Posts by Mal Franks

Would settle for getting 1Mbit/sec of an evening recently

There seems to be quite few BT broadband users finding it very slow of an evening all of a sudden (as the BT support newsgroups will testify) including myself.

During the day I get about 3 to 5Mbit/sec download speed or more, however come the evening it drops down to 0.4Mbit/sec and even as far as 0.1Mbit/sec. Strangely this slow speed only happens with port 80, switch to another port and its back to normal speeds. Around midnight normal service resumes.

Date 13/06/07 20:02:02

Speed Down 3249.26 Kbps ( 3.2 Mbps )

Speed Up 372.75 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps )

Port 8095

and

Date 13/06/07 20:04:03

Speed Down 215.91 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )

Speed Up 373.46 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps )

Port 80

Can't use BT's speed test as it claims that my IP address doesn't match the one allocated to my phone number.

Hmm I wonder...

...if they're being sponsored by Sony for their next Bravia advertising campaign.

Actually...

...it was returned to its owner yesterday.

Northwest Tonight, the local BBC evening news show (usually presented by Gordon "Krypton Factor" Burns) covered the incident and the replica went to a beauty salon for a manicure...the end of the mannikin's fingers got damaged in the kerfuffle.

Sod St Valentine's Day

I sincerely hope that Google will recognise that tomorrow it's St Skeletor's Day!