Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

I seee from the status page that Leicester is due to be having work again every night this week, this is getting a bit annoying now as my job requires me to do video conferences to the west coast USA two or three times a week normally in middle of night for the past 3 weeks ever weekday evening i lose my connection all night.
I can only assume that the network in Leicestershire is in a really bad state and must only just be working. I know Diamond Cable were very slap happy when creating the network and probaly cut lots of corners. Does anybody when all this work is finally due to be completed and what is being done in all this work ?
I just hope all this inconvience is going to be worth it.

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

Actually its' upgrades to individual areas a bit at a time. The whole of Leicester will not be going offline and only individual areas will see disruption, and each area only the once during the entire period.

Sadly again it's probably a residential service you're using so no service level agreement but even the business one has no guarantees :(

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

the only service level agreement we have is to cancel the ISP if you have had enough of a poor service:(

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

Thanks for your reply Ignition I am hoping you are correct and the loss of service wont be very night like its was last week bar Thurs.
As i said before there must be alot of work to do in this area judging by the amount of outages we have had recently.

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

Yes I can confirm there is real slowness right now, thanks to the cableforum team I am back on 10mbit and earlier my adslguide speedtest showed the 4-5 mbit I can expect but now I get this.

Downstream 1588 Kbps (198.5 KB/sec) 1715 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 485 Kbps (60.6 KB/sec) 523 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Download of most servers around 1mbit including .uk and same with http downloads. But this is during what ntl call the trial period and at least they seem to be working on it, I would be more worried if I wasnt seeing scheduled work. For the first time I am also noticing slow down in normal browsing as well as this has been the slowest its been.

Ignition or anyone else, if my modem is borderline on the SNR and noiselevel stuff would this cause it more problems when the ubr is busy? I think I am having an engineer coming with a new modem soon so I might ask him to have a look for me.

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

I noticed a routing change now and I am hoping this will mean an end to the amsterdam congestion, outgoing routes from ntl are now going through redbus uk and handing over there.

8 gfd-bb-b-so-400-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.98) 19.445 ms 17.542 ms 17.930 ms
9 redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.138) 19.471 ms 32.935 ms 20.259 ms
10 ldn-s2-rou-1002.UK.eurorings.net (195.66.224.54) 20.239 ms 23.930 ms 18.639 ms

Unfortenatly the return route still comes back the same way leaving the same throughput issues, but this could be work in progress and I am hoping ntl will change it, they also changed some cogent routes for me after I requested it so their attitude seems to be changing.

This maybe should have been in a new thread since its relevant to all of ntl not just Leics but since gamers are mostly posting here and there is new ones popping up I kept it here.

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

thats good news on the switch side whould it be possible for me to have that server address so i can run the same tests from here to check that they havent just moved you over following your email(s)

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

trace 83.223.127.134

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

7 28 ms 14 ms 16 ms lee-bb-b-atm010-211.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.6]
8 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms ntl-gw.telecomplete.net [213.160.97.41]
9 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms v100-r1.rbs.telecomplete.net [213.160.96.52]
10 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms fe-0-2-0.cr2.sov.lon.uk.as29017.net [213.160.97.78]

only high jump im registering is 4
4 30 ms 435 ms 23 ms nott-t2core-a-ge-wan73.inet.ntl.com [80.1.79.77]
but even that isent too bad

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

there is another isp also in germany who have cogent and another provider.

I traced it from 8 or so locations to help a friend see their routing and ntl was one of only 2 who didnt use cogent, so ntl now seem to have this cogent problem resolved.

To give idea how bad cogent is one of the servers i traced from is also in germany but because the way cogent are it went de -> uk -> de wasting 30ms of latency.

Am currently getting packet loss and ping spikes to 4 figures on my server that goes over the amsterdam hop but it is a sunday so hopefully by friday they may have this resolved if not ill send an email to see what they say about the situation.

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

hi im also getting bad pings in any online game cs,css.cz.dod.dods,bf2 every single one of them has doubled my ping with occasional higher jumps of up to 120 ms. I have recently upgraded to the 10mb and get full speed up and down. was wondering if i needed to configure anything and would it help or is this defo a prob with ntl and all the upgrades they are doing at present? thanks in advance ...Billy ps. pc spec is amd 64 3200+ venice , 1gb ddr dual channel, geforce 6600gt pci-e and i connect straight through ethernet .

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

maby fiddle your rates up on cs and css now you have more bandwidth and ensure the other games are set to lan/t1

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well i have my rates on 20000, 80 ,80 and always have so i can
it see it being that

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

I've finally snapped :Yikes: ....ntl can stick their tv phone & bb ... I've bailed out after 5 yrs with ntl I can take no more ! Gl with getting your gaming sorted guys.

Re: Gaming Connections / Leicester
 

gl to you in your new endevors with which ever provider you deside to take on,
and thats for the wishfull thinking on the conenction issues
good bye drop in and say high again some time,
there is a section onthe site for other providers i belive