FTTC slowing down in Basingstoke

Well, I have FTTC in Basingstoke. Has anyone noticed it slowing to a crawl during the football and other peak times?

I can get the full 38ish mbit offpeak but during the day it seems that BT just do not have enough backhaul to cope.

Is this just me or are others noticing the same?

Rgds

I seem to recall on another Basingstoke thread that someone had a similar problem because they had exceeded the 100GB/month limit.

BT throttle you to about 1Meg or less during peak times, and return you back to normal speeds when peak time is over.

Could that be the reason?

Well this is not BT Infinity, it is FTTC via Openreach and A N Other provider. They are blaming lack of capacity within Openreach as they claim their links are generally not congested. I beleive them.

The only magic of FTTC is between the consumer and the exchange.

At the exchange Openreach hand over to whichever wholesaler/LLU ISP the consumer subscribes to. At the moment the only offerings are through BT Wholesale.

They feed it straight into the WBC system, with no dedicated capacity. So the congestion experienced in the backhaul and at the ISP's servers is just the same as if it were BT-based ADSL2+.

So probably blockages in BT Wholesale then rather than Openreach - as they do the backhaul from Basingstoke to A N Other internet.
Anyone else seeing blockages?


Rgds
T

Most of the UK apparently: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4283-world-cup-of...

the Openreach bandwidth to the exchange from the FTTC is assured / uncontended so it must be the next link on from the exchange that's the issue - if they use BT Wholesale it could be that, or they may have their own connection. Nothing to stop a SP having 100M at the exchange and 2000M of assured rate FTTC connectivity connected to it.

Have a look at TTTS and a few checks that SEB and I did - during one match. That congestion was down to another carrier - not BT. Without looking at your link all the way back, you cannot say where the congestion is occurring.

I have been using several BT links during the past few days and whilst latency increased they were providing 90% or better of their normal capacity.

In reply to a post by gr0mit:

Well this is not BT Infinity, it is FTTC via Openreach and A N Other provider. They are blaming lack of capacity within Openreach as they claim their links are generally not congested. I beleive them.

How would it be congestion within Openreach?

They lose control of it when they hand it over to BT Wholesale at the exchange, where it goes into the bog-standard screwed-up WBC system.

Hi Tim,

Out of interest have you got premium on your line? I'd consider paying the additional if it really made a difference, but not if it turns out to be ineffective at dealing with this type of congestion.