Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

Nope, ST4 seems fine but then I'm on a different UBR to the other reported postcodes I think (UBR6?).

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

Nothing to report untoward here Mike, apart from the fact I'm still waiting for my automatic upgrade before I can get my STB swapped out for a Samsung :(

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

Oh dear, it looks like just me or maybe something very specific to my locality :(

Oh well, at least I don't have the issue of STB to worry about, just did my upgrade on line.

Thanks to both for replying

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

got my upgrade but should be on 3mb done a speed test and also checket in newsgroups only getting 2.5mbs i have checket for spyware ect done the checks i upgraded on line 1 week a go and my m8 has speed up to 2.9 same set up hes got same every thing but he live 5 doors away and he gets full speed i also notice i get 2% packet lost

i am getting my bt line in 2 weeks in case ntl cant help me and fob me off again on the phone and will go with uk online i have been a customer for over 6 to 7 years on broadband with ntl and only can take so much fobbing off from them on the phone

people check your speeds regular, your paying for it, i ask ntl to check the router i am on and i feel they is over the quarter and all these muppits downloading gigs per day hammering them and need to be balanced out better in facket bring in the hard cap then this will stop them downloading they porn movies my 2p woth

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

im in NG24 (near Newark) and my connection is slow and alot of sites wont load, its been happening all evening. We phoned and they are having some technical issue, wasnt me who phoned so I dont know exactly what they said

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

Anyone in Stoke area having really slow connections? No sites in particular, just generally.

If a page is cached it isn't too bad, but anything new takes forever - Possibly related to other threads about Manchester issues, as we are an off-shoot of that?

Someone e-mailed me a few weeks ago as they were having slow connections but I wasn't then, however, past 2 weeks have been getting slower and slower :td:

Cheers

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

Anyone in Stoke lose their connection this afternoon 5:30pm until at least 6:45pm?

My brand new ntl:250 modem flatly refused to connect to network, sync was flashing, rdy was dead.

Spoke to Support in India, she was just about to go down the 'Windows' problem, but I persuaded her that would not be a good idea :mad:

Miraculously, she then said there was a 'known problem' in my area and would pass to a senior technician (yeah right).

I am back on line, but that's probably just a coincidence.

Cheers

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

Ye gods, this is an old thread Jingle.

it is a bit cruddy recently up here in Newcastle - under - Lyme too, mate. I have had two disconnections this week and from 6:30 in the evening until the early hours, the baguley proxy we are on is just pants, so I have to change to others. I am sure there is traffic shaping going on or some dipstick on the same UBR as me maxing out his bit torrent connection because he thinks he is a 1337 h4x0r when really he is a useless 7\/\/47. ;)

Re: Dropped Broadband Connections in Stoke
 

Well, it serves the purpose and saves getting lost in a long generic thread

Yes, I know of these issues, thanks. What I'm trying to narrow down on this one is was there a general problem at the specified time or, no matter how unlikely it seems, was NTL possibly lying to me :rolleyes:

I'll have to see how it goes. 8 meg due on my local BT exchange this week, so I may part company with NTL.

Thanks anyway.