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Mercedes Mathena
I recently got the XR500 and i've been playing around with the settings but still couldn't get an A+ on DSLReports, then I saw threads on here that said I should use pingplotter to test. After following the walk through on here on how to perform the test, I found i was still getting notable spikes, and this is with my internet running virtually idle. I have 380/20 speeds and have my QoS set to always on 70/70. Anyone have any ideas, could this be a problem with my ISP, or am i missing something? Appreciate any help.
I would say it is your connection/isp, I have just checked and you are on Virginmedia. Sorry to tell you that they are the worse isp for gaming and ping spikes. make sure your superhub is in modem only mode (which it should be anyway if connecting another router) and connect your pc directly into the back of your vm hub into the 1 active lan port and re-run the pingplotter test......this will prove that your pingplotter result is identical to the 1 you have just submitted. I ditched VM 3 years ago as a stable ping and no spiking is better for me than fast speeds. I get 78down and 19up and I am glad I left VM it was worth the speed sacrifice.
and now wine config won't load and pingplotter crashes on launch. IF i could get ping plotter working that would be even better because so i haven't found alternative that can do what pingplotter does, with visuals and able to export the data to text files.
all the alternatives frankly kind of suck ass, i'm amazed there isn't a much similar alternative. most of our guys know how to use pingplotter. i've tried installing other like smokeping but, couldn't figure out how to launch them since there were not shortcuts made but, at the end of the day it looks like i need pingplotter.
MTR does not display the info the way we need and as far as i know it doesn't export logs and it NEEDS to export logs. we need to monitor entire days and weeks worth of pings with pingplotter does nicely and even scales the graph out and highlight trouble spots.
After using pingplotter some more, I'm getting about 50% packet loss on the router itself. Every half second, there is complete packet loss and then no packet loss. The latency issues connecting to that earlier server were mitigated slightly, but I'm still having latency issues. To resolve this, I am going to go ahead and factory reset the router, as well as update the firmware over ethernet. Then from there, I'm going to start setting up everything manually.
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