Problems in "M33" area of Manchester
 

M33

No its not James Bonds new boss, just a troublesome area atm.
Since going to 1.5 meg my connection has been diabolical. Cut offs slow browsing etc etc never mind the e-mail.
When i joined the merry-go-round on the phone, it mentioned Saturday and Sunday, peeps in this area [manchester south] were having a teenzy problem.
Well its still cr@ppy and theres no mention of it on the phone anymore [so its solved or someone forgot to rewind the cassette :) ].
Its not been on the status page at all. Ive been hanging on the phone till i gave up, usually i do ok, but today was'nt my lucky day.
Could any of our resident NTL guys throw a bit of light on what it is?
Or is it cos we got our upgrades early and are now paying the price? :erm:

Re: M33
 

ARe you on STB or standalone modem? If STB, is it a Pace or Samsung?

The Paces are in the process of being swapped out for megabit customers, as they will have issues with the 1.5Mbit upgrade.

Re: M33
 

Sorry forgot to say, i'm on an AMBIT sacm.
As far as i know they are ok for 1.5 meg. Plus, it was the nads for the first day, then pfffff. :(

Manchester - momentary disconnections?
 

Anyone in Manchester having weird split second disconnections? I am thinking that's what is happening as I can surf and download stuff as normal, but MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger keep disconnecting every few minutes then reconnecting again. It's odd because if I am downloading a torrent I don't lose connection to the seeds and peers. Yet Yahoo and MSN keep signing in then cutting off, then signing in again. Cheers

Re: Manchester - momentary disconnections?
 

Sounds more like you have adware/malware get Adaware from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and run it, should sort it out IMO

Re: Manchester - momentary disconnections?
 

Yes i am having the same problems today as well.

Re: Manchester - momentary disconnections?
 

If you look lower down, thats what my M33 post is about.

And i dont have any adware etc, and i,m sat behind a hardware firewall as well. And i have tried without that, and just using my software firewall.
Its intermittent, but its still there from the weekend. :(

Re: Manchester - momentary disconnections?
 

My problem sounds more like the M33 post, and Im also M33 on 300k STB, I keep getting cut off, like once a day sometimes more, I called the engineer out about it, but he said everything looked fine and gave me a new cable :confused: the light on my box never blinks or indicates anything is wrong but nothing reconnects till I reset the box, and after I phoned the CS the net disconnected about 13 times over the period of 24 hours, so Im scared to call again :(

Re: M33
 

I'm in the M33 area and I wonder if the problems extend to WA15 (Timperley) as my sister has been without web access for over a week now. She called NTL but was left on hold for over half an hour and was then cut off.

Re: M33
 

I also live in the WA15 area of Timperley. I kept loosing my BB conection. I removed the signal conditioning filter from my in comming co-ax and hey presto, BB came back.

Re: M33
 

Well I am right next to Timperley and have no problems. :shrug:

Re: M33
 

Im in the M33 area and lose connection about once a day, got worse over the past couple of weeks.

Re: M33
 

Sorry for being thick, but how do you do that? :erm:

:)

Re: M33
 

Not recommended as you may incur a £50 call out fee or whatever the current price is if something goes wrong.

But you can always put it back on if it does not work.

The signal conditioner is proabably the same as an attenuator attached to the cable looks like a shiny silver barrel over the cable and easy to remove.

:D

Re: Manchester - momentary disconnections?
 

I've been having these intermittent disconnects for weeks now