Is this normal for internet traffic?

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Would someone who understands this stuff please check the internet traffic report at::

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/cgi-bin/tr_chartpage.pl?NorthAmerica

and report back.

09:38 PST 1/6/200

(Sorry, link impared)

-- PHO (owennos@bigfoot.com), January 06, 2000

Answers

It looks better for me in Canada than it did yesterday. I just wish it was acting as fast as they say it should. Everything is crawling along still. It has been like this for days.

-- Kath (wingy@sprint.ca), January 06, 2000.

No, it's not normal. Both response time and packet loss have significantly degraded recently...




-- _ (_@_._), January 06, 2000.


I must have caught it during a coffee break.

Looks O K now @ 09:51 1/6/2000

(also typing impared)

-- PHO (owennos@bigfoot.com), January 06, 2000.


Absolutely no problems at work(earthlink) or at home(ATT) pre-or post rollover(new york/new jersey). Could it be all those people trying to get internet access for the first time after getting their computers for christmas?? Local ISP's need to open more ports. This is certainly no related to any bugs.

-- futurechock (gray@matter.com), January 06, 2000.

I just checked mine again. The current Index is 11. Response Time 2665. Pocket Loss 25%. Most people are not online when I normally get on in the morning. It is usually 4-am. It is as slow then as it is now.

-- Kath (wingy@sprint.ca), January 06, 2000.


Let me preface this with, "I am not an network engineer." I do work on the net most of the time and have for a number of years. You would do better to take someone more knowledgable's opinion.

That said, I looked at the 7 day graphs vice the 24 hour graphs. The traffic index (volume of traffic) graph looks normal accounting for the fact that the holidays were a time when many had access to the net late at night and did not have to get up early the next morning. The current (last few days) traffic patterns seem to indicate normal daily load changes one would expect from a society that works mostly during the day.

Looking at response time on the other hand I see something I don't understand. It seems (SEEMS) to me that the network would show better response times when it was more lightly loaded than when it was more heavily loaded. The graph indicates response times are inversly proportional to traffic loading for the past few days and this does not make sense to me but see above.

The packette loss is also odd for the same reasoning as the the response time but not to the same degree and not quite so consistently so.

The system has the appearance of operating correctly except for these counter-intuitive indications I point out but see above.

Any experts?

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 06, 2000.


From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

It seems (SEEMS) to me that the network would show better response times when it was more lightly loaded than when it was more heavily loaded. The graph indicates response times are inversly proportional to traffic loading for the past few days and this does not make sense to me but see above.

Somebody once explained to me that e-mail travels faster during heavy times because it's sent out in batches, and it's quicker to pull together a batch during peak use times. I'm not sure if this is related to your question about packets but it seems as though it could well be.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), January 07, 2000.


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