Sudden slow speeds on an evening..

Evening Guys,
The last few days or so I have been getting very slow speeds on an evening... daytime seems to be fine.
Download speedachieved during the test was - 25.48 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 12 Mbps-77.43 Mbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is - 77.43 Mbps
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 9.94Mbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 20 Mbps
Any help would be appreciated as it is not great..
Also getting the EA servers issue... kecked from MOH: Warfighter Beta every game.
Cheers,
Quinny

Download speedachieved during the test was - 72.38 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 12 Mbps-77.43 Mbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is - 77.43 Mbps
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 14.19Mbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 20 Mbps

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Infinity 1 and slow speeds during the evening and ...

Was installed Tues 4th June.
Predicted speed was 21.5 down and 5.0up, when installed it was actually 28.0 so pleased with that.
I.P profile 25.
Speed is absolutely fine during the day - 24 down, but every evening it plummets to between 1-3 mb. This can be anytime from 7.00pm - midnight and can last 30 minutes or sometimes 4hrs.
I've ran hundreds of speed tests and from several sites. They all show the same results on both laptops wired and wireless.
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Runs perfectly during the day but terrible in the evening, what else can I do?
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Slow Speeds in Evening/at Weekends

Hi,
I have been having trouble with slow speeds in the evening and at weekends on BT's Option 3 service recently. It varies from 0.5mb to 1mb between 5pm and 10pm. Outside that time window it is always at a reasonable speed(5mb+). The line is very stable and internet never drops unless the router is restarted. What could be the problem?
There are a couple of other computers connected to the router but they are not using it heavily in the evening.
Here are my stats, any help is appreciated!
Mode :
G.DMT
Type:
Interleave
Line Coding :
Trellis Off
Status :
Link Up
Downstream
Upstream
Rate (Kbps) :
7616
448
SNR Margin (dB) :
6.7
23.0
Attenuation (dB) :
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22.0
Output Power (dBm) :
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19.8
My exchange - Virtual paths: Green
http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/?exchange=Mickle%20Trafford&exact=1810&plugin=vp
BT speed test done at around 10.30pm tonight when it starts to speed up again -
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Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :7616 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 6500 Kbps
Thanks for any assistance.
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from the stats you have posted your connection looks fine. you need to post btspeedtester results when you are having problems
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are you wireless or wired?
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Slow Speed Also

Hi,
Please help slow speeds since Monday, evening posting here I keep getting timeout message.
Anyway the helping are looking into it, they were meant to call back between 12 noon and PM today and it's now 1.40pm, so wait and see.
My line is plugged into the test line, having trouble getting a speed test done, but managed to get this info to.
Download speed
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Upload Speed
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Hello,
Here are the results I got before it timed out
FAQ
1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download Speed
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Don’t bother with my strange printer name login. I did something wrong in the past and I am not able to change it. Anyway, my problem seems to be more common than I thought. My wi-fi network suddenly lost speed. Directly connected to the cable modem I get full dow/uoload speeds but through Time Capsule I only get 20x lower download speed (strange but uoload is less affected).
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Use WPA2 Personal secuirity with password that is 8-12 characters pure alphanumeric.
Update and put the TC back into the network in either bridge or router mode.. those are the only suitable modes.. and TC has to be set to create a wireless network.
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Test again over ethernet if the wireless is slow.. if both are slow the TC is faulty or simply doesn't work correctly on your kind of broadband. This is now happening with fibre connections.. Apple have not updated the routing part of the firmware for ages.. and are ignoring the issue. Get a different brand router and bridge the TC for TM use only.

WD MyBook Studio Suddenly Slow. Sign of Failure?

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I have a Western Digital MyBook Studio 3TB external hard drive that has suddenly slowed down dramatically.
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Super slow speed, and for once its not my ISP's fault.....

