Anyone in Birmingham Experiencing Slowness?

[Zain]

hey,

since yesterday around 10pm my net has been reallll slowww (im on 4mb - in birmingham)

Speedtest :- http://www.speedtest.net/result/250689414.png


my config file shows :-

Downstream Status
Operational

Channel ID
2

Downstream Frequency
331000000 Hz

Modulation
256QAM

Bit Rate
4096000 bits/sec

Power Level
0.4 dBmV

Signal to Noise Ratio
39.1 dB

And :-

Upstream Status
Operational

Channel ID
4

Upstream Frequency
37500000 Hz

Modulation
16QAM

Bit Rate
384000 bits/sec

Power Level
33.0 dBmV




im roughly getting lucky 100kb/s ..... ive rebooted my modem no luck.....this morning google and other pages werent loading either....anyone experiencing that problem? any ideas what i can do to solve it?

Thanks.

[Cammy]

I'm about 30mins from b'ham and im getting rubish speeds.

[Hugh]

Oh!

It's about broadband speeds....................... ;)

[blade85]

In edgbaston:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/250709668.png

its at around 3 megs for me on my WIRELESS laptop so thats pretty good, seeing as there are 2 laptops, 2 desktops and a ps3 all running off one connection! On my desktop with a direct connection I get the full 4 megs.

[Jelly]

My speeds have been good over the past few days, getting about 500KB/s altogether between multiple downloads and torrents.

[psyche1701]

Edgbaston here on 4MB - web browsing has been VERY slow all weekend - to the verge of unusable. Strangely, downloads are OK when they get going (up to 500kb speeds or so) but it's getting them going which is tricky - it can take a minute or so for a download to start, but then it's fine once it's underway. For this reason, speed tests always come up fine - the test itself takes a minute or so to start but then it downloads at a reasonable speed. Web pages load, but take forever to load half the images or they're just broken altogether (which makes web browsing particularly annoying...)

We had similar problems last year for about a week where it all went horrible for a while, then 'miraculously' went OK again without us changing a thing. I'm hoping this is what'll happen here... If I recall, last year it was something to with DNS problems or something (not really a techie)

I'm going to email tech support about it anyway if it persists, suggest you do the same?

[venuism]

from solihull, internet very slow today, on a 20MB line, now i know it isn't just me i will wait for it to fix its self

[Zain]

seems rather better now..i guess it was a fault there side, downloads at 300kb/s - still not full but suffient enough..uploads - 41kb/s ..... which is good.

[Cammy]

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/03/11.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

C:\Documents and Settings\Adam>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.253.74]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 937 ms 100 ms 77 ms 10.9.80.1
3 * 1073 ms 269 ms brhm-t2cam1-a-v127.inet.ntl.com
[213.106.229.37]

4 * 102 ms 87 ms brhm-t3core-1a-ge-011-0.inet.ntl.com
[195.182.17
6.53]
5 110 ms * 77 ms bir-bb-a-so-020-0.inet.ntl.com
[213.105.174.1]
6 74 ms 64 ms 80 ms bir-bb-b-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com
[62.253.185.154]

7 * 41 ms 34 ms man-bb-a-so-230-0.inet.ntl.com
[62.252.192.85]
8 50 ms 52 ms 49 ms gfd-bb-b-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com
[62.252.192.94]
9 56 ms 60 ms 47 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.78]
10 47 ms 50 ms 45 ms 212.58.238.189
11 42 ms 42 ms 54 ms 212.58.238.133
12 39 ms 41 ms 35 ms te12-1.hsw0.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.222]
13 29 ms 28 ms 39 ms www5.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.253.74]

Trace complete.


This is after the tech come to fix it ........ :o:

[psyche1701]

Still VERY sub-standard web-browsing speeds tonight in Birmingham... seriously, if we had a BT line installed I'd go over to 56k dial-up for a speed increase!

One time you try a webpage, it loads flawlessely and promptly... try the same page a few moments later and it takes minutes, and is then full of broken images.

wish they'd sort it out! :( :( :(

[Cammy]

Their site does say theres an issue in B'ham.

[Help!!!]

M6 North was abit jammed last week apart from that all roads clear

[Zain]

Still VERY sub-standard web-browsing speeds tonight in Birmingham... seriously, if we had a BT line installed I'd go over to 56k dial-up for a speed increase!

One time you try a webpage, it loads flawlessely and promptly... try the same page a few moments later and it takes minutes, and is then full of broken images.

wish they'd sort it out! :( :( :(

yeah, speeds gne down again, can anyone gimme the link to the issue on there site please?

[Zain]

i was thinking, can it be the fact our area is being upgraded to 10mb?

[ufitm]

hey,

since yesterday around 10pm my net has been reallll slowww (im on 4mb - in birmingham)

Speedtest :- http://www.speedtest.net/result/250689414.png


my config file shows :-

Downstream Status
Operational

Channel ID
2

Downstream Frequency
331000000 Hz

Modulation
256QAM

Bit Rate
4096000 bits/sec

Power Level
0.4 dBmV

Signal to Noise Ratio
39.1 dB

And :-

Upstream Status
Operational

Channel ID
4

Upstream Frequency
37500000 Hz

Modulation
16QAM

Bit Rate
384000 bits/sec

Power Level
33.0 dBmV




im roughly getting lucky 100kb/s ..... ive rebooted my modem no luck.....this morning google and other pages werent loading either....anyone experiencing that problem? any ideas what i can do to solve it?

Thanks.
Hi
I am just down the road in Kidderminster and we are having simler
problems with speed mine droped to 3 to 5 meg at 9.30 am to and
yesterday i was online earley at 6am it droped to 2 to 5 meg . spoke
to them about it they say my conection is ok and no work going on in the
area. There must be though for speeds to be that low in a quite period
i am on the 20meg as well do not know what to do next regards ufitm

[Zain]

wow yeah this is an issue, today was fine though, full download speed n upload speed...will check tommorows progress out too..i might call them up and ask whats going on..anyone know if birmingham will get upgraded to 10mb anytime soon?