background: I am having a terrible time with my connection and plus-net, tonight its been OFF and almost unusable for several hours, been having issues since day one which has been getting worse, no help on their forums from any staff, and their online fault tester says its found a fault and the report is 'left open' for a response until Friday? now I cant even find the info that said it in my portal...seems to have disappeared after submitting more info asking what happens now?
I notice that when i think its working again the speed of web pages and youtube vids are intermittently slow, i think there maybe latency spikes/issues too, I did a ping and got 25% packet loss.
I used to use JD Auto Speedtester back in the day but the dev has since given up on it and the servers it use (that work) can not saturate more than 30Mbps (all the ThhinkBroadband links he used and many others dont work) ...I dunno any i could use? otherwise i could get it working. It was great and very precise, I used to set it to test every 2 hours and would have nice graphs of up/down/ping across weeks - i need something like that program so I can do more thorough tests, might have to whip out the HRping script - im not convinced on ThinkBroadbands Quality Monitor as it works by pinging your router every second, if your router is very busy it may be slow to respond or not reposnd at all, i think that tester/monitor is only good to test the line while its not in use, as you use your connection it shows on the BBQM and a lot of people start thinking they have problems when they dont....thats my opinion anyway
anyone know of anything I can use>?
thanks