Sorry - But yet another question about internet speeds

Niceaction · 31-12-2007, 21:04

I have been on the 20mb since it was introduced into Brighton, and was achieving those speeds fine for a while. Then, Virgin stoped me using the proxy address that I was using, and this forced my 20mb service to become a 2-2.5mb service. I found the list of old NTL proxy's, and found one that was still in use, and once again my speeds shot up. But then, Virgin stopped me using that one. Now, I can't find a proxy that works to replace it.

I had an engineer out, who told me there is nothing he can do, i've just got to wait and see if it increases.

I was just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience, and if there is anything I can do about it?

Thanks.

Niceaction · 03-01-2008, 20:54

Does anyone have any idea?

darkm · 03-01-2008, 21:06

What way are you connecting to your internet? Do you have a router, hard wired or wireless?

Niceaction · 04-01-2008, 00:09

Via a router (i've had a Linksys and a Netgear, both with the same issue) which is hard wired into the machine.

apt-get me beer · 04-01-2008, 13:33

I'm in Brighton too, and I'm having speed fluctuations. First thing in the morning I get the full 20mb but within a couple of hours I am at about 3mb.

I have a network monitor running to check up and down traffic, and its nowhere near the 3gb, but even if it was, its well before 4pm.

NTL250 modem and Belkin Pre-N router

banjo · 04-01-2008, 13:43

Do what I did and drop to 4meg you will save money and probably the same speed that you are getting now ! Oh, and ring CS and ask for some compensation for the poor speeds that you are getting.

Impz2002 · 04-01-2008, 14:46

hi,

you could try using webcache.virginmedia.com port 3128 as a proxy to see if that speeds things up a bit for you.

Impz

Niceaction · 05-01-2008, 00:04

Thanks for the suggestion Impz, but unfortunately it doesn't do anything. Downloads still at 2686 kb/s with upload at 185 kb/s.

05-01-2008, 14:30

have you checked your speeds without using the router at all

Rik · 05-01-2008, 14:48

I had a similar problem, when using proxys my downloads were amazing, but once they were all disabled and i had to use a direct connection in my browser settings I couldnt get over 6MB for some reason.

I removed router and plugged directly into modem and boom back up to 20MB!

Was a issue with the router.

Plug directly into modem, reboot modem and PC if needed and i bet you get better speeds

MrWeelson · 05-01-2008, 15:21

I had a similar problem with my router, if it is an older model go out and buy a new one.

My old Linksys had a limited internal throughput of data which limited my download speed < 10Mb, now with a nice shiny D-Link I'm away (most of the time, this is VM we're talking about) at pretty much full speed.

Andy

pollen · 18-01-2008, 21:51

This rings a big bell with me. Exactly the same situation - Brighton, 20mb down to ~2mb if I'm lucky, and it doesn't matter what time of day. I hadn't made the link, but looking back it coincides with the removal of being able to use proxies.

Definitely not a router issue as exactly the same with direct connection (after rebooting everything). Had two visits from VM engineers who have checked everything there is to check inside and out and who have both escalated it to the network bods. Unfortunately still nothing resolved so as a last resort they are sending one more engineer out on Tuesday.

I'm at the stage where it's last chance saloon now for VM. Will let you know how it goes...

saabmania2 · 18-01-2008, 22:12

i'm in portslade and get 20mb 95% of the time now, but only since i bought a mini pci pre-n card for my laptop and a pre-n for the main pc and a pre-n router,i tried three differant routers a linksys and belkin these where both rubbish and didn't give any improvements over an old buffalo 108mb 54g wifi router then i bought a d-link dir655 bang my speeds shot upto 20mb and haven't dropped below 17.4

Niceaction · 19-01-2008, 00:42

The trouble is, I get the same speeds when i'm bypassing my router so I dont think its that!
Let me know what the engineer says Pollen. If he is anything like the one that came to my house, he'll spend 30 minutes testing everything you have already told the helpdesk and then say "its a problem with your area, and we know about it but we dont know how to fix it".

lordy · 19-01-2008, 03:22

It sounds like doing a reverse traceroute may shed some light on the situation (or may not). Some Newsgroup providers let you do this. See if you can test one over port 80 perhaps?