Internet Crawling Tonight

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 22:13:30

Evening Everyone,

Is anyone experiencing slow speeds tonight, basic web pages slow to load and
generally poor download speeds. It would'nt be so bad if normal web pages
were fast to load but they are slow and Thinkbroadband stopped loading
completely tonight?? It was working this afternoon ok so who knows what
has happened, failure somewhere, again !!

BT ?

Bill · Jun 12, 2011, 22:26:05

No problems here... maybe a lot of people on your exchange are Formula 1 fans and were watching the Canadian Grand Prix?

Two hour hold-up waiting for the rain to stop- the coverage started at 5pm, the race didn't finish until just after 10pm

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 22:33:57

Quote from: Bill on Jun 12, 2011, 22:26:05
No problems here... maybe a lot of people on your exchange are Formula 1 fans and were watching the Canadian Grand Prix?

Two hour hold-up waiting for the rain to stop- the coverage started at 5pm, the race didn't finish until just after 10pm

Ok thanks Bill,

No something is going on, either the whole world is online but even so that should not stop web pages loading. AAISP takes about 20 to 30 seconds to load, not good. I never had this on Be with 5Mb Download speeds, web pages always loaded ok. Everything very sluggish... Can you view Thinkbroadband ok??

Bill · Jun 12, 2011, 22:43:03

Yes, tbb and the web in general seems normal.

Just tried a speed test and it's down to about 15Mbps, a bit slow but not unknown for this time of night. Browsing in general "feels" fine

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 22:48:22

Quote from: Bill on Jun 12, 2011, 22:43:03
Yes, tbb and the web in general seems normal.

Just tried a speed test and it's down to about 15Mbps, a bit slow but not unknown for this time of night. Browsing in general "feels" fine

Thanks for update Bill, I managed to get on to TBB after about 40 Seconds Page loaded, terrible also if I try to ping TBB it just times out, says 'Destination net unreachable' ?? Pinging the BBC is ok, how very odd, AAISP takes forever. Google and Yahoo are ok.

Lance · Jun 12, 2011, 22:49:53

Have you tried rebooting everything?

zappaDPJ · Jun 12, 2011, 22:51:22

No problems here, in fact I just got the best result returned from a speedtest in months. Browsing seems to be fine as well.

It might be worth running a tracert to the sites you are having problems with.

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 22:53:48

Quote from: Lance on Jun 12, 2011, 22:49:53
Have you tried rebooting everything?

Hi Lance,

I'll try it standby I'll reboot the router, its a Billion 7800n so should be ok , I hope !!

Steve · Jun 12, 2011, 22:54:15

Not using dual stack IPv4/IPv6? Just that the two sites TBB and AAISP have IPv6 addresses.

Lance · Jun 12, 2011, 22:54:48

I would turn the modem off and on again too.

Bill · Jun 12, 2011, 22:56:25

Quote from: Steve on Jun 12, 2011, 22:54:15Just that the two sites TBB and AAISP have IPv6 addresses.

Depends which bit of tbb you're accessing- the main site is dual stack, the forums aren't.

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 23:06:49

Quote from: Steve on Jun 12, 2011, 22:54:15
Not using dual stack IPv4/IPv6? Just that the two sites TBB and AAISP have IPv6 addresses.

Hi Guys, A bit embarrasing, I checked before rebooting logging into my 7800N and guess
what IPv6 in the ARP Table uhhh. I just upgraded my Firmware last week to 1.06D but
did not have problems until today, sorry guys

Steve · Jun 12, 2011, 23:12:05

Does that mean you were using IPv6? It's just from my own experience I seem to lose routing to IPv6 sites occasionally with this firmware (I currently have IPv6 enabled) and the browser fails to fall back to IPv4 as it thinks it has a working IPv6 connection. It should be cured by a manual reconnect though.

Bill · Jun 12, 2011, 23:12:24

Odd. There's something wrong with the IPv6 between tbb and IDNet (it can be incredibly slow on IPv6), but it's never caused me any problems anywhere else.

Except... how long has the router been up? A couple of times IPv6 has refused to connect after about three and a half days uptime, it's not repeatable and I can't work out if it's the router or IDNet.

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 23:13:05

Quote from: Bill on Jun 12, 2011, 22:56:25
Depends which bit of tbb you're accessing- the main site is dual stack, the forums aren't.

All working back to normal now thanks, if this is what's going to happen with IPv6 I don't
want to know, pain...

By the way Bill, how did you get on with your 7800N and IPv6 did you get it working
properly???

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 23:16:06

Quote from: Bill on Jun 12, 2011, 23:12:24
Odd. There's something wrong with the IPv6 between tbb and IDNet (it can be incredibly slow on IPv6), but it's never caused me any problems anywhere else.

Except... how long has the router been up? A couple of times IPv6 has refused to connect after about three and a half days uptime, it's not repeatable and I can't work out if it's the router or IDNet.

Yes, it's all very odd or this Firmware is causing problems. Router has been up last 5 days since the update, umm..

Bill · Jun 12, 2011, 23:25:32

Quote from: Seadog on Jun 12, 2011, 23:13:05
By the way Bill, how did you get on with your 7800N and IPv6 did you get it working
properly???

Yeah, apart from tbb and the intermittent problem mentioned before it's working fine.

I've just checked and it's been up for 3 days 8 hours, so by tomorrow I'll know whether the intermittent bug has hit me again!

With tbb, it doesn't always connect using v6 and it's always slow- a BQM that load virtually instantly on v4 takes several seconds on v6, and their dedicated v6 speed test (ipv6.ipv6-speedtest.net) returns results like:

Date   08/06/11 12:28:46
Download speed   126.58 Kbps (0.12 Mbps)
Upload speed   8060.24 Kbps (7.87 Mbps)

Whereas another speed test result is in my sig...

They know about it, as does Simon, but I don't think either know where the problem is and it's not high on either priority list.

Seadog · Jun 12, 2011, 23:53:15

Quote from: Bill on Jun 12, 2011, 23:25:32
Yeah, apart from tbb and the intermittent problem mentioned before it's working fine.

I've just checked and it's been up for 3 days 8 hours, so by tomorrow I'll know whether the intermittent bug has hit me again!

With tbb, it doesn't always connect using v6 and it's always slow- a BQM that load virtually instantly on v4 takes several seconds on v6, and their dedicated v6 speed test (ipv6.ipv6-speedtest.net) returns results like:

Date   08/06/11 12:28:46
Download speed   126.58 Kbps (0.12 Mbps)
Upload speed   8060.24 Kbps (7.87 Mbps)

Whereas another speed test result is in my sig...

They know about it, as does Simon, but I don't think either know where the problem is and it's not high on either priority list.

Thanks for the update Bill, as you say it's down on their priority list so until it becomes essential I'll stick with IPv4.

Cheers

Bill · Jun 12, 2011, 23:56:47

Quote from: Seadog on Jun 12, 2011, 23:53:15so until it becomes essential I'll stick with IPv4.

I've got no real need for IPv6... but I'm an engineer and I do like new toys

Seadog · Jun 13, 2011, 00:05:53

Quote from: Bill on Jun 12, 2011, 23:56:47
I've got no real need for IPv6... but I'm an engineer and I do like new toys

Same here Bill, Sometimes it gets me into the P.o so I try not to experiment too
much at work. Whats the saying, if it works leave it, ha ha