
Last night I tested my ADSL speed with speedtest.net, and it barely reached 1Mbps. I rebooted my modem just in case, and then it almost reached 3Mpbs. Today I ran the same test and get 14.23Mbps. Is this likely to be due to congestion on the ADSL network? I note these slowdowns happened about the same time a cabinet, presumably for NBN FTTN, appeared across the road from the telephone exchange. So wondered if maybe they are taking away upstream capacity from ADSL to use for NBN? On a semi related note, I have noticed recently that the Netflix android app often struggles to connect to the "Netflix Android Server". The Netflix network test has a red cross next to "Netflix Android Server nw--423--423", but has a green tick next to "Internet connection". This happens at times when the Internet connection speed is good. Eventually if I keep trying it comes good. Sometimes it dies while watching a show; streaming still works, but searching shows doesn't. So far my attempts to try to debug the problem with tcpdump have resulted in the problem disappearing. Will keep trying. -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/