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Author Topic: Slow Speeds  (Read 4203 times)

feliscatusx2

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Slow Speeds
« on: October 11, 2006, 09:11:54 PM »

PlusNet 2Mb BB+, slow yesterday (1.6Mb)  :(, VERY slow today (456Kb)  >:(.

Anybody else having problems?

Router seems happy, still syncing (?) at 2272, SNR 12 & Attenuation @ 49.

Contention? Rain? Thunderstorms this AM? Sheer bloody mindedness?
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feliscatusx2

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Re: Slow Speeds
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2006, 09:26:00 PM »

Recent PN speed tests ( I usually use http://www.dslzoneuk.net/ which tend to show faster speeds, this give me a nice warm feeling.

11-10-2006   21:19:46     408.1
11-10-2006   21:16:50      347.6
21-09-2006   19:28:40   1919.6
14-09-2006   20:01:50   1923.0
18-08-2006   19:56:03   1890.2
26-07-2006   20:29:32   1880.3
19-07-2006   19:46:14   1938.2
04-07-2006   20:01:19   1932.2
29-06-2006   19:23:58   1856.2
28-05-2006   21:30:59   1911.0
26-05-2006   15:23:10   1903.6
17-05-2006   20:52:21   1651.6
02-05-2006   20:11:28   1364.7
02-05-2006   20:10:58   1521.7
28-04-2006   20:52:37   1935.8
28-04-2006   20:52:11   1915.5


You are currently connected to the "Telehouse East, Juniper 4" gateway. This gateway is sometimes known as pte-ag2.
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Re: Slow Speeds
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2006, 04:03:48 PM »

eke..  thats a hell of a sudden drop.
sorry been a bit busy over the past couple of days so not been around. :/

iirc youre still on a fixed 2Mb account and you havent been maxed?

Theres a couple of things it could be
1) exchange contention
2) Youre on a congested pipe.

Re 1)
If youre getting slow speeds you should perform a btw speedtest which will help diagnostics.
The btw speedtest completely bypasses your ISP and tests your speed between your home connection and the BT RAS.

Details how to do a BTw speedtest
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/btwspeedtest.htm

You need to log onto the speedtest domain.  If you are having problems connecting to http://217.35.209.142 try http://217.32.105.42

2)  On occasions certain gateways can become more crowded than others... normally a disconnect and reconnect of your router will put you on a different gateway.
You can check which gateway you are connected to from here
http://users.plus.net/@gateway



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Re: Slow Speeds
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2006, 05:28:12 PM »

Back to 1.94 today  ;D

Must have been them damn Pixies again.  I will keep an eye on it.
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