FTTC speed drop after midnight.

[woooshuk]

I am a very happy FTTC customer and seeing speeds I could never imagined before. 

Something I have noticed that does not bother me is a substantial speed drop from about 00:10 hours each night.

My speeds remain 35-37meg all day long but as soon as midnight passes I see it drop to 10meg-ish.  I don't know when this recovers.

Any opinions? Is this simply the increase of IDNET customers downloading off peak?

[.Griff.]

It's simply down to people downloading when the off peak hours kick in and generally by 2am speeds are back to normal.

[Rik]

IDNet's own network is coping, BT's less so.

[psp83]

You will often see packet loss (about 10%) between midnight & 2am aswell as slower speeds, so if you want to play a game or stream something (iplayer) then you can't.

[woooshuk]

It's simply down to people downloading when the off peak hours kick in and generally by 2am speeds are back to normal.

I thought as much! As I said its not a big problem and I suppose a lower speed connection would not see the same scale of drop.

[Rik]

As someone with a very much lower speed connection, I see no drop.

[Glenn]

I don't know if mine drops, I'm normally asleep.

[Rik]

So am I, but when I'm not...

[Holodene]

It's a little worrying although I have seen similar reports regarding Zen. I'm torn at the moment.

[Rik]

It's a fairly typical BT scenario, the same thing happened with the launch of ADSL2+. The infrastructure wasn't ready and, for several months, BT were robbing Peter to pay Paul by moving capacity around the country.