Very Slow download speed in Stevenage

[dave.molloy]

Is anyone else in the Stevenage Hertfordshire or surrounding area getting very slow downloading and web page access ?

Having noticed slow loading web pages this evening I ran a quick speed test and on my 10mb connection I got a 344Kb download speed, usually this time of night I get over 5000Kb (not anywhere need 10240Kb of course).

I thought I would ask first rather than phoning customer services and getting the usual "have you tried switching off and on you cable modem and PC" (which of course I have)

Thanks

[JamboUK]

Also really really slow in Stafford area. Appalling in fact.

[ferretuk]

I'm in Hitchin and speedtest.net is giving me about 350kp/s up and down but general browsing doesn't seem that sluggish. The speedtest on Thinkbroadband is giving 1Mb/s up and 470kb/s

I've just tried downloading a 60MB file from Microsoft.com and got a rate of 130KBs so that all seems OK...

Traceroutes to a few random sites shows that some of the routes at the edge of the NTL network are slowing traffic up, especially into Level 3

[hairy_mick]

Hi i am in teesside really bad at the moment

[jpa]

I am also on 10mb (supposedly) and getting this as a test i did a couple of minutes ago

it has been bad for the last few afternoons and especially nights. I get the same low speeds on my laptop as well !!! But come the morning it will be back upto 10mb again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who said that Virgin media are not doing shaping ???

[Hom3r]

I've also had a fast upload than a download.

and speedtest has given very low speeds, it proberly being hit with a lot of traffic

[ferretuk]

Originally Posted by jpa

Who said that Virgin media are not doing shaping ???

And so starts the paranoia - That didn't take long did it!

[dev]

Originally Posted by jpa

Who said that Virgin media are not doing shaping ???

because 1 speed test site runs slow, its your isp not the speed test site that is slow?

[Pikem4n]

Hello folks


I've also got a 10meg connection, and since the weekend my connection seems to be very very slow with pages taking ages to load up and i play alot of fps and the lag in game has been very dire indeed, these are my results ( the lowest ever!)

[karmaimages]

I'm in arlesey and speed is ok, got loads of downstream network traffic tho :S

[caroline]

Hi

mine kept disconnecting earlier but seems ok now letchworth , small world A lol.

Hi karmaimages

I used to live at RAF Henlow, which has nothing to do with the thread, but you will know what I mean thanks for the feedback

[moogles]

getting slow speeds here too.
Download: 353 kbps
Upload: 362 kbps

Source: http://myspeed.visualware.com/
Real Accurate for me. I usually get 3.94 Mbps Download 385 kbps Upload. Upload is ok but download is crap. NTL 4MB btw. London area.

[jpa]

Its gone up now


as its 11.30pm and people have come off the internet

[moogles]

still slow for me, gonna disconnect the modem and ntl modem and turn it back on after 10 mins to see.