topic Re: Slow to open at times in Broadband

Slow to open at times

fox65 — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:46:26 GMT

Good morning, I had a first class broadband service until I changed to unlimited fibre extra with a new router. I now find during the day I go from a quick opening to a very slow opening when going on line. When it's normal its great but you never know what you are going to get now. If anyone can help that would be great I am just a broad band user not a expert , many thanks.

Re: Slow to open at times

jab1 — Thu, 26 May 2022 08:59:52 GMT

@fox65 Exactly what do you mean - where do you see this 'slowness'?

Re: Slow to open at times

fox65 — Thu, 26 May 2022 10:22:24 GMT

I can go into whatever site I want to and it will open instantly next time I try to go into a site or my emails it takes a little while before it opens, That goes on during the day so that I never know what i am going to get. I use Thunderbird email and Firefox browser but I also have the Opera browser and it does the same thing on that. When its what I call normal it's perfect instant but then I have to sit and wait for say1/2 minutes not something I had before I changed toFibre extra and a new router. It might have nothing to do with that ?

Re: Slow to open at times

jab1 — Thu, 26 May 2022 10:32:03 GMT

I think I now understand what you are saying. I assume you have the Hub2? If so, can you please post the information requested below - it may give us a chance to spot an issue.

For Community members to be able to help, information from these two sites, as screenshots:-

BT Broadband(obscuring your phone number) and BTW Performance Tester - Over a wired (ethernet) connection if at all possible, please report the 'ADDITIONAL DIAGNOSTICS', and sight of the broadband connection status from your Hub would be a good starting point.

For the Hub One -

Navigate from the Home Screen to Troubleshooting > Helpdesk

For the Hub Two -

Navigate from the Home Screen to Advanced Settings > Technical Log > Information

It may also be a good idea to report the results of a Quiet Line Test - dial 17070 option 2 from a (preferably corded) phone. After the confirmation of your phone number, there should be total silence apart from the regular 'Quiet Line Test' announcement. Any other noise - report a PHONE fault first.

Re: Slow to open at times

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2022 11:23:26 GMT

@fox65 wrote:

... I had a first class broadband service until I changed to unlimited fibre extra with a new router.

Were you using a Plusnet router BEFORE changing to unlimited fibre extra, or were you using an alternative commercial router ? (which might have been configured to use a faster and more reliable DNS such as Google or Cloudflare, and/or that performed local DNS caching such as 'dnsmasq')

Re: Slow to open at times

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2022 11:31:17 GMT

@fox65 wrote:

... I had a first class broadband service until I changed to unlimited fibre extra with a new router.

Was the previous router capable of working with unlimited fibre ?

I'm wondering if it is, then as an experiment, it might be worth swapping back to that to see whether the problem disappears ?

Re: Slow to open at times

fox65 — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:53:03 GMT

I am using a Hub2 router at present but still have my old one so have just switched it on and will try that over the next 24 hrs will let you know how it works out,

Re: Slow to open at times

fox65 — Fri, 27 May 2022 09:59:00 GMT

Good morning, just a quick update, my old router seems to have done the trick speed is fine and back to working as it used to do so it looks like the problem was the hub 2 router ? any idea why that would be please ?

Re: Slow to open at times

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2022 12:39:24 GMT

@fox65 wrote:

... it looks like the problem was the hub 2 router ? any idea why that would be please ?

@bobpullen is the expert on Hub 2 issues, or perhaps he knows of a firmware update that helps ?

Re: Slow to open at times

bobpullen — Fri, 27 May 2022 13:44:31 GMT

@fox65 - at the risk of sounding clichéd, did you try simply switching the Hub Two off/back on again when you were having difficulties? I'm wondering if the improvement following the swapout is a result of the line going down/coming back up, rather than the hub in use. The Hub Two could also have got itself into a pickle that required a reboot.

I'm not aware of any open issues that would result in this behaviour (not given the explanation of your setup anyway).

Re: Slow to open at times

fox65 — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:35:09 GMT

Yes I did try switching it off and back on it made no difference but my old router is working fine perhaps I should have kept it in the first place. When you are used to the internet working quickly it's not to great when you sit and have to wait , mind you my old lap top used to be like that . Thank you everyone for your input.

Re: Slow to open at times

bobpullen — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:01:00 GMT

@fox65 - perhaps it shall remain an mystery in which case.

The Hub Two is a more capable device so there's no obvious explanation as to why it would have caused you problems

Should you reinstate it and encounter the same issue, then let me know and I'll look into it further.

Re: Slow to open at times

fox65 — Sat, 28 May 2022 14:33:24 GMT

Thank you.

Re: Slow to open at times

fox65 — Tue, 31 May 2022 15:15:34 GMT

I thought I would let you know the latest, today with nothing else to do I gave the Hub2 router another try and at presnt its working fine so fingers crossed al will be well now. Strange but it's good to see it working so very happy.

Re: Slow to open at times

Gandalf — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 10:13:08 GMT

Glad to see that! Let us know if you have further issues or there's anything else you'd need help with.

Re: Slow to open at times

fox65 — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:39:35 GMT

Thank you.