speed loss

[Happy Surfer]

hello everyone im getting really d/l speed today, just done a bt test and only got 1400k whereas normally im always on 6400kish speed.just find it strange that it not even peak time and speed is poor(compared to the normal great standard

[Rik]

What profile did your BT test give?

[Glenn]

The World Cup will be taking a lot of BT's bandwidth at the moment.

[Happy Surfer]

bt profile is 7150k

i understand the world cup being on and some people watching games on pc at work etc but the speed reduction is terrible, videos take donkeys to load, and browsing slow too, i understand some people only have 1-2meg connections at best anyway but when you are used to 6.5meg on a regular basis reguardless of time of day its hard to accept.

[Rik]

It's hard to suggest any other cause. IDNet have bought in extra bandwidth to allow for the world cup, and so far their network is coping fine. I'm not seeing any speed issues here, so it suggests a problem local to your exchange.

Do a couple more BT tests and let IDNet have the results, they can check the line for you.

[Happy Surfer]

ok thanks rik will do, how do i contact idnet with the results?

[Steve]

Just copy and past the BT speedtest results into a text file,then when you've got a few email them to support@idnet.com

[Maiku]

Not that its going to help you, but I have the same problem, down from my usual 800k/sec and a bit to about 50k/sec. Thats with exchange priority lol.

I thought something had chopped my telephone line or somthing, then I had a look in here, totally didnt think about the World cup taking all the bw.

Its painful, just like those buzzing trumpet things they play constantly around the matches.

England will probably be out soon tho so the speeds might pick up lol

[Glenn]

My own line is down to sub 1mb speeds

[Simon]

The tennis starts soon as well. 

[Glenn]

Tour De France too

[Simon]

We might as well give up! 

[Rik]

The frustrating thing is that I know IDNet have bought in sufficient extra bandwidth so their own network can cope, they have to pay for it for three months, so it's an expensive option for them, but if BT don't match their effort, it's all for naught.

[Glenn]

I tried to do a speedtest yesterday, but as ever, it fails on my line 

[Gary]

Mine is down a bit normally about 6687 Kbps.

Download speedachieved during the test was - 6557 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 600-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :8128 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 7150 Kbps

Pings are about the same

PING www.idnet.net (212.69.36.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=18.639 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=19.520 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=18.620 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=19.142 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=18.948 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=18.524 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=19.494 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=7 ttl=59 time=19.088 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=8 ttl=59 time=19.066 ms
64 bytes from 212.69.36.10: icmp_seq=9 ttl=59 time=18.115 ms

--- www.idnet.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 18.115/18.916/19.520/0.420 ms

Not bad considering its world cup hell out there, I'll check speedtest and ping again tonight after 6pm

[Ray]

Mine's down as well now, it was 6.92Mb/s just after 8:00am, now it's down to this: - 

[Gary]

Using Speedtest which I don't think is that reliable all is still ok here, even though pings are well off what they are when I test them, and I don't believe my speed either on this test either, but its not showing any major slow down like yours Ray  I am guessing you are ADSL 2+ by the upload speed.

[wecpcs]

Mines all right "Jack pull up the ladder".  





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[Rik]

My pings are OK, but I'm seeing a 10% drop in throughput.

[Ray]

Using Speedtest which I don't think is that reliable all is still ok here, even though pings are well off what they are when I test them, and I don't believe my speed either on this test either, but its not showing any major slow down like yours Ray  I am guessing you are ADSL 2+ by the upload speed.

I'm on home Supermax, I think it's exchange contention, Gary, my exchange has had red VPs for several months and it seems BT aren't in a rush to do anything about it. It's only a small rural exchange with about 1600 subscribers.

[ST Driver]

My connection is that slow normally that I don't see any difference sub 1meg

Steve

[Rik]

 

[Glenn]

Since the problem at Ilford 2 weeks ago, my sync has dropped from 3.2 - 1.8mb 

[Rik]

That's odd. What's your noise margin doing?

[Glenn]

9db, it was happy at 6 - 3db beforehand for about 75 days, no resyncs etc, I only rebooted it to see if it was a local problem