In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Well there were huge slowdowns on most ISPs for both the last Olympics and the Commonwealth Games (Manchester).

Slowdowns here again this morning. Over 14Mbps down earlier, but now about 2Mbps.
It is all to do with prioritizing interactive traffic when the Enta Interconnect nodes are capacity saturated.
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8449/slowdown.jpg

So the contention that is natural to all consumer SME broadband services is kicking in, face of no surprise

Definitely a very marked effect here - normal speed was ~67Mbps, now down to ~21.

My BT BB slowed to 2.8mb during this morning's events. Back to its usual 8.8 by lunchtime. What I don't understand is why anyone wants to stream with its big download requirements when we have perfectly good Freeserve digital.

Most offices dont have Freeview TV's on each desk

Back to normal for the time being. Is there some sort of sporting competition that people are watching?

I'm feeling the slow down at certain points during the day as well - BUT at least Entanet are open about their capacity usage unlike most providers where their customers won't know what's going on! :¬)

Switched to USB TV today...

I'm feeling the slow down at certain points during the day as well - BUT at least Entanet are open about their capacity usage unlike most providers where their customers won't know what's going on! :¬)

I agree. My Entanet supplier explained with the usual 15 minute response to a ticket. So far, so much more helpful than those that put their efforts into silly misleading adverts. Exactly what I had hoped for.
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Dear XXXX XXXXXX,

That's not a problem. To clarify, where the connection nodes are under heavy load there is a traffic prioritisation system in place where interactive traffic is prioritised over non-interactive traffic. For more information, please follow the link below.

http://noc.enta.net/2009/12/traffic-prioritisation-m...

If your speed drops again, to determine if you are being affected by this, I would advise rerunning the BT speed test, then proceeding to step 2. This asks you to switch to some test login details with BT, bypassing the connection node entirely. If your speed is normal in step 2, it is likely that you are being affected by contention at the interconnect node.

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Edited by professor973 (Wed 01-Aug-12 21:37:39)

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

My BT BB slowed to 2.8mb during this morning's events. Back to its usual 8.8 by lunchtime. What I don't understand is why anyone wants to stream with its big download requirements when we have perfectly good Freeserve digital.

Two reasons:-

1) Not many offices profide TVs for their staff to watch from their desks during working hours;

2) As I understand it the full 24 channels are only available in HD over FreeSat, not Freeview. (Freeserve was a very good dialup ISP that has mutated over the years into Orange broadband). However iPlayer of course has them in HD, so when we want to watch something that isn't on Freeview I shove an HDMI cable from the laptop to the TV and go Full Screen. Tsonga tennis was from 19-all onwards was good .

As the sporting event continues my BT BB has slowed from around 9Mb to around 4Mb over the past few days. My stats appear unchanged so I assume this is down to the iplayer etc.

I neither stream nor game so my speed is adequate for my needs, in fact it's similar to previous years before we got FTTC 100 yds down the road. But aren't there wider issues in using the internet for entertainment rather than communications?