Gardener Corner slow turning page's

@pete here you can see I've asked my PC to 'ping' the server at GC, using the website address... my DNS server has looked it up and found that the IP address for GC is 172.67.130.251 and it then uses that number to communicate with the GV server:

 

I've just done speed tests on three different sites.

Ping:- 8, 11, 25
Download:- 16, 17, 16
Upload:- 2.8, 1, 3.2

I have no idea what I'm doing

I'm with BT and not having anywhere near as much trouble as the other day. I restarted our computers, unplugged and then plugged back in all external drives and rebooted the Hub. It certainly did improve after that. Most of the time it seems back to normal and working immediately but very occasionally is still taking a few seconds (up to about 11 seconds) to either load a post or, more frequently a smilie.

 

The smilies and that post loaded immediately this time.

 

Absolutely yes - that is terribly low.

 

For comparison @Jiffy

 

We're better than you as we are a few hundred yards from the end of the line - on the right side of it

Our download and especially upload is usual 1 or sometimes 2. Apparently that is all we can expect as the fibre box is over a mile away in the village. It has always been sufficient for our needs.

A private company has recently run a fibre cable along the telegraph poles outside and are offering full fibre at a rather enhanced price. We don't need it as we don't stream anything.

Our BT line seems to have sorted itself out now and everything back to normal.