lokhor: I have 130/10 cable in Stokes Valley and have found the evening congestion really bad lately, especially international speeds. I have friends living in London and we try to Skype regularly but if we do it in the evening it becomes unusable and just robotic so there's no point. I ran a few speedtests to the UK at this time and it was ~2mbps down and 1mbps up. I have also found Youtube buffering in the evenings some nights as well. 

johnr:

lokhor: I have 130/10 cable in Stokes Valley and have found the evening congestion really bad lately, especially international speeds. I have friends living in London and we try to Skype regularly but if we do it in the evening it becomes unusable and just robotic so there's no point. I ran a few speedtests to the UK at this time and it was ~2mbps down and 1mbps up. I have also found Youtube buffering in the evenings some nights as well. 

Going off topic, This thread is about local peak time can you advise what your local speed is like?

lokhor:

johnr:

lokhor: I have 130/10 cable in Stokes Valley and have found the evening congestion really bad lately, especially international speeds. I have friends living in London and we try to Skype regularly but if we do it in the evening it becomes unusable and just robotic so there's no point. I ran a few speedtests to the UK at this time and it was ~2mbps down and 1mbps up. I have also found Youtube buffering in the evenings some nights as well. 

Going off topic, This thread is about local peak time can you advise what your local speed is like?

I'll have to test tonight. Isn't international speed just as relevant since nearly anything relevant will be international e.g. streaming services?

lokhor:

johnr:

lokhor: I have 130/10 cable in Stokes Valley and have found the evening congestion really bad lately, especially international speeds. I have friends living in London and we try to Skype regularly but if we do it in the evening it becomes unusable and just robotic so there's no point. I ran a few speedtests to the UK at this time and it was ~2mbps down and 1mbps up. I have also found Youtube buffering in the evenings some nights as well. 

Going off topic, This thread is about local peak time can you advise what your local speed is like?

I'll have to test tonight. Isn't international speed just as relevant since nearly anything relevant will be international e.g. streaming services?

lokhor:

johnr:

lokhor: I have 130/10 cable in Stokes Valley and have found the evening congestion really bad lately, especially international speeds. I have friends living in London and we try to Skype regularly but if we do it in the evening it becomes unusable and just robotic so there's no point. I ran a few speedtests to the UK at this time and it was ~2mbps down and 1mbps up. I have also found Youtube buffering in the evenings some nights as well. 

Going off topic, This thread is about local peak time can you advise what your local speed is like?

I'll have to test tonight. Isn't international speed just as relevant since nearly anything relevant will be international e.g. streaming services?

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johnr:

lokhor: I have 130/10 cable in Stokes Valley and have found the evening congestion really bad lately, especially international speeds. I have friends living in London and we try to Skype regularly but if we do it in the evening it becomes unusable and just robotic so there's no point. I ran a few speedtests to the UK at this time and it was ~2mbps down and 1mbps up. I have also found Youtube buffering in the evenings some nights as well. 

Going off topic, This thread is about local peak time can you advise what your local speed is like?

BarTender:

johnr:

lokhor: I have 130/10 cable in Stokes Valley and have found the evening congestion really bad lately, especially international speeds. I have friends living in London and we try to Skype regularly but if we do it in the evening it becomes unusable and just robotic so there's no point. I ran a few speedtests to the UK at this time and it was ~2mbps down and 1mbps up. I have also found Youtube buffering in the evenings some nights as well. 

Going off topic, This thread is about local peak time can you advise what your local speed is like?

I respectfully disagree it's off topic. On severely congested links the most impacted services are long tcp threads. So I can guarantee that if they are a on a congested link that will impact uk traffic.