Nobbler
Distinguished Member
I've had Sky fibre for just over a year now and it's to a cabinet that is 750m as the crow flies from my house. For the first year I was getting a good 36meg speed constant with no slowing down and everybody was happy.
About 2 months ago, the speed dropped suddenly to 22meg and has stayed there ever since - I phoned Sky about it and they can't explain why.
Over the past week, I've had a problem where if one person is streaming a film or downloading some content, it basically grinds to a halt - 2.2meg at best download but the upload stays at round about 6meg. most of the stuff is wired via hubs and my son has his PC connected upstairs via a homeplug. I was working yesterday and before I left at 6am, I started to download FIFA 16 on my XBox One - a 19gig download. This took about 3 hours to download in total but whilst it was downloading, nobody else could use the internet to any great effect...I have just phoned Sky about and all they did was try and sell me the movie package for Chjristmas so I hung up and am trying here...this hasn't happened before - I've had people watching netflix in HD downstairs whilst watching the WWE channel in HD upstairs whilst downloading a boxset on Sky - with no slow down at all.
I have recently introduced a new Amazon Fire TV 4K version onto the network and this seems to have started round about the same time...could the Fire TV be hogging all the bandwidth or is it something else?
About 2 months ago, the speed dropped suddenly to 22meg and has stayed there ever since - I phoned Sky about it and they can't explain why.
Over the past week, I've had a problem where if one person is streaming a film or downloading some content, it basically grinds to a halt - 2.2meg at best download but the upload stays at round about 6meg. most of the stuff is wired via hubs and my son has his PC connected upstairs via a homeplug. I was working yesterday and before I left at 6am, I started to download FIFA 16 on my XBox One - a 19gig download. This took about 3 hours to download in total but whilst it was downloading, nobody else could use the internet to any great effect...I have just phoned Sky about and all they did was try and sell me the movie package for Chjristmas so I hung up and am trying here...this hasn't happened before - I've had people watching netflix in HD downstairs whilst watching the WWE channel in HD upstairs whilst downloading a boxset on Sky - with no slow down at all.
I have recently introduced a new Amazon Fire TV 4K version onto the network and this seems to have started round about the same time...could the Fire TV be hogging all the bandwidth or is it something else?