Slowish speeds/ BT Issue

I�ve lost 2-3 mbps off my normally sky-high download speed. BT are reporting unnamed problems in �The North of England�:

http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status_co...

Is anybody else slowing down?

Edited by ARD (Wed 15-Sep-10 11:01:17)

No, but I'm in the south

BT seem to have been having a spate of faults lately.

Yes, I am. BT speedtest showed 12186Kbps instead of the normal ~35000 or more, and BQM is showing around 10% packet loss.

And I'm in the south!

I'm down to 50% of my normal speed now. The BT site reports issues in other areas-not just "The North" but doesn't providem much detail.

In reply to a post by ARD:

The BT site reports issues in other areas-not just "The North" but doesn't providem much detail.

On thinking about it, I am north of Watford

BT now claim to have sorted the unnamed issue but I'm still on 50% of my norm and pings are petty high, too.

Still like cold treacle here too.

Speed at about 30%, pings are OK but packet loss still high.

my dads in north west scotland KYLE right next to isle of Skye and he having issues up there - use the BT Speedtester and it may be able to tell you more as it did my dad "you may experience slow downs at peak time tonight" - he is near this LAGGAN area in the link supplied above, thanks

BT speedtest from a few minutes ago:

Down: 7272 Kbps (in red!!!)
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 12000-38717 Kbps .



Up: 5335 Kbps, 10000 profile

Has anyone reported this to IDNet?

I'll alert them to this thread anyway, we also have one running on Netters, so the problem seems widespread.