Hi there, On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Let me get this straight. If BT is throttling my connection, that means that > they are just randomly but consistently dropping packets instead of letting > them > through? I don't know exactly what they're doing, I just see the effects of whatever it is as a marked slowdown in torrent download speeds. If I had to guess I'd say that what they do probably isn't random, because the problem they face isn't random. > I assume that normal operation of ICMP would mean that I don't notice this, > except when ICMP is impaired, this will lead to issues like I'm seeing with > the > online broker app? I'm sure that you need to look at the actual application traffic to know what's causing problems with your application. Utilities like ping aren't much more than a quick diagnostic tool. > ... > Can I set up probes in smokeping to monitor this? You can use probes which will send packets using the ports used by your application. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
