FTTC slowdown 17/02/2012

Hi All,

Has anyone else noticed a drop in speed since approximately 3pm this afternoon? Latency has taken a hit and web browsing is painfully slow. I have a friend in the North East who is on Infinity and is also having problems.

Yes slow here Bolton

Yup its shocking here 600KB down 17KB up and 300ms pings.

No problems here in North Buckinghamshire (Infinity), but BT Speed Tester was 'Busy' and not accessible around that time or an hour or so before. Not tried again since.

I have just seen this on the Infinity status page:

"We are currently investigating a problem that may be causing slow or intermittent broadband connection. We are working had to resolve the issue and will update this message when more information is available"

Just to add the status page now says it will take an estimated 2hrs to resolve.

Edited by maniac886 (Fri 17-Feb-12 18:18:38)

Yep, very slow. Some sites do work though such as this site but others take ages.

Thanks for that as I can't access BT.com at all.

It seems like a peering issues as some sites are quick, others are 56k modem speeds

Yes ...

But only some sites. TBB is fine but BT's own are painful. US CBP and DHS are almost impossible to get a response from

The TBB BBQM is not giving any indication of problems here.

Looks to be fixed now, my speeds are back up.

I am with normal business broadband 8Mb and it started playing up, i did a tracert to opendns dns server and it was getting loads of packet loss at eu.bt.net gateway, i reboooted router, different gateway address and am now ok again.
Cornwall BTW.

In reply to a post by maniac886:

Hi All,

Has anyone else noticed a drop in speed since approximately 3pm this afternoon? Latency has taken a hit and web browsing is painfully slow. I have a friend in the North East who is on Infinity and is also having problems.

Anyone else having problems this evening?

My connection has slowed down significantly again.

Ping has started�

PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.241.131): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=264.332 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=301.432 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=277.763 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=155.081 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=168.610 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=5 ttl=242 time=154.331 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=6 ttl=242 time=148.937 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=8 ttl=242 time=160.763 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=9 ttl=242 time=160.616 ms

--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 10.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 148.937/199.096/301.432/58.929 ms

Edited by maniac886 (Sun 19-Feb-12 21:47:11)

All fine here (Crewe, Cheshire):

PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.241.131): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=12.287 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=12.203 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=12.134 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.241.131: icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=12.407 ms

--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 12.134/12.258/12.407/0.102 ms

No problems here either