't really make sense to me.
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justin
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| each colored line segment is one pass. One pass is, as the graph says, 20 pings of 1k each. Your IP is checked roughly every 5 minutes (you can see the little purple line spans about a 5 minute period and represents exactly one test).
The grey smoke shows the distribution of the latency - the more variability among the latencies in the 20 pings, the more "smoke" appears above the avg result (the colored line). Hence smokeping.
The non green colors indicate packet loss of some kind (key below the graph). The red line indicates severe packet loss during that cycle.
When I do some decent downloading, my graphs show more smoke and a rise in the colored line segments indicating greater average latency, but no loss. Your graph is indicating a lot of loss. |
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Turbocpe
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Thanks. As the new tool suggested, it appears to be picking up the packet loss a lot better than the regular line monitors have. I've had this intermittent packet loss issue on my cable connection for quite some time. The line monitors here didn't really seem to pick it up, though pathping and ping utility, as shown below, clearly do, and so does this new tool.
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