That's the main one, yes. I haven't seen any others, but I haven't looked. I'd be surprised if there weren't round about the time of the start of that one. (Which if posted to will be somewhere between the time of the start and end of the one you've found).

Yeah i've spotted a couple of threads which link off to other threads too from the likes of BT who seem to be having issues themselves.
Sigh looks like i picked a good time to upgrade my internet!

It's possible there is an issue somewhere in the BT Wholesale network, which will affect Plusnet, BT broadband and Infinity services, and many other ISPs. These problems can be geographic in nature, as with the issue that affected me and others in the Milton Keynes area in September 2013.

The only FTTC customers exempt from the effects of a BT Wholesale problem are those whose ISP uses an alternative backhaul network. Non-BT Wholesale users include Sky, TalkTalk (own customers and those using TalkTalk backhaul via wholesale arrangements) and those Zen customers who are on Zen's own backhaul.

Interestingly we have been on PlusNet 80/20 FTTC for a week and are outside Birmingham by Tamworth and have experienced something similar. Try a BT or TBB speed test and its 73Mbps down but download a large test file and it can drop to 15 to 20Mbps, sometimes it stays there but it can slowly ramp back up. But this morning its straight to 73Mbps.

lately there has been performance problems on plusnet reported by many on the plusnet forums, the staff are been a bit evasive as to the real reason.

Given that people are getting improved performance simply by hopping gateways (rules out SVLAN) and pro for me mysteriously improves performances the finger seems to point at plusnet.

I have also asked at least 3 times directly if plusnet can confirm their endpoints are not full but they have chose not to answer the question.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 14-Jan-15 23:00:51)

Well...i had awful performance yesterday and there was SVLAN maintenence at my exchange last night...things havent been so bad today but connecting to a server in la france is sub 500KB/s speeds which is pretty ridiculous (via P2P and HTTP) so indicates some major congestion on plusnets own network and/or peering etc

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

That's the main one, yes. I haven't seen any others, but I haven't looked. I'd be surprised if there weren't round about the time of the start of that one. (Which if posted to will be somewhere between the time of the start and end of the one you've found).

There is many other recent threads.

In reply to a post by ganicholls:

Interestingly we have been on PlusNet 80/20 FTTC for a week and are outside Birmingham by Tamworth and have experienced something similar. Try a BT or TBB speed test and its 73Mbps down but download a large test file and it can drop to 15 to 20Mbps, sometimes it stays there but it can slowly ramp back up. But this morning its straight to 73Mbps.

Try using a download tool that can kick off multiple threads. I'm finding that my multi-threading results are normal. My current theory is that the congestion has kicked off the PN traffic management and it's throttling on a per application basis where each thread is being seen as an application. But that's pure speculation so don't take it as fact

tonight I am going back to my pro enabled account, and will deliberately try to get slow speeds by hopping if it is fast.

Now is slow on my normal account as well.

Plusnet is a mess right now.