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Ethernet download speed issue in the evenings, Edinburgh.

Doddie
4: Newbie

I'm in Edinburgh and my Windows 10 PC is connected to the Ultrahub via ethernet cable (it doesn't have wireless capability), the FTTP cabling was laid by Cityfibre.
For around a week now i've had terrible download speeds on my PC from around 17:00 through to midnight, either side of those times there is no issue with regular sustained speeds of around 940Mbps down and 840Mbps up.

Right now i'm seeing again, speeds of between 7-15Mbps down and 840Mbps up.

The odd things is that wireless speeds don't seem to be effected as confirmed on 2 mobile phones and a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet, i don't understand how the Ultrahub is able to maintain it's wireless speed yet the LAN port is somehow slowing to a crawl.
e.g. if it is simply a network demand issue then surely it would effect a wireless connection as well?

All the speed tests above were using Ookla Speedtest.

Below are two tracert's, one to bbc.com, the other to bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to bbc.com [151.101.64.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vodafone.ultrahub [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 84.65.128.1
3 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms 63.130.172.37
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 90.255.251.117
5 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 151.101.64.81

Trace complete.

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [151.101.64.81]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vodafone.ultrahub [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 84.65.128.1
3 10 ms * 9 ms 63.130.172.37
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 90.255.251.117
5 9 ms 9 ms * 151.101.64.81
6 10 ms * * 151.101.64.81
7 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms 151.101.64.81

Trace complete.

Both tracert's were taken within 15 minutes of each other at about 9pm tonight, any insight into what's happening and why, and if there's anything i can do at my end, would be greatly appreciated.

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Ripshod
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

One thing I do see. Since the start of all this I've been seeing hourly (exactly on the hour) jumps in Latency - normally 8ms, peaking around 80ms. Still happening now but not causing any noticeable problems

They must still be medling with stuff behind the scenes then. Who knows, might be good news and they'll eventually fix it for good.

Likely someone had to run to Tesco for a touch more eye of newt :Winking_smiley:

F4rthay
3: Seeker
3: Seeker

My speeds have stabilised in the evening now. No slow evening speeds anymore. Latency has taken a hit from 9ms to 16ms but I can live with that.

leemjones
3: Seeker
3: Seeker

I seem to be getting this in Leeds, download speeds are around 50Mbps with uploads up at over 850Mbps. Its making working on an evening impossible, I should have stayed with FTTC that I had with BT.

leemjones
3: Seeker
3: Seeker

Now upload at 800Mbps+ , bizzare how it can be so low for hours each night then shoot back up.