Info for people in Swansea with Slow connection

[Welshchris]

For those in Swansea who are experiencing slow issues especially in the City Center and Brynmill\uplands areas there is an ongoing issue with power levels on the upstream of the network which is currently with the planning team atm. This could be the cause.

This is what i was told on the 9th on the newsgroups...
"The issue is being caused by high upstream utilisation, this has been
passed to our Planning team to schedule the necessary work needed to
resolve this issue. The date will be scheduled as soon as possible.
The reference for this is F001127894."

The areas affected i was given over the telephone earlier today.


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Jim>ping bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=892ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=1022ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=1037ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=1140ms TTL=118

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 892ms, Maximum = 1140ms, Average = 1022ms

C:\Users\Jim>tracert bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1182 ms 1189 ms 967 ms cpc3-cwma7-2-0-gw.7-3.cable.virginmedia.com [82.
16.168.1]
3 799 ms 916 ms 1016 ms swan-core-1a-ge-300-1859.network.virginmedia.net
[213.105.225.37]
4 997 ms 1057 ms 988 ms bir-bb-a-ge-130-0.network.virginmedia.net [212.4
3.162.105]
5 819 ms 939 ms 918 ms nth-bb-b-ae2-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.1
85.85]
6 994 ms 1037 ms 922 ms tele-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.
184.2]
7 950 ms 1046 ms 902 ms pos6-1.rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.237]
8 1221 ms 973 ms 676 ms 212.58.238.129
9 907 ms 879 ms 853 ms virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Jim>

[Ignitionnet]

Just FYI an upstream, even one that's oversubscribed, has perhaps 100 modems on it tops - it's a pretty local fault. They have probably given you the area that is on the entire bonded downstream group which will have 4 upstreams serving it.

Also it's not related to power levels the upstream is just congested as was mentioned in the newsgroup post you were quoting. Too much data and not enough bandwidth. Nothing to do with any power level fluctuations, network noise or the phases of the moon just too many modems pushing too much data. Looks like as soon as the students came back they felt like getting some seeding going again.

I can see you asking on the newsgroups every day when there will be a fix. You are probably wasting your time doing this the fix is probably not quick as it will require resegmentation or significant network work given historical noise issues in the area.

If it's a major, major issue I'd consider checking out Sky's latest offer.

[Toto]

Lets See.

Swansea Centre, Brynmill and Uplands.

Student territory, nuff said.

[Chris]

Lets See.

Swansea Centre, Brynmill and Uplands.

Student territory, nuff said.

Good call, I reckon.

However:

For those in Swansea who are experiencing slow issues especially in the City Center and Brynmill\uplands areas there is an ongoing issue with power levels on the upstream of the network which is currently with the planning team atm. This could be the cause.

This is what i was told on the 9th on the newsgroups...
"The issue is being caused by high upstream utilisation, <snipped>

... isn't so good. As Broadbandings pointed out in post 2:

it's not related to power levels the upstream is just congested as was mentioned in the newsgroup post you were quoting.

Given that this entire thread was based on a false premise, it's more apt to cause confusion for people in Swansea than to be a source of info. Therefore ...

Thread closed.