Is anyone else experiencing this?
Bandwidth down from 3Mbps to about .7 since Monday
This is ours -
In the evening we often donât have any connection at all.
Since recently or has it always been like that?
Just since the âlockdownâ started James. We have a Bouygues 4G box which is okay but the speeds are variable, anything from 1Mbps to 15 Mbps.
Iâve just tried 3 different speed test apps/things. Download varies between 1.0 and 12.5mbps, upload between 1.0 and 35 Mbps, ping between 25 and 355 ms.
BizarreâŠ
Iâve noticed a drop-offline every morning only brief but annoying⊠and my computer seems to take much longer to do what I wantâŠ
However, downstairs we watch on-line films after lunch (only the free ones of course) and the signal does freeze a few times but not enough to worry us⊠depending on how much wine we have enjoyedâŠ
not very good for anyone trying to work⊠with deadlines etcâŠ
(when/if the world returns to normal, we wonât need on-line films, but it is helping with our sanity at the moment)
Network usage certainly up and consequently widespread drops in speed.
@James - do you know if your âsync speedâ has changed?
By all accounts, we are not doing badly with the Bouygues 4G box
Evening usually sees a decrease though.
Whatâs that?
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Weâve noticed it in sound and video transmission quality (Skype, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, etc).
Other than than that, the internet connection speed is pretty bad here anyway most of the time. In confinement , it has just become even slower than usual ! Higher contention rates means bandwidth management for those at the ends of the copper linesâŠ
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wow⊠Alex
thanks for this linkâŠlooking up my provider explains our hiccupsâŠ
Stella, it is my go-to site for checking when things get really badâŠ
Normally very slow here, because we are at the end of a very long landline, but since lockdown we have been losing connection completely on a regular basis.
My guess is that servers are overloaded with people working from home and recreational users exchanging videos.
No good blaming your ISP. We will just have to learn to live with it. The situation will only improve when people start to go back to work, because it is unlikely that anyone is going to install extra hardware that will become redundant in a few months.
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Ours is ok first thing in the morning, and useless from early evening. Normally we blame Cedric who lives at the top of the village and is an incessant gamerâŠbut it is worse than usual I guess due to the number of people at home.
Alex⊠OH now tells me that the Downtime Site is bookmarked on my other computer⊠my old one which I use âoff-lineâ specifically, to guard my precious stuff for posterity⊠
Iâve now got it bookmarked on this computer (my new oneâŠ) phew
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Coincidentally itâs just shot back up to 4mbps!
You are lucky to have Broadband at all.
There are 15 houses around us that have had no Broadband since the 15th December.
This is coming to you via a sim card in the back of the router.
Whilst out takinf her exercise came upon an Orange engineer who said that they were trying to re-route our service via another village.
Our own Commune and the nearest village have also been badly affected since the 15th December.
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Connection speed
1st question if speeds are down is âis it my link to the networkâ or âthe networkâ - if the former can report as a fault, if the latter not much to do than hope Orange sort it out.
If you have a Livebox it is relatively easy to find the connection speed.