*ALL* ntl 10Mb Discussion (Part 3)

[Chrysalis]

speeds are way down currently but I think its due to upgrades ongoing in my area, I may be downgrading back to 2meg soon anyway.

[rydwg]

well 3mb users have been upgraded for about a month or something. about time ntl gave anyone on a lower tier than 3mb some information.

[numberseven]

I live near Nottingham, and ever since the 10mb UPGRADE I've enjoyed vintage internet speeds reminiscent of 56k! This is ridiculous.. I giving them the benefit of the doubt with the "maintenance" line, but I think I'll look at the many alternatives available at - let's face it - much lower prices! I've been here before with the free 3mb upgrade, but thought that that was just a one-off!

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by Widescreen

Ok this is getting at me now

Tried downloading from usenet - getting under 100kb/sec
Tried downloading linux distribution - getting 280kb/sec
Done ADSL guide speedtest - got 148kb/sec

Phoned NTL, told me to go to Proxy site, site gives you three options, download 1meg, 10meg, 50meg file, told me to download 50meg file, downloading it i was getting full 10mb speeds.

Then tried usenet and sites and still getting crap speeds no matter what site i go to.

feel like in a no win situation all the time

Try using Newleecher as your newsreader client as it allows you to download 1 file split into seperate parts. For example i use 15 connections(bots) with Newsleecher & Newshosting and it maxes me out.

[klaus1013]

I've pretty much decided to dump the 10Mb line and go to the 2Mb also. Atm the packet loss during peak times is making on-line gaming impossible for me...

Klaus

[tweetiepooh]

My download test is to go to http:://sunfreeware.blueyonder.co.uk then click on any version of Solaris on the right top and select gcc on right bottom,

Now select the gcc package from the main part of the screen. This is large enough to test speeds and mirrored enough so clash is not at server side.

Now I'm not suggesting everyone does this. I use Solaris and gcc so I do download it anyway. The principle is to try to grab a large file from a quiet site so the contention is not at the source.

Lastnight speedtests fluctuated from 100k to 8M. I'm on 10M with a STB and wireless though the latter should cope easily with 10M given the equipment and placement. Downloads from 200kB on symantec to 500kB+ on sunfreeware.

Not totally happy yet, want consistant 10M but not paying £50. I work for ntl.

[Rone]

I would pay £50pm for a steady uncapped 10meg connection.
Its a shame no-one can supply one.

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by Rone

I would pay £50pm for a steady uncapped 10meg connection.
Its a shame no-one can supply one.

I'll happily sell you one for £50 per day

[IanUK]

Its a shame no-one can supply one

Move to (South) Korea

Originally Posted by Rone

I would pay £50pm for a steady uncapped 10meg connection.
Its a shame no-one can supply one.

Plenty of companies will supply you one, just not for £50 per month.

[Rone]

Originally Posted by IanUK

Move to (South) Korea

You tested it first hand?

Iginition: " I'll happily sell you one for £50 per day "
You can?
Or have you emigrated to the far east? [Grinstead]

[IanUK]

You tested it first hand?

Yep, they have great bandwidth internally, but pretty poor externally, the people I saw mostly played Lineage type games and other impenetrable seeming games on Korean servers - there is an awesome P2p type community spirit though, they send each other massive video files, they don't seem to bother with silly things like bandwidth internally, but as I say their links to outside are not so good.
Its a totally different system setup seemingly to over here.

I used to work in the National Media and we went out there a year ago for something quite different, but I saw a few home connections.

To be honest I prefer our setup over here, although it would be nice to have unmetered internal bandwidth here too for things like the Newsserver.

[Rone]

Well i asked the misses if she wanted a long holiday, "but wife says no" .

[IanUK]

LOL, probably advisable

[manfredojr]

I'm on 10mb, And i play alot of online gaming but at around 4-10 I get packet loss...I was wondering if it's possible for me to ring NTL and ask them to Lock my connection so it doesn't keep doing this if not degrade my connection to 2mb..?