Slow in...well a snail can go faster
 

Is anybody suffering a complete slowdown in cheshire or s.manchester area?

was in the middle of a clan gaming session went i lost ooooomph and now a speed of 0.18Mbps from 10Mbps, just wondered if it was me or is there a network problem somewhere cos it's so bloody annoying:Yikes:

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slowdown here for me also in Nottingham (NG2)

Curly

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Like treacle here in Stoke (which I believe is offshoot of Manchester).

Maybe the cables have melted in the heat ;)

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Pages seem to be taking longer to load here - and I'm in Essex!

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My lad just rang, his 10 meg is now 1 meg.

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Same here, in Stockport, gooooooooo NTL!

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And i'm getting a MAX of around 150k/sec on newsgroups when i always get 1250k/sec! I'm in Cambridge.:Yikes:

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Im in warrington and soooooooo sloooooooow here:(

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Nottingham NG7, add me to the snail speed list :p

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Slow on t'other side o'pennines too.

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This is going to be a huge club then!

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leeds has suddenly dropped like a stone in the last 10 mins

the speed test won't even run!

edit - it did - a massive 0.18Mbps

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same here in m33 10meg just slowed to a 1 meg crawl

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I'm getting pretty much 10mbit on the speed test from this site! but newshosting is useless.

[edit]

I fixed my problem by changing from port from 9000 - 8000 for Newshosting, speeds are alot better but very up and down.

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Yep, slow here too. 30k/s downloads :(

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Same here in Swinton/Manchester pages are real slow.

There is work going on though.

http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceStatus/

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Same in York, I'm using a Leeds proxy server and I'm getting speeds that are around 200 kbph.

I said this in a different forum but I think it bares repeating, I have 2 months left of free BB as compensation for the "appalling service" I have received (NTL's words) and then I'm leaving. I had this problem last week and before that too. No doubt it will happen again once they get this fixed.

Like many people, I've just given up the struggle with NTL now. I was given 3 months free BB but I don't want freebies, I want simple reliability. When the 2 remaining months are up, I'm gone, probably to Pipex.

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NG8

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:19:29 GMT

1st 512K took 35187 ms = 14.6 KB/sec, approx 120 Kbps, 0.12 Mbps
2nd 512K took 21313 ms = 24 KB/sec, approx 198 Kbps, 0.19 Mbps
3rd 512K took 16375 ms = 31.3 KB/sec, approx 258 Kbps, 0.25 Mbps
4th 512K took 47187 ms = 10.9 KB/sec, approx 90 Kbps, 0.09 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 167 Kbps, 0.16 Mbps

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slow here in derby. weird too, if i reset the cable modem i get normal speeds for about 10-15mins then it slows down to a crawl again :(

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Add me to the list.

Web browsing is getting to the point of being unbearable.

Nottingham
NG2

EDIT:

Immediately after making this post, its now gone quicker?

Using Proxy:
lutn-cache-5.server.ntli.net

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seems ok here.. ambit 120 4mb connection...

did have a little slowdown, but I put it down to the weather and my pc being old and flakey.

The bigger question is... whenever there's a problem.. we can always access this forum............................................. ........................? :D

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sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:09:02 UTC

1st 512K took 7734 ms = 66.2 KB/sec, approx 545 Kbps, 0.53 Mbps
2nd 512K took 6032 ms = 84.9 KB/sec, approx 700 Kbps, 0.68 Mbps
3rd 512K took 6390 ms = 80.1 KB/sec, approx 660 Kbps, 0.64 Mbps
4th 512K took 6500 ms = 78.8 KB/sec, approx 649 Kbps, 0.63 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 639 Kbps, 0.62 Mbps
ng11

absolutely diabolical sevice

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30kb/s download
2-4kb/s upload :(

in derby had the same prob around this time two nights ago also

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Slow as a slug on valium here in Nottingham (NG7).

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Thanks for the proxy info, using now and back to full speed, but for how long?

Curly

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Slow here ng5.....not just slow but jumping wildly gaming impossible:tu:

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Didn't last long, back to being slow.

Curly

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Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:50:09 GMT
1st 128K took 1891 ms = 69314 Bytes/sec = approx 577 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 453 ms = 289342 Bytes/sec = approx 2407 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 984 ms = 133203 Bytes/sec = approx 1108 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 907 ms = 144512 Bytes/sec = approx 1202 kbits/sec

Just as bad here in LE3.

That from 4Mb line

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Mega slow here in Manchster! Just downloading a 500kb file and its so far downloaded 120kb in 10 mins!!!!

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still slow - eastwood (nottingham)

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Slow in Scunthorpe, well browsing is but uTorrent is maxing out at over 1.1 MB/S.:) Guess it is just mainly browsing that is affected.

