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Broadband slow down in evenings

beastarman
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Like many others I am experiencing unacceptable slow down during the evenings.  Between 6-7.30pm until gone 11pm my speeds drop to less than 5 mbps.  Sharing that amongst the 4 family members is challenging.

 

The move to vodafone broadband has been the worst thing I have done.  Yes I saved money versus BT by quite a bit but I would happily still be paying that now as it has proven you get what you pay for. 

 

Reaching out to support is absolutely pointless.  Standard script that doesn't change regardless of the issue, they don't listen to what the issue is.  They don't check how you are connected before beginning their standard set of steps which often includes reboots of routers, unplugging on cables - all of which disconnect the chat sessions - it has to be me, the customer who reminds them. 

 

This sort of issue has nothing to do with my master socket.  The broadband works its just your service cannot cope at night and you are traffic managing the service - which you promise you don't do.  Or you've over sold and you don't have sufficient capacity - which is absolutely disgraceful too.

 

I have also never reached the internet speed promised when I first signed up in January this year and like a fool I put up with it after having multiple sessions with support - that just take you through the same process of unscrewing your masterplug and plugging into test socket etc.  Having engineer out and to be just fobbed off by them. I should have pushed for cancellation.

 

Roll on middle of next year when I will fix this stupid mistake. I think I will take my mobile service somewhere else too. Another company can have the £200+ a month I am paying this company.

 

Says something when I switch off wifi on my mobile and get 5 x faster speed via 4G in my house than broadband during the evening.  Even then 25mbps over 4G isn't what is should be either.

 

For any prospective customers looking for Broadband.  Vodafone is not the answer.

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Mark
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I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing difficulty connecting to our Broadband service @beastarman. So out teams Broadband Specialists can look into this for you, please get in touch through the link in the private message I sent and we'll be happy to help.

Bowlerman
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I have the exact same problem, Vodafone are useless unless you are able to speak to a UK call center and then they are unable to sort the problem.  I too will be leaving as soon as my contract is up with them I have even thought of just switching before and chalking the whole experience upto experience.

 

Anyone thinking of joining Vodafone for Broardband "Don't"

Areusure
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I am also experiencing a painfully slow broadband service in the evenings and agree that contacting support through the website is frustrating in that the operator is working from a script and has no real understanding of the problem even when you spell it out for them.

I know my equipment is not at fault and always managed > 60Mbps down at all times from my previous ISP yet now I see the speeds below measured over the day using www.speedtest.net to Vodafone UK London
server.

07:48am Ping 08ms Down 61.85Mbps Up 18.09Mbps
08:35am Ping 08ms Down 62.10Mbps Up 17.96Mbps
15:06pm Ping 09ms Down 61.95Mbps Up 18.08Mbps
19:00pm Ping 11ms Down  5.50Mbps Up 18.51Mbps
20:30pm Ping 10ms Down  6.17Mbps Up 18.50Mbps
 

Vodafone are quite simply not prepared to admit that the appaling performance issues are caused by either
insufficent capacity or that the contention ratio is too high, but would rather hide behind the fact they
cannot help further as I am not using their router.

Like others have mentioned and the figures above confirm,  there is noting wrong with my line, my master
socket, and being advised that I need to set my content filters really does not help and obviously bears
no relation to the real issue.

Does anyone know the fee for ending the contract and moving to another supplier? - I cannot tolerate this
till contract end next year.

Anonymous
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Okay, so a heasds up:  Don't use Speedtest with the Vodafone London server at peak times!  It's over subscribed and gives an artificially low reading.  Try a number of other servers to see if they give better results (even Vodafone Newbury is a better bet).

 

I'm not saying there isn't a problem, it's just that usng that server at peak times won't let you see if there is a problem!

Anonymous
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A little more info - I can't even get a connection to the VF London Speedtest server, while the VF Newbury Speedtest server tests at 48Mbps.

Hi Keith

Thanks for your replies - I do try other servers - all London based, no option for other locations - results still the same - just to confirm the tests are run from a desktop machine over ethernet - not wireless.

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After a long conversation with customer support they let slip a fault had been found back in July (Red Cable Link). Apparently this is when the line providered by BT is over suscribed in my location.

Vodafone has put a work order in with BT to add an extra line but the work has not been done and they could not say when the work would be done. 

As a result of this I am being allowed to leave pentalty free and have given notice. No point in my going VDSL if it is over subscribed so I have gone back with Virgin Cable.

Maybe worth asking if you ring in if the line is over subscribed and if so use this as a reason to leave early. 

Hi Bowlerman,

I really do suspect that's the case - however getting VF to confirm it may be a different matter. I've just checked now and speed is back to over 60Mbps... no use when everyone would be at work and about 6Mpbs in the evening.

Capture1.JPGWill be interesting to see if any from VF contacts me, before I contact them again.

If you have a minimum speed gaurantee they can't say they are providing it, this one of the things I used. 

TBH I didn't want to leave, if my speed remained at 50Mbps in the evening and didn't drop to 6 Mbps like yours I would have been happy to stay. Even if they had given some indication when it would be fixed would have made me think twice.

The interesting thing is they almost seemed keen to let me go and thinking about it now maybe that is the quickest fix for them, de subscribe the line so you have less contention / users.

If this is the case/policy then it may not be that difficult for you to leave early.