Problems in Sleaford (01529) Area

[Rik]

If the bandwidth is being saturated by something, eg P2P, then everything else sees problems.

[Nutter]

I can't think of anything that would be saturating the bandwidth, and I definately don't have P2P running on anything, but I'll check everything that's connected next time to see if it could be anything my end.  I seem to recall (but I'll have to double check the next time it happens) that LAN access between my laptop and desktop is unaffected though, e.g. accessing file shares.

[Rik]

That would make sense as you have a 54Mbps connection to play with there, rather than <8Mbps on the net.

[Nutter]

The only other I noticed is that yesterday the VP capacity of the local exchange was changed from red to green on this page http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/?exchange=Sleaford&exact=1276&plugin=vp.  It says the status was changed on 29th, but the page definately wasn't updated until late on 31st Jan or early 1st Feb.

[Rik]

The problem with those pages is that they are reliant on BT, who are very good at not doing what they say, or doing something without warning.