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EE Capping Speeds on Uncapped Contract

Saying "I would suspect the ISP is being bothered for an issue that's not their problem" would suggest otherwise.
For the avoidance of doubt, I cannot say with certainty that it isn't EE.

Personally, I would carry out the recommended tests simply to reduce the amount of speculation by gathering a little more data.

The full statement was as below, starting with "If". I omitted the comma thinking it would cause confusion directly after the URL.
If the issue only shows with https://speedtest.net and does not show with https://nperf.com or https://fast.com [,] I would suspect the ISP is being bothered for an issue that's not their problem.
 
I am going to run some tests late tonight (when the mast is quiet) and see if a vpn changes things up a lot.
 
Have you done any non "speed test" testing?

For example, download the Visual Studio ISO and see if there's any such limitation.

If not, then it would also point to some (possibly inadvertent) traffic management when doing speed tests.
 
Have you done any non "speed test" testing?

For example, download the Visual Studio ISO and see if there's any such limitation.

If not, then it would also point to some (possibly inadvertent) traffic management when doing speed tests.
Yes I downloaded a few Linux ISOs such as Mint, Manjaro, Fedora etc. All were downloading around 500 Mbps, give or take a hundred. Well above the seemingly 200 Mbps max cap from Speedtest.net.
 
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So trying things last night (in the dead of night) speeds were a bit all over the place. I was comparing with a Three sim that uses the same mast locally. Three was Three, when it worked it was generally fast.
EE was different, I had the most issues with fast.com speed tests (using the app) where it would rarely get past 10Mbs. If I connected to a vpn it was much higher though at 60-80Mbs. On EE the vpn *generally* gave more stable speeds and faster speeds, a few EE tests did match the vpn speed but given vpn has encryption overhead that shouldnt be a thing, the vpn should always be slower everything being equal.

I will do some more testing again, the one thing I find comparing Three to EE is that EE here is more stable and consistent at working where as Three drops out.
 
So trying things last night (in the dead of night) speeds were a bit all over the place. I was comparing with a Three sim that uses the same mast locally. Three was Three, when it worked it was generally fast.
EE was different, I had the most issues with fast.com speed tests (using the app) where it would rarely get past 10Mbs. If I connected to a vpn it was much higher though at 60-80Mbs. On EE the vpn *generally* gave more stable speeds and faster speeds, a few EE tests did match the vpn speed but given vpn has encryption overhead that shouldnt be a thing, the vpn should always be slower everything being equal.

I will do some more testing again, the one thing I find comparing Three to EE is that EE here is more stable and consistent at working where as Three drops out.
Funnily enough I was doing some testing last night (usual insomnia haha) and I tired different servers. It seems that the chosen servers are throttling the speeds and not an ookla or EE infrastructure T.M.S but who ever the server provider. I tried 'Grain Connect' on the Manchester server and got over 200mps.

I think we can all agree, this is one weird situation with whole throttling game.
 
You could do a bunch of traceroutes.
I think in recent threads on a similar subject we established Lyca is using their own network behind EE's radio infra which is faster or less congested. This could partly explain the speed differences you are seeing.
Lyca run their own IPs and core network as Lycatel so yes this could have something to do with it.
 
I do think EE may do very active traffic shaping as part of their network management, something that is different from capping.
Its still a theory but I notice that I get decent spikes of bandwidth initially but it then slows down (locally we dont get much faster than 100Mbs as no 5g) quite a lot. On a vpn though the speed is nearly maintained the for the whole duration of the speed test.
 
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Weird that they would intentionally throttle the one thing that most people use to determine what they consider "good" about their Internet connection I.e raw speed. Now the normies will moan their EE connection is slow when they fail to see their XBOX download is actually running at 600Mb+ because their speedtest result said otherwise.
 
