Less than 1Mbit/s on Luton network

kelraine · 23-04-2007, 20:00

I am on the Luton network and recently my 10Mbit service has been giving me less that 1Mbit/s downlink speed; today it has varied between 500 and 800kbit/s.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedt...161132314.html

Any ideas what's going on? The modem appears to be configured correctly so it is a little mysterious...

Mechanicus · 23-04-2007, 20:06

AFAIK, I am on the Luton network too, being in Letchworth. I have started a thread, and it sounds like I have the exact same problem as you.

Tell me, did your BB and/or TV go down on the 18th? I think it was about 4:30pm.

McMav · 23-04-2007, 20:10

I'm getting same in Bishopton aswell. Really poor these days. Used to be rock solid.

kelraine · 23-04-2007, 20:14

I haven't got TV with Virgin anymore (was very pleased to see it go to be honest) - but I have noticed it is incredibly slow at the moment. Absymal, infact.

Interestingly, the activity lights on the modem are strangely silent unless I am actually doing something with the PC - until recently they were flashing pretty much all the time (presumably port scanners etc. probing the local network). I wonder if they have added any filtering or reconfigured the switches in any way....

Have you managed to talk to anybody in tech support about this yet?

mikafire · 23-04-2007, 20:15

I'm in Letchworth too

My speed is alway rubbish from 5pm till 12pm. It's been like that for a good 4 or 5 weeks now

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedt...179340522.html

No problems at any other time so I'm guessing it's something that's done on purpose

Paul K · 23-04-2007, 20:25

Got issues here too with speeds etc. Rainham Essex area. Looks like network issues or work being done again.

kelraine · 23-04-2007, 20:25

Yes.. it's actually rather ironic - broadband is the -one thing- that NTL seemed to do rather well (probably because they don't actually run it) - I've been getting fast, reliable broadband for over a year - and then Virgin come along and suddenly it screws up.

What a coincidence.

Paul K · 23-04-2007, 20:27

You have to be kidding if you think the NTL network was all sweetness and light

Since there are major upgrades going on, proxies (maybe) getting removed etc you can expect things like this to happen.

McMav · 23-04-2007, 20:28

for near 5 weeks on and off now.

Paul K · 23-04-2007, 20:33

You do realise these forums exist because of issues like this don't you? The timing may well be a mixture of coincidence/ network hardware issues/ issues caused due to network upgrades/ work being carried out on the proxies etc. Have you called VM to find out what is going on in your case?

tay77 · 23-04-2007, 20:41

My 4mb's been going fine recently - I've been seeing speeds of 3.8/3.9mb most of the time. But today it's shot down to 1.1mb, which is odd.

I'm in Flitwick, by the way.

corona · 23-04-2007, 21:06

having same problem in Potters Bar as well, it makes me worry

Mechanicus · 23-04-2007, 21:11

I would not mind if it is because of the upgrade, but it would have been nice if we had prior warning of it.

Some kind of "Due to our upgrading the service to 20mb, there may be speed issues blah blah blah blah".

Paul K · 23-04-2007, 21:13

Can't get to the server status page so don't know if anything is mentioned there.

Mechanicus · 23-04-2007, 21:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul

Can't get to the server status page so don't know if anything is mentioned there.

Where is it supposed to be?

Edit:: Found it.
This one says everything is fine: http://gps.virgin.net/service-announcements/status
But this one says outages: http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceSt...tal&app=status

I am more inclined to believe the second one.