Reduced Speeds Anyone?

[davej99]

Very unusually I am seeing BT speeds under 4000, when I am almost always well over 6000.  Also seeing high (80-200, avg 100) gw2 1st hop pings. Probably rare exchange congestion, but I thought I would check.

Cheers, Dave

[Philip]

all OK here

[rgt247]

Looking good for Me.......

[Rik]

I plod along at my usual speeds, Dave.

[Simon]

Plodding on fine here too.

[vitriol]

I was plodding alon at 1mb speeds last night, pretty poor performance.

[Ray]

Something wrong here I think, be nice if it was correct though.

[Sebby]

Sounds like a local issue, Dave.

[Rik]

Something wrong here I think, be nice if it was correct though.

Got your AV turned on, Ray?

[Ray]

Got your AV turned on, Ray?

Yes I have, Rik. 

[Rik]

It can do wondrous things.

[Ray]

It can do wondrous things.

Strange, Rik, I've always had what seemed to be fairly accurate results from this tester before.   

[Rik]

It looked good to start with, Ray, but of late it seems to be going the way of speedtest.net.

[Sebby]

Strange, Rik, I've always had what seemed to be fairly accurate results from this tester before.   

I think factors such as CPU usage determine whether the antivirus has an impact on the test results.

[davej99]

Well, in another by return email response, tech support believe my problem is exchange congestion, based on feedback from BT. They have advised that the issue is likely to be a small amount of congestion within the BT exchange at certain times. And then the bit I like; if/when the exchange congestion hits the BT acceptable threshold it will be upgraded. Now that is good to know.

But I cannot complain really. My line is good, interleaved, profiled at 7150kbps and has an attenuation of 36db, consistent with my distance.

I have been regularly logging download speeds using think broadband since February 2008 and there is no doubt January is off the boil, as was April, August and September. In spite of these months, my measurements suggest that 64% of the time I get speeds in excess of 5000kbps, and 8% of the time I get under 2000kbps, which is not too shabby.

My last very large and cheaper non-LLU ISP, exceeded 5000kbps just 29% of the time, and 50% of the time it was under 2000kbps and 35% under 1000kbps! More like an expensive dial-up service.

Based on these measurements, maybe we should not be too hard on IDNET, but please don't tell them.

[Rik]

We won't, Dave.