Issues tonight?

[#1]

Noticed a software update was downloading very slow.......
Wednesday Night just before 11pm, speeds slow, again. Copper
Normally 17mb/s+
Note, all online times an hour out !!
London Server

However, locally, Manchester...

Birmingham


London speed dropped again !

Re-checked London speed

Re-checked Manchester speed, still high (normal)


I appreciate it is a BT problem, not a PlusNet one, but PN have better tech tools than I have !

[#2]

No BBC problems tonight at 2305, but both BT Testers giving stupid results - upload quicker than download 

[#3]

BBC iPlayer test shows good speeds here too...Copper



Re-checked London

Re-checked local Manchester


Speedtest normally defaults to London, and measures 17mb/s+, just checked previous readings.
I rang PN, 11:30pm, they suggest a router re-set.
But I have been getting good speeds for days now via London, apart from Tuesday evening !
As I am using the web now for simple stuff, I'll wait till the morning, and re-set then if measured London speeds are stil low.
Tested a different server down South ( bypassing London ?)
Bournemouth, way down South

London appears to be slow, for some reason.

And the majority of the Olympics events are being held in ............. LONDON !  
BT reserve backup circuit

[#4]

And we are probably going to need it, with all the "major" BTw Network outages in the last 9-12 months, I have no faith in it's resilience 

[#5]

03:20am
London back up to normal speed again

Manchester, still good

I did not re-boot router, just waited in the Land of Nod.

[#6]

Quote from: PlusComUK

Noticed a software update was downloading very slow.......

Software updates are very likely to be slowed down as per the traffic management on your account type.
If it's only the London server that's showing the slow speed, and all others are normal then surely it's that speedtest server having the issues?

[#7]

Surely it's probably traffic in the London area ?
Olympics will mostly be in the London area
Appreciate that is out of your control.
And only late evening ?
Or the circuit between the Midlands and London ?

[#8]

It could be that the machine that runs the speed test is overloaded.  Or the link it is on is saturated.  Or any router in between it and you is congested.    Very hard to tell if it's a problem or not!

[#9]

I would think it's a saturated link, around London, bearing in mind the correlation with football matches and the aftermath both nights.

[#10]

Quote from: Anotherone

@houlton23 Does any streaming run faster than that anyway? If so can you enlighten me?

It seems to vary, for example in the iPlayer Diagnostics I just ran, one was limited to 10Mbps, and the other two were limited to 20Mbps (Netmeter graph) - there's nothing in the rate limit table for Extra Fibre that is rate limited to 20Mbps, so not sure what's going on there.
Whenever I 'stream-rip' from iPlayer (kind of downloading the streams, which end up in the streaming queue, rather than the download server queue which is traffic managed - see this, they normally come down at 10Mbps, however I have noticed that if I set off another 'stream-rip' at the same time, it will go at 10Mbps aswell as the other download, making 20Mbps total. I haven't tested this in any real depth so can't confirm it is repeatable.
Alex

[#11]

Friday 4th May 00:15am
Here we go again.
London (default) slow, Manchester (local) not.
Local Elections this time !



And at 04:30, London back up to speed.