Hello friends,
I have the WRTG v6 router and have had no problems with it until the last few days. Suddenly my connection has become very slow and I am no longer able to play my xbox online without going straight through the modem. I thought that it may be my ISP, but when I hook up directly to the modem and do a speed test everything is perfect. I also thought that maybe the computers had some spyware that was slowing things down, but even with both computers powered down the online gaming was still lagging. So what gives? Is there a setting somewhere in the router that is slowing things down? Any info at all is greatly appreciated.

same thing to me, so slow... i regret why i bought this router. i got no help what so ever

Which Mac Pro? More cores=slower speeds? And most of us know the speed matters or FPU for music and I don't understand the faster is for the least amount of procs. And while I get the whole rendering thing and why it makes sense.

Which Mac Pro? More cores=slower speeds? And most of us know the speed matters or FPU for music and I don't understand the faster is for the least amount of procs. And while I get the whole rendering thing and why it makes sense.
The above is what the bar says. It's been a while and wondered, maybe Apple changed the format for forums. Then got this nice big blank canvas to air my concerns. Went to school for Computer Science, BSEE, even worked at Analog Devices in Newton Massachusetts, where they make something for apple.
The bottom line is fast CPU = more FPU = more headroom and still can't figure out why the more cores= the slower it gets unless it's to get us in to a 6 core then come out with faster cores down the road or a newer Mac that uses the GPU. Also. Few. I'm the guy who said a few years ago Mac has an FCP that looks like iMovie on Steroids. Having said that I called the campus one day to ask them something and while I used to work for Apple, I think she thought I still did as she asked me, "HOW ARE THE 32 CORES/1DYE COMING ALONG? Not wanting to embarrass her I said fine, fine and then hung up. Makes the most sense as I never quite got the 2,6,12 cores when for years everything from memory to CPU's have been, in sets of 2 to the 2nd power. 2,4,8,16,32,64,120,256,512, 1024, 2048,4196,8192, 72,768. Wow. W-O-W and will be using whatever I get with Apollo Quad.
Peace to all and hope someone can point us in THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THANK YOU

Thanks for your reply via email/msg. He wrote:
If you are interested in the actual design data for the Xeon processor, go to the Intel site and the actual CPU part numbers are:
Xeon 4 core - E5.1620v2
Xeon 6 core - E5.1650v2
Xeon 8 core - E5.1680v2
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I read that the CPU is easy to swap out but am sure something goes wrong at a certain point - even if solderedon they make material to absorb the solder, making your work area VERY clean.
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I also noticed that the 8 core Mac Pro is 3.0 when in fact they do have a 3.4 8 core chip, so 2 =16? Or if correct, wouldn't you be able to replace a QUAD CHIP WITH THAT? I;M SURE THEY ARE UO TO SOMETHING AS 1) WE HAVE SEEN NO AUDIO FPU OR PERHAPS I SHOULD CHECK OUT PC MAKERS WINDOWS machines for Sisoft Sandra "B-E-N-C-H-M-A-R-K-S" -
SOMETHINGS UP AND AM SURE WE'LL ALL BE PLEASED, AS the mac pro was announced Last year, barely made the December mark, then pushed to January, then February and now April.
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PEACE===AM SURE APPLE WILL BLOW US AWAY - they have to figure out how to increase the power for 150 watts or make the GPU work which in regard to FPU, I thought was NVIDIA?

Slow speeds. Apparently I don't have a bt broadban...

