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Originally Posted by slimsavery
had major greif with ntl over my speed last month. broadband support was awful, telling me to use netstat and stop any unneccesarry open connections- causing my laptop to crash. came on these forums and you kind guys advised me to configure IE to a specific proxy server in my area. the result? the fastest speeds i have encountered, nearly 2meg all the time ( which is what i pay for ). tonight the madness has started again. i have changed the proxy address to every available one in bromley. 1 min its around 1700 kbs and then 1100. have also tried using other areas - no joy? i hope its because of the matience tonight, however other people from Bromley say their ok. ****ed off!
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Yo!
as an update to this, i phoned NTL yesterday got my self up to the 3 megs service for free ( cos i complain well ) thought this way id at least get the 2 meg i pay for! howver one min it3 3 meg, the next 500 kilobits p/s!! have phoned NTL, apparntly my settop box has a low ping ( 80 % ), engineer coming round tommorow, hopefully with a cable modem so i can lose the settop box. is it right you can only have 10 meg with a cable modem? according to ntl it is? hopefully i`ll have my problems fixed tommorow