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Spoke to soon. Gone again - back to pages not loading and those that do are missing bits.

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Everything back to normal in London, sometimes goes slow for a moment, but all is ok now

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Absolutely zip in Rutherglen. Most popular sites are still down and the connection is as sluggish as a wet sponge.

Nothing mentioned on the service status pages or service status line either. I am getting tired of paying for a second rate service. Not a happy bunny.:mad:

Moan finished.

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Same in leeds, switching my proxies has had some mixed results

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Still playing up in surrey :mad: i will be going to bt at this rate :mad:

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anyone else msn messenger died?

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Like everyone else, random sporadic loading of the bbc, yahoo, myspace and a couple of others.
Flickr is fine so far, as is youtube and (touch wood) MSN... but I'm not holding my breath!
I expect like the last time, this will be resolved at the same rate as the last one...
and isn't this the third time this year already that this has happened?

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Same problem for me in Brighton.
Lots of sites do not work. When they do come back for a short period it is very slow.

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having problems in berkshire, anyone reccomend good proxies

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It's going on and off at the mo :mad:

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NTL server status now says there is a national outage, and is being looked into - certainly explains why the internet has been so awful tonight!!!

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Primary DNS212.135.1.36 Secondary DNS195.40.1.36 manually setting these dns addresses cure it for me (everythign bar google lol )

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mine is ok although it wouldnt sign me in earlier but that was an msn issue, but since i switched my lan settings on i can access most sites including google, bbc, msn, yahoo etc

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thanks for the info, works 100s here !

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i wonder if it is a virus / spyware attack on the network, just that i cannot load google and instead my browser keeps redirecting to uknow.com, not had this prob before, ran ewido and have nod32 on my pc, as we speak google has just reappeared!

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10 minutes slightly over exagerated i think but ye it is takein a awful long time and the pages such as bbc google gmail etc dont work

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MSN always goes off when the Web Browsing of the ISP is down.

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yahoo mail still cocked!

Onlyme - more than likely it is a bot DOS attack on the DNS servers. It is a quick and easy way to attack a complete network. I wonder if NTL have recently had emails asking for bazillions of pounds to stop the attack?

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lol

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hahahah

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fine here, Brighton

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Yeah, just updating it for page 9, London (North) is back to normal since before 10pm ...

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Glasgow here and still cannot access ebay properly... grrr... :mad:

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slow runing in kt12 as well , msn is ok but the web is slooowww ,

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use proxys for the time being should help

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For those of you having problems with ebay.co.uk try ebay.com instead. I've had much better success using the .com address.

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I'm in Brighton and its not fine!!

Can't get to Ebay or Google for example.

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whoever is attacking them needs to be found and executed live on al-jazeera tv

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Southsea/Portsmouth still having problems.

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LOL!

it's all up and down here in Stockport... it's like Daz Sampson on the Eurovision... just when you think it's going well, someone comes along and gives Finland 'douze points'

grr...

Al jazeera... teh funneh.... :D

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flakey connection here in Brighton (BN1)

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I seem to be ok, atm, with setproxy in firefox at 'none' (although I realise it doesn't mean that), but, seriously, I found earlier that setting a bromley cache, from my langley connection, was viable, during the recent problems, it may mean nothing but I thought I would share :)

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Sixth from bottom with 25 points?? How could anyone think it was ever 'going well'...

Not that it was any good anyway!!

These DNS's work well 212.135.1.36 195.40.1.36

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If you're using Firefox then this should help:

Create a file called user.js in the folder
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxx.default

(where xxxxxxxx is some alpha/number sequence)

To the file add the lines:
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 100);

Then restart Firefox.

This will increase the number of cached addresses to 100 and their timeout to 1 hour. After the panic is over you can either delete user.js or set the expiry time back down to 360 (= 6 mins) or something similar.

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Quite serious problems here in Salisbury, but seems to be improving, can now get back to Google and BBC. Good job that people could get to this site though!

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i changed hte DNS worked fine, now same problem im in bracknell, berkshire, anyone reccomend a good proxy for me to use until NTL has sorted this out?

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11:01pm
Still getting probs here in Notts can get onto Google and ebay sometimes but no pics come up.

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Lol, this place is like a sanctuary for people who are ****ed off by NTL poor connection... out of every sites, cable forum always seems to work when there's problem. :angel:

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No pics for me either in ebay, but google seems ok.

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use this proxy works perfect
oxfd-cache-1.server.ntli.net

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No Google here unless I use .com instead of .co.uk The network was down at work today also - again, a DNS issue. I blame solar flares.

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That's always a strange thing, often makes me wonder how they get here in the first place.. hehe.

