O2 gone painfully slow?

dazz25 · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:02

Just came on here to see if anybody else is suffering. Here's the current speed on my 20mb connection:

I'm in Cheshire and only 20mins from Manchester!

ants83 · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:08

300kbps here. why is this happening?

dazz25 · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:15

I don't know! It happened to me a few weeks ago and they said they had problems and the traffic was being re-routed. It lasted a few days!

I've just tried to call them and the message says that they are experiencing high call volumes so I presume something big has gone wrong again!

I was really happy with O2 until now.

JamesU2005 · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:44

I left AOL because of problems like these. No I'm having them with O2! Arrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh

acantril · 8 Mar 2009 at 17:51

bad performance here too, pings are spikey as hell and download is below 1 meg.

Type_R · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:07

Just tested mine, for 13 mb sync does seem a little slow!

Dougsnake · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:33

its aweful right now carnt even stream iplayer

upload is fine though ?

edit: just saw this on be forums

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:19 pm Post subject: Sunday March 8th: Ping/Speed issue

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Dear Members,
At the moment some of you may experience slow throughput speed and increased latency. This is caused by a few links that are currenly down. Our network team is aware of the issue and as soon as we have more information, we will let you know.
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused

no mention of when its gonna be fixed though........

Hyper · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:57

Thought my internet was running very slow and spotted this thread,

Just did a speedtest and got the following:

Ussually get 10mb and 30ms ping,

Nice

Logsi · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:57

Locky · 8 Mar 2009 at 20:06

Yep 300kbps download for me, 700kbps upload. 200+ pings

sunlitsix · 8 Mar 2009 at 20:24

no issues for me, which makes a change

Alexrose1uk · 8 Mar 2009 at 20:37

Tis broken again and painfully slow tonight for me too. Just trying to ping www.jolt.co.uk I'm getting over 100, and packet loss.

Thunderbolt · 8 Mar 2009 at 20:52

This is in Bristol, incase it's regional.
Really getting annoyed with O2 now.

manjuice · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:04

My ping! ZOMG!
I still love love O2 though.

no_1_dave · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:10

Really bad in Gloucester
Downloading CoD 5 patch at 200k from newsgroups, 20 connections. Would normally be 1200k

downloading from gamershell etc - 29k right now!

Bond · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:15

Really bad here for me as well - Sunday days are usually ok but am getting more upload than on downloads. Ping to Jolt is also getting dropped packets

DJMK4 · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:46

im with be an the speeds have been dredful tonight :

80-90ms pings, packet loss,

zzzJonny · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:59

Good stuff here (download seems a bit high though?)

rIcK · 8 Mar 2009 at 22:00

Got dreadful speeds here...... and high latency. Strange this is rare... usually O2 very good for speeds and latency o_O :eek:

DJMK4 · 8 Mar 2009 at 22:05

Just run another speed test, im struggling to get over 512kbps speeds!!! this is lame