Hi,
I have recently switched to VM, been looking at Think Broardband Quality Monitor, please can someone explain the following.
Why does using the asus dynamic name to find my connection vs using the current IP give different results? I would have thought once the monitor finds the IP it would then test the current IP?
I have had these not so good looking results for some time with previous FTTC provider, is it just due to the number of devices on my network causing traffic or is their something I can do to improve. (My mums Sky connection just has a green bar sitting at 10ms)
Regards,
Steve.
@iamSteve wrote:
Monitoring hub using 'modem mode' IP address
Monitoring hub using Asus DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) - guess the extra delay is caused by resolving the IP address from the name each time?
Ok are you sure both BQM WAN IP are the same as they should be check your DDNS with NSlookup and check my IP
What Is My IP Address - See Your Public Address - IPv4 & IPv6
@legacy1 wrote:Well you are wrong and I will leave this for someone else brain.😏
I was wrong, sorry you were offended so easily. Many times when I checked the 3 graphs they were similar in appearance and I was told VM assign IP to the MAC address so I assumed I had the Hub MAC and the router MAC both being monitored, wrongly 'confirmed' by similar looking graphs. When I checked back this morning to August when I factory reset the Hub and tested, for several days after the 'router mode' BQM was red, until the IP was assigned to someone else. Just to prove this to myself this morning I powered off the Hub 3, and only 2 of the BQM's lost connection (My IP and my DDNS Asus name).
The 3rd one (I was assuming was still my 'router' IP remained unaffected) was clearly not mine any more!
The true comparison between my system how its normally set up (modem) and just the Hub 3 (router) is shown in post 10 of this thread.
To avoid future confusion I will now remove the 3rd BQM this is not my IP any more.
So now I just have to solve the original mystery regarding why my graphs look so bad.
I have managed to solve the mystery of the results I was getting from the BQM!
Here are the last 24 hours with an explanation below....
As you may be aware if you have read this thread the top BQM is using my Asus DDNS name to resolve my IP address and the bottom BQM is using the IP address directly. I was told the results should be the same, however they were way off, but now much closer.
So what caused the delay? DMZ!
I turned off respond to ping from WAN, but this made no difference to the BQM and I could still ping my IP from 'outside' my network, thought it was a Asus firmware issue but then realised sometime ago I allowed one of my firesticks to connect via Virtual DMZ, bypassing all the routers systems and protection. This is what the BQM's show (IP address has remained the same for many weeks):-
A. Turned off the DMZ function (and rebooted router, without a reboot their was no change), strangely this cured the Asus DDNS and reported a better response, however as you can see for some really strange reason the direct IP BQM did not improve.
B. Rebooted both the router AND Hub 3, this time a more normal BQM graph was displayed. The mystery was solved.
C. Just to prove things I re enabled the router DMZ function and pointed it once again to the firestick.
D. This time when I turned off DMZ and only re booted the router, both (as expected) returned to normal.
E. Just to test further I removed all devices form my network to see if the graph would look different.
F. Replaced cables and wifi to reconnect everything as it made hardly any difference with current 62 device load.
Hope this helps someone with similar results, try turning off DMZ!
Steve.