After using bt's own e-form to email them about my long running loss of speed over the year from 2.6mb for the last say 10 years, to 1.6mb (1.4mb at its lowest) download / 0.36 up. ping latency around 0.38 i think, apart from today where its 42.25!! what's that?!
All I've got back so far is:
"Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line support centre. Below is a summary of your request and our response.
If this issue is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may reopen it within the next 14 days.
Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you. " ....and....
"This is in regards to the e-mail you have send on 20th August 2014. We are sorry to inform you that there is no sufficient information in the e-mail to pull up any active broadband account. We would request you to provide the details of your broadband account so that we can pull up the account and help you further."
Just to be clear, their OWN e-form didn't have enough information for them to find my account??? It asks for my name, address, phone number my broadband is on, email address, my account number (assume its the BT account as that's all I have), plus the problem. What else can I type in if there's no other fields.
So I submitted the form. A couple of days later I got an email back with the above included in it.
1. Why automatically close the call? They hadn't resolved anything, so why close it? The only other thing they mentioned was going onto their Help pages (durr how did i manage to use their e-form in the first place?).
2. No mention of what these missing "details" are. (On purpose?)
So I replied and being a little annoyed at their poor response, which just sounds like "yep dealt with that call within the response time target I got to make".
I've had BT broadband since its inception, even before, but they cannot find my account? Amazing they can bill me each quarter without any problems. So I sent my bt account number again even thought it was included in the e-form. Asked them clearly to tell me what "details" of my broadband account they need from me. More than happy to oblige. Oh, and no I'm not satisfied with their resolution and re-open the call!!
So some more days have now passed and guess what. I get an email with the exact same text!!
I replied. In CAPITAL LETTERS for the hard of hearing. What specific details do you want from me?
I wait in baited breath.
OMG I haven't even got onto the problem of the slow speed issue yet!
I guess they want me to phone (premium 0800 number?), or do something myself. I don't want to phone them as I've experienced the same ol' routine before, life's too short. I've paid the top price for ever, so I would think they could do some of the leg work eh? I mean part of the cost is the support they provide, right? How do you lose a broadband account?
It niggles me is that I pay same price infinity customers do and I'm still stuck in the dial-up speed ages. And don't get me on about those tv ads. Like everyone can get infinity. Yeah I'm still waiting after 5 years that it was coming. Amazing the Isles of Scilly with about 10 people living on there manage to get it quicker than me living in a town in the middle of the UK. I digress...
If I can do a speed test from both their bt.com site and btwholesale speed test and get a poor speed (approx 1.8 max) from exchange to router then I know by the time it gets to my pc its not going to be 2.6 is it.
PS i don't have a master socket/test socket to try. its the old type. And why has the speed just dropped and kept down (like for so many others in this forum), where nothing has changed, at least at the customers end of the line.
I don't expect someone in the forum to come up with the solution, but its more of a rant on my part at the poor response to my request, let alone some kind of investigation into the problem itself.
I work in "IT" and part of it is dealing with calls from customers. If I had dealt with a call like BT had then I'd be getting a ear bashing from my manager.
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if you want help about your conenction speed from the forum members then can you post the adsl stats from your router please.
can you try quiet line test dial 17070 option 2 should be quiet nohiss/crackle and best with corded phone if cordless then dull hum normal
can you enter your phone number and post results remember to delete number https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html
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Slow speeds, almost dead, can't figure out what's ...

Hi all, I've had very slow speeds from my homehub for almost a week. I've tried a factory reset on the hub to no avail. I also spoke to technical support in India I think, but they were no help.
When I perform a speed check the speed from the exchange to my house is fine, it's after that it dies a death.
I've checked all cables and it is not cabling after the hub as this problem effects internet tv's that are connected via ethernet cable and others that are wireless and also tablets that work on wifi.
In the last week I have had download speeds as low as 0.03 and for only a few hours last Monday has it been OK all of a sudden. I presumed a fix elsewhere but the problem came back an hour or two later.
At the moment we can't use iplayer, youtube and every webpage takes ages to load. It's quite horrible.
Has anyone got any idea's what could be wrong and are there any diagnostic tests I can run on the hub to see if it's borked.

Hi Welcome to the community forums
Here is a basic guide to getting help from the community members done by CL Keith Please read through the link posted http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/speed/first_steps.html
once you have posted the information asked for then the community members can help you more
Thank You
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Sudden slow down in data transfer

