[Merged] Birmingham Area.

[doolie]

yup, that helps, have set to same as Jamman960 mentioned

[mr-b]

Originally Posted by poolking

Check Robin Walker's site with a list of proxies, I don't think they're inkitomis.

The VIA header below shows Traffic Server which is Inktomi.
Robin's page also lists it as Inkt.


D:\temp\wgettmp>wget -S http://www.ntlworld.com
--18:49:07-- http://www.ntlworld.com/
=> `index.html.18'
Resolving www.ntlworld.com... 62.253.162.30
Connecting to www.ntlworld.com[62.253.162.30]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
2 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:49:07 GMT
3 Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.1
4 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.1
5 Set-Cookie: NTLWORLD_USER=20040318184908622553262088; expires=Sat, 17-Apr-200
4 18:49:08 GMT
6 Content-Type: text/html
7 Age: 2
8 Connection: close
9 Via: HTTP/1.1 ntl-site (Traffic-Server/5.2.2-59134 [cMsSf ])
[ <=> ] 27,127 109.92K/s
18:49:09 (109.92 KB/s) - `index.html.18' saved [27127]

If I specify cache1-brhm.server.ntli.net or cache3 directly, perf is still poor.
However cache2 appears to be working fine.

[Flip]

Leamington Spa here and man it's still dodgey...can't load many pages...this page loads very fast, ntl world not a chance (not that I' missing much :pp ).


Msn is working but not msn home page....site I link to (see below) takes a good 10 mins to load.

Weirdly in game ping are better than a long time...my rudimentary knowledge suggests dns problems...is that the correct term for the little guy in the pc who changes ip adresses to names...hehe...

[Tumble weed]

Well currently I'm finding my ntl dial-up 56k faster than ntl broadband 600k!

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Tumble weed

Well currently I'm finding my ntl dial-up 56k faster than ntl broadband 600k!

Sprinkle some salt on the coax... It will help the signal

What proxy are you using ATM ?

[progers]

Originally Posted by jizz

Hi,

For the last week or so i have been having brief random cut outs of my cable service. Yesterday tho, my cable service seems to have died completely (cable light dead, with brief periods of flashing). I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this in my area, or if anyone knows what the problem could possibly be.

Thanks in advance

Hi Jizz



There are horrendous problems in the area at present due to some proxies not caching pages - this was from tech Support this morning.



Try manually adding a proxy to IE. Birmingham proxy address cache1-brhm.server.ntli.net with port set to 8080 works well for me, others have reported that cache2-brhm.server.ntli.net works for them. This way I was able to access my (NatWest) home banking for the first time this week. Do remove the proxy in a few days when the issue is fixed (hopefully)

[progers]

Originally Posted by mr-b

I go via Bham and was having intermittent problems too on google, register.co.uk and others.
I then specified cache1-brhm.server.ntli.net and it didn't make any difference. cache2 seemed to work OK, 3 definitely didn't.

And yes I did let TS know so someone can hopefully build a picture of what may be going on.

Hi mr-b

Thanks for the proxy hint!!!!

Just confirmed that there are horrendous problems in the area at present due to some proxies not caching pages - this was from Tech Support this morning.



Like you, I tried manually adding a proxy to IE. Strangely, Birmingham proxy address cache1-brhm.server.ntli.net with port set to 8080 works well for me, but cache2-brhm.server.ntli.net remains a disaster!

This way I was able to access my (NatWest) home banking for the first time this week.

Tech Support said do remove the proxy in a few days when the issue is fixed (hopefully)

[Nikko]

This has just been flagged up on the Status Page - link from this site's homepage

[zuke_duke]

I notice thas this one has now made it to the Service Status list

You might be able to find better useable proxies in Robins' list, until they fix it ...

[Chimpy]

I'm in Leamington too. I've tried various different proxies, none seem to be much better. I think it's more of a general fault than that. I seem to be able to get a few kb of data from any one source before it stops, and then I can't get any more after that.

I hope it's fixed by the weekend.

[Neil]

Broadband Service - Birmingham area

19 March 2004 11:38

ntlhome broadband customers in the Birmingham, Swindon, Coventry, Lichfield, Tamworth and Warwick areas may currently be experiencing a degraded service due to a technical fault.
Our engineers are aware and are working to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

That's not bad, some 40 hours after the problem was mentioned, it has finally ended up on the Server Status Page.

Perhaps I just expect too much from ntl......?

[Church Mouse]

Thank goodness,

TS, yesterday led me to believe that the problem was my pc, ( he said 'no problems with Warwick area' -living in Coventry postcode CV7 but come under Warwick) although I did set a proxy which made it a little better.

Yesterday I asked, on this forum, what was a 'ping' how do you do one and how are results interpreted. I would be interested to know, if anyone can please inform me.

Thanks

Church Mouse

[poolking]

Is there actually a reliable birmingham proxy I can use? Cache 1 has just started to slow right down.

Edit: Scrap that its just started to speed up again.

[Weltmeister]

I've been switching between proxies trying to find one that works - when I do it only lasts for about 10 minutes and it's back to square one again.

You'd have thought ntl would have this sorted by now eh?

[flea]

<<<PHEW!>>> well in one sense thank the lord for that! ..... i've been booting, rebooting, cleaning, AV'ing, AntiAd-ing for two days now!
Yeah.... nice to see super efficient NTL on the case..... guess we can look forward to service reinstated around christmas?
For the record.... i can surf fine for about 5 mins or so, then pages only load so far before stopping and seeming to freeze my pc. Is that what everyone is suffering too?