More PPP issues?

I've just lost my connection to IDNet. Sync to the exchange was not affected). It was back up after about 15 seconds. Normally, I won't bother to comment but after last week I'm wondering whether we are about to experience another outage?

EDIT: I see Rik was affected, too:

http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index....

Speeds are down by 1-2 mbps

Edited by ARD (Sat 07-Feb-09 12:50:08)

There seem to have been two drops, the first at 12:39 for a few seconds, the second at 12:40 for two minutes, but not everyone seems to have been affected. Speeds are normal for me, but pings have gone high, an average of 125ms rather than 24ms.

My speeds are back to 7 mbps +. Pings are relatively poor. Browsing feels "sticky".

Given the speeds I live with, things feel normal. IDNet are aware of the drop.

Just when I thought things were back to normal I find I'm downloading at half my normal speed. There no reason to believe it's exchange congestion. Is anything else going on that is not currently listed on the IDNet service page?

In reply to a post by ARD:

Just when I thought things were back to normal I find I'm downloading at half my normal speed. There no reason to believe it's exchange congestion. Is anything else going on that is not currently listed on the IDNet service page?

O.K here normal speeds for me - http://www.speedtest.net/result/40629664...

They are working on their peering today. This caused the earlier glitches and made things a bit sluggish for me. Simon suggested re-booting my router (I'd tried dropping PPP with no effect) and this cured the problem, but we are both confused as I re-connected on the same pipe and they have no congestion anywhere today.

Thanks, Rik. That probably explains the sluggishness. If things get worse I'll reboot. If not I'll sit it out. I just wish IDNet would post details of any work in progress on their status page. It's one of the very few things that lets them down or go for what somebody suggested last week:

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/showthr...

Edited by ARD (Sat 07-Feb-09 15:56:56)

It has been suggested.

By your good self, I imagine