It's Sooo Sloooooooooowwwwww...
18-07-2003, 22:16
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Trollsplatter
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it's sooo sloooooooooowwwwww...
Anyone know what's up this evening? My 600k BB is crawling. I'm lucky if I can download at more than about 3Kb/sec right now.
Is there a known issue in Hemel Hempstead? I can't believe this is down to contention...
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18-07-2003, 23:02
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Y'know, it's taken me this long to work out that "Emmw Emstid" in your profile actually means Hemel Hempstead. I just thought it was somewhere in Wales with an unpronoucable name.
My God I'm dumb sometimes!
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18-07-2003, 23:35
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan
My God I'm dumb sometimes!
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Your not on your own I thought it was Wales to.:p
Not slow on the Internet moving along champion in Manchester.
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19-07-2003, 00:40
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan
Y'know, it's taken me this long to work out that "Emmw Emstid" in your profile actually means Hemel Hempstead. I just thought it was somewhere in Wales with an unpronoucable name.
My God I'm dumb sometimes!
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edit *your not from daaahn saaaf then?  *
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19-07-2003, 00:58
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I live in Poole, and sometimes in Southampton. How much further south do you want?
But we speak the Queen's english here, don't you know!
And as a token gesture to make it look like I'm at least trying to be on-topic, BB is just fine here.
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19-07-2003, 01:14
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people in south-amp-ton in 'ampshire ooo-arrr speaking the queen's english? mwhahahaha
They don't even speak the queen's english in Portsmuff and they got their accent from londoners after the war
PS downloading fine here up in mingingham
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19-07-2003, 01:18
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Originally posted by Tristan
I live in Poole, and sometimes in Southampton. How much further south do you want?
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You just need to go as far saaf as Laandon
Especially sarf east laandon
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19-07-2003, 01:31
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My goodness I feel like northern correspondant up 'ere in the North
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19-07-2003, 02:01
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Quote:
Originally posted by towny
I'm lucky if I can download at more than about 3Kb/sec right now
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watch out, you'll be hitting the cap soon at that speed!
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19-07-2003, 07:52
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Quote:
Originally posted by matty4donna
watch out, you'll be hitting the cap soon at that speed!
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Unless you have hit the cap
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19-07-2003, 09:59
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there's been a whole rash of Cisco router upgrades due to a serious vulnerability being discovered.
Speed depends a lot on how many routers you're going thru, so say UK sites should be fine, but US and worldwide sites are pretty terrible.
As routers are being upgraded and rebooted traffic is directed thru fewer routers as there's less available to spread the load.
Not very well worded, but I hope that helps explain things a little.
see here for details.
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19-07-2003, 10:54
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Anyone know what's up this evening? My 600k BB is crawling.
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I thought things were a bit slow last night
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19-07-2003, 10:57
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Trollsplatter
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An update - spoke to someone in faults this morning and we thought we'd fixed it with a re-boot of the modem, but no ... 'cable' light is coming on and off constantly.
When it's on I get connection speeds equivalent to a 56k modem or worse. The faults person put me through to cable modem support, where the tech ran the diagnostics several times and said he was getting 'some crazy readings' ... he has filled in a request for an engineer to come round!
In the meantime I can just about get on-line, but I may not be around much for a couple of days ...
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19-07-2003, 11:03
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Quote:
Originally posted by towny
An update - spoke to someone in faults this morning and we thought we'd fixed it with a re-boot of the modem, but no ... 'cable' light is coming on and off constantly.
When it's on I get connection speeds equivalent to a 56k modem or worse. The faults person put me through to cable modem support, where the tech ran the diagnostics several times and said he was getting 'some crazy readings' ... he has filled in a request for an engineer to come round!
In the meantime I can just about get on-line, but I may not be around much for a couple of days ...
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If you want me to get you a date for your tech sorted quickly pm me
btw you have a pm
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20-07-2003, 00:22
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Trollsplatter
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Quote:
Originally posted by grum1978
If you want me to get you a date for your tech sorted quickly pm me 
btw you have a pm
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Thanks for your help with this Grum ...
another update - all currently working at full speed !
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