new samsung boxes more trouble then they worth?

[winterbrew]

My Samsung seems happy negotiating a 10Mbps half duplex on a Kingston KNE111TX nic ;

eth1: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0
basic mode: 10 Mbit, half duplex
basic status: link ok
capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
advertising: 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
I have tried to force 100/fd using mii-tool with no luck. It also seems to take ages to negotiate, so much so that my Smoothwall gives up, and I have to wait until the nic lights come on and then refresh my red nic interface to get an IP.

Same card used to negotiate 10/hd immediately with the Pace DiTV 1000.

Any ideas ?

Jon

I've just started with NTL and the STB they gave me was a PACE model. I find the thing hellishly slow and unresponsive when changing channels, using interactive etc. By the sounds of what ive been reading on the forum it the Samsung box seems to be an improvement in terms of speed. Can I demand a Samsung box from NTL? or do I just have to stick with what they give me.

[winterbrew]

Originally Posted by dgr1577

I've just started with NTL and the STB they gave me was a PACE model. I find the thing hellishly slow and unresponsive when changing channels, using interactive etc. By the sounds of what ive been reading on the forum it the Samsung box seems to be an improvement in terms of speed. Can I demand a Samsung box from NTL? or do I just have to stick with what they give me.

My Pace suffered from bad slow down to the point of lock up, buttons not responding if I was doing alot of P2P on the 1Mb connection.

I'm guessing that 1Mb on a DiTV 1000 was pushing its capabilities. If you ask for another, I'm not sure if you can specifically ask for a Samsung ?

The Samsung has no problems now when I'm downloading on P2P

Jon

My BB is connected via a cable modem so doesnt affect the box at all. Its just the responsiveness of the box that im frustrated with. It takes an age to change channels, bring up menus and my interactive services are a joke(5 mins to bring up the menus at times - then when I select something the screen goes white and doesnt recover). I always thought my Sky system was slow but compared to this its lightning quick. Could there be something else causing this other than the box?

[MatTman]

so if i switch down to "Autonegociate 10Full duplex" instead of 100FD will that help??

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by MatTman

so if i switch down to "Autonegociate 10Full duplex" instead of 100FD will that help??

Maybe, but 10 half duplex is reported to be better.

Just had my PACE STB changed to a Samsung one. Why does the Tech insist in changing the TV from RGB to Composite? RGB is a better picture

[BigChin]

Originally Posted by Kneebs

Uploading to ntlwebspace and downloading from dowload.com together....this is where it gets bad !! downloading drops to 25-30Kb/s, uploading drops to about 16Kb/s, pings average about 150ms, webpages take about 20-40 seconds to load fully.

I've been experiencing all the same problems as Kneebs has described. I thought the Samsung replacement (which arrived last week) would be the end of my problems (namely the frequent crashing of the Pace 4000).

Alas, whilst the Samsung hasn't crashed (yet) it performs worse than the Pace did. So i have now done what I should have done a long time ago when I cancelled the digital TV - get the STB swapped for a SACM, which is hopefully coming on Friday.

[simpsonsFAN]

Originally Posted by dgr1577

I've just started with NTL and the STB they gave me was a PACE model. I find the thing hellishly slow and unresponsive when changing channels, using interactive etc. By the sounds of what ive been reading on the forum it the Samsung box seems to be an improvement in terms of speed. Can I demand a Samsung box from NTL? or do I just have to stick with what they give me.

Are you langley or ex-cwc?, only ex-cwc areas can get samsung box's.

-Chris

[philquinney]

Has anyone noticed a volume reduction on the samsung boxes too? Our Pace 2000 used to be very loud and clear - but the samsung seems so much quieter...

Phil.

[mikej]

Hi,

I fancy getting myself a nice shiny new samsung box.
If I was to phone ntl and upgrade my Broadband to 1.5MB for 1 month (although not telling them at the time), would they replace my current PACE2000 box?

Once I revert back to 300K BB, do I get to keep the Samsung?

(The only reason I'd like a samsung is so it matches with the rest of my decor)

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by mikej

Hi,

I fancy getting myself a nice shiny new samsung box.
If I was to phone ntl and upgrade my Broadband to 1.5MB for 1 month (although not telling them at the time), would they replace my current PACE2000 box?

Once I revert back to 300K BB, do I get to keep the Samsung?

(The only reason I'd like a samsung is so it matches with the rest of my decor)

dont see why not

Originally Posted by Kneebs

Nutty, if you're on samsung STB BB, try doing a continuous ping to www.bbc.co.uk (ping -t www.bbc.co.uk), then set a large (3-4 MB) FTP upload (for example to your webspace)away with no P2P running . Watch those packets drop

I just tried that. Had 0% packet loss, ping times went from 15ms to 450ms average

[MatTman]

Half Duplex Makes my connection struggle to a point where i get 0 upload when im downloading a file, im getting increasingly ******ed off with NTL and am about to Stop my subscription unless they sort this crap out..

funnier yet, CS are refusing to do anything abou tit.. ******s.