Congestion?

[mervl]

. . . same as everyone else, though in my case its 4pm-just past midnight and even when the connection is not actively in use. Mid-evening though a speedtest.net test gave me a best-ever max of 45Mbps on a 40/10 service. Averages though on regular testing using JDasts auto-tester (usually consistent) are fluctuating wildly, with a few as bad as the early days of ADSL with pings of several hundred. TBBQM is showing up to 5% packet loss. Somewhere beyond the cab, it seems, from the router monitoring data which is OK.

[andrue]

mine is as per andrue and psp83:-



net has appeared generally sluggish yesterday and today.

Yup, pretty much the same.



My throughput has now recovered to it's full 76Mb/s. There's clearly some'at going on.

[joe]

also back to normal:-

[cwmusson]

There is definitely something wrong.  I have been seeing slow web pages (30 seconds to 2 minutes to load simple pages, with some timing out) and stream rebuffering (Netflix, Eurosport, BBC) for the last few days, but the BT speedtest shows 65Mb download which is normal. However its showing 5Mb upload which is usually 10Mb.

Chris

[pctech]

When you run the BT speedtest what is the throughput figure achieved during the test, is it 65Mbps?

[cwmusson]

Download average 65Mb, line profile 77Mb. This is how it always has been.
Upload average 4.7Mb, line profile 20Mb. This usually averages 10Mb.

[pctech]

I would have said congestion if the throughput was affected.

As has been said try a reboot of the router and then try again (it won't affect the profile as you aren't touching the modem)

People here put a lot of faith in TBBQM graphs but they can be affected by load on the connection between IDNet and Netconnex who host and own Thinkbroadband

[andrue]

People here put a lot of faith in TBBQM graphs but they can be affected by load on the connection between IDNet and Netconnex who host and own Thinkbroadband

That's true although:

1   thinkbroadband-gw2.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net   5   5   1ms   2ms   2ms
2    gi4-47-10-star1.bdr-rt3.thdo.ncuk.net   5   5   0ms   12ms   57ms
3    idnet-gw1.thdo.ncuk.net   5   5   0ms   0ms   0ms
4    telehouse-gw4-gi0-1-400.idnet.net   4   5   1ms   1ms   1ms
5    ****.me.uk   15   15   11ms   11ms   12ms

There's not many hops there. It isn't even going through LINX. I'd be inclined to say that is likely to understate latency.

[Steve]

Normally with congestion the minimum latency should rise, also in a congested connection the throughput drops off quite dramatically. I've seen no evidence of this at all, something is odd but what I've no idea.

[andrue]

Gone very naff again:

[psp83]

Yep, speed down to 30Mbps

[zappaDPJ]

I'm having a few issues as well with slow throughput, packet loss and I appear to have lost sync a few times

[psp83]

I've emailed support again, something has to be going on somewhere, either with BT or IDnet.

[Glenn]

Rik's ADSL line is showing it too, but his LLU line is fine.

[Rik]

It is? I must check.

[Steve]

I noticed that as well.    Bill's is still normal.

[andrue]

I've emailed support again, something has to be going on somewhere, either with BT or IDnet.

Yup, graphs aren't quite as similar as on previous occasions but the overall pattern is still the same. Poor ol' Zappa seems to be getting the worst of it though.

[psp83]

Bill is keeping quiet, so I blame him for taking all the bandwidth! 

[psp83]

I just noticed, on mine and zaps it both started around 10am today.

I've not really used the connection heavily today, just a few uploads as most work has been done to my local server.

[Glenn]

Mine too, Paul

[andrue]

I just noticed, on mine and zaps it both started around 10am today.

Mine too and no-one in the house until later in the afternoon. Mail server logs show nothing out of the ordinary - just the usual trickle of half a dozen spam messages going in the bit bucket every hour.

[lozcart]

Don't know if this helps or not but my FTTC connection has shown no signs of slow throughput or packet loss, I'm based in the Midlands. So it sounds more like BT based rather than idnet.

[psp83]

I wonder if this is the cause of the problems http://status.aa.net.uk/apost.cgi?incident=1627

[Steve]

Geographically for me that link makes no sense but who knows.

[cwmusson]

I fixed my issue. Rather stupidly I had 2 devices with the same ip address, so they were constantly dropping connection.   

I copied the settings from my android phone to my new android tablet, including the static ip address. Doh!

Chris