I did noticed EE won't allow 5G sim card on NR5103E 5G Hub router but only allow to capped me 160Meg down 50Meg up from Mount Way (1p mobile) restricted me on 4G+ but on the mobile phone 5G is activated and allowed to Download 395 down and 76 up. Think Smarty and Three unlimited Sim will allow unrestricted speed on 5G Hub.
 
I did noticed EE won't allow 5G sim card on NR5103E 5G Hub router but only allow to capped me 160Meg down 50Meg up from Mount Way (1p mobile) restricted me on 4G+ but on the mobile phone 5G is activated and allowed to Download 395 down and 76 up. Think Smarty and Three unlimited Sim will allow unrestricted speed on 5G Hub.

That's not been my experience. When I popped in my uncapped EE 5G Sim into my 5103E for an evening whilst Three was having a major meltdown a while back I was getting 5G, albeit speeds slightly below what Three/Smarty would normally give me from the same mast.
 
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Hi folks,

In recent months, I've noticed that my EE speeds are being capped. I suspected this was the case because I've never gotten a speed test to go over 200Mbps for months. It's hardly unusable, but still somewhat annoying.

Today, I activated a Lyca SIM card on my phone which also uses EE as I'm sure most of you know. It is clear from the results that my EE SIM card is being capped.

The below tests were carried out using eSIM on a Galaxy S23 Ultra from the exact same location:

EE - 140Mbps / 60.2 Mbps
Lyca - 629 Mbps / 60 Mbps

EE - 199 Mbps / 60.2 Mbps
Lyca - 672 Mbps / 52.8 Mbps

I thought Lyca was supposed to be inferior, but speeds are considerably faster when compared to my unlimited, uncapped EE SIM which certainly isn't cheap. I've ran speed tests using Fast.com as well incase it was just an issue with Speedtest.net being capped but it's a similar story there.

Apologies if this has been brought up before. Appreciate any help. Thanks!

I have noticed the same thing for months on my EE scancom sim in my area, I thought it was to do with the 3G switch off as well as 5G becoming active shortly after the turn off in my area, after seeing your results I may have to grab a Lyca sim to do a test of my own and see if I can hit the original speeds I was getting consistently from last August after joining EE
Also my ping was very consistent when I joined up until the 3G switch off in January of 27-29ms its now 35-40ms since the switch off and 5G rollout it was very consistent just under 30ms now it's always over
 
I discovered the same but with EE essentials, crazy to read here they doing it on their top tier product.

I made thread on TTB about it, I put in a 1p mobile sim in dual sim phone, so same mast, same phone, the EE sim at peak times was a fraction of the 1P sim on performance, upload was so slow the test was failing. They were doing some extreme shaping, and I assume still are.

BT sweating the infrastructure I guess.
 
I discovered the same but with EE essentials, crazy to read here they doing it on their top tier product.

I made thread on TTB about it, I put in a 1p mobile sim in dual sim phone, so same mast, same phone, the EE sim at peak times was a fraction of the 1P sim on performance, upload was so slow the test was failing. They were doing some extreme shaping, and I assume still are.

BT sweating the infrastructure I guess.
I’ve only seen it obviously when a friends SIM was performing at 900mbps, and mine was at 200mbps

When there wasn’t much available bandwidth, it felt like the reverse was happening (called friend on WhatsApp, he was on spusu and his phone didn’t even ring - I was able to get around 3-400kbps, he couldn’t start a test)
 
Couple of things to try, if your using Speed Test. Net or the App, try setting your APN Profile on the EE Device to IPV4 Only.

On Speedtest. Net I tend to select Vodafone as the Test Server, it's not always the fastest but is or should be quiet consistent with the Speeds on testing.

Are you on an EE 5G Unlimited Data Plan, if so remember you will get Speed Capped once you go over 600Gb of Data Use every month.

Also worth pointing out that if your Speed Testing in the early hours of the morning on The EE Network, in some Areas EE do Sleep a lot of thier RF Bands and Bandwidth Resources around that time.

Chris.
 
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