Very slow here for the last half hour or so.

[foreversummer]

Hi.  Anyone experiencing slow speeds and packet loss within the last half hour?  Pages are taking ages to load?   I'm in Dorset?

[Glenn]

I don't know about packet loss, but the server that the forum runs on has been intermittently slow for the past few weeks, the problem is being looked in to by support.

[Rik]

Normal speeds here (Milton Keynes). Nothing on the network status page.

[Baz]

a very little bit slow, noticeable enough from the norm

[Baz]

saying that the post just took well over a minute to load

[foreversummer]

I'm really up and down here right now.  Very slow-loading on most pages.  Nothing watchable on Youtube.  Going to turn off now and go to work.   We will see what it is like later 

[foreversummer]

Almost unusable service last night and this morning.  Trying to do the BT Speedtester since yesterday morning.  Damn things just says it can perform a test on my line at the moment.  Lot of use that is!

Foreversummer

[Glenn]

It's a common problem with the BT speedtester.

Have you called support about your problem?

[foreversummer]

Hi Glenn

No I haven't but I will this morning.  Many thanks.

[Glenn]

If you keep trying the speedtester it will work, it took 4 or 5 attempts for me to get it to work the other day. www.speedtest.net will give you an indication of your throughput, but BT do need the results of their own tester.

[pctech]

switch your router off for 30 minutes and then let it reconnect.

[foreversummer]

Thanks to everyone who replied.  Support phoned me.  There is a problem at my local exchange which they are working on presently, hopefully to be cleared by 2pm.

[Rik]

 

[foreversummer]

Definitely     It's only just round the corner from me so I might pop round there in a minute and crack the whip!

[Rik]

Take some bacon butties, that usually helps.