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Old 05-12-2006, 20:38   #1
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Another slow speed thread

Like others, my 10 Mb has slowed down to 56k dialup speeds for the past few days, making browsing the web painful, watching streamed video impossible and downloading files of any size brings me to tears.

It's not just browsing that's affected either. Newsgroups are screwed too. Was maxing out my Giganews connection till this week, but right now it's connecting at 11KB/s :crying:

Here's a speedtest result, and this is roughly the same for all tests I've tried...



Note it's only my download that's buggered, my upload seems fine

The only thing that seems unaffected is tracert and my ping to Counter Strike servers.

I've just spoken to some friendly but unhelpful chap in India who checked my stats from NTL's side, and said as far as he can see there's no problem, so there's nothing they are going to do, because they don't even think I have a problem. When asked if this kinda of service was normal, and what he recommended I should do to fix it, he had no response.

Can anyone suggest anything before I go completely nuts. This isn't what I pay £35 p/month for.
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