*ALL* ntl 10Mb Discussion (Part 3) - Page 89

Doofy · 09-12-2005, 17:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by dunkyb

Talking about peering, this just worries me

Tracing route to www.presidium.org [66.188.71.74]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 71 ms 9 ms 9 ms 10.69.16.1
3 9 ms 7 ms 6 ms cosh-t2cam1-a-v116.inet.ntl.com [80.3.162.25]
4 6 ms 6 ms 7 ms cosh-t2core-a-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [80.3.161.5]
5 9 ms 12 ms 8 ms win-bb-a-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.249]
6 11 ms 11 ms 9 ms win-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.162]
7 1758 ms 1751 ms 1752 ms po4-0.brsbb1.bristol.opentransit.net [193.251.25
4.145]
8 1754 ms * 1749 ms po8-0.loncr3.london.opentransit.net [193.251.243
.37]
9 1819 ms 1826 ms 1901 ms po10-0.ashcr1.ashburn.opentransit.net [193.251.2
40.182]

Not to mention my immensely ****e fluctuant pings to my gateway ... so much for 10mbit :/

Well tonight is the absolute worse it has ever been here speed tests indicate
that i am on 300k, pings are timing out and packet loss all over the place. just rung tech support and to be honest it was a waste of time and was politely told that it is going to be like this a lot more due to the 10mb upgrades.

Nullman · 09-12-2005, 18:46

Well, i'm in Darlington, County Durham, and i am getting 10mb through my NTL:Home 100 no problem, except between the ours of 19:00 and 22:00, where it drops of to around 6mb

I contacted CS, and they said that their engineers are carrying out tests etc and everything should be sorted by the end of the year.
Lets hope so

Ignition · 09-12-2005, 18:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nullman

Well, i'm in Darlington, County Durham, and i am getting 10mb through my NTL:Home 100 no problem, except between the ours of 19:00 and 22:00, where it drops of to around 6mb

I contacted CS, and they said that their engineers are carrying out tests etc and everything should be sorted by the end of the year.
Lets hope so

It's called contention I'm afraid, as the max speeds go higher the difference between them and the minimum speeds get bigger and bigger.

Unless you are paying for 10Mbit 100% of the time you can't really complain too much.

Doofy · 09-12-2005, 18:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ignition

It's called contention I'm afraid, as the max speeds go higher the difference between them and the minimum speeds get bigger and bigger.

Unless you are paying for 10Mbit 100% of the time you can't really complain too much.

Well i hope its sorted out in the end i'm not usually one to complain about NTL in all the time i have been with them all my probs have been sorted quick and efficently. I more or less expected this to happen as soon as the upgrades kicked in, this was the part i was not looking forward to

KathG · 09-12-2005, 19:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nullman

Well, i'm in Darlington, County Durham, and i am getting 10mb through my NTL:Home 100 no problem, except between the ours of 19:00 and 22:00, where it drops of to around 6mb

I contacted CS, and they said that their engineers are carrying out tests etc and everything should be sorted by the end of the year.
Lets hope so

Hi I am in Darlington, but on my Terrayon TJ210 im maxing out on the speed tests around 6.5mb, and downloads have maxed out at around 750KB/s
Lets hope things improve soon. Not sure if they will replace the Terrayon modem, though i might try them and see what happens

Mauldor · 09-12-2005, 19:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ignition

It's called contention I'm afraid, as the max speeds go higher the difference between them and the minimum speeds get bigger and bigger.

Unless you are paying for 10Mbit 100% of the time you can't really complain too much.

Why is Tech Support Quoting then the LOWEST you should go is 2mbit speed, I am guessing that the max number per UBR divided into number of users =2mbit if everybody is using there connection. What is the point of paying for 10mbit if most of the time it comes in at 1mbit or slows (like mine used to be) - like I said earlier - still waiting for somebody from Inisde NTL to quote me some figures

slowcoach · 09-12-2005, 19:35

9.5mb here this evening, speeds appear to be much more constant during the past week or so.

adamplatt · 09-12-2005, 20:00

Well engineer fitted me a cable modem. Took as while as he went to the box at the endof the road as the signal level was too high or something. Neway i now get a great speed of 7-800k and upload of 90k.

So need to get on the phone again

Edit: Seems they registered me for the 1mb account when switching accoount. Upgraded online and now getting about 7.7mb atm

vichack · 09-12-2005, 20:20

Today I recieved my NTL "Xmas" card, for being a long standing premium member. The letter is really too much to write here . But contrary to some remarks on this forum, I would point you to the registration link to make an appointment to upgrade your STB/Modem where you can arrange the change over. I have 3M/bits STB, and they say the later Samsung box which was changed from Pace quite some time ago only supports up to 5M/bits.
http://www.ntlworld.com/toolsservices/forms/stb/..
Regards to all
Vichack Ps Some reports by members are not very accurate.

eZ` · 09-12-2005, 20:23

Speeds seem to definitly be varying around the country. However, i have only got my max speed so far on usenet, with about 4 threads at once, then i can get 1250kb/s, most other places aren't dishing stuff out to me that fast, so you should post where you're trying to download from so others can compare.

If you know how, try to start a few downloads on a newsgroup, then you know for sure what the max your connection can go.

Other FTP, Speed Tests, etc can be unaccurate, it's known for sure that newsgroups go your Max Conn speed so try that out.

tonybmw92 · 09-12-2005, 20:56

Im in bromley and have just had cable modem installed by an engineer as my set top box didnt support it . I have the 250 modem . I started to get 10mb for about 30 mins but now it has dropped to slower than when i had my 3mb connection is there anything i can be doing do get my connection speeds back up or is this due to the problems with upgrades in bromley area in general. im using the follwing router Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router.

Dogster · 09-12-2005, 22:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by eZ`

it's known for sure that newsgroups go your Max Conn speed so try that out.

Too true

After initial problems with my Ambit 120 rebooting I got a Ambit 250.
Like everyone else my speeds have been fluctuating since the 10Mb upgrade.
That is, until this morning when things improved remarkably.
Got up at 5.30am to find my net was down,checked again before 6am and it
was back up and performing better than ever.I checked and there was
planned maintenance in my area so hopefully

whatever they did they
can maintain it.PLEASE

I've been testing my connection on Usenet today using a few large experimental

ISOs and it's holding up well.

pazor · 09-12-2005, 23:59

Is there anyone else with a samsung stb who aint getting higher than 3mb ?
if so what have you done about it and what are the results pls.
I want some info before i ring the evil CS back again.

smallsoldier · 10-12-2005, 00:49

Okies, first post on here lol but some info for ya, second engineer out this week for ambit 120 CM rebooting on heavy uploads - NTL know it cant handle 10MB properly - well the engineers do, had mine replaced finally today with a 250 - uploads are kewl - gameserver nolonger disconnects lol, engineer said 8/10 ppl wont notice the fault until heavy uploading, we had a good chat as both ex RAF lol !!!!!! So yeah AMBIT 120's cant handle 10 MB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OFFICIAL LOL

10-12-2005, 07:36

I know this is the 10MB thread, but, in fact, there are now 4 tiers - up to 1MB, up to 2MB, up to 5MB (stb customers only) and up to 10MB. Two things which are strange about this:-

1) The cost of the 5MB tier is the same as that of the 10MB tier.
2) All upgrades from one tier to another are free of charge EXCEPT 5MB to 10MB, which is subject to a £50 upgrade fee.

Anyone else think this is strange?