Does anyone suffer from highly variable speeds on Be Pro? I was with UK Online for almost 2 years on their legacy 24/1 meg package, and extremely happy with them. I got 22 meg sync and 18.5 or so megs throughput rock solid, 24/7/365.
Since moving to Be, I've noticed that in the evenings my speeds from Usenet vary wildly. They literally dance up and down between 12 and 18.5 Mbps, like a rollercoaster. Some nights, like tonight, they are as bad as 7 to 18.5Mbps.
At first I thought Astraweb was to blame, but they disavowed responsibility. I tried a free trial from another excellent provider, and the speed was identical. I find now that instead of 5 connections/threads (as required on UK Online), I need 15 to 20 connections to maintain my full speed.
Fair enough, I could just stick to high numbers of connections. But I'm not the only person in the house using the service through the router, and my using that many connections basically leaves next to none spare for my partner who then suffers appalling speed.
Since this didn't happen on UKO, and now happens across more than one NSP, I'm guessing Be are to blame? Doesn't the fact higher numbers of connections increases speed point to congestion? My line appears faultless and my stats are great (3dB snrm, fastpath). I'm not a happy bunny.
Since moving to Be, I've noticed that in the evenings my speeds from Usenet vary wildly. They literally dance up and down between 12 and 18.5 Mbps, like a rollercoaster. Some nights, like tonight, they are as bad as 7 to 18.5Mbps.
At first I thought Astraweb was to blame, but they disavowed responsibility. I tried a free trial from another excellent provider, and the speed was identical. I find now that instead of 5 connections/threads (as required on UK Online), I need 15 to 20 connections to maintain my full speed.
Fair enough, I could just stick to high numbers of connections. But I'm not the only person in the house using the service through the router, and my using that many connections basically leaves next to none spare for my partner who then suffers appalling speed.
Since this didn't happen on UKO, and now happens across more than one NSP, I'm guessing Be are to blame? Doesn't the fact higher numbers of connections increases speed point to congestion? My line appears faultless and my stats are great (3dB snrm, fastpath). I'm not a happy bunny.
