AdrianH54 wrote:
If you move there really shouldn't be much downtime, if any.

I use https://pulse8broadband.co.uk the service is excellent and if there is an issue they don't give up or pass you off with the usual excuses . They are a smaller ISP and they don't do scripts or call centres, you get to speak to real people, often the owner.

No contracts even on FTTP/H , nothing hidden and everything clearly laid out , certainly worth a look. Their connections also have a higher repair level than standard so you get a faster resolve time.

That's the speed my Vigor 130 says is available during a slowdown. But if I test my actual speed during a slowdown, using e.g. speedtest.net, it will report something like 1-5mbps download speed. Upload speed strangely remains constant even during most slowdowns, around 18mpbs.

During slowdowns, wifi devices in my household struggle to work.

Then I reboot my Vigor and everything is back to normal.

So my quest (!) is to establish what is causing the problem. I originally thought the fact that rebooting my Vigor was resolving the issue meant that the Vigor was the culprit.

Piste Basher wrote:
So as I thought the Vigor is showing that you have (apparently!) a high download speed but a speedtest site says otherwise

Summat ain't right somewhere

Piste Basher wrote:
I'd be wary of rebooting the 130 too often - that way interleaving lies

(BTW, pretty sure I have in the past (can't remember whether it was on a 2860 or 2862) seen "Actual Rate" higher than "Attainable rate", impossible as it may be :shock: )

Is the figure the Vigor shows reliable? I assumed it was a historical maximum.

AdrianH54 wrote:

Is the figure the Vigor shows reliable? I assumed it was a historical maximum.

The stats are all live results, not historical. Max achievable rate is what the DSLAM is reporting at that time.