painfully slow speeds

[julianholden30]

ha d probs with ADSL off peak speeds when first joined up, then they went away.
Its happening again.
This really isnt good enough for a 8meg connection

http://www.speedtest.net/result/266972982.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Anyone else having speed probs ?

[julianholden30]

And getting worse ......

http://www.speedtest.net/result/266975369.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[pcmaczone]

That looks awful! Maybe you can post your router stats so people can see the line noise figures etc?

[Cavey]

I've got no problems whatsoever. Here's mine from a few mins ago:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/266980140.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[merlin99]

mine seem ok as well though i have noticed a few weeks ago my ping has gone from 27 to 57 for some unknown reason

http://www.speedtest.net/result/266990577.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

as mentioned above youd really need to give as much information about your line stats as possible for someone to be able to say 1 way or another what the problem is as a good percentage of speed related issues are not ISP related

[Cavey]

The pings on speetest.net are usually wildy inaccurate anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. Manually pinging the same server that gave me the 104ms result gives me a response of 17ms.

[TattyBear]

My speed has been poor for weeks as most of you know, although in this instance my situation isn't as bad as the OP. My profile has been stuck for 3 days now and I'm stuck with speed of around 1300kbps.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/267030545.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[topgazza]

I'm getting 6mbs at the moment 21.25pm....have been all day.

Julian...have your tried disconnecting then reconnecting your router which will switch you to another pipe ?

[julianholden30]

Yes tried disconnecting router etc still no change last night.
ALthough its improved greatlt this moring again.
Can just about cope with these speeds..
http://www.speedtest.net/result/267197168.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[topgazza]

Even allowing for speedtests ping variance you are getting some very odd ping results. As has been suggested if you could post your router/modem stats people can see what attenuation and line noise you are getting and also what you are synched at.....do a few as if the synch varies as well then there is a problem.

You can also run the bt speedtest as well...speedtester.bt.com...do it from IE as it doesn't always work from Firefox.

[artyman]

I think a lot of connection problems is not the ISP but the creaking BT infrastructure.

[julianholden30]

Agreed artyman. The BT infustructure is on its knee's.
And the money the charge us for line rental alone (profits) they should have forseen these problems a long long time ago.