Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

You'd be surprised at how few users actually know what speeds they're really getting.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

As others have said, the config file sent to the router is to lock the hardware at that speed so without that changing, the router will not give you faster speeds.

So getting faster speeds is likely to do with some kind of compression of packets rather than something similar on a protocol level as you are seeing it across the board and not just HTTP.

Transparent proxies and stuff compressing stuff and your browser expanding can make HTTP much faster than your connection allows as an example which is easy to visualise.

Just an after-thought...does the router have a VM internal IP address too (for management or something?) and if so, would that be locked to the same speed as the config file gives for public WAN? Just wondered if in that setup, some confusion could cause the problem. Have you done a traceroute while it's at the faster speed?

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

I don't have any proxies or vpns running that would affect it, even if i did the PS4 can't use one yet it is also reading the higher speeds. It was the first thing i checked as an old VPN i used used to make upload speed look like it was doing double time when it really wasn't. I do some times use one on the Fire TV but it's irrelevant.

Not quite sure what you're talking about with the internal router IP. What am i supposed to look for in a tracert?

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

VM would be the ones doing the compression of traffic, which would would give a similar false reading as a speedtest on a VPN. Even with a file download, if they are compressing it, you could get a faster speed than what your modem is getting if you can uncompress it quick enough. I gave HTTP as an example as browsers do thing like gzip part of a page and google has its own new compression for browsers.

As for the tracert, just see if there is an unusual route or extra hop, although the absence of anything doesn't mean something isn't being done with the traffic either :P

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

Ah i can understand that, as in aware it happens (with vpn anyway) even if not the how.

As for the tracert, I wouldn't know what to look for:

Edit - speeds haven't dropped during peak times tonight.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

Depends what the OP was downloading, but I doubt it generally only things I see compress that much thesedays are virtual machine images where the disk is mostly sparse or large text documents/log files.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

Interesting. I posted recently reporting that the Virgin Media speed test software, that you can install on your PC, was giving me upstream results well over my upstream provisioning. I'm provisioned for 22Mb, but get up to 30Mb regularly. (Just now tested at 27Mb.)

This might be relevant. During the test, it bursts to over 100Mb, drops below 22Mb, but then settles well over 22Mb. On all other multi-thread tests I get the expected 21Mb. I'm guessing there is a problem with the VM software, because my processor remains at 5%.


Is it possible that your processor is getting stressed by the typical flash-based test? It might be worth checking processor usage during the test. Do you get exaggerated bursts of speed? This could suggest a stressed processor.

But, then you say that you get the same results on a file download method. Now, that is puzzling.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

I believe they are going to change the law so that companies have to be more honest about the true BB speed when advertising them, so this could be in preparation for that??

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

I doubt it as it would give those with a good connection a higher speed for nothing.

It is not a ruling for them to be more honest but more realistic. BB speeds will be based on what 50% of customers get rather than the present 10%.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

Still getting the same speeds, PS4 is downloading a game at 30MB/s ish right now.

@roughbeast as i said before, if it was just one device i'd be sceptical but it's all.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

My modem has had a brain fart this morning

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/12/34.png

No idea whats going on there

And again

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/12/35.png

Crazy jumps and back to normal :(

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/12/36.png

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

Mine is now back to normal speeds, not sure when it happened but sometime in the past 2 or 3 days. Nothing changed on my end.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

I've been back on the silly speeds on and off over the past month. I haven't paid attention to the time of day but occasionally it's at a normal ~12MB/s but a lot of the time it's more like 30MB/s, such as this morning.

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2018/02/3.png

Config is still set for 115000000. I am on 24 down and 3 up channels nowadays but not sure that would make any difference.

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

Getting a bit crazy now

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2018/02/21.png

Re: Strange speeds this morning.
 

If they slipped a zero in there to make the upstream 60 up instead of 6 that would be a superb new tier to move up to. I think it was only yesterday that i was saying in another thread that 500/50 should be the next sensible tier on docsis 3.1 but 600/60 is a nice inbetween and then they can make the jump to 1gbit.