I'll be off the boards for a while, I suspect my satellite provider is "throttling the speed, which is a practice whereby they maintain normal speeds for some customers, at the expense of others when the provider runs short of something or other. Apparently, customers in the bush mean nothing to internet providers, we seem to be the ones getting our speed cut

Whereas Ebay used to be usable under almost any adverse condition in the past and up until a week ago, it is now so slow for me to use, I have to stop using it until I get things sorted out

Anything with images, as Ebay for example, has a lot of, takes several minutes to load each image, or may not load at all

OZpol is not too bad but it's no where near as fast as it used to be. All sites are extremely slow, some are slower than others ... I haven't experienced anything like it before

I've checked everything, but it seems I need to pay more money for a faster plan and go with a new provider. I'm on the cheapest plan at the moment, it's all I've ever needed, and has worked quite well up until now, not any more though, the speed is cactus, even on my brand new iMac with the latest operating system, plenty of memory and disc space ... and with cache and history deleted

Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 20^th, 2022 at 4:30pm:


Clearing the cache would make the web pages display even slower initially as the internet cache would need to refill the little files it uses first time back to frequently used sites.

Quote:


That's the problem.
You're only being allocated spare capacity.
The premium providers sell that off to cheaper carriers
at a budget price.
You wouldn't want to be in the middle of an internet banking transaction
and have it go down.

AusGeoff wrote on Nov 21^st, 2022 at 4:58am:


Mine has taken a dive lately too - it has to be all this rain

Spot

Been on FTTP with Telstra since September 2015.

Was on 25/5 until about 18 months ago when Telstra emailed me and said they were giving me a 6 month free trial of 50/20 and at the end of the 6 months they would contact me again and ask if I wanted to keep the 50/20 (presumably at a higher cost) or go back to my original 25/5.

18 months later and Telstra haven't contacted me again about my increased speed "6 month trial", I'm still on 50/20 and my bill is still the same every month.

Can't complain about that. 

The new Labor Federal government is supposed to be gradually fixing the Liberal's NBN mess.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/10/nbn-upgrade-2022/

A list of the latest suburbs in each State to be upgraded is shown in that article.

Of course, it would have been faster and easier (and no doubt cheaper) if the whole thing had been done properly - FTTP for nearly everyone - in the first place like the ALP was planning to do before they lost the 2013 Federal election.

The only reason we got FTTP in 2015 was because our area had already been contracted for FTTP before Labor lost the 2013 election.

Just tested mine - a bit weird:

37.7

Mbps download

9.90

Mbps upload

Seriously? Supposed to be a lot more download speed but surprised at the upload.

Spot

This speed test is from Speed Test.net ... a screen shot won't transfer to Ozpol so I'll type the figures ...

Download 0.08

Upload   0.08

That looks pretty slow to me. I'll change providers, see you on the other side

100/20 here.

https://www.ozspeedtest.com/

Test Run Date
Tue 22nd Nov 2022 06:20am

Download Speed
108.57 Mbps
Peak 108.57 Mbps

8 in the morning and ....



Looks like they might have fixed the problem, I'll check again this afternoon

My provider had me listening to music on the phone for about 20mins yesterday, I hung up and called Active8me to sign up with them but more music so hung up again and decided to keep checking my speed. I got through to Active8me the day before, but delayed signing up till I did more research.

But bingo, the speed picked up last night to where it used to be before. I think Westnet was throttling the speed ... not sure if it's illegal or not, but it should be, if in fact they did do it

Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2022 at 3:08am:



Cheap internet is cheap internet

AusGeoff wrote on Nov 24^th, 2022 at 1:14pm:



That's why I have a 4G radio link for my internet.
I regularly get 100 Mbps.

Does anyone know how to fix constant buffering in video streaming? Usually, the streaming is uninterrupted. But lately, I go about a minute before I have to stop to allow for buffering to allow me to continue my video.

I did think that deleting the cache would do some good. But, the reworking of the Windows Media Player settings seems to have the video buffering issue fixed.