How to prioritize traffic on a single interface over others?
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Interesting. Does that mean that the PingPlotter results are a better indicator of the status of my gateway? Perhaps I should be pinging a Google address instead from the gateway?
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Yes they probably are and, yes, settings the gateway monitoring target to something external will give you a better record of actual connectivity.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Any idea why the ping times to the ISP gateway are higher than what you would expect? (By the way, what would be more typical ping times for that?)
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It's very variable, depends entirely who your ISP is and how they are connected. 10ms is high for most cable/fibre/vdsl connections but not for, say, older adsl and would be low for a wireless provider.
Steve
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Hmm. My ISP is cable. Makes me wonder if there is something there that could be a clue to the packet loss I am experiencing? At any rate, I have changed the gateway monitor address to an OPEN DNS address 208.67.222.222. And have done the same with PingPlotter to see how they will compare.
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There are a lot of variables, it's not necessarily a sign that there's an issue.
A better thing to look for is a significant change the ping time that has no good explanation.Steve
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OK, so now I am using an OpenDNS address for the gateway monitor IP and for PingPlotter (from my computer). The gateway monitor continues to show intermittent packet loss (like my pictures earlier in the thread), but there is not corresponding packet loss being shown in PingPlotter at the same time, even though they are going to the same IP address. Does that make any sense? Not sure which graph to believe.
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With the shaping still in place or have you removed that?
If might be in a different queue if it's still there.
Steve
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Shaping not active - I removed it yesterday.
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I just checked the graphs again, and now seeing packet loss on both graphs that matches exactly as expected.
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Yes, unless you are saturating the connection you should not be seeing packet loss.
Steve
