Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

that's a very ambiguous statement - is it that they were working on the network to improve it and it caused problems? or is the 'improvements' they refer to work they're now doing to stop the DNS fault happen again?

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I had the same thought. At first when I read it I thought they meant that they were working on the network and thats what caused the problem but then after reading it again I thought that they meant they are now working on the network to stop it from happening again.

Can any1 interpret this any better ?

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Guys , there is a temporary solution for the issue
http://ben.cheetham.me.uk/resources/net/ntl-proxy-list
Get on to the following website and set a proxy on your browser
To set a proxy , open internet explorer > Tools > Internet options > Connections > LAN settings > Clikc on Use a proxy server address for my LAN , put down the address and specify port no as 8080 .
Try out the proxies for Cosham , Swansea , Guilford etc .

cheers,
Sean:dunce:

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

still having issues here in great yarmouth, tried the old flushdns routine ended up having to switch proxy again, same old bull no ebay or nforce etc.. grrrrrrrr!:mad:

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Mine seems to be working OK now, but I am constantly having the problem of a Not Found message unless I put the www. in before the address.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

All I can say is thank God I have a second ADSL line. Had next to no issues with it the whole 3 years ive had it. Spoke to someone at NTL today who seems to think thier services are amongst the 'most reliable'. Pfft whatever next!?

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I think this, more than anything else is what winds me up about NTL. On the various forums I visit, you can guarantee that at some point, someone will be asking if anyone on NTL is having connection problems. You never see it about any ADSL providers. Yet there are so many times I can't visit websites, sign into messenger, email not working etc etc.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Unfortunately this really isn't a 100% solution, although in some cases may help ... I tried it last night, and I still could not browse to a majority of sites unreliably.

I think the reason being, NTL's caches still use their own DNS servers, so if they haven't cached the DNS, browsing through a proxy you're still stuck!.....

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Same here in Gt Yarmouth, It`s back to normal now but for how long???:mad:

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Well, it wasnt a DNS issue but my whole connection dropped at around 20:40 and was offline up until around 21:38 tonight

Modem went crazy trying to sync and the event log showed random messages that I've not seen before

Is this upgrade related or was it simply a blip in the area? I'm in the M38 area of Manchester.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Having similar problems today in the AL8 area :( - loads of sites not loading

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

i can for once....*touch wood* say its not been to bad down here in portsmouth, jst not holding my breath though that it will last long:angel:

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

According to the service status the connection issues and browsing issues have been fixed.. is it still happening?

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

if its finally fixed...can't wait to see how long it lasts lol when you think its done n dusted it bites ya in the ass and more problems happens lol:D

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

LOL i hear ya brother. NTL oh NTL why for do you screw us over NTL.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

its still having trouble re-loading Doom9 threads now and again but not to bad right now.

correction:
it cant now find http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104277&page=69 for instance

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Just tried clicking on the link. No go. I can get into Doom9 website, but not the forum.;)

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Forum is down, not ntl.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

yea , thats what i thought, its been up & down for 3 days or so but no reports of the message board having problems, so makes me wonder which it is, arr well.....

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Well, i'm on the Telewest side of things, so yeah, it's the forum.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

its back up again.........

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

This has been driving me mad for weeks.

Oh and the service page saying it's fixed means nothing guys as last week they said the same only for it to be doing the same 2 or 3 days afterwards. They never updated it again.

I've had problems yet again this week. Yesterday I spoke to 2 people at NTL who both claimed to know nothing of any fault going on currently :rolleyes:

Today I've not had site problems as such but my speed is varying on and off constantly. There's no way I'm getting 2mb speed right now.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

speed was okies this morning, i jst come back after few hours offline... speed is slow and wont make up its mind weather it wanna go fast or slow... has ntl got something else wrong???

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Been having problems for a couple of days - selected sites not loading - amazon frinstance.

Rebooted modem no change - speed test is ok - on 2/4mb.

I'm in London SE15 area. Hoping its the upgrades causing the problems...

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Anyone having slow connection speeds in the Oldham area? I can't stream any video's on YouTube etc...

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Was having the same problem today so changed to proxy settings to lutn-cache-6.server.ntli.net and it seems to be working ok since, touch wood!

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I just got a speed test of 1.1mbps and I'm on the 2k service (should be 4 at some point this month)

I had 2 the other day so obviously I'm getting low speeds yet again nevermind an upgrade.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I've just started getting the same problem yet again. Websites not opening or images not showing. Google won't show the image and several other sites aren't loading images properly.

NTL are a disgrace.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

At the moment this seems to be the only site I can successfully access.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I disagree

Overall my 3yrs with NTL has been excellent!
There are bound to be some problems when upgrading a network so hold tight or cancel and get ADSL! :)

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I've been getting this the last 3 days, today doesn't seem to bad though, yesterday was very bad, hardly any site would load normal, today just a few odd things wont load on sites.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Changing proxys seems to have fixed my issues, for now, but that shouldn't really be necessary should it :(

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

It's not the upgrades I'm talking about, it's the multiple DDoS attacks they have admitted having. Each time they've been supposedly dealt with and then lo and behold the same problem happens again while NTL seem to sit there like the 3 stooges scratching their heads.

