It appears to be related, Bill, they are re-balancing at the moment.

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TBH I don't even know what IPSC is .

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Its what has made the enta forum so busy.

IPSC is the new platform that delivers IPStream over 21CN. The techie guys will know by their routings via Idnet. Instead of connecting to a pipe, you will connect via a node. So the question for you Bill, is do you have a node?

Cheers Rik. Doesn't bother me, but IDNet has a reputation as a good gaming ISP

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do you have a node?

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That's strictly between Sally and I

Seriously, how would I find out?

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Seriously, how would I find out?

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You probably wouldn't. On Entanet it seems people get their L2TP session terminated in the same place, and they know only because Enta allows to look up whether they are using a central or a node.

You would have to ask the techies how you do that. Usually you can run a tracert and compare that with published data from the ISP. Or, as with Entanet, there are lookup tools to immediately identify the node or pipe that your line is connected to.

When Enta was using the pipes, it was quite useful to see the loadings. Often a user would experience a slow down, and the pipe would be full. A router re-boot could cause a change to a pipe with capacity, service restored. Now they are on nodes, and you cant change them.

I have been experiencing poorer ping rates than normal in recent days, too. Is IDNet getting overcrowded?

No-one does, Bill, afaik. IDNet are still waiting for IPStream Connect.

Me neither, but it needs to get sorted.

Quite the opposite, they added a 155Mbps central and a gigabit Hostlink on Friday. The problem seems to be down to re-balancing their network to the new capacity.