I am a very happy FTTC customer and seeing speeds I could never imagined before. :fingers:
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?
It's simply down to people downloading when the off peak hours kick in and generally by 2am speeds are back to normal.
IDNet's own network is coping, BT's less so.
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.
Quote from: .Griff. on Nov 14, 2010, 15:34:18
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.
As someone with a very much lower speed connection, I see no drop. :)
I don't know if mine drops, I'm normally asleep.
So am I, but when I'm not...
It's a little worrying although I have seen similar reports regarding Zen. I'm torn at the moment.
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.