Ok here's the deal. I've been with UTV in Cork for years (approx 5 years I think)
I noticed a real drop off in my speed about 3-4 months ago and random disconnects started happening.
Got my speed upgraded to 3Mb connection and a fixed IP address.
Now I get 2.6 Mbs in the morning then drops off during the day to 200-250 Kbs during the afternoon and gets as low as 100 Kbs during the evening with more random disconnects - basically the connection becomes unusable during the evening - I had 2.7 Kbs last night!!!
Bought a new router and micro-filters and using a new CAT 5 to connect to the router. No difference.
I'm being told that this is probably a contention ratio issue by UTV, but on a 3Mb connection the contention ratio should be 24/1 and I'm struggling to believe that so much bandwidth is being hogged by other users that my connection speed drops by a magnitude of 10.
Any ideas?
