Increasing consistent small packet loss

[joe]

psp83/andrue, may one ask which ISP you will be joining?

[psp83]

psp83/andrue, may one ask which ISP you will be joining?

I will PM you.

[Technical Ben]

Kind of on topic. A recent Youtuber, who uses the internet as their income, has moved to another country because UK internet is that rubbish. They cannot get the upload speed they need. That might be a bit drastic a kind of solution though.

[Gary]

Kind of on topic. A recent Youtuber, who uses the internet as their income, has moved to another country because UK internet is that rubbish. They cannot get the upload speed they need. That might be a bit drastic a kind of solution though.

You think? 

[mervl]

For vanilla residential broadband (unless you are driven to alternative non-DSL technologies) your ISP is a matter of taste, and price. Anything else is mostly window-dressing. But emotions run high. The marketeers win!

And, as in the rest of life, there is no golden rule than small is beautiful.

[Gary]

For vanilla residential broadband (unless you are driven to alternative non-DSL technologies) your ISP is a matter of taste, and price. Anything else is mostly window-dressing. But emotions run high. The marketeers win!

So this helps how exactly?

[mervl]

So this helps how exactly?

As much as you like, or not.

[Lance]

Right everyone... this thread needs to stay absolutely on topic. If your post is not specifically in relation to the ongoing issue of packet loss and associated throughput difficulties please post in a separate thread (in help or natter as appropriate). This includes posts talking around the issue but not specifically about the issue itself.

We need to to stay on topic to give IDNet and other readers clarity on the issue.

[sobranie]

OK, back to topic, speeds down from 75 over weekend to this:

[sobranie]

........ and so it continues!!!!!!!!!

[psp83]

[Gary]

Speeds down to 20Mbs from 67Mbps ish over the weekend...

[sobranie]

................. and the 1st one to get NIL download receives a prize!!   A free MAC perhaps!!

[Gary]

And...its back to normal

[colirv]

My speed is consistently fine during the day, a bit slower in the evening, and seemingly unaffected by the packet loss, which continues.

[Gary]

I just emailed support, I was informed that they are still balancing the network, hence maybe the sudden drop and rise back to normal speeds so quickly earlier on. This  balancing will continue all week from what I can make out. I was wondering if maybe this thread has become a bit long and frustrating now? It would seem appropriate to just post speed tests over the week if we notice a drop or packetloss so IDNet can see how things are going from our side maybe... but keep it maybe more to just those posts only and see Thursday/Friday how things are going then? Its up to the mods but maybe a suggestion to maybe start a new thread linked from this for speedtests and pings and traceroutes as needed marked with a title relating to the ongoing issues but with a strict info only policy so this 15 page monster does not grow anymore. Just an idea. 

[zappaDPJ]

I suggest anyone able to demonstrate low throughput via speedtest.net also conducts a BT Speedtest http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/ I'd also point out if it's not already crystal clear, the low throughput results being posted by customers always correlate exactly with some degree of packet loss which can be seen on the majority IDNet BQMs.

[sobranie]

Time to dig out my usb dial up  modem methinks.

[zappaDPJ]

So whose turn was it to use the Internet today?

[joe]

Never known it so low, usually 60+

[Gary]

Download speed achieved during the test was - 29.87 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speed is 55.6 Mbps-69.5 Mbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is - 69.5 Mbps

Upload speed achieved during the test was - 16.88Mbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 20 Mbps



Appalling speeds

[colirv]

This is about as slow as I get. Mid afternoon I was getting 60Mb/s. Perhaps the lines are quicker up north!

[lozcart]

Very poor speedtest result here also, seems the problem we were seeing last week is now aggravated by the Olympics.

[Gary]

Very poor speedtest result here also, seems the problem we were seeing last week is now aggravated by the Olympics.

What are your speedtest results? If you could post them that would be really helpful.  As to the Olympics we cant be sure what effect that's having if any so its best not to get side tracked really. 

[Fizzy]

Managed to get my graph stuff sorted out...



...ahhh.   

edit:  Ignore that first red bar, forgot to set my router up to allow pings.