What's up?

[#1]

Those hamsters at LINX looks like they need some more Red Bull again 

[#2]

Looks as though I have been spared this evening 

[#3]

C:\Users\John>tracert community.plus.net
Tracing route to community.plus.net [212.159.8.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    1 ms    2 ms    1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    21 ms    21 ms    18 ms  lo0-central1.pcl-ag03.plus.net [195.166.128.238]
  3    *        *      13 ms  gi1-6-311.pcl-gw01.plus.net [84.92.6.64]
  4    28 ms    27 ms    27 ms  po5.ptn-gw01.plus.net [212.159.1.131]
  5    31 ms    27 ms    28 ms  gi3-0.pih-cr1.plus.net [212.159.1.177]
  6    47 ms    27 ms    27 ms  if25.pih-lb03.plus.net [212.159.0.17]
  7  975 ms    27 ms    27 ms  community.plus.net [212.159.8.110]
Trace complete.
look good lol fun fun tonight let the slow speed and load up begin 

[#4]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1205278387.png
121ms ping  Fast path  

[#5]

Yes, I can also confirm that I have been struggling over the last 2-3 days. My connection will be fine for a while and then suddenly pages start to time out. The router remains rock solid throughout.
There are enough people complaining here to suggest that something is seriously wrong somewhere. Track it down please Plusnet, this has gone on long enough now...

[#6]

It was about 10 days ago I noticed things weren't as they should be - Speeds took a dramatic drop just after 9pm, but everything was ok with DSl stats, router etc  There were a few big football matches on that week so I didn't think any more of it
Then about 5 days ago it started getting slow after 8 pm and then the last couple of night is happened at just after 6pm...  It has got to the point that you may as well switch off after 6pm now because you lose the will to live waiting for a page to come up 

[#7]

Just to report, at 20.00 now downloading about 2500k. So, not anywhere near as dire as last night but not normal either.

[#8]

I can''t get the speed test page to load tonight  !!!

[#9]

Its not just PN it seems so it points to LINX.
Be*/02, Sky ,BT are all having issues the ISP just don't seem to want to acknowledge it. ?

[#10]

looks like they had a good bite https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html

[#11]

It's happening again tonight.  Speedtests are all fine -

- yet random sites are failing to connect or taking minutes to load.   I see it's happening on other ISPs too, but seeing as I'm paying my money to Plusnet is there any idea as to when Plusnet are going to offer an explanation?

[#12]

Yes those hamsters are struggling again...
Pings to Mindenhead are in the 50-70ms range and getting worse. ( Thats on Fastpath ) 

[#13]

Happening to me this evening - speedtests look OK, sync OK, but pages randomly timing out during loading, Unable to connect to Itunes store, POP3 email timing out. 

[#14]

It's happened again to me too,  I have got severe drops in download speed  (normal rate is about 3.8Mb)  tonight less than 1Mb and will drop even further in an hour or so if the past few days are to go by
All other settings normal , line sync,  profiles, Router/line stats inc snr etc.
I probably won't be able to get on to any sites later on (like last night and the night before...)

[#15]

Download speed erratic tonight. At 20.00 around 1240kbps. Some pages better than others, as has been commented.