Very slow speeds

[Rik]

Show them the router, they'll be quick and discrete.

[adamr8965]

white netgear one, with blue flashing dome lights cant miss it.

[Rik]

That will confuse them, they'll think they're being pulled over for speeding.

[adamr8965]

stops the misses hoovering to fast.

[Rik]

 

[adamr8965]

its a turbo hoover aswell.

[Rik]

So there's no dust on her, then?

[adamr8965]

nope or the dogs.

[GizmoTheMogwai]

Getting really cr*ppy speeds tonight, anyone else?

[zappaDPJ]

Yes but the net is behaving extremely strangely from my location. Earlier tonight there was almost zero throughput with web pages taking over a minute to fully resolve. I then did a speed test and got the best result for both streams that I've ever seen. Now it's pretty slow again but not as bad as it was a couple of hours ago.

[zappaDPJ]

I have virtually no upstream which might explain why even with 2MB down this page took over a minute to fully load.

[zappaDPJ]

And a couple of minutes later...



As I said at the start, the net is behaving extremely strangely from my location 

[zappaDPJ]

I just completely lost all throughput and again a few minutes later it's back to full speed.

[adamr8965]

It could be something to do with the paddington problems, or rik has been doing his online food shopping.

I havent really had any problems so far, my connection slow a little at peak times now which it never did before.

[DorsetBoy]

http://www.idnet.net/support/status.jsp

there is a huge list of phone areas still affected.

[zappaDPJ]

My exchange doesn't appear to be on the list so I'm not sure what's causing it. I'll get on to support after the break if it continues.

[Rik]

The problem is that it's causing reduced capacity as well, Zap - I got a 'network busy' when trying to make a phone call yesterday.

[zappaDPJ]

Capacity or congestion was my first thought but I don't appear to have any issues during the day. I've just managed to do a BT speedtest, the first time it has worked for me in months. I now realise it wasn't recognising the phone number I'm currently using. It is fairly new but it seems a bit inefficient that it's taken around 6 months to recognise!

Anyway at this time of day things are a little sluggish (700 Kbps slower than usual) but certainly nothing to complain about.

Download speedachieved during the test was - 5611 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 600-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :7552 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 6500 Kbps

The problems start later on and continue through to the very early hours. I'll try and do another one later tonight if I'm around.

[Rik]

Good luck with that - hot VP looks the most likely cause.

[wecpcs]

http://www.idnet.net/support/status.jsp

there is a huge list of phone areas still affected.

My exchange is on the list, but as I was away all week on a Warner Holiday break, I did not find out until my return on Friday, upon reading this forum. I had shut down everything before going away and I fired up the router midday on Friday and all was normal, but I decided to do a speed test on speedtest.net to check and received my usual 6.35Mb/s download speed but my upload speed was only 0.23Mb/s, which is usually around 0.36Mb/s. After a reboot of the router I received 6.94Mb/s but my upload speed was still only 0.23Mb/s. So I decided to do a router shutdown for a couple of minutes and upon retesting my download speed was 6.83Mb/s and my upload speed was back to its normal 0.36Mb/s, so obviously something had happened while I was away but at least it was easily remedied.

Colin

[Rik]

It seems to still be going on, Colin. I'll be interested to see if BT come under fire from Ofcom for such a massive service failure.

[zappaDPJ]

I've shifted a huge amount of data overnight and I've not noticed any problems at all so perhaps whatever was bugging my connection has been fixed.

[Rik]

I'd imagine the overtime is rolling in for BT engineers this weekend.