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anduin · 22-10-2006, 23:45

I play a lot of web-based online games where its not to do with speeds, but loading times of pag.es.

Where i may at the moment be getting ping times in the 40-80ms range .. and i may be getting from 10-18mb raw doanload speeds.. my web pages are slow ... far slower than a telewest customer 80 miles away.

I can only presume that the cache's are the reason .. would be interesting to see the cpu utilization of said cache's as i have an incling that they are running way too high.

Aither way .. i love the 20mb conneciton but as soon as mrs baker gets her staff trial adsl connection i think ntl will be losing my connection from their books... Sad really, i have been an ntl broadband customer on the top tier since the day 'dot'.

I'd speak to customer services but i know i'll get told to reboot the modem, and they'll want to waste my time and an engineers time and send someone around to tell me that there is nothing wrong.

10 or 20mb connection .. perfect for copyright theft, market traders, people too tight to spend 1.99 on a blockbuster dvd, yet very slow for people who want to use the internet for the simple things, online gaming and web browsing.

Abysmal, really.

22-10-2006, 23:45	#31
anduin Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Staffordshire Services: Sky+ HD, 100mb VM cable, Virgin Phoneline Posts: 192	Re: Stoke on Trent - Getting worse I play a lot of web-based online games where its not to do with speeds, but loading times of pag.es. Where i may at the moment be getting ping times in the 40-80ms range .. and i may be getting from 10-18mb raw doanload speeds.. my web pages are slow ... far slower than a telewest customer 80 miles away. I can only presume that the cache's are the reason .. would be interesting to see the cpu utilization of said cache's as i have an incling that they are running way too high. Aither way .. i love the 20mb conneciton but as soon as mrs baker gets her staff trial adsl connection i think ntl will be losing my connection from their books... Sad really, i have been an ntl broadband customer on the top tier since the day 'dot'. I'd speak to customer services but i know i'll get told to reboot the modem, and they'll want to waste my time and an engineers time and send someone around to tell me that there is nothing wrong. 10 or 20mb connection .. perfect for copyright theft, market traders, people too tight to spend 1.99 on a blockbuster dvd, yet very slow for people who want to use the internet for the simple things, online gaming and web browsing. Abysmal, really.