Problem with Internet, speeds fluctuation

bradwiggo · October 12, 2020

Up until a few days ago I always had pretty stable internet. It isn't fast as I live in a rural area, but it's good enough, about 4.5MB/s. Recently however it's gone to shit, for lack of a better term. Now I only seem to get around 1.5MB/s max, and it fluctuates a lot, it will go from 300KB/s to 1.5MB/s and back again in less than a minute.

Last night I tried using the 5GHz connection, and that solved the problem, however this morning that has now stopped working and I am getting the same problem on the 5GHz one.

Is this likely to be an ISP problem (I'm in the UK and using BT)? As I haven't changed anything before it started happening, and it is happen on all PCs in my house.

ne10g · October 12, 2020

forget wifi for a moment, plug a machine directly into the router with ethernet cable, do a coople of speed tests, what do you get? If this is bad, then the issue is at least not wifi, if this is good, then next step is to tacle the wifi issues.