Sudden drop in speed

Good morning all,

What factors could cause a sudden drop in connection speed of about 300k?

My BT Homehub was connecting at about steady 2350 or so for a long time,
then when I upgraded to the latest firmware, it connected at 2528 constantly
and succsefully for the last few weeks. The router is normally left on all
the time.

Suddenly early this morning the router dropped to 2208 and I am having
trouble now to connect faster than 2250 or so. That's bad news as that will
drop my configured download speed below 2 Meg I think.

I have not added any new electrical equipment in the house or anything like
that. I did install a filtered master faceplate about 3 weeks ago, but
everything was fine since then.

cheers
Patrick.

(E-Mail Removed) (Patrick) wrote:

> What factors could cause a sudden drop in connection speed of
> about 300k?

I used to have a problem with a crackling line which resulted in
irregular connection speeds. That problem was always worse during wet
weather (it turned out to be a dodgy connection under a grid somewhere
down the road) and we've had plenty of wet weather recently.

Still, if it was something like that you'd probably have noticed when
using the phone.

Andrew McP

Patrick wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> What factors could cause a sudden drop in connection speed of
> about 300k?
> My BT Homehub was connecting at about steady 2350 or so for a long
> time, then when I upgraded to the latest firmware, it connected at
> 2528 constantly and succsefully for the last few weeks. The router
> is normally left on all the time.
>
> Suddenly early this morning the router dropped to 2208 and I am
> having trouble now to connect faster than 2250 or so. That's bad
> news as that will drop my configured download speed below 2 Meg I
> think.
> I have not added any new electrical equipment in the house or
> anything like that. I did install a filtered master faceplate
> about 3 weeks ago, but everything was fine since then.
>
> cheers
> Patrick.

There are bigger things to worry about than 3kbps, that's from your
new max speed or 1kbps that's from your normal speed.

Get a life & grab some sunshine whilst you can. The time to really
worry is when you drop 1mbps or more....

>
> Get a life & grab some sunshine whilst you can. The time to really worry
> is when you drop 1mbps or more....
>

You are probably right, but as I understand, video on demand services like
for example BTVision require a 2Meg or better configured download speed.

By my understanding you have to connect at 2272kbps or better to get that.
Therefore if my connection starts regularly going below that I am ruled out
of those services. That's why those extra few k are important around that
speed range. If it had dropped from 6500 to 6200 I would not be bothered
whatsoever.

cheers

Patrick wrote:
>> Get a life & grab some sunshine whilst you can. The time to
>> really worry is when you drop 1mbps or more....
>>
>
> You are probably right, but as I understand, video on demand
> services like for example BTVision require a 2Meg or better
> configured download speed.
> By my understanding you have to connect at 2272kbps or better to
> get that. Therefore if my connection starts regularly going below
> that I am ruled out of those services. That's why those extra few
> k are important around that speed range. If it had dropped from
> 6500 to 6200 I would not be bothered whatsoever.
>
> cheers

The same applies, I know the saying if we look after the pennies the
pounds will look after themselves, unfortunately this does not apply
to your situation. You are grasping at gnats worrying about your
'fluctuation', it's not even .5Mbps & I very much doubt if it will
make any great difference to your profile. So take a chill pill &
relax. If all the people who have minor fluctuations started to post
there would be literaly thousands of such posts each & every day. If
you have done your homework & checked everything, there is nothing
anybody can or will do for you as you aren't even breaching your
'Lower Threshold'.

Start worrying about your services not working if & when you order
them & then the problems can be directly addressed, but minor
fluctuations......sorry but that way leads to exspensive bills & still
nothing getting done. Like the users with flakey wifi connections
complaining that their DSL keeps dropping thats another £160 plus
thank you.

Patrick wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> What factors could cause a sudden drop in connection speed of about 300k?
>
Electrical noise.

> My BT Homehub was connecting at about steady 2350 or so for a long time,
> then when I upgraded to the latest firmware, it connected at 2528 constantly
> and succsefully for the last few weeks. The router is normally left on all
> the time.
>
> Suddenly early this morning the router dropped to 2208 and I am having
> trouble now to connect faster than 2250 or so. That's bad news as that will
> drop my configured download speed below 2 Meg I think.
>
> I have not added any new electrical equipment in the house or anything like
> that. I did install a filtered master faceplate about 3 weeks ago, but
> everything was fine since then.
>
So maybe somewhere up the line, someone has been running some
equipment..the last few dauys have been extra good for MW reception, the
moon is in Scorpio?

The surprise is that rates are as stable as they are, not the reverse.

> cheers
> Patrick.
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