In reply to a post by adslmax:

If two devices downloading at the same time it mean it will split into two halves speed eg: 465Mbps each

Effectively, yes. This is due to TCP's congestion avoidance algorithm; each TCP stream will back off roughly by the same amount, so with N concurrent streams each will use about 1/Nth of the total capacity.

That's why if someone is downloading a big Xbox game on your network, and you run a speed test, your speed test will show lower than maximum speed. You are competing with the download.

Exactly what speed you see depends on how many TCP streams the Xbox download is using, versus how many TCP streams the speed test is using.

(Aside: protocols like bittorrent which run over UDP don't use the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm, so can easily consume all the bandwidth and with nothing left over)

You did seem to be worried about the spikes.

If your normal everyday internet use was not affected they why did this thread get so long?

As others have said "Just enjoy the faster speed".

I won't be reply much now. Just enjoy the internet!

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

I asked you back on 10th January 2026 if the spikes could be caused by speed tests and you didn't answer,

Yes the spikes only start when I did the speedtests. Anyway, that's now the past. I am going to enjoy the internet. No more speedtest, no more BQM, no more worry about spikes.

Cos I know FTTP 900/115 is working fine. If the service went downtime, I speak direct to Martin, the ISP. That's it.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Thanks for this. My daughter boyfriend was actually downloading heavily on his Xbox. She just told me this morning.

This is the reason for getting slower full fibre to half way.

Anyway case closed.

If you have other people in the house, certainly if they have games consoles, you need to make sure they are not banging the network before you try to blame the service.
Maybe a good idea to do things like that when people are in bed.

My G.fast has finally ceased last night just after midnight. No more SoGEA (Aquiss), SoGfast (Cerberus) on the line now.

Just FTTP (Aquiss)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

My G.fast has finally ceased last night just after midnight. No more SoGEA (Aquiss), SoGfast (Cerberus) on the line now.

Just FTTP (Aquiss)

I had the Openreach engineer remove the copper cable and use the hole for the new fibre cable during my install. Good riddance to that cable!

Also one less hole in the wall to fill is a good thing!

That is exactly what I did. I was on Starlink full time so copper wasn't in use, so when it came to FTTP, had them use that to pull the fibre through, and they used the holes from the copper sockets (I had two) to feed the lovely, lovely fibre into the house

In reply to a post by dave2150:

I had the Openreach engineer remove the copper cable and use the hole for the new fibre cable during my install. Good riddance to that cable!

Also one less hole in the wall to fill is a good thing!

Sadly they can't do it because my copper was fed to my incoming outside bin cupboard at the front. MJ Quinns refused it and only do at the back where there is nearer overhead pole fed to the top roof to bottom wall. The master socket (copper) was at the wrong place in the front with UG which they refused to touch it.

I already knew it. The full fibre can't replaced copper UG anyway.

Edited by adslmax (Mon 02-Feb-26 10:49:20)

I am no longer with Aquiss FTTP from April 3rd. Martin from Aquiss has release me from contract to move to other ISP as the ISP has failed to fix my full fibre ongoing issues with packet loss. Disappointed to be honest.

My parents has the same overhead pole as mine in same street. Their FTTP has ZERO packet loss with Plusnet. But Aquiss are the worse packet loss with max latency over 140ms.

To be fair Martin did booked Openreach engineer but the engineer not seem interested in packet loss which I showed him the TTB monitor chart. He swap over brand new ONT and the problem still the same issues. Sadly Martin say there is nothing more he can do and release me from contract and asked me to go to other ISP.

Aquiss FTTP TTB Monitor Live: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...

Plusnet FTTP TTB Monitor Live: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...