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I can get to lots of other sites besides the BBC,google and yahoo though.

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Google and BBC now ok in Swindon but Ebay still no go.

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Maybe this site is actually funded by NTL themselves?... hehe.. :disturbd:

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OK unfortunately I don't have time to read this whole thread so this has probably been mentioned/answered, but I think NTL's caches use the 192.168.[4|8].100 DNS servers? So when these die, so do the caches?

The mixed browsing results are probably due to caching... Doesn't seem a too resilient setup to me?

I have counted at least 3 times this has happened :(

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Southsea/Portsmouth everything look fine!

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Same here. No trouble all night.;) Of course now i've said that it will go wrong.;)

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And that message is still there this morning. And I still have no internet access in Leeds.

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They've probably had people working throughout the night as well on this, a national outage isn't a "wait until tomorrow" job at all.

Hopefully you should see normal or at least some operation by the end of today or tomorrow, who knows. I trust you have another form of access though?

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Seemed OK when I left home this morning.

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O.K. for me this morning :)

Google and Yahoo were up and down like yoyo's last night.

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How ironic ... now that all you guys are having problems the speeds in Luton are fine ... just can't go to secure sites, receive email, gaming, ftp ... bargain at £34.99 :)

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simply installing your own dns server will avoid all current and future DNS problems.... Ive always done my own dns lookups and havent suffered any issues (except maybe when the root servers were DoS'd, but then that affected a massive portion of the internet...

http://ntcanuck.com/downloads.htm Install Treewalk "Hawk"

Good documentation on there too.

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Working fine now in CV2... last night went up and down more time's then a pro's pair of pants... :monkey:

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Was just going to recommend that, it was a life saver when Bully's DNS were flakey before. :)

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does ntl actually contend the traffic during peak hours?

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no probs surfing today...
I think the stuff from last night is cleared up

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Seems to have cleared up yes...

Silly DNS again?

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i got new modem today 250 model no dropouts by my speeds are still terrible i cant go on xbl because its useless with all lag. any help? whats goin on here.

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You've already posted this in the XBOX forum.

Please don't double post.

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well its handy to ask in two different categorys as different people look in different places and q is relevent to bothareas sorry

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It's also annoying to people to see the same post (esp when they have already replied to it elsewhere)

It's like running up to several people one after the other asking them the same question...

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Been ok in the da1 area all day, but, with ntl's track record i'm not holding my breath that it will stay that way for long.

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HI

NTL as last night on\off connextion every 5 minutes or so off for 5 MINUTES then ok for 5 then off . NTL say its load balencing but my Area FARNBOROUGH GU14 postcode is not listed . this really now beyond a joke
been like this on and off for weeks NTL INDIA do not have clue
TONY
21.01 23.RD MAY 2006:mad:

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This is my first post in these forums, please be gentle.

Guildford area... huge pings

Pinging cableforum.co.uk [212.227.92.125] with 32 bytes of

Reply from 212.227.92.125: bytes=32 time=2738ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.227.92.125: bytes=32 time=2482ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.227.92.125: bytes=32 time=2572ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.227.92.125: bytes=32 time=2998ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 212.227.92.125:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2482ms, Maximum = 2998ms, Average = 2697ms

---------- Post added at 21:51 ---------- Previous post was at 21:48 ----------

Tis better now
40ms... ish

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No, call me shortsighted if you like, but I don't have a contingency Internet connection for when the main one goes down. Until I switched to NTL, I never needed one. My previous post was from my office.

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Definately all fine now for Salisbury now.

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HI

Its been ok most of day apart from period 2130 to 2215 then back to
old way cutting in out every 5 minutes all over Farnborough area as well
NTL did not know anything as usual NEWS to us was the answer?
whats new there ! . when we said the Connnectivity box came up saying
limited the reply was AH Yes you have SP2 installed best ignor that
we dont reccomend that at all its rather eratic best get rid of that
tony

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seems slow still today for me in portsmouth.
I probley reboot the box in the morning
On average i'm getting a 30-40kb download and i'm on 2mb!

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ntl put my connection up to 10meg because i complained since they put it up ive went from having 300k-700k on 2mb to having 1.8meg to 2.5meg on 10meg!!

(belfast) something obviously wrong here.

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here's a reminder of what NTL says the problem is:-

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/article/...b-speed-issues

as I'm not using USB it doesnt really explain why even at 5am, I never get above 7meg.

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Went ok last night again for a few hours. Back down to 3mb again at the min. I have never had a problem until early last week, my connection ahs always been maxed. As mentioned some popular sites google etc are random when/if i can get on them. Is this a problem that will be resolved? or are we just going to have to put up with it? If the latter i think i will be changing to a new ISP.

