Sky Broadband Unlimted - being slowed down

[Isitme]

One of the best ways to show this would be to have speed tests at a variety of times (i.e. on the hours every hour, or there abouts).

The best way to do this is to download and run Jack Dinns auto speed tester. This will record the speed at intervals you set and provide a GUI to display them.
JD's Auto Speed Tester - Home

[G3WYP]

Good Evening Scubbie

Many thanks for advise re stats, very helpful.

I have done a couple of more tests via Skyuser checker today at 3:30pm D/load 3.30 Mb/s U/load 0.62 Mb/s and at 7:37pm D/load 2.34Mb/s U/load 0.595 Mb/s.

Appears to be consistent with busy times so looks like our exchange is a bit full.

Nothing like the router stats.

[ToeKnee]

Thank you ToeKnee. Can you please confirm what your connection stats are and also what speeds you are getting before the problem occurs please (i.e. if the speed slows down at 5pm, what is it at 4pm and later when it returns to normal).

My stats are:

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collisions	Tx B/s	Rx B/s	Up Time
WAN	PPPoA	14413998	20383198	0	4039	2463	313:32:47
LAN		11166710	8761669	0	2761	7278	313:41:09
WLAN		10167266	6515181	0	2947	0	313:40:44

ADSL Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	10347 kbps	1087 kbps
Line Attenuation	40.0 db	23.0 db
Noise Margin	5.0 db	8.1 db

I've taken a few SpeedTest readings this evening (between 18:00 and 22:15) and the speed seems to vary between 7.0 and 8.9 Mb/s down which is only slightly slower than my usual reading before the problems began.

I will take a few more reading over the next few days to see whether the problem returns.

[ToeKnee]

Looks like I spoke too soon! My download speed is down to 3.17 Mb/s now.

[ToeKnee]

The best way to do this is to download and run Jack Dinns auto speed tester. This will record the speed at intervals you set and provide a GUI to display them.
JD's Auto Speed Tester - Home

I've just installed this application. My anti-virus lit up like a Christmas tree showing it as a "potentially unwanted application", but after reading the explanation for this on their web site, I disabled the warning for this app and allowed it to run.

[G3WYP]

I have done a couple of tests using the Skyuser speed tester and found that at 11:40am yesterday the d/load speed was 6.55Mb/s and upload speed was 0.659Mb/s at 10:30 today similar speeds but at 2:30pm d/load 6.31 Mb/s and upload 0.627 Mb/s all tested using ethernet connection.

[NWLondoner]

My Broadband has been playing up for the past week

Normal speed 3mb

Now varies between 3mb,1.6mb and 0.8mb

Exchange is Colindale Exchange code: LWCOL

[Isitme]

My Broadband has been playing up for the past week

Normal speed 3mb

Now varies between 3mb,1.6mb and 0.8mb

Exchange is Colindale Exchange code: LWCOL

Is that your actual download speeds? On exchanges suffering from throughput problems, the sync speed will remain the same, the actual thoughput will reduce, especially at peak times. eg., If you are syncing at say 4.5Mbps constantly and your download speed varies between .8 and 3Mbps at peak times, then that is probably exchange output congestion.

[NWLondoner]

Im syncing at 3417 but my actual download speed is anything between 0.5mb unto 3mb It can and does change at ANY moment

[Isitme]

Have you tried the first link in post #6?