Re: browsing in Manchester
 

I think there's lots of things going on at once round here. For three days our FM hookup has been intermittently losing a signal (this is a great debug tool). At the same time the broadband connection is lost. I presume someone is busy changing connections on the cable.

I just hope it's working later on when I have an appointment with ebay ;)

ps. No help I know, but Lifebooks works for me.

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Proxies do not cause issues with email, so thats unrelated.
However these proxies have just been "switched on". Lets give them some time to settle in. Im enjoying the new Swansea cache 3 and 4 :)

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

I'm seeing horrendous packet loss tracerouting into my machine at home in Warrington:

3 <10 ms <10 ms 15 ms gw3.lba2.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.149.5]
4 <10 ms <10 ms 16 ms 158.43.149.98
5 <10 ms 16 ms 15 ms srp2-0.br1.lnd8.gbb.uk.uu.net [158.43.189.5]
6 * <10 ms 16 ms 195.66.226.23
7 * 16 ms 15 ms gfd-bb-b-so-320-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.73]
8 * <10 ms * win-bb-a-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.129]

9 * 16 ms 15 ms man-bb-b-so-600-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.137]

10 * 16 ms 15 ms man-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.177]
11 * 16 ms 15 ms bagu-t2core-a-pos31.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.26]

12 16 ms 31 ms 16 ms bagu-t2cam1-a-ge-wan31.inet.ntl.com [80.5.161.6]

13 15 ms * * ubr03warr-ge10.inet.ntl.com [80.5.162.94]
14 16 ms 31 ms * spc1-warr3-3-0-cust104.manc.broadband.ntl.com [2
13.106.132.104]
15 16 ms * * spc1-warr3-3-0-cust104.manc.broadband.ntl.com [2
13.106.132.104]
16 31 ms 32 ms 15 ms spc1-warr3-3-0-cust104.manc.broadband.ntl.com [2
13.106.132.104]

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Still suffering upload problems here but not poxied proxy not detected on all net tools

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Presumably just the Baguley caches (serving west/southwest Manchester, Wirral, Cheshire, Stoke I believe) are back on. Rochdale's off Oldham/Manchester where there are ten caches to Baguley's four. Hoping someone's done the capacity maths right there...

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Lets hope they have would not like to see a repeat of last years fiasco, but must admit it could be far worse.

With most of the exchanges ADSL enabled in the North West, could hit NW BU very hard this time

Ready for the poxies
 

well i am ready for the poxies:D



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Re: browsing in Manchester
 

The proxy host is cache4-bagu.server.ntli.net which has ip address 80.5.160.7

A repeat of last year would be suicide for NTL I think. I've got my new BT scoket next to my PC live and ready to rumble.

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Glad to know there is someone else thinking the same as me :D

Its a different world from last year with most on the north west able to get ADSL

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Can't even get some of my usual sites up, Damn DNS errors for a couple of days now. Doy you thinknthellworld.com was taken down because they didn't want to hear the screams when the proxies came back up?

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

no they did not like the screams:rofl:

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

It's getting worse. I can't get on to quite a few of my regular sites today - including my publisher!
I got 450 emails this morning, so I suppose I should be grateful for that (I think!)

So
www.likesbooks.com
www.theromancereader.com
www.novelbooksinc.com

are all unobtainable today, and I've only just started!

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Hi am just wondering is manchester on the bromley or langley platform?

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Hateful terms. Manchester (and the entire ntl NW region) is former CWC, DOCSIS-only platform, or Bromley in your terms :cool:

Re: browsing in Manchester
 

Bleedin' typical. Spent last couple of days setting up a wireless home network. Thought pages missing were caused by problems with network. Should have known better. Might be a coincidence but missing sites included this forum, digital spy's forum and theregister.co.uk.