EverythingEverywhere even worse than Orange — slow speeds, and severe traffic shaping

Poq

So Orange was bad. I'm close to the local exchange, in a new building with great wiring, and was promised 15–18 Mb/s download speeds.

Realistically, running tests over a year, I had an average 11 Mb/s download speed. (Customer service is also horrendous, but that's a different story.)



But now, since Orange was turned into the conglomerate EverythingEverywhere with T-Mobile, maximum download speeds have dropped even more:

5 Mb/s (only 1/4 of what was promised)


Simple HTTP browsing (regular websites) is what's affected and slowed down.

But in addition YouTube (streaming), Skype (p2p) and DropBox (file-sharing) have been hit hard as well — often unusable.

Furthermore, MSE should revise their statement about EverythingEverywhere, which right now says: "Traffic shaping: Light" — needs some revisiting.

misiek404

Poq wrote: »

But now, since Orange was turned into the conglomerate EverythingEverywhere with T-Mobile, maximum download speeds have dropped even more:

5 Mb/s (only 1/4 of what was promised)


Simple HTTP browsing (regular websites) is what's affected and slowed down.

But in addition YouTube (streaming), Skype (p2p) and DropBox (file-sharing) have been hit hard as well — often unusable.

Hm, something else must not be right. Even with those speeds you should be able to browse, youtube etc without any delays. I'm on 2.5Mb/s and everything works well.

penrhyn

Poq wrote: »

So Orange was bad. I'm close to the local exchange, in a new building with great wiring, and was promised 15–18 Mb/s download speeds.

Realistically, running tests over a year, I had an average 11 Mb/s download speed. (Customer service is also horrendous, but that's a different story.)



But now, since Orange was turned into the conglomerate EverythingEverywhere with T-Mobile, maximum download speeds have dropped even more:

5 Mb/s (only 1/4 of what was promised)


Simple HTTP browsing (regular websites) is what's affected and slowed down.

But in addition YouTube (streaming), Skype (p2p) and DropBox (file-sharing) have been hit hard as well — often unusable.

Furthermore, MSE should revise their statement about EverythingEverywhere, which right now says: "Traffic shaping: Light" — needs some revisiting.

What do your router line statistics look like?
Are you connecting wirelessly or with Ethernet?

Poq

Wirelessly, what do you mean router line stats? All looks OK.

penrhyn

Anyone with broadband really needs to know how to obtain their router line statistics.
They tell you all you need to know about your connection.
They look like this:-



Info on finding them here, or check your router's documentation.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php