jonno
10-12-2003, 10:25
Has anyone else experienced this? I've had NTL broadband for about three months now, the 1mbs option. At first it was fine, but about three weeks ago
access to the Ebay site suddenly became painfully slow, (it was really fast before), but no problem on any other sites that I visit. The obvious answer was the site, but it's not that as I also have a laptop with an ISDN conection for work and it's OK accessing Ebay with that. I've done all the usual with the browser, cleared the cache etc. but no joy. I've made no changes to the PC at all (it's three months old, with XP) although I did install some firewall software but I'm sure Ebay access was fine for a while after that was installed, and anyway I've tried switching that off with no difference.
My next step is to call NTL support, but in my experience it will be almost impossible to get through! Has enyone else had this problem? Or does anyone have a possible solution? Many thanks.
I've also noticed recently that the connection seems to time out after the PC isn't used for a few hours, involving rebooting to allow web access. That can't be right, surely? It didn't used to do that when I first got it! Or is that normal?!!
access to the Ebay site suddenly became painfully slow, (it was really fast before), but no problem on any other sites that I visit. The obvious answer was the site, but it's not that as I also have a laptop with an ISDN conection for work and it's OK accessing Ebay with that. I've done all the usual with the browser, cleared the cache etc. but no joy. I've made no changes to the PC at all (it's three months old, with XP) although I did install some firewall software but I'm sure Ebay access was fine for a while after that was installed, and anyway I've tried switching that off with no difference.
My next step is to call NTL support, but in my experience it will be almost impossible to get through! Has enyone else had this problem? Or does anyone have a possible solution? Many thanks.
I've also noticed recently that the connection seems to time out after the PC isn't used for a few hours, involving rebooting to allow web access. That can't be right, surely? It didn't used to do that when I first got it! Or is that normal?!!