Leek, speeds used to be way above 2mb/s even during the day (go check on the 2Mb modem thread and on the Speedtest results thread, there are loads of results I posted). Used to regularly see over 2.2Mb/s right through the day and at night speeds would hover around 2.4 or so. During storms speeds would be just under 2Mb/s as well. All round I was very very happy with the speed. Note: was.
And that was with the modem on my study windowsill with no external antenna fitted.
Ever since the new packages were released, speeds dropped to below 0.3Mb/s even after midnight. Simple case of massively overloaded towers as shown to me by the Techs who fitted the antenna and did testing of towers in the area.
Melanie arranged for a flat panel antenna to be fitted after I moaned for months about the speed issue and it is on a 3 metre high pole above our house roof. Speeds did improve from the crappy 0.3Mb/s and less, to around 1Mb/s, still half of what it used to be. But it has gone south once more and nothing gets done about our complaints, sadly.
Overloaded towers in this area are the sole problem here. I don't know what iBurst is doing about it, but that is not my problem. We just want want we pay for. I even suggested at one stage that they could have a corner of our property to put up a tower, but nothing even came of that.
Edited to add the latest "Speed"test result:
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Originally Posted by hyper007
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