Re: downstream dropping off
 

I hate to be pushy, but where do I find the proxy server things? ta

edit: even my download speed seems to be dropping off to about 35kbs now..grrrr

Re: downstream dropping off
 

hi

info on setting an explicit proxy & a list of the ntl ones can be found in this link

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...trancache.html

- try setting your existing one, found here as explicit first, if that doesn't improve things then try another in an an area near to you. It is a bit of trial and error at this point, I'm afraid.

Re: downstream dropping off
 

oops sorry forgot to put the link in!

thanks homealone for doing it :tu:

retrovertigo, has this made any difference?

MB

Re: downstream dropping off
 

It's hard to say. I can do the speed test and it can show up as being ok. but then i surf or download something and it slows down to about half the speed I should be getting.

I assume there's no hardware problem that could cause this? otherwise the speed test would show it as being slow as well yes?

is this a known problem at the moment by the way? Or is it just "one of those things" - as i say I have just built a new P.C and would hate to think there's anything wrong with my hardware. cheers

This is the readings from the speed test:

1st 128K took 1953 ms = 67113 Bytes/sec = approx 558 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1969 ms = 66568 Bytes/sec = approx 554 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 1890 ms = 69350 Bytes/sec = approx 577 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 2079 ms = 63046 Bytes/sec = approx 525 kbits/sec

not quite as fast as I'm used to. But an improvement on what I've had all day.

This may be a silly question, but on my old system I had 2 hard drives in it. One that I used for all my downloads. So I'd download to one drive while the other drive had I.E on it etc. would me now downloading and surfing from a single hard drive affect my speed?

Re: downstream dropping off
 

I am having the same problem, I was watching something on my PC then it just froze, I thought overheated CPu, but it was at normal Temp, then when I restart my PC 10mins later freezes again while I am just surfing, the only thing I can think of that is doing this is NTL.

I got WinXP Pro SP1a
ZoneAlarm
Norton

I thought maybe something I installed is making it act this way, and tried to restore my pc to the saved settings a week ago, it wont do it. I think the NTL Upgrades are causing all this problem, I guess we got to wait till they finish with there upgrades see if our pcs still freezing up.

Re: downstream dropping off
 

just found another possiblity if using nforce chipset, i havent had many dropped connections atall for along time, but just relised id decided to plug my usb keyboard into the one of the extra usb ports, and noticed that that actual usb hub is using the same irq as the ethernet adapter. so i put the keyboard back into the ps2 socket, so far so good, no dropped connections. im still testing using edonkey. to see if speed keeps up. this maybe why zonealarm is causing crashing etc.
but it doesnt seem to fix the problem installing old drivers so the problem must of been there for alongtime & just become relavant now.
probably why zonelabs asnt had many faults reported for zonealarm crashing, if you dont use those extra usb ports you wont have a problem.

ill report back in a few hours. too see if it disconnected or not.

well it did just disconnected, this is definately an ntl thing. i suspect its to do with ip addresses, should you have a lease of just 1 hour?

Re: downstream dropping off
 

well im in sutton-in-ashfield and theres a problem with my what seems like the dhcp server im connected too as it gives me a ip lease of 1 hour, then the ip will not give me access to the internet after that period, until i disable the ethernet connection and get a new one. ie its still connected but blocked.

which is 62.254.0.53
is urs the same?

Re: downstream dropping off
 

Sounds more like you have a problem locally - something blocking your dhcp renewal requests - if the Nottingham DHCP was having problems then an awful lot of people would be affected.

Also - as far as I am aware all the Nottingham dhcp servers lease their addresses for 24 hours, not 1 hour.

Are you using some sort of router ?

Re: downstream dropping off
 

well been on the phone with ntl support, they said it could be the onboard nic has been messed up somehow, as the cable modem was working correctly and had a lease of 24hrs for an ip, but the nic on the computer said 1hr lease but would drop out before the hour was up. Im currently trying my olde 3com 3c905b-tx nic i had in the spare computer i used to run this nic when i got the cable modem about 4or5 years ago. and it seems fine so far, 24hr lease showing etc.
They did say there was a problem in this area, but not my part.

update:- my connection isnt dropping out anymore and its running like a charm!!! :)