I see the christmas slow down has started
 

It seems to be an anual feature with NTL/Virgin. Come Chistmas something packs up and its not fixed until after boxing day.

This year as Sunday is near Christmas it's started early with slow if any browsing

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OK so far in South Wales.

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Fine in North West Leeds on 4Mb.

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Fine in Leicester too, I'm on 4Mb. :)

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Fine In Birmingham 20Mb

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Felixstowe: went completely there. Hopefully that was it.

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In East London my normally excellent 4MB speed went down for an hour and now seems to be fixed at 1MB.

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:39:18 UTC
Test 1: 1024K took 8752 ms = 117 KB/sec, approx 964 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 8753 ms = 117 KB/sec, approx 964 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 8723 ms = 117.4 KB/sec, approx 967 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 17505 ms = 117 KB/sec, approx 964 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 965 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps

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Sounds like you've been Traffic Managed - have you downloaded over 750MB since 16:00?

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What Christmas slow down ? my Slowband sorry :angel: Broadband is in the slow lane all the TIME :mad:

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Thats a me too. I did down load a video & now i've been managed to:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2007/12/5.png

As it's now down to less than 1meg I'm no longer on high speed broadband.

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Shhhhhh its not just a glitch its a conspiracy - they planned it for Christmas, less 50p's in the meter.

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Seems as if a few people are being STM'ed - nothing to do with Christmas, methinks.

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no problems in cardiff for me anways

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Only getting about 7Mb/sec instead of 20 at the moment. It's before 4pm so should not have any throttling/STM.

I think the basic problem is everyone is off work and using their broadband, and the network simply can't cope. Can you imagine how much fun this is going to be once all the 4meg people go up to 10 and 50meg rolls out?

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Children aren't in school and lots of people at home having finished work for the holidays. = Contention on Baguley server worse than ever.

Downstream...1148.15 Kbps Upstream...375.27 Kbps on my 4MB BB having done no downloading and it's not even 4pm yet.:(