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Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:04:18 UTC

1st 512K took 7141 ms = 71.7 KB/sec, approx 591 Kbps, 0.58 Mbps
2nd 512K took 28547 ms = 17.9 KB/sec, approx 147 Kbps, 0.14 Mbps
3rd 512K took 12703 ms = 40.3 KB/sec, approx 332 Kbps, 0.32 Mbps
4th 512K took 49594 ms = 10.3 KB/sec, approx 85 Kbps, 0.08 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 289 Kbps, 0.28 Mbps

crap ng9 10mbs

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slow here as well, nottingham ng15

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Slow here (NG9) <1MB speeds for a 10MB service.

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:57:56 GMT

1st 512K took 133110 ms = 3.8 KB/sec, approx 31 Kbps, 0.03 Mbps
2nd 512K took 11203 ms = 45.7 KB/sec, approx 377 Kbps, 0.37 Mbps
3rd 512K took 13656 ms = 37.5 KB/sec, approx 309 Kbps, 0.3 Mbps
4th 512K took 22031 ms = 23.2 KB/sec, approx 191 Kbps, 0.19 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 227 Kbps, 0.22 Mbps

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Email is so slow in Derby this morning - connecting, receive and send - I'm actually attaching all my outgoing emails to a passing snail!

Getting around 350 kbps on a 10 mb connection according to the ntlhell speed test so this slowdown seems to affecting a lot of us then!

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Same this morning, browsing is painfully slow! but my average speed looks ok

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:24:21 GMT

1st 512K took 876 ms = 584.5 KB/sec, approx 4816 Kbps, 4.7 Mbps
2nd 512K took 219 ms = 2337.9 KB/sec, approx 19264 Kbps, 18.81 Mbps
3rd 512K took 657 ms = 779.3 KB/sec, approx 6421 Kbps, 6.27 Mbps
4th 512K took 579 ms = 884.3 KB/sec, approx 7287 Kbps, 7.12 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 9447 Kbps, 9.23 Mbps

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Seems to be a big network problem as I am in work and we are having intermittent slow downs for some of our services to the USA as well as the UK:confused:

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Same here in Leicester.
1st 512K took 13078 ms = 39.1 KB/sec, approx 322 Kbps, 0.31 Mbps
2nd 512K took 14797 ms = 34.6 KB/sec, approx 285 Kbps, 0.28 Mbps
3rd 512K took 24953 ms = 20.5 KB/sec, approx 169 Kbps, 0.17 Mbps
4th 512K took 15750 ms = 32.5 KB/sec, approx 268 Kbps, 0.26 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 261 Kbps, 0.26 Mbps

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Slow here 2 in Grimsby, browsing is awful and took 5 mins to recieve one email!!!

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Nottingham NG4
Yet again going slow.........
Started last night :mad:

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Nottingham NG6. May as well turn modem off. I couldnt get slower, and Id save a bit of electricity!

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Same here, Lagging alot on games (I.E Can walk for a second, then I'll stop for about a minute, then it'll come back and the same process happens again)

Derby area, DE7. (cpc2-stap5-.........nott.cable.ntl.com) Was fine last night.

Should be 10MB:

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:16:27 GMT

1st 512K took 18828 ms = 27.2 KB/sec, approx 224 Kbps, 0.22 Mbps
2nd 512K took 38782 ms = 13.2 KB/sec, approx 109 Kbps, 0.11 Mbps
3rd 512K took 31531 ms = 16.2 KB/sec, approx 133 Kbps, 0.13 Mbps
4th 512K took 36781 ms = 13.9 KB/sec, approx 115 Kbps, 0.11 Mbps


Overall Average Speed = approx 145 Kbps, 0.14 Mbps

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/sp...19420269612900

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Speeds are back up for me now.

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ditto that :)

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back for me as well, Nottingham (NG2)

Curly

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Improved for me a bit too.

Nottingham NG6.
Down 1,378.2 Kbps
Up 481.7 Kbps

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Spent 30 minutes with an NTL tech going through the testing this morning. I had just had a wireless router go tits up and thought that was the cause. Finally used a cable direct to the modem and got online but at 239k download and 67.3 up! The tech finnaly took the modem off the server and re-installed. He then told me to wait 2 hours and test again. It was still slow. Called again and was told their system was down and to call back in another 2 hours. Have just check and it is now 1253 and 465!`That on a 10meg setup! Now they must have known something was occouring, why not just tell me!

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Speeds fine now in Derby - 9.43 mbps on the speed test here just now.

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Went off alltogether at around 2pm, back on now, speeds back to normal.

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Getting there now;

Speed Test Results

Downstream 8,619.0 Kbps ( = 8.4 Mbps )
Upstream 481.2 Kbps ( = 0.5 Mbps )

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Still low here in Lincoln, 842/442 (had just over 1.3 meg an hour ago!). Just called NTL and there is a problem that came to their notice early this morning when people started to call the help line. They are working on it and the promise to me was that the situation would be resolved by 4.00pm today (17th).

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Back to normal in Cambridge for me.