Fibre speed dropping

Johan R

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I have a 100/50 fibre connection (Open Serve). I usually get about 96Mbps download speed. For the last week my download speed has dropped significantly. When I do a Speedtest it leaps up to about 96 in the beginning but then quickly drops to about 35. Upload speed is also slightly slower than normal. I have discussed this with my ISP and they can’t see anything wrong on their side. The problem occurs both via WiFi and wired connection. Any ideas what could be going on here?

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Johan
 

Brown Fox

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I have a 100/50 fibre connection (Open Serve). I usually get about 96Mbps download speed. For the last week my download speed has dropped significantly. When I do a Speedtest it leaps up to about 96 in the beginning but then quickly drops to about 35. Upload speed is also slightly slower than normal. I have discussed this with my ISP and they can’t see anything wrong on their side. The problem occurs both via WiFi and wired connection. Any ideas what could be going on here?

Regards

Johan

Have you tested it with another ISP?
 

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I have a 100/50 fibre connection (Open Serve). I usually get about 96Mbps download speed. For the last week my download speed has dropped significantly. When I do a Speedtest it leaps up to about 96 in the beginning but then quickly drops to about 35. Upload speed is also slightly slower than normal. I have discussed this with my ISP and they can’t see anything wrong on their side. The problem occurs both via WiFi and wired connection. Any ideas what could be going on here?

Regards

Johan

Telkom had issues yesterday and cleared it this morning. Might be that
 

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My afrihost fibre has also been terrible on an intermittent basis over the past week or two.
 

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Day 12 mweb fibre 7 down 3 up (100/50 account) guest account works at correct speed, just got a test account from them also broken.
not sure what to do next :(
 

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Day 12 mweb fibre 7 down 3 up (100/50 account) guest account works at correct speed, just got a test account from them also broken.
not sure what to do next :(

Change ISP, if they haven't fixed it by now, they probably never will.
 

ranger

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With Openserve you can.

Edit: Actually, you can with any fibre provider. It's just easiest with Openserve.

Uh, no, there are a number of fibre providers who don't allow other ISPs. As far as I know, at least:
- Vodacom
- MTN/Smartvillage
- SADV?
 

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Uh, no, there are a number of fibre providers who don't allow other ISPs. As far as I know, at least:
- Vodacom
- MTN/Smartvillage
- SADV?

Vodacom yes closed. MTN/Smartvillage was closed I think but recently fibre ISP's started listing them so looks like that changed. SADV always been open access as far as I know unless the complex or estate has an exclusive deal with them which I haven't seen mentioned on mybb yet.
 

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Vodacom yes closed. MTN/Smartvillage was closed I think but recently fibre ISP's started listing them so looks like that changed. SADV always been open access as far as I know unless the complex or estate has an exclusive deal with them which I haven't seen mentioned on mybb yet.
Ah, yes I just read in another thread that they started taking orders for Cool Ideas in Nov.
 

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I have had Cell C since February 2017- first at 20/20 but as this was totally useless for streaming, I upgraded to 50/50 last month. This has proved to be OK during the day but is also useless after 6pm., when it buffers a lot, freezing the screen and eventually it stops working altogether, ending with a message "problem with the internet" on a black screen. Sometimes it reboots itself going back to Google but it is always necessary to reboot the whole system. My TV, a Samsung UA55F8000, says in the handbook that it works down to 10Mbps., so we are obviously dropping below this level when it stops working. Speed tests to international sources are OK during the day, averaging round about 30/30 up and down but at night they drop down to well under 10/10. Vumatel has told me that the local speed to my address is very close to 50/50 at any time, so is it Cell C that has not got enough band width to accommodate client requirements. especially international band width? This my suspicion as they are almost impossible to get hold off and their help desk cannot help me. Does anyone have another theory? It could be the Samsung that has not got enough memory but it does work during the day, so this is unlikely. Please guys, I am desperate!
 

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I have had Cell C since February 2017- first at 20/20 but as this was totally useless for streaming, I upgraded to 50/50 last month. This has proved to be OK during the day but is also useless after 6pm., when it buffers a lot, freezing the screen and eventually it stops working altogether, ending with a message "problem with the internet" on a black screen. Sometimes it reboots itself going back to Google but it is always necessary to reboot the whole system. My TV, a Samsung UA55F8000, says in the handbook that it works down to 10Mbps., so we are obviously dropping below this level when it stops working. Speed tests to international sources are OK during the day, averaging round about 30/30 up and down but at night they drop down to well under 10/10. Vumatel has told me that the local speed to my address is very close to 50/50 at any time, so is it Cell C that has not got enough band width to accommodate client requirements. especially international band width? This my suspicion as they are almost impossible to get hold off and their help desk cannot help me. Does anyone have another theory? It could be the Samsung that has not got enough memory but it does work during the day, so this is unlikely. Please guys, I am desperate!

I have a PC connected to my Samsung TV, for twitch streams, as the app on Tizen sucks. On my pc, I use Google Chrome and I have an extension installed for twitch 5 (not available anymore though) and with this you can set it to use 3 threads for a stream and I had no issues streaming 1080p60 on my 10mbps ADSL. I have fibre now, so no more issues, but for you, I would suggest you give the Twitch Desktop app a go or used Firefox, as that still has the twitch 5 extension.

As for using the TV, is it connected via wired or wireless connection?
 
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