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Vodafone gone really slow...

Myrddin · 2010-04-22 13:43:00

For the last 48 hours or so, my Vodafone (formerly BT) broadband has taken a serious drop in speed. Im on the palmerstown exchange, which for me gets maxed out a 6 meg (Im on the up to 8 meg pack). My usenet always maxes out the connection so Im pretty familiar with what speeds are normal for me/my line. But now even web…

22-04-2010 2:43pm

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Myrddin

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For the last 48 hours or so, my Vodafone (formerly BT) broadband has taken a serious drop in speed. Im on the palmerstown exchange, which for me gets maxed out a 6 meg (Im on the up to 8 meg pack). My usenet always maxes out the connection so Im pretty familiar with what speeds are normal for me/my line.

But now even web browsing is CONSIDERABLY slower, videos take an age to buffer, download speeds has dropped considerably. It seems to fluctuate to an almost normal speed sometimes, but for the most part...its like this:

Any ideas?

Edit: A few mins later:

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#2 22-04-2010 3:27pm

crawler

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Mods / OP - probabaly best to ask (move) the folks over on the VF forum?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1270

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#3 23-04-2010 9:51pm

Qwikpix

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I am a Vodafone customer migrated from BT. My BT package included free calls to the UK which I still have with Vodafone. I think as a consequence, I am still on the BT servers (open to correction here).

I have no complaints about the speed. I live close to Navan exchange. I am on the up to 24Mbs package and consistently get speeds from around 13MBs to:

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