Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

[quote=Rob C]Sweet means all the others are fine.

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I'm having slow browsing again tonight -

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:01:54 GMT

1st 512K took 7687 ms = 66.6 KB/sec, approx 549 Kbps, 0.54 Mbps
2nd 512K took 7688 ms = 66.6 KB/sec, approx 549 Kbps, 0.54 Mbps
3rd 512K took 7578 ms = 67.6 KB/sec, approx 557 Kbps, 0.54 Mbps
4th 512K took 7344 ms = 69.7 KB/sec, approx 574 Kbps, 0.56 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 557 Kbps, 0.55 Mbps

NNTP connection is full speed 4Mb.

Anybody else?

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Can't complain in Cambridge (1 meg service paid for):

Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:30:19 UTC

1st 512K took 4567 ms = 112.1 KB/sec, approx 924 Kbps, 0.9 Mbps
2nd 512K took 4296 ms = 119.2 KB/sec, approx 982 Kbps, 0.96 Mbps
3rd 512K took 4356 ms = 117.5 KB/sec, approx 968 Kbps, 0.95 Mbps
4th 512K took 4396 ms = 116.5 KB/sec, approx 960 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 959 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Leicester LE5

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:41:15 GMT

1st 512K took 7110 ms = 72 KB/sec, approx 593 Kbps, 0.58 Mbps
2nd 512K took 9187 ms = 55.7 KB/sec, approx 459 Kbps, 0.45 Mbps
3rd 512K took 4719 ms = 108.5 KB/sec, approx 894 Kbps, 0.87 Mbps
4th 512K took 5156 ms = 99.3 KB/sec, approx 818 Kbps, 0.8 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 691 Kbps, 0.68 Mbps

been like this past few days :( 4mbit service, oh how i miss my stable 2mbit

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

hey pepz im having this problem since last wekk, im on10meg BUT INTERNET IS PROPPA SLOW :(.. they came here and checked, replaced the modem still doesnt help, he siad if it keeps giving you problems ring support line and tell them maybee there is a fault in the network.
Lol maan not even these engineers know whats wrong, dunno when NTL will fix all this :(.

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

well, 'PROPPA SLOW' doesnt really say much, are you sure its not your machine (what OS), do you run ZA, have you downloaded, burned and booted a linux livecd and compared your download/upload speed, what does the speed test at the top tell you ?.

are you running on USB or rj45 network card pluged directly into your NTL 250? cm or an STB, a HW/wireless router, all these things can effect your average speeds

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Blimey - thats a mouth full!;)

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

ROFL @ popper..
i know really well about computers/networking etc.
Ok im NOT ON A ROUTER, NOT ON WIRELESS, directly connected through the blue internet wire. Download speed IS SO SLOW: 50-70 k/sec. before it used to download @ 1.11mb/sec.
And UPLOAD IS COMPLETELY GONE WHICH I NEED SO MUCH!!
im tired of NTL to tell you the truth..
any1 else got these problems???

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

why are you shouting at me ?, just trying to help you incase you or some other readers dont know about above .

so what happened when you booted the livecd then?, any difference in your speeds compared to your installed OS ?.

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Yo know so well that the blue internet wire would most likely in your case be a USB cable? And that, as you're able to post your upload isn't copletely gone?

PS CAPS IS SHOUTING.

To me it sounds like your modem is capped at 1024/100. You could confirm this by checking the config pages on the modem.

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Ntl modems came with a blue ethernet lead.

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

TW came with Blue USB, thats what my information was based on. Thanks though, my TW modem came with a Yellow ethernet lead.

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

ok the usb cable isnt blue, and i just got ma modem changed still the same, ive got xp home edition installed,
and popper u want me to wot with da cd? didnt get it sorry.
And its been slow since 3 weeks now. And im sure many got the same problem.. And in most cases the blue internet wire is better thn usb cable thts wot the engineer told me once..
PS: thanks for telling me bout caps = shouting, sorry bout that.

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Is anybody's connection really slow in the Manchester area this Saturday morning?

Re: [Merged] Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

its alright, everyone has to learn somthing new everyday, and ntl do make you want to shout at them now and then LOL.

right, so we know now that your on a CM, so as Druchii pointed out, it does seem that ntl have put you on the lowest broadband cap of 1 mbit rather than your highest 10mbit, it seems even more likely as you say your uploading rate has really slowed down.

do as Druchii said and check your modem settings
http://192.168.100.1
log in a root with a pass of root and see what its set for
in my case its set for the 4mbit down/400 k up
Network Access : Allowed
Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 4096000
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 400000
Maximum Upstream Channel Burst : 1600
---------------------------------
if infact you find after looking at the above modem page that they have placed you on the lowest 1mbit BB cap, and you are saying you should be on the highest 10mbit or even the 4mbit package then you need to tell them to move you over before you try the linux livecd below.

if infact it turnes out your modem is currently set for the 10mbit cap and you are still getting these slow up/down speeds, then (assuming again that you have a CD or DVD burner) get yourself a small livecd that you can burn and boot in your machine and compare the speeds your getting with your installed OS and the clean standard linux.

thats to prove to yourself that infact its the ntl end thats wrong rather than some bad OS install or setting/app thats messing up your speeds.

if it turns out your getting far better up/down speeds when booting the livecd, (a livecd will not change anything on your installed OS unless you tell it to so its a safe testing tool) then we can then begin to work out whats installed things slowing it down and remove it, such as the zone alarm firewall thats proven to slow many ntl peoples machines down.

DSL (Damn Small Linux) is as good a livecd as any so go here
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...small/current/
and download this
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...1-syslinux.iso
or here if that url isnt working (for me its not right now)
this one is, http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsma...1-syslinux.iso
burn it in your CD or DVD burner, set your PC bios to boot the cd and try surfing the net and downloading/uploading stuff and compare to your installed OS speed to see if it changes in a large way.

if the readers wanting to try this but dont have a CD or DVD burner, go buy yourself one LOL, or you could load the DSL(Damn Small Linux) into the free QEMU emulator inside windows and try it there, while not ideal, it works.

it might be interesting to see peoples tests results in all the 3 ways, livecd boot, qemu boot and windows boot testing if anyone bothers to try all 3 options sometime.

http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
copy the dsl-3.0.1-syslinux.iso to the same dir as you unpack the qemu, make a new test.bat file with this single line

qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -cdrom dsl-3.0.1-syslinux.iso -soundhw all -localtime
save it and click it to start the DSL inside the emulator.

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fine for me in wythenshawe on ntl250 4mbit
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsma...1-syslinux.iso
averaging 456KB/s