Slow-acting fast broadband.

housebuyer143

ThisIsWeird said:

booneruk said:

ThisIsWeird said:

It doesn't appear to be a BB issue, as it just happened again on here when I tried to edit a post I'd just made - scroll...scroll...scroll... 'Reload'. Nowt. Close and reopen. Nowt. Ran a speed test by Ookla whilst MSE was failing to reload, and it returned the usual 12ms ping, 71 down and 18 up.

So it must be an intermittent site/provider glitch.

Hey-ho. Annoying first-world problem.

MSE is suffering its own problems lately so shouldn't be used to judge your broadband connection. While you were having problems with MSE, were other websites similarly slow? (doesn't sound like it if you were able to run a speedtest on a website successfully)

It does seem more obvious on MSE, as - for example - you post a reply and nothing happens. Sometimes it'll just do nothing, and other times - as this morning - it'll actually 'time out'.

But it also happens with Gmail, with logging-in being sluggish and hesitant. Sometimes the list of accounts won't pop down, or choosing one leads to nothing for a few seconds, so it's 'back' and try again, when it usually does work.

I can discount it being 'speed', as I always get consistent 12ms pings, and 75 up and 20 down. Also eliminate it being machine and OS, as my Android phone does it as well.

Irritating, that's all :-)

Maybe your router? 
I know what you are talking about though - I used to use 4G smarty for my broadband and it would do this all the time, just struggling to make initial connection to the page you are trying to view. It was smarty though that was the problem and when I moved to EE it only happened once a week rather than multiple times a day.

ThisIsWeird

housebuyer143 said:

ThisIsWeird said:

Irritating, that's all :-)

Maybe your router? 
I know what you are talking about though - I used to use 4G smarty for my broadband and it would do this all the time, just struggling to make initial connection to the page you are trying to view. It was smarty though that was the problem and when I moved to EE it only happened once a week rather than multiple times a day.

Always a possibility, but I'd have thought unlikely. I use WiFi for the phone, and wired Ethernet for my PC. And it's a newish router, having changed to Voda around a year ago. Seems like a strange 'router' problem?