Bloody Olympics...

Spetznaz · 21 Aug 2008 at 14:43

Broadband ADSL

Wednesday 20th Aug 2008 - 12:00pmWe are seeing a very large increase in the amount of traffic over our broadband network this week due to video streaming of the Olympics.

Many parts of the Internet, including the BT network, telephone exchanges, transit providers and peering points are experiencing huge increases in traffic, some claiming to be seeing over 150% more than normal, which is having a detrimental affect on speeds.

Other Internet Service Providers are reporting identical speed problems. We are working closely with our partners and BT Wholesale to minimise the impact, prior to the Olympics finishing.

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Cant play BF2 cos I'm getting high pings, ffs I dont understand why so many
people want to watch sailing, archery etc lol?.

howler · 21 Aug 2008 at 15:03

which ISP is that?

Mittens · 21 Aug 2008 at 19:12

I imagine most are being affected, i know i am on ukfsn.

Spetznaz · 21 Aug 2008 at 19:38

fast.co.uk but things have settled down now, hope this doesn't happen again tomorrow.

.Griff. · 21 Aug 2008 at 19:41

Can't say I've noticed any issues at all.

Rainmaker · 21 Aug 2008 at 19:45

Me either, but then I'm on Easynet's LLU \

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dbmzk1 · 21 Aug 2008 at 19:48

If something like the Olympics is causing issues it's time to switch ISP. That is utterly pathetic! No issues what so ever here with Virgin Media.

LoadsaMoney · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:06

Pmsl, its the end of the Internet, it can't even cope with the Olympics, WERE DOOMED!!!!!.

willhub · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:08

BS that, we've had BBCi player longer than this years Olympics and no one said that was causing any problems.

speeduk · 21 Aug 2008 at 23:42

Im with ADSL24. Between 11am and 2pm most days this week, upto 5 of the 6 channels of total bandwidth have been just about maxed out! My download speed dropped to about 500kb's earlier and it took ages to land on the only channel with max speed.

It was strange to see about 80% of the total available bandwidth soaked up though.

dbmzk1 · 22 Aug 2008 at 03:03

speeduk said:
Im with ADSL24. Between 11am and 2pm most days this week, upto 5 of the 6 channels of total bandwidth have been just about maxed out! My download speed dropped to about 500kb's earlier and it took ages to land on the only channel with max speed.

It was strange to see about 80% of the total available bandwidth soaked up though.

Why not just put BBC1 on :confused:

Craigius · 22 Aug 2008 at 07:43

Mine seems ok with BE*

bad_ass_neil · 22 Aug 2008 at 11:41

willhub said:
BS that, we've had BBCi player longer than this years Olympics and no one said that was causing any problems.

really?

http://www.filmdetail.com/archives/2007/08/13/bbc-iplayer-bandwidth-concerns/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7336940.stm

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/08/13/isps_warn_bbc_over_iplayer_bandwidth_use.html

Cuchulain · 22 Aug 2008 at 11:44

Spetznaz said:
fast.co.uk but things have settled down now, hope this doesn't happen again tomorrow.

That's what you get for using a poxy overpriced company who have never been able to manage their bandwidth, I left them ages ago, best move I ever made.

bigredshark · 22 Aug 2008 at 11:54

It is a huge increase in traffic, we're seeing a 40% increase in our traffic to the BBC in the last two weeks. Rather fortunately I've just brought online 2 dedicated fibre peering links with the BBC otherwise our LINX connections would be taking a battering. I wouldn't be surprises if some ADSL ISPs are having a hard time, it's a serious traffic increase. Our centrals aren't too bad at the moment though, about 65% capacity used, the bulk of traffic seems to be people at work watching the olympics.

If they're having fun now though then the end of the olympics will be compensated by the BBC moving to h.264 for iplayer in september, thats 800k streams instead of 500k so 60% more bandwidth usage. That's going to hurt a bit too...

Spetznaz · 22 Aug 2008 at 12:05

Cuchulain said:
That's what you get for using a poxy overpriced company who have never been able to manage their bandwidth, I left them ages ago, best move I ever made.

I'm getting some extra latency again today. I think you maybe right I'm paying top £££ for this and its not really acceptable is it?. Would it be any different on another ISP though?, fast seem to be blaming everyone else..

Tracing route to www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 47 ms 54 ms 47 ms 213.130.147.49
3 42 ms 44 ms 39 ms 195-82-97-238.rdns.as8401.net [195.82.97.238]
4 45 ms 50 ms 45 ms te2-3.cr05.hx2.bb.gxn.net [193.203.5.14]
5 35 ms 35 ms 39 ms vl3953.cr05.tn5.bb.gxn.net [62.72.137.29]
6 47 ms 50 ms 49 ms gi1-1-6.ar01.tn5.bb.gxn.net [62.72.140.142]
7 49 ms 47 ms 44 ms ge-0-0-0-3801.jolt-gw.cust.pipex.net [212.241.24
1.14]
8 50 ms 48 ms 43 ms secure.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]

bigredshark · 22 Aug 2008 at 12:18

Spetznaz said:
I'm getting some extra latency again today. I think you maybe right I'm paying top £££ for this and its not really acceptable is it?. Would it be any different on another ISP though?, fast seem to be blaming everyone else..

Tracing route to www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 47 ms 54 ms 47 ms 213.130.147.49
3 42 ms 44 ms 39 ms 195-82-97-238.rdns.as8401.net [195.82.97.238]
4 45 ms 50 ms 45 ms te2-3.cr05.hx2.bb.gxn.net [193.203.5.14]
5 35 ms 35 ms 39 ms vl3953.cr05.tn5.bb.gxn.net [62.72.137.29]
6 47 ms 50 ms 49 ms gi1-1-6.ar01.tn5.bb.gxn.net [62.72.140.142]
7 49 ms 47 ms 44 ms ge-0-0-0-3801.jolt-gw.cust.pipex.net [212.241.24
1.14]
8 50 ms 48 ms 43 ms secure.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]

As far as I can see there are no major congestion issues in BTs ATM network at present, there might be individual exchange congestion though. I'd say it's your ISP, our network is busy but we're not affecting users in a measureable way Latency to the bbc is with 10% of average

If their transit or peering is busy thats their fault, they need to upgrade it. It's only if it's BT they can claim innocence, but it doesn't look to be affecting BTs network too badly from where I'm standing...

Spetznaz · 22 Aug 2008 at 12:57

Well I phoned their tech support line and they basically said it was "congestion on the BT network" and that other ISP's were getting the same reports, I'm not convinced now but as the Olympics finishes on Sunday I might as well just wait I suppose, however next time I get a slowdown/downtime with Fast I think it will be migration time, they've p***ed me off now. I'm paying more for them because I thought they would be more reliable than cheaper providers but it seems not...

I guess it could be my exchanges capacity that is the issue but I've no way of finding this out.

bigredshark · 22 Aug 2008 at 15:13

Spetznaz said:
Well I phoned their tech support line and they basically said it was "congestion on the BT network" and that other ISP's were getting the same reports, I'm not convinced now but as the Olympics finishes on Sunday I might as well just wait I suppose, however next time I get a slowdown/downtime with Fast I think it will be migration time, they've p***ed me off now. I'm paying more for them because I thought they would be more reliable than cheaper providers but it seems not...

I guess it could be my exchanges capacity that is the issue but I've no way of finding this out.

I can tell you it isn't BT, I work for an ISP and we have zero problems related to BT congestion at present. If it was a widespread BT problem we'd be seeing something. Could be your exchange but more likely they're covering for their own lack of network investment.

R4z0r · 22 Aug 2008 at 16:10

bigredshark said:
If they're having fun now though then the end of the olympics will be compensated by the BBC moving to h.264 for iplayer in september, thats 800k streams instead of 500k so 60% more bandwidth usage. That's going to hurt a bit too...

This will hurt more, unless you peer with level3.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/n...set-to-increase-the-pressure-on-isps-423.html