Internet is at crawl.

[Baz]

I can actually get it to run in FF now 

[Rik]

What an odd error message. Does a different browser help, Glenn?

[Glenn]

The first was FF, using IE8, I get;

'The system is currently busy. Please try again shortly, however if this problem persists, raise the issue with your service provider'

I can't remember the last time it worked for me.

[Rik]

I do wonder if there is a single BT tester, or a group of regional ones? It rarely fails for me.

[Glenn]

Hopefully, it's more than just 1 server.

[zappaDPJ]

It may be the routing to specific sites is running poorly. If you both can let support have examples of the sites affected they can check it out.

I'm setting up a batch process to trace route and ping some of the locations I'm having problems with. That might show some actual data or of course it might show nothing at all! Over a minute's worth of lag to a comms server should result in a disconnect from the server but it doesn't which is why I not sure I'll be able to capture the event.

[pctech]

Hopefully, it's more than just 1 server.

Don't bet on it, this is BT.

Spoke to an ISP once when I was trying to wring some more speed out of my line and the guy groaned at the thought of running line tests but he did so, apparently its as slow for them as it is for us.


We'd probably still have rotary dial telephones if it was up to the BT bigwigs.

[Rik]

Naah, they invented the Trimphone to make money.

[Rik]

I'm setting up a batch process to trace route and ping some of the locations I'm having problems with. That might show some actual data or of course it might show nothing at all! Over a minute's worth of lag to a comms server should result in a disconnect from the server but it doesn't which is why I not sure I'll be able to capture the event.

I'll be interested to see what you get, Zap.

[adamr8965]

Just to note, my internet is flying along today, but will post if it changes.

[Rik]

It's always the way, isn't it. No rhyme nor reason.

[Niall]

Just to note, my internet is flying along today, but will post if it changes.

My profile and speed was all over the place for a few days. It seems okay today, web page wise. It was pretty much as you saw, until today. Slow loading pages, profile halved last weekend and it seems to be this area as my sisters connection went that way too. I'm wondering if BT have been doing work at various exchanges which has caused issues. Obviously they won't admit to that, and IDnet doesn't have any issues so I can't see how it can be anything else.

[Rik]

BT have massive rolling engineering works, not just at exchanges, but on their networks too, Niall. It's like playing blind man's bluff.

[Niall]

Hurrah

I don't play online FPS games anymore, or Xbox stuff, so it's not an issue for me anymore, but I'd have been most displeased if I was!

[adamr8965]

so far so good anyway, lets see how it going 2nite!!

[dlorde]

I'm seeing intermittent slowing to a crawl & loss of connection when browsing the web today, although download speed on speedtesters seems fine - the BT speedtester gives the best results ever (see below), but web browsing is still very poor... strange.

Download speedachieved during the test was - 6606 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 600-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :7616 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 6500 Kbps
The throughput of Best Efforts (BE) classes achieved during the test is - 10.02:23.65:66.33 (SBE:NBE:PBE)
These figures represent the ratio while sententiously passing Sub BE, Normal BE and Priority BE marked traffic.

[Rik]

So speeds are OK, but browsing not - which seems to the common theme. If people can add URLs of affected sites to this thread, we can get some investigations under way.

[adamr8965]

http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=20192.25;topicseen#lastPost

this site rik, has slowed to a crawl along with ebay at the moment

[Rik]

One second or less here, Adam. The forum slows down at times due to server load, we share it with a few other people.

[adamr8965]

rite i see rik, this site has speedied up.

thinkbroad.com, sky.com, ebay.co.uk, 406.co.uk, audisrs.com

are all slow for me at the moment, but just downloaded a test file from thinkbroadband.com at 800k/bs which is normal and speedtest.net is at 6.85 meg as normal.

[Rik]

All less than 2 seconds to fully load on a 3.5M profile, Adam.

[adamr8965]

about 20 sec's a page now rik with every site, i have a 6.5 meg profile.

So whats the problem and how do we sort it?

[Glenn]

What package are you all on, ADSL or ADSL 2+?

[adamr8965]

im on adsl glenn, home supermax

[dlorde]

I'm on ADSL (Home Lite).