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Computers & Hardware => Networking => Topic started by: Jon21 on January 01, 2021, 03:32:05 PM

Title: Pfsense - latency spikes
Post by: Jon21 on January 01, 2021, 03:32:05 PM
I seem to recently be getting latency spikes showing on my BQM.

(https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/thumb/70f5e77102eac42d6b34832b79089a3ca6c06679-01-01-2021.png) (https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/70f5e77102eac42d6b34832b79089a3ca6c06679-01-01-2021)

These don't seem to be coinciding with any download or upload traffic (included a graph of WAN traffic). I've disabled gateway monitoring in Pfsense as I believe it can sometimes cause issues? Any other suggestions for troubleshooting? I could reinstall or even possibly install OPNsense.
Title: Re: Pfsense - latency spikes
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on January 01, 2021, 11:28:11 PM
Not seeing that here and I keep gateway monitoring on.
(https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/thumb/7a6fa4be9faf7988e6bfb6b1892ed2c784ccf1ed-01-01-2021.png) (https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/7a6fa4be9faf7988e6bfb6b1892ed2c784ccf1ed-01-01-2021)
(https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/thumb/bdc5d8ee6d2a7f7fcc0f8f6273e6934fd08e7cfa-01-01-2021.png) (https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/bdc5d8ee6d2a7f7fcc0f8f6273e6934fd08e7cfa-01-01-2021)

However I wouldn't worry about it, the odd latency on the TBB graph does not necessarily mean its happening to REAL traffic.