I seen similiar reports of buddies on plusnet. I am glad I didnt take the chance with them now.

I am still on BT who have no visible congestion issues at all currently but waiting on zen to publish their own backhaul pricing as otherwise I be going to aaisp.

Hi

Thanks for the help & reassurance.

I've looked at the graphs and wow how similar they are to mine
My Broadband Ping

There is nothing else on the line, just the PC & Smart DVD player (when I stream)

I did a hard reboot last night - I had been at on ag01 at Telehouse West, but now on ag05 Cityl Lifeline House

I think Sam Knows is correct, I wish I had hourly figures rather then what I showed in the OP.
Latency on SK is fine it fell from 9.8 to 8.52 since the hard reboot
SK speeds in the day have been 72.3 -72.86 with no drop so far
I ran BTW speedtest & got 68.8 & then Speedtest UK & got 69.71 (at 5pm!!)

So far so good, i'll monitor and report back.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I seen similiar reports of buddies on plusnet. I am glad I didnt take the chance with them now.

But many do not have that problem on Plusnet, including me.

In reply to a post by blfamily:

I've looked at the graphs and wow how similar they are to mine
My Broadband Ping

Except your peak was about 8pm, while the majority (but not all) had peaks nearer 10pm.

There's definitely some differences to be seen.

I wish I had hourly figures rather then what I showed in the OP.

I just double-checked, and realised that you had a completely different set of times-of-day to mine.

Is yours the same time every day? Mine are (as in the sets of times in my list).

it appears from the outside to be an issue that doesnt affect all gateways. It is of course possible it could be localised issues as well, but some I know share my exchange and I dont get the performance issues they get.

Could be worse and be like mine in the evenings, this is mine now.


1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.

Download Speed
1.4 Mbps

0 Mbps 77.43 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed

Download speedachieved during the test was - 1.4 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 16 Mbps-77.43 Mbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is - 77.43 Mbps

2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.

Upload Speed
15.03 Mbps

0 Mbps 20 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed

Upload speed achieved during the test was - 15.03Mbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 20 Mbps

SK has never reported hourly..
20:00 59.22
18:00 70.00
12:00 72.85
06:00 72.86
00:00 72.67
are my latest figures.

they are the same time everyday. - looking at the other SK graphs I get hourly results on almost everything else.

Tuesday was a "wow" evening, 59.3 mbs at 8pm.
Wednesday & Thursday back to the usual 25-30mbs from 7 to 10pm

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I seen similiar reports of buddies on plusnet. I am glad I didnt take the chance with them now.

I am still on BT who have no visible congestion issues at all currently but waiting on zen to publish their own backhaul pricing as otherwise I be going to aaisp.

I would not go with plusnet either to be honest if I decided to change form who I am with. I escaped them years ago when they took over Metronet, in fact I did not give them much time to get their feet under the table before I got my Mac and went. to prove how much I wanted to stay away from Plusnet I went to AOL,, pre-Talk Talk mind you.

Their traffic management was awful, AOL was better and I would have stayed with AOL for longer then a month if they could have got me the 1Mb/s I was getting on Metronet.

BT is not on my list either to go to, nor is Talk Talk. In fact no one is on my list at the moment as I am fine as I am as long as they don't have another night like last night. Still not right now, but better than last night.

The problem with smaller Isps if you go for fibre is their prices and what they offer for those prices. ADSL wise, some are fine, like I thought £19 a month on ADSL24 was good, it would have been better if I lived closer to the exchange.

The prices these smaller ones charges for fibre, it is not practical for many people. I blame the government and BT to be honest.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

a mate is on plusnet FTTC and is having the same problem, suppose to be getting around 78, but most of the time he gets 40, sometimes not even that.

What's his latency look like?

I presume you mean his pings. they are pretty good to be honest. i tried all ways, I put my router onto his modem, I connected a laptop directly to his modem, still the same.

He will not have another BT engineer as he says the problem is is not in his house and I agree, it is not.