Sluggish internet - why ?

50Twuncle

I have a slow internet connection - at a max of 4Mbps - normally - but today, it is like swimming through treacle.
I have just checked it (speedcheck) and found a speed of 0.63Mbps
What is a likely cause ?

Graystreet

Are you doing the speedtest over wireless or connected to the router by an ethernet cable?

grumpycrab

If a Bt line goto
http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/

Tick Yes and Begin the Test

Wait a couple of mins then click Further Diagnostics
Enter your full phone number and click Start (or Go - cannot remember-) then OK to the popupbox.

All data is useful but this works for ANY BT number (keep that one to yourself). For ANY BT number the relevant data for the test is under Additional Information, e.g.

Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :7.3 Mbps(DOWN-STREAM), 0.45 Mbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 6 Mbps

This test should be done at the TEST SOCKET to confirm that there's no internal wiring fault.
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/troubleshooting.htm

Tell us what you find.

macman

If it's wireless, change your wireless channel and retest.
But more likely that being the first day of school holidays, every kid in the area is at home on their games consoles etc, and the limited bandwidth is congested all day, rather than just in the evenings. If it's BT, not a lot you can do about their contention ratios.
4Mbps should be perfectly adequate for general surfing etc.

50Twuncle

macman wrote: »

If it's wireless, change your wireless channel and retest.
But more likely that being the first day of school holidays, every kid in the area is at home on their games consoles etc, and the limited bandwidth is congested all day, rather than just in the evenings. If it's BT, not a lot you can do about their contention ratios.
4Mbps should be perfectly adequate for general surfing etc.

Tried that - no difference
My speed was (yesterday) 630kbps
And my ISP is Talk Talk Business - supposedly with a decent contention ratio and supposedly unaffected by "mere mortals"
Today - it is about 3Mbps - which is just about acceptable !
Before anyone asks - Fibre is a pipe dream....

grumpycrab

As its a BT line (with ISP TalkTalk) still worth trying the line stats.

50Twuncle

grumpycrab wrote: »

As its a BT line (with ISP TalkTalk) still worth trying the line stats.

Its a TT line too !!

50Twuncle

Fibre was stopped 10 doors down from me - if I look out of my front gate, I can see the fibre connected cabinet !!
Frustrating is not the word !!