The cabinet I am connected to will never get anywhere near capacity, it serves just a few rural properties. BT deemed the location unprofitable and not viable, however due to the government rural broadband project we have a cabinet. The whole cabinet serves about 10 houses and a couple of businesses, plenty of capacity here. The cabinet sits just a few yards from the farm track down to the house, so my overhead cable run direct from the cabinet is quiet short compared to some.

Hi Mender, it is not just at cabinet level that BT are having issues, the person I mentioned above is NOT on a fully loaded cabinet, the congestion issues were further "upstream"; also, her download speeds (like yours), only dropped slightly; it was her UPLOAD speeds that suffered, something she needs for her job (and specifically PAID for).

BT are stridently denying they have congestion issues all over the country, so dont be too quick to blame PlusNet; I know someone on a PREMIUM ISP whose fibre connection for uploads was dropping below 2Mb/s for months, despite the ISP reporting no issues; then BT quietly announced they had just finished increasing capacity to her area, and suddenly uploads went back to 18Mb/s.

 

Bottom line, BT are quietly throttling connections - even of people who are not BT customers - to try and disguise the congestion issues.

 

So true...

Internet Service Providers need to upgrade the core infrastructure they are running in my opinion to allow more bandwidth on the ever going internet but rather than doing this which is VERY expensive they throttle users instead which solves the issue for a while!

Simple answer is to pay for FTTP (Fibre To The Premises).

The way it works now for most is the fibre goes to the DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer). From the DSLAM which converts the optical signal to an electrical signal it goes to the old style cabinets via copper where it's then jumpered to continue via copper to the subscriber. The copper will inevitably slow things down.

 

Manny. BDUK is the dept. within OR I'm working for and you're quite correct; lots of rural properties are now seeing speeds that some in cities can only hope for lol

Simple answer is to pay for FTTP (Fibre To The Premises).

The way it works now for most is the fibre goes to the DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer). From the DSLAM which converts the optical signal to an electrical signal it goes to the old style cabinets via copper where it's then jumpered to continue via copper to the subscriber. The copper will inevitably slow things down.

 

Manny. BDUK is the dept. within OR I'm working for and you're quite correct; lots of rural properties are now seeing speeds that some in cities can only hope for lol

 

 

Re-read the thread, Cabinet level congestion is only part of the problem, the back-haul from the main fibre spine to the local cabinets is also suffering from congestion in many areas, causing BT to throttle traffic on ALL connections (and "postpone" a lot of FTTP requests, currently FTTP orders are suspended for many areas).

Probably due to too many people posting on fora

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/03/record-netflix-uk-internet-traffic-hits-talktalks-broadband-network.html

 

This is slightly more likely.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/03/record-netflix-uk-internet-traffic-hits-talktalks-broadband-network.html

 

This is slightly more likely.

Got to agree that online streaming and gaming takes up a hell of a lot of bandwith.

And of course me downloading entire TV series at 60Mb/s on BT.

And of course me downloading entire TV series at 60Mb/s on BT.

That's an awful lot of Coronation Street GG!

FUNNY!!

 

(Cora-wot?? :think: )

 

For the record, the last time I saw* ANY Corrie, Ena Sharples (spl) was still alive. In fact the ONLY UK soap I have seen this century was Hollyoaks - because it originally had some decent plot lines (so not in the last 10 years then!!)

 

*My sister is a soap addict and wont stop Corrie, DeadEnders, Emerdale etc, just because she has visitors.

 

PS the last time I saw Emerdale, it was still about a FARM.