Crossy

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Idley wonders if these problems are associated with the recent upsurge in spam originating from NTL customers.

Just go another one offering a hot stock tip which, according to Spamcop, comes from 82.27.58.***

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yeah i use ethernet too and again i point out that since sunday night into monday when ntl had all there trouble i have had speeds go up and down all week. again not to do with ntl but makes xbox live unplayable with lag. ping constantly spiking

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hi

ok was now getting Peed off so friday morn i phoned NTL Asked how much longer are the planned Maint upgrades load balencing going on for might as well been talking to Mars as they didnt have a clue they were even taking place but she knew a man who did More music etc and the gent came on i presume India and asked me the usual questions well i said Hey hold on all i
want to know when does all the upgrades finsh . i was advised he didnt know
or was it on his screen but if during the work i was getting Slow or intermittent conections then no problem simply reboot the Modem I Said what is that supposed to do if your conection is Down that fixes the problem
was reply at that POINT I HUNG UP STEAM COMING OUT OF EARS ABOUT
TO BLOW . As for new SPEEDS from JUNE 1ST custumer services Lady
told me its not on there screens as they werent sure what was going on
NOW THAT I CAN BELIEVE:mad: :td: :mad: :mad: :mad: :banghead:

TONY

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has been fine here in north camp/ash vale, all day... in fact, its rarely ever bad here.....

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My connection kept dying each time I load a page. Frustration!

I am in nottingham, anyone else suffer the same problem?

It seemed like the page takes longer than ever to load.

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Still trouble here. Lowest speed yet on 10mg running at 1mg pathetic. :( So annoyed.

Crossy

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Sites are opening very slow. It was next to impossible to surf a few hours ago. It is a little bit better now, however, download speed from newsserver is 1/10 of my line - 200 kbps. My modem didn't work from 8 pm till 12 am yesterday at all. Something wrong is going out there but NTL keeps quiet about it.

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Problems accessing certain webpages again.

I'm on 10Mb.

This is getting ridiculous

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Yep back to 4mg for me aswell. How long does this stuff take to fix ffs. Funny thingis i phoned up to see what was what and the guy said there systems were down lol. Go figure.

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This is in Nottingham Area. Its going from OK to worst.

Pinging cableforum.co.uk [212.227.92.125] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.227.92.125: bytes=32 time=211ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.227.92.125: bytes=32 time=206ms TTL=48
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.227.92.125: bytes=32 time=207ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 212.227.92.125:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 206ms, Maximum = 211ms, Average = 208ms

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Just gets better 25k lol, cant beleive i have gone slower than the old 56k. Think another phone calll tomorrow and telling them im not paying this months bill.

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More connection issues here.

Can't hit eBay, BBC etc. I have an auction ending in 40 minutes and I need this to be sorted..I don't want to miss the auction *again* (relisted).

EDIT: As I posted that, it seems like I can now hit ebay and BBC. Strange.

EDIT2: Or not..

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I'm having big problems with eBay not loading proberly and getting DNS Errors :S

I hope this isn't another DNS problem this is really start to p*** me off

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Looks like the same thing is happening again. I too have lost Google and the Beeb.

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looks like DNS issues again

cannot get bbc google ebay etc....:mad:

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Freeserve DNS servers people, hop to it!

Search the forum for them ;)

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is msn down too? just reinstalled windows and cant get on msn :(

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Yep, DNS issues again :rolleyes:

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Damn ntl,

Anyone know why ntl are having these issues???

note : Dns issues here in Ellesmere Port

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Oh no here we go again. And still no official word on what happened last time....

Do these people not realise Big Brother is on and I have no alternative but to surf the net whilst my girlfriend gets her BB fix?

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msn relies on a connection to microsoft's hotmail system. generally if you cant see the 'hotmail.com' website ull have issues with msn

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Oh wow another Friday night with a dodgey NTL connection !!!!! :mad:
Google up and down, Ebay loading but no pictures, Web pages taking an age to load.
We Love NTL :)

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Yea same for me, no Google or Gmail, looks like I'll be forced to watch Big Brother :(

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same here in Luton - ridiculous. Always on a Friday.

gonna try freeserves DNS servers and see if that helps any.

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Yea same for me, no Google or Gmail, looks like I'll be forced to watch Big Brother :(

Maybe that's the whole idea? :Yikes:

To BB or not to BB, that is the question...

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leeds has a problem all of a sudden

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Leeds here too - no ebay BBC, Google or others. And this is becoming a regular occurence. Well ****ed off.