Poor upload from O2?

PikeyPriest · 6 Sep 2009 at 00:27

Recently got an O2 connection (8mb) - flat choice not my own.

It activated on friday and although it works it seems to crawl along 24/7. Speed tests look impressive with it ranging between 6-12mbps. But they all fail due to timeout on the upload test and uploading any 0.5mb document on hotmail will just hang forever.

Is it possible that a poor upload is completely crippling the line? Here are the stats:

Uptime: 0 days, 0:47:33
DSL Type: G.992.5 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1,321 / 17,043
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]: 0.00 / 0.00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 18.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 16.0 / 31.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 6.5 / 6.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / BDCM
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 4,279
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 5
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 48 / 4

Thanks for any suggestions. I dont think there is anyone using torrents..etc and it has always been like

marc2003 · 6 Sep 2009 at 00:44

I dont think there is anyone using torrents

can you get back to us when you're absolutely sure? kick everybody else off the router if you have to.

PikeyPriest · 6 Sep 2009 at 00:51

marc2003 said:
can you get back to us when you're absolutely sure? kick everybody else off the router if you have to.

lol, unfortunately i can't. The options available on the router are pretty limited. Still unable to even start an upload test. They all just hang :confused:

marc2003 · 6 Sep 2009 at 01:15

have a look and see how much data has been uploaded.

http://o2wirelessbox.lan/cgi/b/is/_ethoa_/ov/?be=0&l0=1&l1=1&name=O2_ADSL2plus

that might give you an idea if someone is raping the upload.

Rroff · 6 Sep 2009 at 01:23

I've seen something like this before but unforunatly can't remember details...

Think tweaking MTU or RWin might fix it.

PikeyPriest · 6 Sep 2009 at 11:37

Uptime: 0 days, 1:01:32
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]: 440.67 / 825.70

Doesn't look too terrible. Not sure if there is traffic shaping going on or something. But last night i could play TF2 with 30 ping and no problems, but the bbc and other websites can take 10s to load and many timeout (hotmail, eggcard, facebook). I`m also unable to stream iplayer (non-HD) due to constant loading pauses - which is frankly rubbish bearing in mind that my mobile can support loading them without problem

Later:

Uptime: 0 days, 1:26:55
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/MB]: 2.32 / 8.00

Doesn't look like the upload is being raped. Even having timeouts reloading this page

PaulyJay · 6 Sep 2009 at 11:48

PikeyPriest said:
Uptime: 0 days, 1:01:32
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]: 440.67 / 825.70

Doesn't look too terrible. Not sure if there is traffic shaping going on or something. But last night i could play TF2 with 30 ping and no problems, but the bbc and other websites can take 10s to load and many timeout (hotmail, eggcard, facebook). I`m also unable to stream iplayer (non-HD) due to constant loading pauses - which is frankly rubbish bearing in mind that my mobile can support loading them without problem

The slow websites could be down to DNS, give OpenDNS a go.

I don't know about iplayer but I find youtube to be very slow at loading, not sure if Be/O2 have messed up their peering or something?