Hertfordshire Area.....problem?
 

Hiya all,
I was just wondering if anyone else in the Hertfordshire area are having problems with slow browsing?.It's been terrible now for about 3 weeks (had this similar problem last sept-oct).I tried phoning customer support,but it seems they are all out partying due to their rise in the minimum wage!!

Web pages shouldn't take 4 minutes 33 seconds to load (most web pages do this).I just can't find any info from anywhere regarding maintenance around the Herts area.

Any links to info would be a godsend,

Thanks in advance :)

Re: Hertfordshire Area.....problem?
 

Can you give us a clue as to where you might be? ;)

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I live in St. Albans, Hertfordshire and i have been having the same problems for the past few weeks on my 1MB connection.

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Oops my bad manners...

Hi Neil.....i'm in Stevenage mate.....cheers :)

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Hi GBH and :welcome:

have you tried specifying a proxy server? try a couple in your area and a couple that aren't and see if this improves things.

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I'm also in stevenage (near the sainsbury's, but not the corey's mill 1) and i've had my internet slower aswell, its just bareable, but when i play counter-strike it lags a fair bit.

Re: Hertfordshire Area.....problem?
 

Like treacle in Welwyn Garden City also. I've been told that there is oversubscription in postcode areas AL8/9/10 - has been since December and is a known fault.
Taking for ever to fix - or am I just being 'fobbed off' by cs!!??

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Colchester here and some sites are loading fast and others :confused:

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im in Hemel Hempstead, experiencing the same problem, and when switching to different proxy servers nothing happens. In fact some sites dont even work properly if i use a different proxy server.

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Sounds familiar :eek:

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I'm in Stevenage and have given up with the "local" luton proxy servers. After a week of switching between them trying to get a decent speed, I'm now using cache3-wtfd.server.ntli.net and haven't had a problem for days....

Re: Hertfordshire Area.....problem?
 

Browsing was slow for me in Hertford last night, but I was being slow and reading newsgroups also, so I could not be bothered to fix it.

It's a load thing as the problem does not exist during the day.

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Yes,they do like over subscribing don't they.....even though my service isn't half as good as it was 4 years ago..they still charge me the same price :td:

Greed is a word that comes to mind.

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This is correct.

There are issues on 5 cables on 2 uBRs in the area. A good way to test if you are on one of the problem cables is to see if there is a difference at peak times. If it is worse at evenings/weekends you are likely to be in an oversubscribed area.

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The really frustrating thing here, is that last summer I went through all of these Luton/Herts/Beds issue with David Thatcher (then MD for that region)

I supplied him details of all the users that had issues that I collated on .com, & copies of threads we had running here.

And look what happened....:rolleyes: