Odd happenings at midnight again. hmmmm.
Si i'm happily playing Call of Duty 5. When the game quits with a message of "game ended due to poor host connection". As I was the host this kicked everyone out of the game. When the next match started I had a really poor connection. I came out of the game and tried again, but it wouldn't find any games. A bit odd for having over 190k people online. The odd thing is, when I look at the clock, it's shortly after midnight. Seems to much of a coincidence to me. Especially as i've been kicked from games, and had a poor connection generally at midnight once or twice before.
So I switched the laptop on and did a speed test on speedtest.net, and bt.
The first BT speedtest hung at the "number of threads: 4" message, and the second try gave;
Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 4288 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 3000 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 1677 kbps
Surely the throughput at half the ip profile rate is a little low, especially after midnight?
Browsing is now really slow, and if it's anything like the last time, it'll come back a little bit in an hour or so.
I've just tried another game as I typed this (Left 4 Dead), got into a game, played for 3 minutes, then got booted out with "disconnected, connection with session has been lost."
I was told the last time it may be due to peoples scheduled downloads starting at midnight. Even if it was, it shouldn't interfere with my connection and gaming. Kicking me off games and making my browsing slow. Isn't gaming meant to be prioritised anyway.
It's now starting get a bit tedious.
So I switched the laptop on and did a speed test on speedtest.net, and bt.
The first BT speedtest hung at the "number of threads: 4" message, and the second try gave;
Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 4288 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 3000 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 1677 kbps
Surely the throughput at half the ip profile rate is a little low, especially after midnight?
Browsing is now really slow, and if it's anything like the last time, it'll come back a little bit in an hour or so.
I've just tried another game as I typed this (Left 4 Dead), got into a game, played for 3 minutes, then got booted out with "disconnected, connection with session has been lost."
I was told the last time it may be due to peoples scheduled downloads starting at midnight. Even if it was, it shouldn't interfere with my connection and gaming. Kicking me off games and making my browsing slow. Isn't gaming meant to be prioritised anyway.
It's now starting get a bit tedious.
Just look at what happens to the Plusnet network on the stroke of midnight each day as people kick off their off peak downloads:
Thanks for the chart, but to be honest It shouldn't matter. It shouldn't interfere with my paid for service. 
(if that's what the problem is down too).
If I can't use it for what I want, when I can, what's the point.
Well, no surprises, an hour later, and i'm back on.
(if that's what the problem is down too).If I can't use it for what I want, when I can, what's the point.
Well, no surprises, an hour later, and i'm back on.
if there aint no room on the cable, dont matter what yoy are doing, you suffer 
ASBO, if you could do that for me that would be great. Although i'd expect all xbox traffic to be priotised the same.
It doesn't kick me out every night (and i'm on most nights, ;D), just when it does, it's always at midnight.
_CN_ , There was only the xbox on at the time, everyone else was tucked up in bed.
If it was a general connection issue at my end, i'd expect web browsing and everything to be off, but I could still browse, just a bit slower than usual.
A tracert to the BBC at the time was giving me resonse times of around 50ms to the plusnet's gateways.
It doesn't kick me out every night (and i'm on most nights, ;D), just when it does, it's always at midnight.
_CN_ , There was only the xbox on at the time, everyone else was tucked up in bed.
If it was a general connection issue at my end, i'd expect web browsing and everything to be off, but I could still browse, just a bit slower than usual.
A tracert to the BBC at the time was giving me resonse times of around 50ms to the plusnet's gateways.
nope unlimited xbox traffic is still picked up o.k. in fact runing xbox through laptop and utorrent uploading at 60KB/s out of a max of 88KB/s on my desktop i was still getting full green bars. as normal thoe checked MTDM and TDM and MTDM was 3 bars where TDM was full bars.
so unlimited package is o,k for xbox still.
you using wireless and is it sercure?
and also are you wired or wireless on the xbox?
@jameseh sry i missed you the other day. i havent bein near my xbox since going unmetered my line has never stood still fo me to beable to use xbox without screaming at family members for giving some one else a cheap lag kill
p.s scrubed the local address of my xbox out the capture. dont want it getting dos attacked by this crowd http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7888369.stm
so unlimited package is o,k for xbox still.
you using wireless and is it sercure?
and also are you wired or wireless on the xbox?
@jameseh sry i missed you the other day. i havent bein near my xbox since going unmetered my line has never stood still fo me to beable to use xbox without screaming at family members for giving some one else a cheap lag kill
p.s scrubed the local address of my xbox out the capture. dont want it getting dos attacked by this crowd http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7888369.stm
I haven't noticed anything like this on (the more superior IMHO ) PSN at midnight, I suck as much after midnight as before.
) PSN at midnight, I suck as much after midnight as before.
