Hi guys, an extension to the discussion on the Zen thread, too early to point fingers anywhere, but I have my story to tell.
Due to some talk talk issues (which AAISP did resolve with talk talk after I put in migration order) I was perhaps been impatient and got myself switched from TTw to BTw.
During the first evening I noticed issues streaming youtube videos, so did a few speedtests.
This evening everything was slow I tested, including the AAISP libre speedtest. I couldnt be bothered so went to sleep and resumed testing early morning before ringing AAISP.
During the morning AAISP's speedtester was fast again, thinkbroadband had pretty bad single threaded still which surprised me as I was expecting it to be fast outside of peak, and multi threaded was line rate.
I rang AAISP and had to explain it wasnt me loading my network or wifi, after that was asked to run AAISP's speedtest and fast.com speedtest, they did ask me to drop to 2-4 threads on fast.com, but I told them I was going down to 1 and tested it. At single threaded it was faster but still sporadic, ranging from about 40 to just below line speed from test to test. When I told them the download file links on the AAISP speedtest page were slow it wasnt really taken serious. It was explained to me, my graph showed no signs of congestion and I was asked to do more tests and they arranged a DLM reset.
I remembered to do some more tests last night, and this time AAISP speedtester stayed fast as did TBB multi threaded, youtube also worked ok, but the test files and TBB single threaded were very slow under 3mbit/second, and fast.com just about got over 3mbit/sec.
I then analysed the AAISP speedtester traffic and noticed it actually is indeed multi threaded.
Rang them again today and had to be more pushy as I started been asked questions like "is normal stuff affected", now this is the thing, on talk talk business backhaul, as I never noticed problems, I didnt speedtest the line, I didnt check tbb single threaded, and I didnt download the aaisp test files. I can not say with certainty it didnt have these issues. But at the same time nothing went wrong to make me feel the need to check.
I have since done some more testing.
Downloading a file from one of my own web servers and also single threaded FTP seems fine, so not everything affected (if that was slow then I would have known something has changed), however only on my windows box, its slow to a linux shell wget/fetch.
Downloading a file from heztner's speedtest page is really extremely bad, anywhere from about 300kbit/second up to about 30mbit/second, odd as my server I tested from is hosted at hetzner. Not rwin issues which would flatline at buffer limit but is very up and down like would get under congestion.
AAISP's own files remain all over the place never higher then about 30-40mbit can be as low as about 3.
https://speedtest.aa.net.uk/100MB.zipI at this point wanted to rule out my networking equipment, so I connected my mobile phone and enabled tethering to PFSENSE, so its basically going through all the same hardware same cables, same switches. All I am merely doing is changing the gateway to use on the policy routing.
On the phone as gateway.
Hetzner files download at 120mbit/second single threaded.
AAISP files a little faster single threaded.
TBB 80mbit single threaded, 110 multi.
The only way I will know if TTw does fix it is if AAISP agree to switch me back, I hinted that I would accept it, but they didnt bite. The DLM looks like its been done already as well modem is syncing at 80mbit with these issues.
I might run things for a while with my phone as gateway and starting to wonder if I can ditch the DSL until CF comes to town.