General : Does everyone have very variable speeds with cable?

[eightace]

A few speed tests over a 6 month period don't give me enough to go on. I was more interested in whether speeds dropped in the usual rush hours of 6 until midnight for instance. Anyone recorded 24 hours of download speeds to see if there is a big drop?

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by eightace

A few speed tests over a 6 month period don't give me enough to go on. I was more interested in whether speeds dropped in the usual rush hours of 6 until midnight for instance. Anyone recorded 24 hours of download speeds to see if there is a big drop?

Someone with a Samknows box should be able to help you out here.

Anyone who has done that manually really needs a hobby.

[MUD_Wizard]

Originally Posted by eightace

A few speed tests over a 6 month period don't give me enough to go on. I was more interested in whether speeds dropped in the usual rush hours of 6 until midnight for instance. Anyone recorded 24 hours of download speeds to see if there is a big drop?

Samknows and ISPReview have been showing that kind of data for years.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...eak-times.html

See some of the back articles on ispreview for bandwidth trends, which only shows a widening gap of higher variation in speeds over peak-time periods as speed tiers increase.

VM also publish selected data on their site: http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/speeds.html

Though averages will be pretty useless to you as some areas will be far worse and some better, very different to the average. So if you like the average you may not get it.

The only way you'll find out is to try it!

http://www.did-you-knows.com/did-you...ts/average.php

[hedgie]

My personal experience in the WA5 postcode. Judging from the VM help forum plenty of others have a similar pattern in this area.

I'm on a 152Mb tariff and during the day get max speeds all the time. Until about two months ago evening and weekends were awfull with speeds down in sub 10Mb range

Recently work has been done in the area including refitting the local street cabinet.

Now peak still drops but its rarely drops below 60Mb and we have no evidence of buffering on streaming video including 4k Netflix and the kid seems reasonably happy with Xbox performance.

This is only one snapshot of one house in one postcode.

[horseman]

Originally Posted by eightace

A few speed tests over a 6 month period don't give me enough to go on. I was more interested in whether speeds dropped in the usual rush hours of 6 until midnight for instance. Anyone recorded 24 hours of download speeds to see if there is a big drop?

Two BN3 nodes in Brighton:

BN35L_ V200 on SH2AC (8x2 channels):

< Downstream March hourly plots >
< Hour of Day Average >
< Monthly Average >


BN37N_ V200 on SH3(16x2channels):

< Downstream March hourly plots >
< Hour of Day Average >
< Monthly Average >

[eightace]

Thanks horseman.
Not too bad I think. The graphs exaggerate the drops in speed but in the big scheme of things it doesn't look a great hardship in the busy evening hours.

What did you use to get those graphs?

[MUD_Wizard]

Originally Posted by eightace

What did you use to get those graphs?

He got them from Sam, who Knows a lot about broadband..

https://www.samknows.com/about

(Horseman may be incommunicado, putting his antenna back up in his beach hut.. I mean caravan)

[Rik]

Its a bit of a lottery!

Totally dependant on the area where you are, luckily Luton which I connect to is pretty good and I get the speed advertised!