Companies can be forgiven for one off problems like this, a couple of times is getting pretty dodgy, 3 and above is getting beyond a joke for a company anywhere near the size of NTL.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I haven't had any problems with NTL since their debacle at the start of last week.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Wich speed test do you use MFKR78 ?

I should like to see if my upgrade has been completed yet.
Cheers

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Hit 'Speed Test' at the top of this page.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I've had 2 days of bad connections now. Saturday and Sunday evening were diabolical. The "cable" light on the modem kept going off, then flashing, then reconnecting. This would happen on and off through the evening. Then Sunday night at about 21:45 the connection dropped completely. Its working now.

I also had numerous TV issues over the weekend, like interactive and on-demand throwing errors and requiring reboots of the STB (I counted 4 separate incidents).

Things seem to be bad in NTL land at the moment.

Boz

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I'm using Dan Elwell's Broadband Speed Test.

I just ran it again and got very similar results. Showing a small amount of packet loss on one and an unacceptable amount of packet loss on another.

Does anyone know where I even begin to find out about that packet loss problem? I have no desire to spend my money ringing some tit at ntl that doesn't even know what it is and asks me to reboot etc etc.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

my broadband has been off more than on this weekend all I get is the ready light flashing - have contacted techinal support and have an engineer coming out this afternoon

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

I've also been severly affected recently. I did have a strong 10mb connection since installation in March but since last Tuesday my connection is a complete joke. (slower than dial up)

Spoke to technical support a couple of time to be told that there is a problem in my area WS7.

Tried changing proxies but that made no difference at all also noticed that there are no interactive services on my Tv and theres a nice flashing led that wasnt there before last week

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

well hubbys just phoned me as the engineer has just been and apparently he had to move us in the cabinet as we were being affected by the heat????

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Haha that's hilarious

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

My connection has been "off" more than "on" for the past 3 days!!! even the tv keeps going off now!!! It does seem to be a problem with a lot of people here at the mo:confused:

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

My connection is back up to strength again now but I can't help wondering for how long.

looked at the modem and downstrean SNR has changed from 22db to 29db which reading the sticky at the top of the forum is what it should be.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Hi all. I have had the same problems over the last few days in KT15.

I use my ntl cable modem with two computers (only one connected at any time), on one I use the USB connection and on the other I use the Ethernet. This has worked fine for months. Today everything is okay when using my USB connection, but I cannot get any response when using the Ethernet. This has never been a problem before this weekend, so I am wondering if this is related to the ongoing problems or if it must be a problem at my end? I don't know if it is even possible for one to work and not the other, but would appreciate any help or advice you can give me. Thanks.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

More hilarious is that the engineer could easily be telling the truth, heat affects amplifier and laser performance and conductivity of cable and connections.

You have every right to feel like a bit of a tool if you are so inclined.

Re: Major connection issues! 6/6/06
 

Maybe it can, just with the amount of sheer bull I've heard from employees over time it's easy to laugh when you hear such things.

Free downgrade
 

Is it just me or is anyone else getting the same...

The last few days the cable modem has been switched off and on a few times by NTL, and yesterday I did a check. I had the 4Mb upgrade, so that explaines why the modem was switched off on on...

Tonight it started again, and when it settled down, I did a check and im back on 2Mb

Coventry... wating for modem to come back on before I click submit :mad:

---------- Post added at 23:18 ---------- Previous post was at 23:17 ----------

Its back on, even worse

1st 128K took 625 ms = 209715 Bytes/sec = approx 1745 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 656 ms = 199805 Bytes/sec = approx 1662 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 812 ms = 161419 Bytes/sec = approx 1343 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 657 ms = 199501 Bytes/sec = approx 1660 kbits/sec

Re: Free downgrade
 

There's a perfectly good thread for this...

Re: Free downgrade
 

WTF? Now IM back on 2Mbps!?!?!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

And I dont care if there is another thread, what the hell is going on?!:mad:

Re: Free downgrade
 

We do, & this thread will get merged shortly.

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

Oh well, back on 4Mb again :)

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:44:00 UTC
1st 128K took 265 ms = 494611 Bytes/sec = approx 4115 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 266 ms = 492752 Bytes/sec = approx 4100 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 266 ms = 492752 Bytes/sec = approx 4100 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 265 ms = 494611 Bytes/sec = approx 4115 kbits/sec

---------- Post added at 10:53 ---------- Previous post was at 10:48 ----------

You need a router, I remember when I switched from USB to Ethernet there were lots of problems, as NTL want to see the LAN MAC address or something, although I was told you could have 2 devices.

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

You must remember to reboot the modem in between using this method, you can knacker the ports constantly plugging/unplugging, the simplest way would be to get a cheap router.

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

I have had 4 disconnects today, hopefully it is a short term problem

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

Slow as hell this evening on the Wirral.

