A Wimbledon effect?

Is anybody else experiencing much slower than usual download speeds this afternoon?

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/idnet/t/3660383-spe...

Is Wimbledom/ Andy Murray a likely explanation for my download speeds taking a nosedive?

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IDNet

Sync: 8128 / 832 kbps
IP Profile 7150 kbps
SNR Margin: 17.0-12.5 dB
Line Attenuation: 20.0 dB
SpeedTouch 585

I am approximately 930 metres from the exchange (straight line distance)

Edited by ARD (Fri 03-Jul-09 16:22:52)

No problems here via O2 LLU.

O2 LLU, no problem here either. Ping and throughput is fine.

About 30% slower than usual on a BT line (ADSL2).

Celeron 3400/ Athlon 3500 (Windows XP SP3), Speedtouch 585 v6, ADSL24, St Ives Cambs

The BBC sites are just about crawling along.

About 25% slower than usual.

Dennis

Greenbee Phone & Broadband

OK up here, BBC Sport Live Tennis not bad on my 2Meg connection.

Alastair

omadasafisho

Yep - it's been affecting me on Freeola/Entanet.

Interesting how many of these keen Tennis fans seem to give up watching when it's home time though; as things improved after 5pm


I guess the tennis traffic is mostly the same it's just that the normal office traffic has reduced...

The BBC pages have been crawling for me most of today...

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Freeola[EntaNet]
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SNR: Netgear DG834>2Wire 2700>Thomson ST585v6 My Router Experience

We've been using BBC sites quite heavily here without any abnormal problems except one tennis video I'm told.

In reply to a post by ARD:

Is anybody else experiencing much slower than usual download speeds this afternoon?

Your theory is possible, but I would guess the majority of people would use a TV set?? On BBC HD it was excellent last Monday, unfortunately I wasn't able to watch tonight.

the wimbledon.org website is nice and quick at work and on BE

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James - be* pro - Draytek 2820Vn = 17.7meg/2.3meg - 3db profile