VenTooth
5 days agoSettling in
Miserable Packet Loss
I've been having persistent packet loss ever since getting on Virgin Media, thankfully I still have my old connection so I can show a comparison:
Here is the old connection from Home Telecom:
And, in contrast, this is Virgin Media:
In practice this manifests as annoying, intermittent drop outs out of calls or any sort of online games. The BQM chart only shows the "average" over time, but in practice if an external server is pinging my router it looks like:
Where you can see large chunks of time with consistent drop out, leading to averages that look like:
This varies over the day, but it never fully goes away. I am at a loss at what I can do about this.