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Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
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- 02-08-11, 04:51 PM #1
Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
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.
Advertisement- 02-08-11, 05:05 PM #2
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
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.
- 02-08-11, 05:12 PM #3
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
Stop all downloads and run a ping test and trace route to bbc.co.uk and copy paste everything.
- 02-08-11, 05:27 PM #4
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
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.
- 02-08-11, 05:30 PM #5
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
Everything looks normal.
What are you downloading over?
Http?
ftp?
torrents?
- 02-08-11, 05:32 PM #6
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
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.
- 02-08-11, 05:41 PM #7
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
Maybe the think broadband server is slow right now.
Download this torrent and see what speed you get.
- 02-08-11, 05:41 PM #8
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
Paul
Are you using a wireless connection or ethernet?
Tim
- 02-08-11, 06:03 PM #9
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
Also, try your Sky router
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Useful Sticky: - How To Obtain Your Router Stats, BT Speed Test, Check For Test Socket
- 02-08-11, 06:07 PM #10
Re: Broadband grinds to a halt in the early evening.
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!