I see the christmas slow down has started
23-12-2007, 15:50
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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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23-12-2007, 15:54
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
OK so far in South Wales.
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23-12-2007, 15:56
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Fine in North West Leeds on 4Mb.
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23-12-2007, 15:59
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Fine in Leicester too, I'm on 4Mb. 
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23-12-2007, 16:01
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Fine In Birmingham 20Mb
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23-12-2007, 16:10
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Felixstowe: went completely there. Hopefully that was it.
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23-12-2007, 19:41
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
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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23-12-2007, 20:09
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Sounds like you've been Traffic Managed - have you downloaded over 750MB since 16:00?
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23-12-2007, 21:59
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
What Christmas slow down ? my Slowband sorry  Broadband is in the slow lane all the TIME 
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23-12-2007, 21:59
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Thats a me too. I did down load a video & now i've been managed to:
As it's now down to less than 1meg I'm no longer on high speed broadband.
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24-12-2007, 00:50
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Shhhhhh its not just a glitch its a conspiracy - they planned it for Christmas, less 50p's in the meter.
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24-12-2007, 00:53
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
Seems as if a few people are being STM'ed - nothing to do with Christmas, methinks.
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24-12-2007, 15:49
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
no problems in cardiff for me anways
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24-12-2007, 16:15
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
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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24-12-2007, 17:00
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Re: I see the christmas slow down has started
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. 
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