Re: Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

[email protected] Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:11:42 +1200
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OpenWRT/LEDE binary, Just shell on.. opkg update, -i what you need..., netstat -antop | grep EST this will surprise you, dest will surprise you more then I  put in the green wheely.  On the WAN link you may see lots of src privates indicating typical dinky rtr/fw nat not coping
similarly actual/true $paid for bandwidth at src (home) = rubbish + legit flows. rubbish flows (in/out) of breaks packet concurrency increasing delays and maxin out (netflix/gaming stream) PDVs on clients - recommend filter|block upstream of router will lead to a huge improvement in media quality
and performance of your home router.
good luck - regards brian
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Subject: Re: [nznog] Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

From: "Peter Lambrechtsen" <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, September 27, 2018 4:37 pm

To: brian.cole-r/[email protected]

Cc: "NZNOG" <[email protected]>

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> There is a Geekzone thread that I kicked off when I attended the Commerce

> Commission presentation about Samknows and got to meet Sam.

>

> https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=49&topicid=237852

>

> I've done a bit of analysis on the traffic but haven't dug too deep yet as

> I didn't want to bust open the box and try and reverse engineer their

> OpenWRT build.

>

> Happy to put anyone in touch with the guys I have dealt with directly from

> the Comcom and Samknows too.

>

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:59 PM Brian Cole <brian.cole-r/[email protected]>

> wrote:

>

>> Acknowledged with thanks,

>>

>> Brian

>>

>> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 12:58 PM, Nathan Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

>>

>>> Hi Brian,

>>>

>>> You should call their support if you think there&rsquo;s something going on

>>> that&rsquo;s impacting your connection.

>>>

>>> They will detect if your connection is in use and doing more than (I

>>> think) 64kbit/s in the last 30s or something, and won&rsquo;t run the tests.

>>>

>>> They have some clever stuff to detect if your wifi is in use, without

>>> being connected to your network and without being your AP. Perhaps that&rsquo;s

>>> playing up?

>>>

>>> Pretty sure it&rsquo;s publicly documented, check out the links in that

>>> original post and if not we can dig up some other stuff I&rsquo;m sure.

>>>

>>> On 27/09/2018, at 11:38 AM, Brian Cole <brian.cole-r/[email protected]> wrote:

>>>

>>> Hi all,

>>>

>>> Longtime listener; first time caller.

>>>

>>> I signed up to SamKnows (partly out of curiosity and partly so I can have

>>> hard data about my connection that I pay for) at home.

>>>

>>> Over the last week my connection has gone from slightly adequate with the

>>> occasional drop out to a slow connection with regular drop outs.

>>>

>>> Netflix and YouTube are stuttering, video games drop connection, and

>>> websites hang at random times.

>>>

>>> I can't help but think that the email shared by Dylan sheds some light on

>>> why that maybe.

>>>

>>> This programme won't be terribly successful if everyone gets sick of

>>> having a terrible connection during peak hours and shuts the white box

>>> down.

>>>

>>> Pretty frustrating.

>>>

>>> Brian

>>>

>>>

>>>

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