In reply to a post by flippery:

Take as face value, many, like me, just type in Upper or Lower case. Meaning the same to us.

Not if you actually wish to communicate!

You keep talking about speeds in terms of Bytes ("B"). BB speeds are measured in bits ("b"), Which did you mean?

My apologies. I typed for a visual clarity (not my usual style). But, since we know what we're talking about, we know what we're talking about.

Testwise, I've done all that I've been previously advised to do, to no avail. The cabinets (we've got 2, now, since the old one is still there) are only about 200 metres away and my reported speeds do not vary with time-of-day and the differences in traffic one would expect with that.

So, we're still stuck with the question of why typical speeds should drop overnight, from 0.6Mbps to 0.2Mbps, with no changes on my part?

Router stats will help answer that Q.

Hey everyone.
Well after phoning Orange a third time and getting the same speed results they sent an engineer out the next day (on Thursday). He went to the local cabinet at the end of our road and our wire wasn't in great condition so he worked his magic and the IP profile instantly went up to 4.7Mb.

He said the download speeds would shortly follow during the 10 day testing period, and after 2 days they are still climbing and we are getting 4Mb. Twice the speed than what we had earlier this year and it seems constant.

I would like to thank everyone on this thread for there help and wisdom.

Will

If the issue is speedtests slowing down, then welcome to the world contention from the ISP is an issue.

If the router stats are the same when things are slow - then that tells us your line is fine, and probably looking at an ISP issue.