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Title: Olympic effect
Post by: mervl on Jul 30, 2012, 18:47:55
I was wondering about any noticed effects on IDNet's service due to the Olympics. I monitor my connection daily with JDast - usually utterly and boringly consistent. Today though speeds remained unaltered on my FTTC service jitter rose dramatically from 0 or 1 to 8, small couple of percent packet loss noticed for the first time, and latency jumped from 15/16 to 27. An Olympic effect? Anyone else noticed anything? On the other hand TBQM graph shows nowt different - so! (The weather too has behaved itself for a change!).
Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: pctech on Jul 30, 2012, 19:04:31
The decent ISPs such as Zen and IDNet have no doubt added extra capacity to cope so I suspect it'll be BT.

Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: .Griff. on Jul 30, 2012, 19:46:50
BT is fine.

BE, Demon, Eclipse, Mistral, Vodafone, and Newnet are exhibiting issues.
Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: pctech on Jul 30, 2012, 19:53:12
allow me to qualify my comments, it could be at the exchange level.

Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: ST Driver on Jul 30, 2012, 20:46:08
Its the same on Virgin fibre network
So it looks like the olympics are starting to have an effect

Steve
Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: Steve on Jul 30, 2012, 20:52:47
I think you've also got a lot of people working from home this fortnight. I think I heard that the road traffic wasn't as bad as expected today.
Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: Simon on Jul 30, 2012, 21:42:59
Quote from: Steve on Jul 30, 2012, 20:52:47
I think you've also got a lot of people working from home this fortnight. I think I heard that the road traffic wasn't as bad as expected today.

Probably because they've given up trying to get to work!
Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: zappaDPJ on Jul 30, 2012, 22:22:49
It does seem that the roads in and around London are running very smoothly which is not what I expected at all.

My IDNet FTTC connection is also running very smoothly :thumb:
Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: Bill on Aug 01, 2012, 19:27:17
I think it was a little evident this afternoon on my BQM:

(http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share-thumb/b1a3d6e8b85ed44be7078613d1f901d1-01-08-2012.png) (http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/b1a3d6e8b85ed44be7078613d1f901d1-01-08-2012.html)

Didn't notice any speed problems.
Title: Re: Olympic effect
Post by: zappaDPJ on Aug 01, 2012, 19:59:07
Yeah, the staff BQMs are showing the same. Throughput seems good though :)