Poplar Proxies don't reach 3 meg speed - Page 7

Matth · 25-06-2005, 23:33

Also, there is the catalog of sites with proxy troubles, and not JUST the clowns that block the proxy instead of a troublemaker's own IP ( 100% available through the transparent proxy ).

Yep! www.betanews.com is still unusable through default proxy (poplar)
62.255.64.11 seems to be the culprit - all the others work as explicit proxy
Maybe it's a block at their end!

IanUK · 26-06-2005, 00:40

You can add Ebuyer.com on an almost daily basis through default Poplar, and another site is rapidshare.de (virtually useless to NTL customers)

Its a pain to have to keep changing proxies continually to get some sites to show up, some less technical NTL users must simply think that many sites are often down - not realising that its NTL's fault that they cannot see them

My main beef with them though is that they do NOT give the full 3 meg speed that I'm paying for (at least the default Poplar doesn't..again)
Hersham does (for now at least)

God only knows how completely useless and restricting the proxies will become once 8 or 12 meg becomes the norm...us poor proxied users at NTL will probably barely get above 200k a sec with the current setup..

Chrysalis · 26-06-2005, 15:57

Alone personally I could list over 20 sites that have had problems because of the proxies, then another load that have been posted on this site, there is probably 100s unreported.

IanUK · 26-06-2005, 16:31

groups.msn.com doesn't work properly on Poplar - when you visit a group the page is blank (http://groups.msn.com/Battlefield1942Forumn/home.htm for instance) - refreshing then brings it in..

Really getting sick of this now..

Matth · 27-06-2005, 23:10

Somehow, I doubt that "I've got to reach my quota" support would be that interested, but there has to be some way to convey the problems to NTL.

On the plus side, the Kodak page that did have a problem, now seems to be clear - though the bad proxy may have just been shuffled away from it!

Chrysalis · 28-06-2005, 11:01

I think the best way of reporting is using that feedback feature linked to from this site.

IanUK · 30-06-2005, 22:02

On a similar, but slightly different note....

I'm currently beta testing GameCenter, this is Gamespot's new application for online gaming - NTL customers have had to wait about 3 days longer than everyone else for a version that works with the Proxy servers - everyone else got in almost from day one - but the proxies caused a rewrite of the application before it would work - I participated in this by sending them logs.

Yes it is a beta, and yes, you could say that its bad programming - but once again its us, the customers, that suffer from these infernal proxies.

Not a day goes by it seems lately without the dam proxies causing problems

The pings I get are wonderful for online gaming - no complaints there - but I never imagined that the bloody proxies would start to interfere with online gaming applications !

IanUK · 10-07-2005, 15:45

Poplar Proxy now giving less than 100k (normally only about 20k) for 3dgamers.com downloads, switching to Hersham fixes this (as always)

Can someone please bring the Poplar Proxies into line with at least the Hersham ones !

I have complained to 3dgamers, they tell me that everything is ok their end and being as switching to the Hersham proxy fixes the speeds I'm inclined to agree with them.

3dgxfer2sa.3dgamers.com is one of the servers that is slow from Poplar default.

Chrysalis · 10-07-2005, 22:40

been having problems with ebuyer.com, very slow using auto set ntl proxy, and is normal speed when using my squid server. The server is just 20ms away so looks like a proxy issue again.