ahh you can ignore my pm kitz since its already posted here.
Saw this too late - I directed you here anyhow
I agree the most likely explanation is they ditched the shared msil's.
It would seem BT made a business decision to move plusnet rather than to fix the shared capacity issues.
WBMC shared was never designed for an ISP the size of Plusnet. Plusnet just grew, but they had a problem in that they had already invested 10's of millions of pounds in equipment designed for shared. Moving over to dedicated would be expensive and would require the purchase of some new kit at various points around the UK.
Now if BT werent so been stupid censoring this information then plusnet may not have lost me as a customer.
I agree.. they should have come out and told us why. I knew it was the reason and have been saying for a year now that it must be the MSILs.
I bet the reason they had to stay stum is because it would be pointing the finger at BTw.. which in turn would make the other shared ISPs sit up and take notice and moan that the shared MSILs were struggling. As it turned out there was only really AAISP and certain PN customers who were astute enough to notice it. I think a couple of Zen users did.. but not enough EU's to cause a major stink.
You know what a hard time a few of us had convincing certain people that it wasnt local/SVLANs etc. Certain people also caused a lot of noise which often took the topic and caused threads to be closed and become garbage. That in turn wound even more people up.. and why some started moving away... and why I stopped bothering to post.
I had a hellish time convincing people that there was such a product as WBMC dedicated in the first place. I also recall someone throwing the blame over to TBB
Can we please keep this thread on topic
1) I don't want it closing like the old one was
2) The latest speedtest/flash result has nothing to do with it. - Please don't give plusnet an excuse that isn't there to back out and ignore whats going on. This happened in the other thread. :/
I've shown above that its not a fault with the TBB speedtester by checking throughput on my local machine & its nothing to do with flash because I was doing normal http stuff. You could clearly see that Im getting the same speed on single thread using Netmeter whilst doing a http download.
Of course things are going to look better after 10:30
Has it not occurred to anyone that just possibly its the BTw MSILs that are in melt-down and that's why loads of people are seeing the same thing regardless of ISP.
Deathtrap/Tommy45, the reason youre likely seeing it too is because you also use an ISP that uses the shared WBMC MPLS core.
I told you that via PM about 8hrs ago that multi-threaded speedtesters just mask the problem. I said about 5 months ago that this issue could likely stem from the MSILs.