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

Smicer, I am on the Wirral (Rock Ferry) and mine was slow but i changed proxy. it worked for me as i have been playing CSS on internet no lag (or skill). Web pages loading fine now too.

BTW i use Firefox

Re: Free downgrade
 

Why has the downgrade thread been merged with the connection issues thread? The two are different problems.

Boz

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

I would have merged it with the 2meg-4meg thread but its the Mod's decision

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

:banghead: HI

Might as well keep the thread going as nothing has changed its still as bad
at times SAT 17TH 1630 1730 Very poor browsing\email US Both SYNC RDY lights out or Flashing lasts about 5 minutes then back for few minutes

SUN 18TH as above
MON 19TH as Above my Sons setup the Same (another place same area) same problem . 1900 problem has cleared. but returned 2100 2200
RDY Light flashing or Sync\RDY out

this goes on most evenings from 1630 to 1900 and occaisionly late

upgrade to 4mb Here in GU14 Has made no diferance to those using it its
still Useless at times Calls to INDIA not worth the Time or hastle:mad: :mad:

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

Well, I had a moan at NTL about loss of connection on 06/06/06
sent them an E-Mail voicing my concerns about their unsatisfactory service

Mail sent......
Date Submitted: 7/6/2006 10:15:49 PM
Your NTL Broadband service is a joke. The outages are happening now on a regular basis this is just not on. The most recent one being Tues 6th June (Browsing issue) As I pay £17.99 a month subscription I have noticed that you don't reduce it by 60p for the day that was lost unable to use the Internet I will be contacting yourselves shortly with a view to cancelling my account and moving to another provider that is more reliable.
Unhappy customer
.............................................
1st reply.....

Hi R*****

Please accept my apologies for the problems you have been experiencing.

The problems that you were experiencing may have been caused by a DDoS attack that effected our DNS, these have since been resolved. The problems would have included inability to view Internet pages.

With regard to your comments about the reduction in charges for the service interruption, I have passed the matter to the Customer Services department for action.

Thank you for contacting ntl
Phil
.............................................
2nd reply
Hi R******

Thank you for using our online forum. Your comments have been recorded on our database.

I apologise for the inconvenience caused by the loss of service on the broadband and have given you 3 months' connection at £8.99 starting today. Please be advised that this offer does not run concurrent with your billing date - which is the 24th of every month - and as such will lapse on the 18th of September. Your next bill will reflect the changes taking effect from today and will be a mix of charges apportioned on a part month basis for your previous and new tariffs respectively.

Thank you for contacting ntl.
Mansoor

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

I had problems in the AL8 area over the weekend with no connection ready light just flashing and my husband has just phoned to say the same is happening again today

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

HI

Farnborough gu14 conection impossible for more than 2 minutes at a time
from 0900 flashing RDY\ SYNC or no lights At all EMAIL Dead even when
net pages were avail all over this area the Same Complain all i get referred
to is INDIA who go through the same routine POINTLESS .
OK i keep moaning well so i should we have no BT Line here that were any good so cannot move anyway . i just hope NTL Management do read this
as well because this is now out of hand your own Employees that ive spoken to are just as bafled as i am as to why you cannot get this FIXED
So how about it NTL WHATS THE PROBLEM THEN ?

TONY

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

I was hoping to work from home a couple of days this week but will be unable to if the broadband connection keeps on going down :( and I pay £34.99 a month for this

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

really slow service, my pages take ages to load today im in the RG42 aerea bracknell berkshire. anyone else having same problems?

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

We lost all cable tv and broadband last night (right in the middle of the football highlights which was great) for a good hour and a half.

Today we lost all of it again from 5 until 6.30ish. My computer also crashed to the blue screen again sometime after which now happens repeatedly every time the broadband service goes so I can't even use my PC offline.

As always great service NTL.

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

HI Working fairly well this morning Gu14(farnborough) Athough there are intermitant EMAIL problems "Server cannot be found" Password rejected" " Atime out has occured" and the usual Server disconnected ,Web pages loading fair although somtimes without images or slow loading them

tony
21st at 1050am

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

Theres a ntl enigneer outsdie my house as hte NTL box for my street is right by my house, dont know what hes doing.

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

My 2/4mb connection has been rubbish for the last week or so. Some sites I have bookmarked just wont load while others are fine. Hoping it'll go away soon but getting very peed off now.

My top dl speed is fine, it's just certain sites won't load - about 4/10 of my bookmarks.

I'm in SE15 btw and I'm still getting 2mb speed.

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

I was getting that m8 till I used this proxy........62.252.32.11:8080 ....give it a go.

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

[QUOTE=Ramrod]Now everyone will rush to that and crash it :erm:

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.

---------- Post added at 11:22 ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 ----------

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

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

This is getting quite ridiculous now, every day the connnection seems to work ok then suddenly stops. Some sites work but the most don't so I change proxy settings only for it to work but to stop working 5 mins later :mad:

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

im having issues tonight in the scunny area.. most webpages wont load or just give errors.

getting to be a pain..