[Merged] Birmingham Area. - Page 4

susie r · 19-03-2004, 18:51

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Originally Posted by 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?

Yep its the same here too.......only managed to get this site up now cos I've used the bham2 proxy.wont last for long tho, it'll start slowing down again any minute!!!

Flip · 19-03-2004, 20:33

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Originally Posted by susie r

Yep its the same here too.......only managed to get this site up now cos I've used the bham2 proxy.wont last for long tho, it'll start slowing down again any minute!!!

I've been skipping between the Birmingam2 and a couple of the Northampton ones...I get the feeling we are all jumping from one to the other 5mins after each other...bit like musical broadband connection chairs!

Man until this was confirmed to me by tech I was a particularly bothersome fellow on the spyware and hijack this forums...hehe!

paulyoung666 · 19-03-2004, 20:34

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Originally Posted by Flip

I've been skipping between the Birmingam2 and a couple of the Northampton ones...I get the feeling we are all jumping from one to the other 5mins after each other...bit like musical broadband connection chairs!

Man until this was confirmed to me by tech I was a particularly bothersome fellow on the spyware and hijack this forums...hehe!

do me a favour and leave the middlesbrough ones alone , i have been running quite nicely for a while now

, dammit there goes me connection

Chrysalis · 19-03-2004, 21:01

no probs here with my own personal proxy

Chimpy · 19-03-2004, 21:13

Yay it's back up as of about 9pm!!

td444 · 20-03-2004, 00:56

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Originally Posted by Chimpy

Yay it's back up as of about 9pm!!

Hmmmm did wonder why my latency to gaming servers was better during the peak time

Anyway, ive found better luck with web cache's that are NOT inktomi based, the Bham one's are, hence all the trouble people get.

Im using cache5-nott.server.ntli.net:8080 myself for weeks on end , via Proxomitron (so I can switch it on/off with a flick). Makes NTL bareable :P

Church Mouse · 22-03-2004, 14:30

This has now been ongoing for about five days. Browsing is so slow even when using a proxy.

Still showing as a problem on the server status page, do you think we have been forgotten??

Maybe ntl will give us a reduction on our next Broadband bil??????

Church Mouse

Stuartbe · 22-03-2004, 14:36

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Originally Posted by Church Mouse

Maybe ntl will give us a reduction on our next Broadband bil??????

Church Mouse

If you look out of your window to the right you will see a pig flying past !

Church Mouse · 22-03-2004, 14:44

I wondered what that pink thing was!!

Church Mouse

td444 · 22-03-2004, 18:26

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Originally Posted by stuartbe

If you look out of your window to the right you will see a pig flying past !

On a serious note, they will refund some money back, you just need to make sure tech services leave a note on your account then goto customer services on 150/0800 etc and they can sort it.

Bham area has always been bad , they know it...

Neil · 22-03-2004, 18:44

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Originally Posted by td444

On a serious note, they will refund some money back, you just need to make sure tech services leave a note on your account then goto customer services on 150/0800 etc and they can sort it.

Bham area has always been bad , they know it...

Knowing it, & acknowledging it are 2 very different things.

banjo · 22-03-2004, 18:50

Why can't they fix this problem, it is an ongoing thing with poor service and a damn nuisance, it has been at least 4 days now.

NTL get your finger out.

Les

td444 · 22-03-2004, 23:24

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Originally Posted by Neil

Knowing it, & acknowledging it are 2 very different things.

Maybe so, Coventry did it for me ok.

SB3100 · 23-03-2004, 11:51

TS told me that the problem with the Coventry Staff Birm War area's is that the service has been over subscribed and they are in the process of balencing the distribution, but do not think there will be much improvment untill towards the end of April, they suggested that I reduce my 1Mb service to the lowest option available, then I am not paying NTL for a service I am not getting.

As of Friday last I have cancled my service with NTL and moving onto BT (line installed 27th) Maybe ADSL a week after that, I know that BT's ADSL dont have a good rep, but as far as I am concerned now NTL can stick their service where the sun dont shine, after 5 years of at time diabolical service I have decided enough is enough, even now with arranging things with BT, their CS was unavailable to take my calls, given an option to either hold or leave a contact number for then to ring me back on, no word of a lie they have rang me back within 10 min of hanging up, what do we get with NTL a frikkin engaged tone, the amount of times I have tried to contact NTL CS and just had to give up, they say they have started to make a profit, maybe they should invest some of that profit in making it possable for their customers to make contact with them.

Crashedfiesta · 23-03-2004, 11:56

Well I'm using the Birmingham proxies (cache1 I think) which seems to be working ok for me. I'm on the 600K service.

I've (dare I say it) had virtually no problems with broadband until this problem arose. Seems that I could be one of the lucky ones.

Oh, yeah, forgot to say I'm in the Coventry area...