Broadband gone to **** again. So angry, why is this allowed to be called "broad" band?

d_brennen · 21 Mar 2011 at 22:32

LOL so slow I can't even view that ^

Had Sky for nearly 4 months, been good, if not amazing. Been like this for nearly 5 days (it's fine in the wee hours but not before 12 midnight, of course) and their tech support make me want to cry. Had a nightmare on occasion with VM ADSL in the past too. Have I defragmented my hard drive?! Turn it on and off?! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGh - there is obviously a problem, I have done all the usual, changed filters, rebooted router (I have the one Sky sent and a Linksys), master socket etc. I am not a prolific downloader, no torrents, only watch about two hours of iPlayer a week, so I am not being throttled. Anyone know of anything I can do?

They say there is no problem with the network in my area, and if an engineer visited during the day there probably would be no problem, but everyone's at work, me included. So tired of crap broadband, I've no fibre, the only LLU is TalkTalk but I've got 8 months of Sky left

On the plus side my upload speed is over 4 times my download speed, not many can say that :rolleyes:

Just ran another

d_brennen · 21 Mar 2011 at 22:43

System Up Time: 01:24:23
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 19281 20220 0 717 3484 01:23:51
LAN 18856 17596 0 3216 717 01:24:24
WLAN 6078 5545 0 1375 447 00:41:39
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 8128 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 14.5db 8.0db
Noise Margin 10.8db 27.0db

Sorry for the formatting, I'd upload a pic but life is too short

I'm on Sky connect, the only LLU on my exchange is TalkTalk apparently, my street doesn't have VM or BT fibre yet. I'll point out now I have no idea what the above stats show

d_brennen · 21 Mar 2011 at 22:53

Aye Belfast Malone is indeed my exchange, less than 1000m of cable from my house (according to the last BT dude I spoke to)

I'm familiar with the BT speedtester unfortunately, jumped through hoops to no end with VM ADSL. Apart from the odd Steam game in a month or two and maybe a couple of iPlayer programs a week (not day!) so it can't possibly be throttling. That kind of speed isn't throttling is it? Looks far too low?

Thanks for the replies

d_brennen · 21 Mar 2011 at 23:54

Nearly midnight and it's back to normal, sort of speeds I have been seeing normally in the evenings

Time for bed unfortunately, another evening devoid of CSS :/

d_brennen · 23 Mar 2011 at 18:45

Hmm, there's no way I'd have dl'ed more than 1.3GB in any given day for a couple of weeks

Seems to be back to normal now...

d_brennen · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:56

fluff said:
85ms isn't normal.

Tis for me from here to maidenhead

I get 45ms or so on my favourite CSS server, which is fine for me. Love rubbing it in when pawning <15ms players