In reply to a post by dieselglider:

Purely Plusnet capacity in my opinion.

Maybe, but I haven't been getting speedtest results as low as ggater, which is why I suspected exchange contention more.

I suppose if ggater did the BT speedtest, that would confirm one or t'other.

Just spotted your post. Have performed the BT Speedtest just now (9:00pm)

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 8128 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 7150 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 5979 kbps

Not sure what it proves, but;

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 49 ms 49 ms 50 ms lo0-plusnet.ptn-ag1.plus.net [195.166.128.123]
3 49 ms 49 ms 47 ms gi2-2-303.ptn-gw01.plus.net [84.92.3.9]
4 49 ms 48 ms 48 ms te2-2.thn-gw1.plus.net [212.159.1.54]
5 47 ms 51 ms 50 ms te2-3.thn-gw2.plus.net [212.159.1.58]
6 203 ms 213 ms 214 ms rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.25]
7 50 ms 52 ms 56 ms 212.58.238.133
8 64 ms 59 ms 59 ms virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to portal.plus.net [212.159.9.2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 49 ms 75 ms 58 ms lo0-plusnet.ptn-ag1.plus.net [195.166.128.123]
3 164 ms 200 ms 147 ms gi2-2-303.ptn-gw01.plus.net [84.92.3.9]
4 216 ms 122 ms 206 ms vl32.ptn-gw02.plus.net [195.166.129.12]
5 57 ms 52 ms 48 ms te2-2.pte-gw2.plus.net [212.159.1.106]
6 54 ms 53 ms 53 ms 92.core.plus.net [212.159.1.92]
7 56 ms 56 ms 55 ms fhw-lb04.plus.net [212.159.1.146]
8 55 ms 56 ms 55 ms portal.plus.net [212.159.9.2]

Trace complete.

They have added extra capacity this morning however it seems that the gateways need balancing as a lot are full, best bet it to try to get on another gateway and see how that goes, some routers have the option to disconnect from a gateway and reconnect to another without having to power down your router

I've just done pings on a number of isps.

These didn't drop any packets:
Entanet
Idnet
Namesco
ADSL24
Virgin Media
Eclipse
UK Online
TitanADSL
Plusnet

These isps dropped all 4 packets:
Talk Talk
Sky Broadband
Orange
Tiscali
Zen
Newnet
O2
Pipex
Freedom2surf
BT Broadband

Do some isps have a way of completely blocking ping requests, or could it mean problems with their network?

EDIT: Looks like port blocking. Nothing to worry about.

Edited by deleted (Sat 01-Aug-09 01:30:54)

its icmp blocking, nothing to worry about.

If you were getting the same speedtest results as before and yet the bt test shows higher results then its a problem with the ISP

I'd just like to let people know that it's not me who keeps giving Talk Talk 10/10 and Plusnet 1/10 on the DSL Zone isp ratings! DSL Zone should make it that you can only rate once in so many months, plus your rating is linked to your account. It's ridiculous that some people appear to be multi-voting.

Not bad for me this afternoon on BB Max

Download Speed: 6578 kbps (822.3 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 372 kbps (46.5 KB/sec )

In reply to a post by ggater:

I'd just like to let people know that it's not me who keeps giving Talk Talk 10/10 and Plusnet 1/10 on the DSL Zone isp ratings! DSL Zone should make it that you can only rate once in so many months, plus your rating is linked to your account. It's ridiculous that some people appear to be multi-voting.

Not bad for me this afternoon on BB Max

Download Speed: 6578 kbps (822.3 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 372 kbps (46.5 KB/sec )

I can hardly believe anyone would give talktalk 10/10. I would never return to talktalk NOT even if they paid me to use their service.