Slow forum access/BT Internet

[Zimmerframe]

For fault finding, part of the issue is that it's not consistent. BT internet works great sometimes for a couple of threads... Then just stalls, run up the VPN and it's fine again. Stop the VPN 5.minutes later and it works again for a while.

For me anyway.

 

[Rob Rides EMTB]

Been doing some investigating. Its an issue between BT Internet and Cloudflare (company that serves emtbforums)

For some BT/EE folk it goes slow or stalls at random, then sorts itself out but a VPN fixes it because it sends you a different way round the issue.

The specific issue is BT's connection to Cloudflare using IPv6. Loads of places reporting the same issue.

There is a fix workaround if you want to try it. And thats to turn off "IPv6" on your connection.

The proper fix is to disable IPv6 on your end, which forces a clean IPv4 route: on your router: if your hub lets you turn off IPv6, do it there and it covers every device.

 

[Zimmerframe]

The proper fix is to disable IPv6 on your end, which forces a clean IPv4 route: on your router: if your hub lets you turn off IPv6, do it there and it covers every device.

That's more a workaround rather than a fix. Dropping back to 32bit IP addressing rather than 128bit.

Guess the BT 128bit system has a fault they haven't traced yet, so falling back to 32 bit uses different routers.