Does any one know the methods Orange use for assigning users to central pipes?
Does each user get permanently assigned to a particular pipe or do you randomly get assigned to pipe upon connection?
What I'm getting at is if your experiencing congestion might dropping the PPP session possibly move you onto a less congested pipe? Used to do this with Entanet when their balancing become skewed and before they moved to IPSC.
Well, seeing as no one else has contributed to this, from my own anecdotal evidence it seems like Orange randomly assign you to a central when you connect.
If I'm getting particularly poor speeds, dropping the session then reconnecting more often than not resolves the problem, ie. connects me to a less congested central (although from my understanding of how BT manage this it's entirely random in regard to which central you get connected to so may not work every time).
Please note that actually disconnecting the sync may impact your ip-profile, maintaining the sync but dropping the PPP session should be a better option.
It's probably not done at random. I would imagine that the network is configured as a mesh, assigning you to a random node based on its load and various other properties. Disconnecting will cause the livebox to initiate a new connection, which means that it could well be assigned to a different pipe.
I can't imagine that it would adversely affect your IP profile though. Significant changes in sync signal can mostly be put down to changes in the weather.
All switching systems are intelligent to a certain degree, it just depends on which algorithm they use and what metrics it is designed to measure.
Of course frequent disconnects will affect your IP profile. What I was getting at was one each day when you experience an issue should not be a problem.
It used to be the case that, if possible, authenticating as
....@ bb1.freeserve.co.uk
....@ bb2.freeserve.co.uk etc. (spaces added)
used a specific central, whereas authenticating as
....@fs
used load balancing (not random).
I have no idea if this still holds true - Ora nge is all LLU around here.
Note to other readers of this thread : The above only applies to IPStream connections. It doesn't apply to LLU connections. In fact, on Ora nge LLU, you dont even need the @fs - unless you're using an ISP-locked router.
All switching systems are intelligent to a certain degree, it just depends on which algorithm they use and what metrics it is designed to measure.
I'm not sure. Entanet when they used to be very transparent and pro-active on forums, stated that BTW only offered two types of connection pattern, specific users assigned to specific centrals or random assignment to centrals. They opted for random assignment hoping load balance would even out but sometimes a lot of heavy users would end up on the same central so suffered bad packet loss whilst other centrals were under 50% load.
The recommended solution was to drop PPP and hope to get onto a less congested central (sometimes took a few tries to end up on a decent central). But then they offered tools which gave readouts of different central loads, and where you were connecting through. I'm only going on what the engineers from Entanet said BTW offered. I was just wondering if Orange was set up in a similar way.
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