Dial up speeds every evening for weeks Tidewater, VA

My DSL has slowed to dial up speeds beginning around 5 pm and flucuating widely in speed until 11 pm. I tried all the remedies for slow speed as I have done in the past but they have not helped. Any time I've had problems Verizon dsl it has been with the wiring leading to the house not in the house. I still using the same Westell Modem I was given 2001! Would a newer modem help ? Is anyone experiencing the same problem in the Tidewater ,VA area. Could the number of people streaming movies during the Holidays cause the slow speed ?

I live in the same area. I'm not having problems with FiOS, but when I was with COX cable the quality was very erratic in the evenings. (internet and TV) Sometimes to the point where I would turn everything off and grab a book.
Those underground wires (cable or DSL) are old and problematic. Most of my problems were also exterior cables. It would cost a LOT of money to replace them so neither company is likely to do anymore than necessary.
Nothing lasts forever so a 12 year old modem may be part of the problem. The only way to know for sure is to replace it. If you can find a compatible model at Best Buy, you can try it then return it if there's no difference. Verizon may replace it for free, but I'm inclined to doubt it.
The number of other users online could definitely cause slow speed. I've noticed a decrease in my connect speed when streaming from Amazon. It's still high enough that video quality hasn't been effected, but it has dropped. If it is noticeable on FiOS, it's probably worse on DSL.

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Tylerdowner -- >> thank you << for your reply, and my sincere apologies for this delayed response (probs, hospital, blah-blah, you don't want to know).
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Please, if you would be forgiving, and persist with me a little further/longer -- would you make your recommendation/s for next step/s please?
Hope you're in a safe, comfortable place. So many places in the world suffering with extremes of all kinds.
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Dial up speeds at broadband prices!!!

Why is it that I have to put up with dial up speeds on a braodband package? The last few weeks I have had download speeds of under 1mps, last time this happened after a few weeks of complaining I got up to 6mps and gradually the service has degraded again. The question is if 6mps is possible after some adjustments at your end (BT) why can you not provide this service consistantly? Why is the UK in the dark ages when it comes to broadband? Why is BT spending so much time concentrating on upgrading cities who already have a decent level of broadband and not finnishing the job elsewhere and letting everyone have a good level of broadband? When I am told my exchange will be upgraded in the next few years and I will get Up to 6mps I wonder why BT is ignoring this now and speeding up areas that have more than that now?
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FAQ
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Speed just dropped to dial-up speeds

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So what's broken??
1) My wiring is Test socket (out of master socket) to BT Filter and then out to phone and HH4
2) I've disconnected, pulled apart, switched off, and put back together again all computer/hub/phone connections
3) Phone appears fine, no particular noise on the line.
Feels like not my end except the wife can be a bit heavy handed when doing today's weekly vacuum cleaning.
Needless to say it's pretty difficult and unpleasurable to use the internet at these dial-up speeds.

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After lion my internet is at dial up speed

A week after installing lion my internet has slowed to almost dial up speed, what do I do?

I'm having the exact same problems on my iMac (24-inch Early 2008).
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Now it is down to dial-up speeds:
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Running the "Silent LIne" test shows just that, silence.
This is in a house with three phone sockets, none of them a master. (All old style BT sockets, all with a filter.)
By contrast, I have another line running on the same cables from the same exchange that currently connects to the exchange at 7.87 and has an IP Profile of 6.5.
How do I get BT to investigate this? How long before I need to cancel the contract on the grounds that it is not delivering its promised speed?
I should add that the fast connection was made with an old Netgear router/modem, before the Home Hub arrived. I would swap that back in but the IP Profile is so low that it won't make any immediate difference.

Nope. Too rural for LLU.
SamKnows - Broadband Availability - Handcross (SDHNDCR) Exchange
Look at all those lovely red crosses. Last time anyone opened the door there to add anything seems to have been back in 2006.
Not rural enough, though, for any of those government sponsored broadband programmes.
Actually, I am amazed that TalkTalk can deliver a connection that is usually rock solid at speeds of up to 6 Mbps. The only problem is that when more than two people are on line, it slows to a crawl. That is one reason why I wanted to take up BT's seemingly generous offer.
But thanks all the same for the feedback and for the depressing news that BT is even worse than TalkTalk at dealing with customers. Guess I will just have to sit on my hands for another five days.

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