slow - due to traffic management?

[jomuir]

Second day with Virgin Media 30Mb connection, is it so slow due to traffic management?

It has been this slow all day from the moment I have turned on my pc (which was after noon) so could this be traffic management?

From this website (Traffic Management Policy):-

Weekdays: 4pm – 6pm

Weekends: 10am – 10pm

Also seen on this site, but cannot find it anymore - weekends noon - midnight

Server Status states all is well 

[swt4ajp]

hi

it looks like traffic management

do you have any torrent software running?

do you use gaming consoles that connect to the net?

do you do heavy downloading?

[jomuir]

Please see my answers below:--

do you have any torrent software running?- No

do you use gaming consoles that connect to the net? - No

do you do heavy downloading? - Yes, but I have not download a lot, I have been getting this speed from when I turned on my pc and before I had downloaded anything. I have a few things setup to download in the early hours because I know about the traffic management and fair play policy and do not want to affect my speeds in the days/evenings.

[swt4ajp]

anyone else in your house using the net?

[jomuir]

smartphone and this laptop - all other hardware off or only connected as a NAS

[swt4ajp]

how much have you downloaded in the last week? approx

[jomuir]

Sorry for double post - are these times right?

Weekends: 10am – 10pm

Thinking about it, I downloaded a few 4-5 GB about 3am - 7am...............would this cause traffic management to be implemented?

[jomuir]

Not much this week (only the 4-5GB as mentioned above) , only got Virgin Media installed on Thursday morning/early afternoon

[swt4ajp]

hi

standard traffic management is from 10am till 4pm and 4pm till 9pm and thats all day everyday

the link that you supplied was if someone s doing heavy downloading all day everyday and racked up alot of bandwidth/peer to peer

http://virginmedia.com/traffic

thats the link you want, that would give you the info you want

and no not that early in the morning

if you follow this link

Superhub

and also click here to do a speed test

also can you tell us if your connection to the router is Ethernet or wireless

if your on wireless try to change the wireless channel (also try to download inSSIDer that will tell you what wireless channel isn’t being used or the least used)

and post all the results here makes it quicker at diagnosing the issue

[jomuir]

Tried laptop with network cable and wireless - both the same speed.

Currently testing via ethernet.

Not sure what all this means, but looks similar to the figures on the link you provided.

  Connection

Startup Procedure Procedure Status Comment Acquire Downstream Channel 307000000 Hz Locked Connectivity State OK Operational Boot State OK Operational Configuration File OK   Security Enabled BPI+

Downstream Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power SNR Docsis/EuroDocsis locked Locked QAM256 199 55616000 Kbits/sec 307000000 Hz 8.3 dBmV 45.3 dB Hybrid Locked QAM256 198 55616000 Kbits/sec 299000000 Hz 8.4 dBmV 44.8 dB Hybrid Locked QAM256 200 55616000 Kbits/sec 315000000 Hz 7.8 dBmV 44.2 dB Hybrid Locked QAM256 201 55616000 Kbits/sec 323000000 Hz 7.6 dBmV 44.7 dB Hybrid Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown

Upstream Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power Locked ATDMA 5 20480 Kbits/sec 45800000 Hz 37.0 dBmV Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV

Primary Downstream Service Flow Downstream(0) SFID 7947 Max Traffic Rate 33330000 bps Max Traffic Burst 3044 bytes Mix Traffic Rate 0 bps Primary Upstream Service Flow Upstream(0) SFID 8056 Max Traffic Rate 3333000 bps Max Traffic Burst 8160 bytes Mix Traffic Rate 0 bps Max Concatenated Burst 8160 bytes Scheduling Type Best Effort

Current System Time:Sat Jan 07 23:16:49 2012