Congestion at peak times ?

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/f2b4bb2f0aa...

Getting around 10mb during the evenings

pretty shocking tbh in this day and age

Seems to be very variable by region, with Manchester apparently being hit particularly badly. See various threads here and at PlusNet; it looks from outside as if PlusNet are trying to sort things but can't see what is wrong.

Still getting immaculate speeds and pings here in Winchester. (Not crowing, just putting things in perspective and adding information that might eventually help PlusNet sort things out.)

In reply to a post by StephenTodd:

Still getting immaculate speeds and pings here in Winchester. (Not crowing, just putting things in perspective and adding information that might eventually help PlusNet sort things out.)

No visible problems in Farnborough either

Getting quite a lot of packet loss at peak times here too near Wakefield:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/1ee1a7bac0c...

Glad its not just me, I was starting to winder if my line was deteriorating again.

All is good in Central Scotland: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/46d2cdd69dd...

Have you tried hopping gateway to see if that helps?

small impact here in West Sussex... all depends on gateway for me...

can honestly say the only thing I do find gets issues is Online Gaming... but that due to variable latency during the congestion periods

I tried hopping, but bng-01 seems to be about the best. Not many lost packets tonight so far though.

I was looking at the network usage graphs earlier today and it looks like the gateways are being run right to the limit and this is no good...

If Plusnet buy a nice new gateway and put a premium subscription on it then I'll be the first to sign up.... say an extra £10 -£15 a month?

there certainly is congestion on plusnet as well as on BTW at some locations the really poor throughput is down to plusnet and the latency increases for me is down to BTW Manchester bras's but plusnet also has some issues of it's own with latency these are still apparent on some lines

I have been with Plusnet for almost 18 months. Moved from BT to Plusnet because I wanted unlimited fibre. Over the past year Plusnet has been getting worse and worse. Internet becomes almost unusable at times. Just perfomed a speed test a few minutes ago. 0.70mps TERRIBLE. I pay top dollar for this? From about 4pm it steadily gets worse. Will no longer recomend Plus_NO_net to anyone. As soon as my contract is up good riddance to their lousy NON-net.

Well I'm about to move some of my latency sensitive services such as gaming and VoIP onto an Xilo ADSL line... will only be around 3mbps but should be very stable...

As far as Plusnet goes, I've got a complaint ticket open and also another regarding a isolated ping issues at PLusnet's Telehouse North Gateway!

Now that their is a line installed at my address I will certainly be transferring over to someone like Zen or one of the other higher ranked ISP's.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

First time I have noticed this, am in Aberdeen. I have been running tests for a while, more so since the issue came up but this is the first time it's affected my connection.
Am on pcl-bng02 gateway but won't be hopping to see if I get another as just about to go to bed.
Mostly my results between single & x6 is within 1-2 Mbps

Will see what the connection is like tomorrow & let you guys know.

I pay top dollar for this?

I'd agree if you were paying £30.00 or more per month for just a FTTC broadband connecton

http://i.imgur.com/xui0GWu.png

Noticed a lot of packet-loss tonight

Ignore the big red section at around 21:30, I was trying to play a game and the PL was causing issues so I took the connection offline as it was the quickest way to force all traffic to use my Virgin (cable) connection.

*update*

Took them 7 days to accuse me heavily downloading during peak periods. I cant see how netflix would max out my connection however it was strange hot it rectified itself after a reboot at 2am in the morning

Michael

You where most probably on a saturated endpoint, and the drop in pppoe session resulted in you connecting to a endpoint with spare capacity , you can do this yourself by dropping the pppoe session in your router ( don't reboot modem) AKA Gateway hopping