NowTV?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

NowTV?

Yes indeed, but given the number of people with dishes on their wall I would suspect that the internet streaming load would be less than for the totally internet based Amazon offering.

Can you imagine what it will be like if Corbyn gets in and gives free bb to everyone we will be lucky to see a couple of kbps never mind mbps and only allowed to visits sites that they want you to see of course

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

NowTV?

Not making a dent compared to Amazon.

In reply to a post by tommy45:

Can you imagine what it will be like if Corbyn gets in and gives free bb to everyone we will be lucky to see a couple of kbps never mind mbps and only allowed to visits sites that they want you to see of course

I'm kinda suspecting he might backtrack on that "single ISP" idea as its rather dumb, but possibly was the only way to get across the idea to the public who barely understand what an ISP is.

Nationalised Openreach, fair enough, though arguably the worst time to do it now they finally are investing in FTTP.

But a single ISP is going to cripple the country. If it has a fault, the whole country comes to a standstill (rather like demanding we only have a single route to any location over our roads), very dumb idea, not counting the privacy issues and site blocking potential.

As for the topic, I've definitely been seeing issues on both my Zen and PlusNet lines the last few days. Its played absolute havoc with my VPN, it had 50% packet loss and 2000ms ping at one point when not even heavily loaded.

In reply to a post by alexatkin:

As for the topic, I've definitely been seeing issues on both my Zen and PlusNet lines the last few days. Its played absolute havoc with my VPN, it had 50% packet loss and 2000ms ping at one point when not even heavily loaded.

Yeah my line continues to look poor. I'm also getting failures trying to launch the TBB speed test. Speedtest.net runs and gives a reasonable speed.

In my case a couple of days prior to 'the big one' DLM gave me a rare boost. This came after an engineer had finally fixed a noisy voice line (it had never seemed to bother my broadband as it was still connecting at 70Mb/s). So some of my issues could be down to the DLM having gone too far. Except that the issues weren't present for the first couple of days and appear to have been triggered by 'the big one' unlikely though that seems.

Edited by Andrue (Sat 07-Dec-19 09:01:40)

In reply to a post by alexatkin:

In reply to a post by tommy45:

Can you imagine what it will be like if Corbyn gets in and gives free bb to everyone we will be lucky to see a couple of kbps never mind mbps and only allowed to visits sites that they want you to see of course

I'm kinda suspecting he might backtrack on that "single ISP" idea as its rather dumb, but possibly was the only way to get across the idea to the public who barely understand what an ISP is.

Nationalised Openreach, fair enough, though arguably the worst time to do it now they finally are investing in FTTP.

But a single ISP is going to cripple the country. If it has a fault, the whole country comes to a standstill (rather like demanding we only have a single route to any location over our roads), very dumb idea, not counting the privacy issues and site blocking potential.

As for the topic, I've definitely been seeing issues on both my Zen and PlusNet lines the last few days. Its played absolute havoc with my VPN, it had 50% packet loss and 2000ms ping at one point when not even heavily loaded.

There is no such thing as FREE either Someone has to pay for everything, Could you imagine how long you would need to wait for a repair? if it was nationalized investment would slump, sftaff pensions would be raided it would not work, he also talks of nationalization of the utilities , which he can't because they are no longer British owned any more , then he wants to tax the motorist fuel hikes , so the food prices also go up so his pipe dream of a high min wage will not mean anything

Not seeing any issues here in MK this evening (using a 39 Mbps BTW FTTP connection).

In reply to a post by techguy:

Not seeing any issues here in MK this evening (using a 39 Mbps BTW FTTP connection).

Me neither so far tonight, it seems to have been an isolated incident that is thought to be due to demand and lack of supply generated by AMAZON PRIME's live coverage of football though no official confirmation or explanation as to why throughput dropped to sub 3mbps at one point

In reply to a post by techguy:

Not seeing any issues here in MK this evening (using a 39 Mbps BTW FTTP connection).

It seems to have settled down here in Brackley as well.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...

What a strange week. I don't see how a surge in demand one evening can disrupt the network for days after but my TBBQM looks like that. Got to be something else in play.