[BNM] Sick of be broadband

[PC Help Brighton]

Yeah that's what I thought too, am experiencing very slow data transfer rates even though router is connected at 8MB.. varies throughout the day. Wouldn't surprise in the slightest if it was Tiscali only, but this tool lead me to believe otherwise:

http://www.nildram.net/support/tools/congestion_checker/

Tiscali engineers reckoned their DSLAM's were running optimally, and had to check with BT for congestion, which is when they confirmed the prob (took 3 weeks to get it out of them).


From: Alastair James 
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:38 AM
To: Brighton New Media 
Subject: Re: [BNM] Sick of be broadband


Hmmm..... I will switch my DNS over to opendns, although I dont
*think* its that, as its not look up times that are slow, its transfer
times. I.e. large images downloading bit by bit over a second or
more...

However in general it seems slightly better this morning...

Al

2009/3/2 David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com>:
> On Mar 02, 2009 at 01:04, PC Help Brighton praised the llamas by saying:
>> I have been having the same problems with Tiscali, after almost a month of being on the phone, they finally admitted to me that there is severe congestion on the hove exchange (I have verified this elsewhere).
>>
> Tiscali have unbundled lines in the Hove exchange, so this would be
> limited to Tiscali's service.
>
>> So I guess is affecting all isp's (except BT it would seem, who give their packets higher priority).
>
> If it's an unbundled line, like Be would be, then it wouldn't be
> affected by problems with BT's ADSL service
>>
>> The congestion will not be resolved until the upgrade to 21CN is carried out in June. That is my understanding.
>>
> 21CN would only help BT's wholesale service, not Tiscali or Be. By all
> accounts Hove will be ready for broadband via 21CN by the end of this
> month. Voice calls are already using it.
>
> http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/SDHV
>
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