Buggerlugz
ULTIMATE Member
I've currently in the process of having another go at pestering Three to resolve the contention on my mast, especially so after 5pm every day. I contacted them initially Monday via web-chat, explained the contention issue and got a month credited to my bill immediately. 2nd line support then called me back yesterday and seemed more keen to resolve it this time. The tech was keen for me to set my router to 4g only, so I presume it'd not drop to 3g automatically which I did.
Then last-night around 7pm I went back to web-chat to report I was back to the usual sub 2Mbps evening download speeds and got another month credit to my account.
I've been doing some speed tests today and it certainly looks like mast contention to me. 3x tests back to back recording the low and high, I'm seeing the following patterns appear as the day goes on..... (this is with the B535-232 router on my desk with the bunny ears by the chimney breast connected to bands 1 and 3.)
7am 90-102Mbps-down 18-25Mbps up with 60ms latency
8am 51-57Mbps down 13-15Mbps up with 63ms latency
8:30am 32-130Mbps down 20Mbps up with 60ms latency
9am 19-60Mbps down 14Mbps up with 60ms latency
10am 18-38Mbps down 13-16Mbps up with 53ms latency
10:30am 35-68Mbps down 15-17Mbps up with 60ms latency
What stands out is the gap between low to high from doing tests back to back, it seems an issue with load balancing as much as mast bandwidth availability to me. Higher upload availability appears to coincide with higher download bandwidth speeds too.
I'm expecting sub 2Mbps by 6pm as usual today, but we'll see how things pan out.....
Then last-night around 7pm I went back to web-chat to report I was back to the usual sub 2Mbps evening download speeds and got another month credit to my account.
I've been doing some speed tests today and it certainly looks like mast contention to me. 3x tests back to back recording the low and high, I'm seeing the following patterns appear as the day goes on..... (this is with the B535-232 router on my desk with the bunny ears by the chimney breast connected to bands 1 and 3.)
7am 90-102Mbps-down 18-25Mbps up with 60ms latency
8am 51-57Mbps down 13-15Mbps up with 63ms latency
8:30am 32-130Mbps down 20Mbps up with 60ms latency
9am 19-60Mbps down 14Mbps up with 60ms latency
10am 18-38Mbps down 13-16Mbps up with 53ms latency
10:30am 35-68Mbps down 15-17Mbps up with 60ms latency
What stands out is the gap between low to high from doing tests back to back, it seems an issue with load balancing as much as mast bandwidth availability to me. Higher upload availability appears to coincide with higher download bandwidth speeds too.
I'm expecting sub 2Mbps by 6pm as usual today, but we'll see how things pan out.....