Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.

[BroadbandKing]

Been with sky for just over a month.

Stats are:

Upstream 1107591
Downstream 14970553
SNR Margin(Upstream) 8.0 dB
SNR Margin(Downstream) 7.05 dB
Line Attenuation(Upstream) 17.0 dB
Line Attenuation(Downstream) 40.0 dB

What I am finding now is that my stats will remain the same as above BUT the actual speeds I get are painfully slow during certain times.

The last few days I have been lucky to get 1 meg download around 5pm. It only got back to speed around 7:30 onwards!
Websites take ages to show and I was waiting a fair few minutes even for the bbc website to appear. In fact broadband becomes unusable.

Does anyone know of any good reasons why this would happen?
Surely Sky can handle a nice steady fast speed even during the "rush" hour of teatime!

Is it normal for sky to throttle the line during the teatime hours?

I would have thought sky unlimited would have been able to handle the users at the LLU exchange and offer a fair speed for everyone during peak hours.

I am going to be checking my speed over the next couple of hours to see if there is still a problem.

Is there anything I can do? Router is plugged into master socket.

[BroadbandKing]

Slowing down already.

This morning and early afternoon I was get 1500 kB/sec.

Now I am only getting around 250-300 kB/sec when downloading.

[Exdee]

Stop all downloads and run a ping test and trace route to bbc.co.uk and copy paste everything.

[BroadbandKing]

C:\>ping bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=249
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=249
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=249
Reply from 212.58.241.131: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=249

Ping statistics for 212.58.241.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 33ms, Average = 31ms

C:\>tracert bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 31 ms 41 ms 26 ms cr0.nehz.uk.easynet.net [87.87.251.245]
3 * 22 ms 22 ms 87.87.132.161
4 32 ms 34 ms 32 ms 89.200.131.171
5 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms 212.58.238.189
6 * 31 ms 31 ms 212.58.238.153
7 31 ms 32 ms 31 ms virtual-vip-231.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]

Trace complete.

[Exdee]

Everything looks normal.

What are you downloading over?

Http?
ftp?
torrents?

[BroadbandKing]

Yes it does look fine but the web is very slow at the moment.

When I noticed that the web was slowing down and pages were taking ages to load, I thought I would spend today testing out the following downloads:

thinkbroadband :: Download Test Files

This morning it was superfast, now these files are taking 6-10 times as long.

[Exdee]

Maybe the think broadband server is slow right now.
Download this torrent and see what speed you get.

[timc]

Paul

Are you using a wireless connection or ethernet?

Tim

[IWasNotTheEnemy]

Also, try your Sky router

[BroadbandKing]

Sorry had to pop out.

Using ethernet to connect up my pc.

Trying that link but it is crawling to a halt....


Also been using:

http://tenmeg.myby.co.uk/speedtest2.htm

Usually comes back with around 13-14 meg.

Coming back with 4.5 now!