If you have 1000 people per mast, and now have 3000 people per mast, for the same deployed capacity, then things will slow down.
How would that have happened over a period of two days last weekend? Has Three started sending out sim cards in the weekly junkmail?
The dramatic slowdown coincided with the disappearance of the note about dealing with "a complex network issue" in the area on the status page. Yes, it was also a weekend of very wild, wet and windy weather, but I think they have screwed up with the network redesign.
At first, some tracert tests showed multi-second delays a few hops into their network. Now they're only terrible.
I was foolish enough to contact Three support with help. All they managed to do was tell me to reset my router to factory defaults. as if that will affect their network capacity!
Here's a typical example: hops 4, 5 and 7 used to be visible until yesterday
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.200
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 116 ms 110 ms 96 ms 172.20.197.65
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 82 ms 98 ms 158 ms 172.21.25.85
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 57 ms 48 ms 55 ms 172.20.231.154
9 56 ms 48 ms 47 ms ip4.gtt.net [213.254.199.214]
10 48 ms 46 ms 48 ms et-0-0-41.cr11-lon2.ip4.gtt.net [213.254.199.213]
11 63 ms 56 ms 46 ms ip4.gtt.net [77.67.98.54]
12 49 ms 45 ms 48 ms ae-0.r24.londen12.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.140]
13 49 ms 47 ms 46 ms ae-8.r02.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.22]
14 55 ms 47 ms 42 ms 62.73.169.10
15 52 ms 49 ms 44 ms po4-31.core-rs4.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85]
16 57 ms 56 ms 46 ms ip106-141.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.106.141]
[Later]
Tried it through ProtonVPN:
1 55 ms 49 ms 62 ms 10.8.0.1
2 48 ms 59 ms 48 ms v112.ce01.lon-12.uk.leaseweb.net [95.168.185.252]
3 72 ms 64 ms 58 ms ae-4.br01.lon-11.uk.leaseweb.net [81.17.63.194]
4 64 ms 57 ms 65 ms et-12.bb01.lon-10.leaseweb.net [31.31.39.54]
5 83 ms 68 ms 59 ms linx-gw1.thn.ncuk.net [195.66.224.240]
6 62 ms 48 ms 59 ms te2-3-14.bdr-rt3.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.112]
7 87 ms 65 ms 60 ms po4-31.core-rs4.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85]
8 51 ms 41 ms 61 ms ip106-141.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.106.141]
Edited by hoopla (Sat 15-Feb-20 21:54:24)