Broadband dramatic speed slowdown at peak times.

This for the max product... is it meant to be 20Mb??!!! Box is sync'd at 18,381

Surely i win the ping contest. To dublin from here in Glasgow!

On an 8mb line here. sad.

Yea I'm synced at 6,699.
Its peak time usage that is terrible.
They are trying to fix something and don't have the capacity to support the network at peak times asfaik.

getting 14mb off peak and 500k peak

o2 customer services wont do anything about it as they told me it is because my router has to be plugged into the master socket - i tried to tell them that this is not a good idea when its located in a toddlers bedroom! (and its funny how a neighbour has his o2 router plugged into the master socket, and he gets exactly the same speeds )

ADMIT ITS YOUR FAULT o2 PLEASE!!

The story Ive been told tonight from o2 customer services is that there main fiber optic cable is broke and transferring data all over the place. Anyone been told a different story?

I suspect that's yet another #### excuse.

Have a click on BE's status page.

https://www.bethere.co.uk/networkStatusScreenForForum.do

Apparently there aren't any problems lmao.

What a joke.

That one's new to me.

A problem in Manchester apparently thats causing havoc all over uk so they say.But it looks like its a smokescreen for peak time throttling!!

that is true but is not the case for the congestion issues that have affected most of the llu users for 6+ months

I am an LLU user and i have to say i have had no problems at all until the back end of last week. but looking at the posts over a few months there does seem to be a bit of ristriction at peak times.

has to be peaktime throttling.

Honestly, try it again at morning. Im getting my full 3mb at 8am no problem. During the day, speeds are just fine, until it hits 6pm and then BAM slooooooooow

Sounds like they're stealthily trialling peak-time caps/throttling to me, if the problems have been going on for 6 months. Oversubscribed with people actually using their broadband to the capacity (how dare they!) and they're in trouble. So they just cut it back for everyone. The light users, the web-surfers and the Facebooker's won't notice the difference. The heavy downloaders, the gamers and those wanting to watch IPTV will notice straight away.

It happened at Telewest/Virgin. Took months and months before anybody actually came out and admitted what they were doing, and then it becaming a shifting goalpost - download X amount between A and B hours, get throttled X amount -- only they weren't telling the whole truth. X became Y, A and B became C through F, X tripled until you didn't know when, where and what you could do with your connection. In the end their 'unlimited' broadband became 'unlimited only when you were sleeping'. I was paying £25 month for a 10MB connection that I could actually use around about half the day, if I was lucky.

British Broadband should become as ludicrous a saying as a Tall Midget.

*despairs, he really does*

There's a big problem with that though.

I don't download at all and notice straight away, as normal web surfing becomes painfully slow. I struggle to get into my own website at times.

Maybe they're gauging reactions to what they're doing? I don't really know, just that it's suspicouly like what happened over at Telewest/Virgin when I was with them. Same kind of forum explosions, same kind of guesses from users, and shifting explanations from the ISP. Before we knew it the caps were in force, the speed was ludicrous during peak hours and it wasn't worth wasting money with them anymore.

I hope it's just a fault somewhere, or they're trying to build in new mechanisms to cope with the upsurges in traffic, but the hope is only slight at the moment.

Im noticing a massive difference just browsing.
www.bbc.co.uk takes average of 15 seconds to load.
www.yahoo.co.uk averages 11 seconds.

This is almost as slow as my iPhone on 3G and in some signal areas this is slower than 3G.
I'm not sure if its peak time throttling as I had these speeds at 4.30am Sunday morning which isn't exactly peak time!
I'm more inclined to believe that there are issues with the networks.
Who knows!