evening speeds

What speeds should i be seeing in the evening? Im getting half what i am in the morning.

Yesterday 21.24
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/results/98343962.png

Today 07.21
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/results/98387162.png

Look at the latency on your BQM last night and now.

Congestion somewhere. Or did you have a machine doing something heavy at the same time as the speed test?

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 31-May-11 08:54:50)

I wasnt aware of anything downloading last night. My wife may have been downloading. Will check and make sure later.

In reply to a post by ConorMK:

What speeds should i be seeing in the evening? Im getting half what i am in the morning.

Yesterday 21.24
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/results/98343962.png

Today 07.21
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/results/98387162.png

Are you on Plusnet? Web traffic is "shaped" in the evening to 20Mb max, unless you have the Pro add-on.

Can see by profile that he is Plusnet.

Help site has details on the traffic shaping as well as a nice wee tool on usertools to show the limits;

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Mike.

I have a similar problem and think my issue is congestion at local exchange or routing.

Except mines a lot worse at sporadic times of the day even down to 0.6meg before 9am. BT have put it right twice in as many weeks, last time was Friday and gone again today.

I thought they had to supply you with a minimum of 12meg download speed.

In reply to a post by hareng:

I thought they had to supply you with a minimum of 12meg download speed.

I think OR "guarantee" it between the cabinet and you if you are on the 15Mbps estimate or higher product. What the individual ISP supplies works just like it did on ADSLx - some are good, some are bad. If only 0.6Mbps gets from the ISP to the exchange >> cabinet, 0.6Mbps is what you get.

I don't remember you giving us a speedtest.net banner result, which may show who your ISP is, underlying WebTapestry?

Yep its shaped between 6 and 11 every evening to 20MB.

Thanks Robert i'll do better than that and sorry for the hijack but could be a related issue?
http://www.speedtest.net/results.php?sh=aa986b6d883d...

I do expect it to fluctuate, 37 to 20+ meg down would be tolerable.

Shame - it doesn't. The IP address is Axamba t/a WebTapestry, which doesn't help at all. Almost implies a normal BT Wholesale connection to their own routers. I thought they were purely resellers.

Can't think of why it should drop to 0.6Mbps sorry . When you say BT fixed it, what happened?

I think they use the Cisco network if that helps.

Contacted ISP both times and was informed BT were looking in to it.
First time it took 2 days second time a week to cure. Speeds increased rarely dropping below 30meg any time of the day, when it did only to about 27 ish meg.

Most of the speed tests in the 20mb region have a massive delay before anything happens then start off slow 1 to 3mb ish, fluctuating 2/3 way through tests then wham and registers that peak performance bearing no resemblance to the connection. Used to have this on ADSL and ADSL2+ with other ISP's.

Actually theres a two lower speeds 20 and 21 May 0.48 and 0.36meg.