Really Bad Service tonight
 

Im having really bad service tonight, downloads are as low as 100k and my browsing is also tediously slow

im in SA1 area of swansea.

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Speed's been crap here (Peterborough) all day - usually get 15-20Mbps, currently getting 1-2 Mbps on file downloads and speedtests (yes, I know, can't trust those...:rolleyes:)

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Same problem in the south of the country near Salisbury

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Had a couple of problems here too. I blame this rubbish weather we are having tonight.

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all fine in SA10

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Not fine in SK2, poor speed, and gaming is a nightmare.

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Make that SK6 also. It seems be OK for a few days and then goes crap again.

Do you think VM are taking a region at a time and giving them good speeds for a day or so and then switch to the next region? That way everyone thinks it must be something at their end. By the time everyone is ready to complain the speeds are reasonable again.

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I think you may have hit on something there, Badders.

I've noticed something similar the weather: one day there's snow in Scotland, heavy rain in Newcastle, gales in the south west and it's sunny in London. And the next day, all the weather has just moved around the country in a seemingly-random pattern.

Next week it'll be sunny in Skelmersdale, windy in Washington, cloudy in Cardiff and Portsmouth will, erm, have an awful lot of rain...
:-)

Hope your speeds improve soon guys!

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how is the wind in the USA washington gonna affect UK ;)

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:oops:

Oh you know, something about butterfly wings and severed hands clapping?
:erm:


:idea:
Washington, Tyne and Wear

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Oh ceedee, you are cynical,;) VM wouldn't do that would they?:shocked:

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Pfff, i bet he thinks new york is also in the USA ;):p:

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Well there are Portsmouths in New Hampshire, Rhode Island (that's in New England, you see), Ohio and Virginia and there's even a Cardiff in Australia.
But as far as I can tell, there's only room for one Skelmersdale.
It's victims call it Skem!

:nutter:

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...and back to normal again this morning....

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2008/03/25.png

:D

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Why in the space of a minute would my speed fluctuate from 4 to 14 ?
I dare say if I try again I may get 19, but that isn't the point, the damn thing is so unreliable.

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My connection seems to vary hour-to-hour. I ran the above test 3 times this morning with virtually identical results. The VM network seems to be highly variable across both time and geographical location; that's unreliable, as you say.

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What kind of results do you get measuring your connection speeds using an accurate method?

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it's like really bad GPRS for me today... it'll sit for 15 mins thinking about loading a page... then gradually open it.

I did some bandwidth tests on a few ubuntu CD's, with several mirrors & it sat doing nothing for 10 mins then gradually the speed picked up to a head 120kB/s

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im getting between 100k and 220k max this morning on a 4mb connection and the pages are slow opening.

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Oldham, 29k – 79k all day today so far, not bad for a VM 20Meg service. :rolleyes:
Just checked the calendar, 2008, that can’t be right can it?
Hey but WTF, just keep signing up new customers, let’s see just how much we can screw out of the system before meltdown ...... bonus anyone? :monkey:

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Oldham too.

Support in the Newsgroup say:

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Thanks for the heads up kryogenik. Probably just needs a new wick. :dozey:

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No worries.
You have a PM by the way.

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Absolutely appalling tonight. I'm even having problem streaming a 64kbps radio stream. It keeps buffering every few minutes, a real joke for an alleged 4Mbit service.

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Well to be honest I don't rate my connection by sheer speed alone, the quality is far more important, and that is what I don't seem to be getting.
I don't need to be on 20 meg, but the missus works for VM and we get it at a cost reduction so I stick with it. I even thought it would help with having 3 PC's connected at any one time doing a spot of gaming, but it hasn't.
I've been online gaming before Nynex, C&W, NTL and now VM were even in this country, and I reckon this is the worst its been in all that time. Rarely do I get a night when I can honestly say the connection is right, let alone good.

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Yes, really slow browsing speeds here in Oldham. A simple page of text seems to be loading line by line lol - throw any graphics in and it's back to the nightmare days of dial-up. Weekends are becoming a bit of a drag on the internet lately. I've had cable since Nynex, Cable & Wireless, NTL and now Virgin - never been tempted to sway to sky..... until now.

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I'm actually back up to scratch again here. Speed tests are fine, pages loading OK.
Files at http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/ coming down at the correct speed.
That said, I have changed my IP address twice tonight and rebooted all kit about a dozen times.
Finally got everything working again.
I know I'll have spoken too soon!
Makes me wonder how the poor folk who haven't a clue how to resolve things go on.
Especially when Bombay tell you a crock of smelly stuff.

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ur lucky i still have probs

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Aye, ive heard of Skem! Unfortunately :p:

Theres also a Newcastle in Australia ;)

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w00t - it's the network's fault

obviously initially they told me it was my wireless router, then my firewall, then y AV

But after they actually did some tests they decided that it's the box outside & an engineer will call.

only took 50 mins :mad:

never mind..

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The past two days for me have been a nightmare. I've rebooted everything several times with no change at all. Getting really really fed up, Newport Gwent with 20mb running,

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I'd ring NTL but they'll blame my PC/Router anything but admit there's a problem their end.