Re: Problems in Coventry/Rugby area?
 

yup, that helps, have set to same as Jamman960 mentioned

Re: Birmingham Proxy
 

The VIA header below shows Traffic Server which is Inktomi.
Robin's page also lists it as Inkt.


D:\temp\wgettmp>wget -S http://www.ntlworld.com
--18:49:07-- http://www.ntlworld.com/
=> `index.html.18'
Resolving www.ntlworld.com... 62.253.162.30
Connecting to www.ntlworld.com[62.253.162.30]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
2 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:49:07 GMT
3 Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.1
4 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.1
5 Set-Cookie: NTLWORLD_USER=20040318184908622553262088; expires=Sat, 17-Apr-200
4 18:49:08 GMT
6 Content-Type: text/html
7 Age: 2
8 Connection: close
9 Via: HTTP/1.1 ntl-site (Traffic-Server/5.2.2-59134 [cMsSf ])
[ <=> ] 27,127 109.92K/s
18:49:09 (109.92 KB/s) - `index.html.18' saved [27127]

If I specify cache1-brhm.server.ntli.net or cache3 directly, perf is still poor.
However cache2 appears to be working fine.

Re: Problems in Coventry/Rugby area?
 

Leamington Spa here and man it's still dodgey...can't load many pages...this page loads very fast, ntl world not a chance (not that I' missing much :pp ).


Msn is working but not msn home page....site I link to (see below) takes a good 10 mins to load.

Weirdly in game ping are better than a long time...my rudimentary knowledge suggests dns problems...is that the correct term for the little guy in the pc who changes ip adresses to names...hehe...:dunce:

Re: Birmingham Proxy
 

Well currently I'm finding my ntl dial-up 56k faster than ntl broadband 600k! :td: :(

Re: Birmingham Proxy
 

:LOL: Sprinkle some salt on the coax... It will help the signal :D

What proxy are you using ATM ?

Re: Problems in Coventry/Rugby area?
 

Hi Jizz



There are horrendous problems in the area at present due to some proxies not caching pages - this was from tech Support this morning.



Try manually adding a proxy to IE. Birmingham proxy address cache1-brhm.server.ntli.net with port set to 8080 works well for me, others have reported that cache2-brhm.server.ntli.net works for them. This way I was able to access my (NatWest) home banking for the first time this week. Do remove the proxy in a few days when the issue is fixed (hopefully)

Re: Birmingham Proxy
 

Hi mr-b

Thanks for the proxy hint!!!! :)

Just confirmed that there are horrendous problems in the area at present due to some proxies not caching pages - this was from Tech Support this morning.



Like you, I tried manually adding a proxy to IE. Strangely, Birmingham proxy address cache1-brhm.server.ntli.net with port set to 8080 works well for me, but cache2-brhm.server.ntli.net remains a disaster!

This way I was able to access my (NatWest) home banking for the first time this week.

Tech Support said do remove the proxy in a few days when the issue is fixed (hopefully)

Re: Birmingham Proxy
 

This has just been flagged up on the Status Page - link from this site's homepage

Re: Problems in Coventry/Rugby area?
 

Re: Problems in Coventry/Rugby area?
 

I'm in Leamington too. I've tried various different proxies, none seem to be much better. I think it's more of a general fault than that. I seem to be able to get a few kb of data from any one source before it stops, and then I can't get any more after that.

I hope it's fixed by the weekend.

Re: [Merged] Birmingham Area.
 

That's not bad, some 40 hours after the problem was mentioned, it has finally ended up on the Server Status Page. :rolleyes:

Perhaps I just expect too much from ntl......?

Re: [Merged] Birmingham Area.
 

Thank goodness,

TS, yesterday led me to believe that the problem was my pc, ( he said 'no problems with Warwick area' -living in Coventry postcode CV7 but come under Warwick) although I did set a proxy which made it a little better.

Yesterday I asked, on this forum, what was a 'ping' how do you do one and how are results interpreted. I would be interested to know, if anyone can please inform me.

Thanks

Church Mouse

Re: [Merged] Birmingham Area.
 

Is there actually a reliable birmingham proxy I can use? Cache 1 has just started to slow right down.

Edit: Scrap that its just started to speed up again. :confused:

Re: [Merged] Birmingham Area.
 

I've been switching between proxies trying to find one that works - when I do it only lasts for about 10 minutes and it's back to square one again. :mad:

You'd have thought ntl would have this sorted by now eh? :rolleyes:

Re: [Merged] Birmingham Area.
 

<<<PHEW!>>> well in one sense thank the lord for that! ..... i've been booting, rebooting, cleaning, AV'ing, AntiAd-ing for two days now!
Yeah.... nice to see super efficient NTL on the case..... guess we can look forward to service reinstated around christmas?
For the record.... i can surf fine for about 5 mins or so, then pages only load so far before stopping and seeming to freeze my pc. Is that what everyone is suffering too?