slow browsing and downloading

[PAYNEARDO]

anybody else with problems today ??

It was been quite steady (with just one outage) in the last month or so but now browsing is very slow and getting downloads of 5.41 mbs when it has been steady on 18/19 for ages :(

[jellybaby]

Mine has been awful this morning. Was flying along nicely yesterday, but struggling to browse or download this morning :(

[Bonglet]

Mine is really bad today too really slow web browsing which is only slightly faster than dial up and the ever popular traffic shaping has kicked in for no reason again, this is just taking the proverbial now, after having a couple of decent weeks back last month everything seems to be melting down again now.

Online gaming is a joke web browsing is now getting ever more slow and downloads are a joke too is there anything left we can do now even vm are sick of complaints now and have niceley trimmed there service status page so it looks less demoralising than they know it is atm, at least we dont have to look at resolved issues
now and see that fuses and power supplys up and down the country are blowing on a rate equal to winning the lottery :D.

My biggest gripe still is though that no one at vm has stepped to the plate and addmited anything is wrong and what/when they are going to do something to put us back on broadband and not this narrowband slow shaped web experience that about half the vm customers are facing :(.

---------- Post added at 11:29 ---------- Previous post was at 11:18 ----------

This is 20 mins after making my post from before got worse again

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 10:26:32 UTC

Test 1: 1024K took 21828 ms = 46.9 KB/sec, approx 386 Kbps, 0.38 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 17015 ms = 60.2 KB/sec, approx 496 Kbps, 0.48 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 12360 ms = 82.8 KB/sec, approx 682 Kbps, 0.67 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 35312 ms = 58 KB/sec, approx 478 Kbps, 0.47 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 511 Kbps, 0.5 Mbps


To repeat this test from the source server click here.

shambolic i think youll agreee 11-1am and 9:30-12:30pm i get these dropouts
nearly every day now :(.

[jellybaby]

Sorry. Not much help to you guys, but mine was a driver problem. Installed the newest one last night before I went bed. Discovered it was pants. Rolled back and back up to speed.

[Hugh]

bonglet, sorry to hear you are having issues, but you really shouldn't depend on speedtests if you are on 20Mb links, (and they aren't much better on the other speeds) as they have been proven to be even more unreliable than VM at this speed; you are better off trying downloads (not torrents) from blueyonder games and/or Microsoft.

[xpod]

Getting about 10/11Mb here with the downloads atm but only 4/5Mb with the above test......

Theres another machine online too just now but regardless of any actual speeds the various speedtests will 9 times out of 10 be a lot slower than the downloads...for us.

Speedtest.net being the worst offender ....for us
I`ve compared speedtest V downloads so many times now that i can do a speedtest or download test then have a pretty good guess at what the other will be.

Having a guess based purely on browsing speeds is about as reliable as a speedtest if you ask me though;)

[Mrcon]

mines bang on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:48:51 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 5296 ms = 193.4 KB/sec, approx 1594 Kbps, 1.56 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 1735 ms = 590.2 KB/sec, approx 4863 Kbps, 4.75 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 672 ms = 1523.8 KB/sec, approx 12556 Kbps, 12.26 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 4109 ms = 498.4 KB/sec, approx 4107 Kbps, 4.01 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 5780 Kbps, 5.65 Mbps

Downloaded 14GB today :-)

[scorp24]

mines keeping steady
Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:15:41 GMT

1st 512K took 187 ms = 2738 KB/sec, approx 22561 Kbps, 22.03 Mbps
2nd 512K took 375 ms = 1365.3 KB/sec, approx 11250 Kbps, 10.99 Mbps
3rd 512K took 141 ms = 3631.2 KB/sec, approx 29921 Kbps, 29.22 Mbps
4th 512K took 218 ms = 2348.6 KB/sec, approx 19352 Kbps, 18.9 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 20771 Kbps, 20.29 Mbps