I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

But today I noted a marked improvement to throughput when downloading from sites in the US.

For weeks 80 - 200kbps has been the best I could manage but today I was getting 900 - 1500kbps. I'm still on 3meg and in Nothants BTW and this was at 6.00pm.

Anybody else seen an improvement?

Strangely Tracerts seem to look exactly the same as they usually do, at least to my somewhat inexpert eye.

Re: I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

lol 3meg customers are getting a free upgrade to 10mb. Looks like this could be finished roll out by 5 dec.

Re: I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

Got NTL info through the post yesterday confirming it will be done by this month :D

Re: I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

Thanks for the info although I was fully aware of the 10meg situation. I have in fact now received the 10meg auto update but when I wrote the original post I was on 3meg.

My original post referred to slow throughput from US sites due to apparent congestion through Ntl's proxies and the pipe/router in Amsterdam on the download route and the apparent congestion in the US on the ack route.

I merely noted the situation had improved as I described.

After the 10meg upgrade downloads (per slot) are still at 900 - 1500Kbps so it seems to be a sustained improvement but is still extremely poor.

Further traces seem to show there is now no packet loss on the ack route but on the download route are still showing 10% packet loss on the last hop and 10% packet loss through the proxy.

Re: I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

dont know about the us situation but amsterdam is still congested here.

Re: I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

Groan...seems it was just a 48 hour blip.
All back to crappy normal today. US throughput back down to 200kbps, average download down to 4.5mbps.
Will it ever get sorted???
Last time I bailed out and went DSL it was no better.

Re: I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

I think its possible that ntl were trialling something to improve the situation and the fact you seen the improvement for 48 hours is good news rather then bad.

Re: I hope it's not just a momentary blip...
 

..unless, of course, you get it through a Samsung STB:disturbd: