Slow speeds afternoon and evening

[#1]

jelv's quick off the mark today
B.

[#2]

I'd been considering posting something similar myself as reading all the posts last night it was obvious something is going wrong. Gold drops shouldn't get up to nearly 1.5%.
I wonder if they'll put a service status out - hopefully with a link to your topic!

[#3]

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I wonder if they'll put a service status out - hopefully with a link to your topic!

Yep, I'm certainly looking at doing that.

[#4]

OK I'll paste something into BZ's thread , but I'll just add the following comments  ... I struggle (have always  struggled) to run the BT Speedtest. I noted this in the ticket I raised (in which I also pasted a week's worth of results from mybroadbandspeed.co.uk -- PN's OWN speedtest as I understand things).
I've had a reply to my ticket which asks me to supply speedtests from thinkbroadband.com.
It just all seemed a bit weird that I've supplied data from PN's own site only to be asked to provide it from elsewhere.
ho hum

[#5]

The BT speedtester will provide us with what BT think your IP profile is, which is a very useful piece of information.
However, if you're unable to run the BT speedtester, then a couple of speedtests from different testers will be almost as good.
B.

[#6]

That I already understand, Barry.
The point of my post was to express my surprise that PN don't suggest we use their own speedtester as an alternative ...

[#7]

The gem is actually that they suggest another speed tester which duplicates the BT speedtester's most common point of failure (other than congestion):  it also requires Java. 

[#8]

Ridiculously slow speeds again this evening. 
IP Profile : Your current broadband speed is 4500 Kbps
Gateway :  Telehouse North, Juniper 1" gateway. This gateway is sometimes known as ptn-ag1.
BT Speedtester not working
Plusnet speedtester 

My patience is very low indeed 

[#9]

I've also filled in my severely throttled performance data in Barry's thread.  The funny thing is that the blasted BT speedtester decided to give me a higher throughput speed tonight!  Ha!
You never know - PN may balance those darned gateways and I'll eventually get my pound of flesh out of this broadband account.  If I could only get my hands on that Ellacoya geezer! 

[#10]

In response to Barry's template (thanks for including the links to the various sources of info):
Sorry. Now pasted to Barry's thread
Cheers,
cjc

[#11]

I think the intention was that we posted that info to Barry's new thread rather than here ?
{this won't make sense now that Cartzim has modified his post }