Topic: Excessively long ping times

[Stefano]

hi all..

my 2c: if the problem exists ONLY when you send email and/or upload files, it's a problem of upload bandwidth saturation.. which is evil on adsl connections

try to shape your outgoing traffic

Ciao
Stefano

 

[mercyh]

OK

I was going by memory on the IP and hadn't really taken good notice, it was stuck in my head as 12.x.x.x and that block is listed as AT&T USA. I thought it was possible that something was doing a redirect on your network and running all your traffic through a router that was not related to your ISP.

[raem]

edb

... I spoke with my cable ISP yesterday and confirmed that I only have 60K upload capacity...

That pretty much answers it then.
Barely enough for one user !

[edb]

Just want to thank everyone that has replied to this thread.
This is a great community where we can bounce stuff off of each other and I really appreciate it. 

Upload bandwidth appears to be the root of the issue for those that read this thread from the bottom up.

edb

[raem]

edb

Even with only 60K outgoing, traffic shaping/bandwidth usage control/Concurrency settings would still be effective ways to manage that limitation, if you had to or wanted to.

[imcintyre]

I saw that people include a number of pictures or graphs in this thread, but I was unable to do so.

Any hints?

[mercyh]

Procedure to insert an image into a forum post.




Place the image on a server that is accessible from the www.
 
From the create post window (See above pic) click on the insert image icon (circled).

Type the URL to the image between the two image placeholders created.

The above example creates the post below.

Of course if you delete the image file on the server you will have a broken post

[mercyh]

[imcintyre]

thx

[edb]

edb

Even with only 60K outgoing, traffic shaping/bandwidth usage control/Concurrency settings would still be effective ways to manage that limitation, if you had to or wanted to.

Yes, thanks Ray

I will try the Concurrency setting but do you recall the default setting is so that I can set it back to normal when I get my new bandwidth in place. I will try your suggested setting of 5 and work from there and see what happens and as far as traffic shaping goes I'm still looking into that as well.
I'm reading about what Sonicwall has to offer in that area. They do have extensive bandwidth control as well so I'll start working on that as well.
Here is the link to the Sonicwall documentation for anyone who may be interested http://www.sonicwall.com/downloads/configuring_qos_and_bwm.pdf

edb

[edb]

I saw that people include a number of pictures or graphs in this thread, but I was unable to do so.

Any hints?

Just an FYI but you can get a free account from photobucket for such purposes if you want to post pictures but not have them lead to your own site. That is what I used to post mine in this thread. It takes two minutes to signup and get started. Give it a try 
http://photobucket.com/

[edb]

Ok, I found the Concurrecy default settings

How to limit or increase the concurrent outbound SMTP connections

Check the default setting
(ConcurrencyRemote - max number of remote deliveries to attempt)

Code: [Select]

cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote
20
Note there is also a setting for ConcurrencyLocal
(ConcurrencyLocal - sets the max number of local deliveries to attempt)

Code: [Select]

cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal
10To make the change

Code: [Select]

config setprop qmail ConcurrencyRemote 5
signal-event email-update

Code: [Select]

config show qmail
Taken from previous posts.

edb

[raem]

edb

config setprop qmail concurrencyremote 5

That's incorrect, it has wrong capitalisation, it should read:

config setprop qmail ConcurrencyRemote 5
and
config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 10

Taken from previous posts.

Be careful what you take from previous posts.


Those settings do not have a default db entry, but they do have a default value which is used when there is no db entry, as determined by the code in the templates.

To reset to default values just do:
config delprop qmail ConcurrencyRemote
config delprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal
signal-event email-update


PS With only 60K of outgoing bandwidth I'd be setting that to 1 ie
config setprop qmail ConcurrencyRemote 1
signal-event email-update

[edb]

My Bad ... thanks for that correction Ray 

[imcintyre]

EDB,

thx for suggestion on photobucket.

At the start you said you're with Shaw Cable and somewhere else that 60 kbps is all upspeed they can get you. Just curious is this due to location or is Shaw messed up. It seems curious that Bell has something that Shaw doesn't