Is The Wick Exchange Oversubscribed for Broadband?

[Gizmo]

Anyone else noticing a shocking drop in their connection speeds over the weekend and busy times?, i am with Freeola, one of the Enta Net resellers and normally speeds are superfast, now my son is with BT and we have just both done speedtests and are connecting at just over 1.5meg when normally i connect at 6meg and he at 4meg, i heard a rumour that the Wick exchange is seriously over subscribed and wondered if the speeds are being throttled at the exchange?

Maybe a BT employee can shed some light on this?

[hails4]

going fine here just over 6.1meg

[Sapphire2803]

Anyone else noticing a shocking drop in their connection speeds over the weekend and busy times?, i am with Freeola, one of the Enta Net resellers and normally speeds are superfast, now my son is with BT and we have just both done speedtests and are connecting at just over 1.5meg when normally i connect at 6meg and he at 4meg, i heard a rumour that the Wick exchange is seriously over subscribed and wondered if the speeds are being throttled at the exchange?

Maybe a BT employee can shed some light on this?
Not oversubscribed as far as I can see (http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:UW8cA-KqZqwJ:www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/products/llu/exchangereport/downloads/Capacity_Briefing_080208v1.xls+keiss+exchange+upgr ade&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=39&gl=uk), but the contention ratio may have something to do with it.

[Metalattakk]

Anyone else noticing a shocking drop in their connection speeds over the weekend and busy times?, i am with Freeola, one of the Enta Net resellers and normally speeds are superfast, now my son is with BT and we have just both done speedtests and are connecting at just over 1.5meg when normally i connect at 6meg and he at 4meg, i heard a rumour that the Wick exchange is seriously over subscribed and wondered if the speeds are being throttled at the exchange?

Maybe a BT employee can shed some light on this?

Entanet use a system called the 'Anti-Loss Tool' to manage the traffic on their centrals. Basically, all the connections are slowed for a time, until the load subsides. Entanet do this so they can provide low ping-rates for all, rather than just letting things get flooded, meaning disconnections galore. Although saying that, 1.5mbps seems a bit on the low side.

Go to http://www.entachoice.org.uk/cgi-bin/central.cgi and you can see which central you are connected to, what the expected throughput should be and how busy the central you are connected to is.

Show me any other ISP that will provide that sort of service...? ;)

Edit: Also check here - http://noc.enta.net/ - and you can see the overall status of Entanet's service.

[sphinx]

yeah has been a lot slower we are meant to be 8 meg broad band but dont think we get it at all

[Gizmo]

Entanet use a system called the 'Anti-Loss Tool' to manage the traffic on their centrals. Basically, all the connections are slowed for a time, until the load subsides. Entanet do this so they can provide low ping-rates for all, rather than just letting things get flooded, meaning disconnections galore. Although saying that, 1.5mbps seems a bit on the low side.

Go to http://www.entachoice.org.uk/cgi-bin/central.cgi and you can see which central you are connected to, what the expected throughput should be and how busy the central you are connected to is.

Show me any other ISP that will provide that sort of service...? ;)

Edit: Also check here - http://noc.enta.net/ - and you can see the overall status of Entanet's service.

Thanks mate, those links helped out, i was connected on a fully loaded pipe, a couple of reconnections and i was up to around 4mg on a different pipe which is acceptable enough for a sunday evening.

And yeah...Entanet are superb, you wont find a better ISP out there.

[johndh]

I think Enta are putting in a new Central sometime soon. It should make things better during the off peak and weekends.

As others have said above, it's brilliant that enta make available the traffic loading data to all. I don't know of any other isp that does. It's unfortunate that BT wholesale do not have traffic management software in place to balance central loading sensibly, its an ad hoc system, which is probably the main reason enta publish the loadings to customers (anyone really, no password required). BT did have software trials sometime ago, which seemed to work fairly well, but they withdrew it.