speed loss

[Lance]

I must admit that my experience of Essex is limited to Colchester, Wivenhoe and, the Clacton to Frinton area of the coast, which I've always thought of as some of the better parts of England, if a bit featureless compared to round here. 

Given Brightlingsea is in the same part of the world I had this image of it as being a small but pleasant area.  Just goes to show.  If it's that bad and the broadband is no good either, then it's an even better reason for him to move....

Well, I might have been overly damning - Brightlingsea isn't too bad, but I don't think that I would make an effort to go there. I live in Colchester and have already been to Brightlingsea and back after dropping the other half at work.

Frinton is nice but in my opinion the nicest areas around this way are away from the coast. Just a few miles up the road from here is Dedham and Flatford, bang in the middle of Constable country.

[pctech]

Hmmmm

I'm skeptical about this because an ADSL connection is a Layer 2 Tunnelling Protocol (L2TP) connection between your router and your ISP's edge router so it just 'sees' the one route so the traffic will be handed off to the ISP network (most have only one or two Points of Presence) and then routed according to the routing policy of that ISP for the destination network.

BT OTOH have regional POPs so for example in MK a customer's traffic gets handed to their POP in Bletchley so if there is someone else on BT subscribed to that stream it should in theory stream from there thus reducing the load on the rest of the BT network but it is likely others from other ISPs will be subscibed so it is unlikely to work as cleanly as that.

[crynshame]

Was all back to the norm last week. Now back to low speeds again as below:





Line Stats:

ADSL Line Type GDMT
ADSL Line CodingADSL Line Coding INTERLEAVED
Line Attenuation (Down):15  (Up):6
Noise Margin (Down):15  (Up):26
Total Output Power (Down):0  (Up):0
Current State DownStr: 8128(K)  UpStr: 448(K)
undefined UP
FEC(FAST) (Near):0  (Far):0
FEC(INTERL) (Near):10676  (Far):43836
CRC(FAST) (Near):0  (Far):0
undefined (Near):45  (Far):68
HEC(FAST) (Near):0  (Far):0
HEC(FAST) (Near):2992  (Far):0
Showtime last(sec) 946716
ADSL FW Version 0.52
ADSL Board Type Annex A

[Glenn]

What does a BT speedtest show?

[crynshame]

Here is the Test from Bt:



Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test:  -provides background information.

Download  Speed
918 Kbps
 
0 Kbps 7150 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed

Download speedachieved during the test was - 918 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

I am still conected to the test socket.

[Glenn]

Also, did you suffer connection problems over the weekend like a few here had?

[crynshame]

Was away for the weekend. Have just fired the comp up a couple hours ago when I arrived home and my router is always on.

[Glenn]

Tommy, give support a call, they will be able to take a look at your line and hopefully see where the problem is, point them to this thread for the speedtest results.

[crynshame]

Thanks glen. Have just completed another speed test:

[Steve]

Unfortunately Murray's playing tennis now so BT congestion is a possibility, the router stats look fine but why is interleave on? You have a short line with a full sync I can't see why you should need it.

[camdave]

Download speed is not that important to me, mainly internet and emails (no games etc.), but I do keep a watch on it. Probably comes from being a Pipex customer for ten years!

However, speeds today are all over the place; between 5.8 mbs.which is normal to as low as 1.8 mbs. I live on the Herts/Cambs borders (01763)
If there is no improvement tomorrow I will follow up on these boards.

[Glenn]

As with Lances answer above, it will be Wimbledon, today is men's quarter finals day.

[zappaDPJ]

Yup, it's running like a dog on one leg here as well.

I thought we agreed it was my turn to use the Internet today?