I'm reading data from the hard disk on a Target PXI System (8106 RT) and sending it via Ethernet to a Host PC and writing it to its hard disk. I read a chuck of data from the Target, send it using TCP Write function. The Host uses the TCP Read function get the data and write it to its hard disk. Data is being transfer over a Gbit Ethernet. A total of 9 files ranging in size from 700 MB - 2 GB are being transferred. The process moves along at an adequate speed until it suddenly slows down to slower than a snail's pace in the middle of a file.
By using probes (see enclosures) I've been able to determine it take approximately 17 seconds between when the data is read on the PXI to when it is written on the Host. However, an iteration of the loop on the Target has increased to over 3 minutes. The CPU usage on the Target and Host are minimal, less than 1%. Memory usage on the Host is also small. Any suggestions on how to diagnose what has caused this sudden slow down?
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I would recommend using smaller chunk sizes for your data transfers. I would recommend something inthe 10K to 50K range. I have done quite a bit of profiling for sending large amounts of data and I have found that it is better to send lots of smaller chunks rather than fewer large chunks. Also make sure that you are not automatically building up large buffers in your application if you are using shift registers. If you are reading from a file read the file in chunks and send the chuncks. Don't read the whole file in in one read. One experiment I ran resulted in a single read of a large file (2 MB or so) took something like 10 minutes to read it in one read. However it only took a couple of 100 ms to read the whole thing in 10K chunks. Same applies to wrinting very large chunks using the TCP write. You can easily get a timeout if you write 1 MB as a single write because the receiver has not consumed all of the data within the timeout period. However, multiple small writes will reset the timeout for each chunk written.
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Mac suddenly slow, overheating, spinning ball of death, hard to reboot.

Problem description:
Mac suddenly slowed down, especially when using Safari - spinning ball of death, pages won’t load, etc. Hard drive appeared to get “stuck” causing overheating and had trouble even shutting down with the button, and then wouldn’t reboot for about an hour.
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    Hitachi HTS725050A9A364 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 499.25 GB (466.46 GB free) - 53 errors
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
    HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N
USB Information: ℹ️
    HP HP Officejet Pro X551dw Printer
    Logitech USB Receiver
    Logitech USB Receiver
    Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
    Mac App Store and identified developers
Startup Items: ℹ️
    HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
    Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [failed]    com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]
    [running]    com.akamai.single-user-client.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
    iTunesHelper    UNKNOWN (missing value)
    HP Scheduler    Application (/Library/Application Support/Hewlett-Packard/Software Update/HP Scheduler.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 11.8.800.168 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
    NP_2020Player_IKEA: Version: 5.0.94.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    Flash Player: Version: 11.8.800.168 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
    NP_2020Player_WEB: Version: 5.0.94.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
    SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.1.4 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 [Click for support]
    Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
    AdBlock
    ClickToFlash
    Ixquick HTTPS
    ClickToPlugin
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
    Akamai NetSession Preferences [Click for support]
    Flash Player [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
        13%    mds
         9%    WindowServer
         2%    mdworker
         0%    fontd
         0%    AppleSpell
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    232 MB    Safari
    137 MB    Coda
    129 MB    Art Text 2
    120 MB    softwareupdated
    120 MB    mds_stores
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    2.51 GB    Free RAM
    2.78 GB    Active RAM
    2.24 GB    Inactive RAM
    798 MB    Wired RAM
    720 MB    Page-ins
    0 B    Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
    Mar 17, 2015, 02:08:11 PM    Self test - passed
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:33:46 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-123346_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:33:23 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-123323_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:14:25 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ocspd_2015-03-17-121425_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:14:08 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121408_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:13:52 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121352_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:13:36 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121336_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:13:04 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121304_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:12:40 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121240_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:12:23 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121223_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:12:07 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121207_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:11:51 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121151_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:11:48 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ocspd_2015-03-17-121148_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:11:20 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121120_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:11:04 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121104_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:10:48 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121048_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:10:32 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121032_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:10:17 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ocspd_2015-03-17-121017_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:10:16 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-121016_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:09:45 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-120945_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:09:30 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-120930_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:09:14 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-120914_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:08:58 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-120858_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:08:42 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-120842_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:08:42 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ocspd_2015-03-17-120842_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:08:41 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ocspd_2015-03-17-120841_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:08:10 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-120810_[redacted].crash
    Mar 17, 2015, 12:07:54 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/cfprefsd_2015-03-17-120754_[redacted].crash

Seems to have worked.
We hooked up the external HD, turned on Time Machine, and everything backed up.
Then we ran Disk Utility. The disk repair required the reboot thing and took two tries. Then repaired permissions. Also updated Flash.
Seems to be running okay now, but we have ordered a new SSD (as well as a new iMac 5k ). We use multiple computers so hoping we can get a couple more years of use out of this old computer as it ran fast and fine until this problem.
Thank you so much for your help! We really appreciate it.

Sudden slow speeds on an evening..

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