Extremely Slow in 'bromley' - proxy issues

chocky909 · 03-03-2006, 16:46

I'm in South London, SE15. I believe this is known as the 'bromley exchange'

Since about 4 hours ago, web browsing has gone down the toilet speed wise.

Actually downloading files isn't bad at all. It just seems that all websites are just loading amazingly slow.

BTW I'm sure it's not my PC's problem

These guys seem to be having the same problems:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=43917

sdjl · 03-03-2006, 17:31

I'm so glad it's not just me experiencing this!
I think it's only port 80 that's really slow. I can connect to web pages just fine on any other port, email works fine, as does FTP and SSH.

When i rang support they said nothing was wrong. Maybe i'll give them another ring.

David

tomw|neowin · 03-03-2006, 17:37

Yeah Bromley area is slow as hell. I'm using another proxy and seems to be fine

sdjl · 03-03-2006, 17:44

Just on the phone to NTL now and they are aware of the problem. Apparently it's being esculated to their "fast management team" (whoever they are!).

They're trying to setup a proxy on my mac, but they don't know much about the mac os x operating system so it's not getting anywhere fast

sherer · 03-03-2006, 17:47

yep getting the same thing here in Bromley

anyone know a good proxy to use ?

chocky909 · 03-03-2006, 18:16

OK good to know that 'The A Team' are on it. I'll just have to grin and bear it as I'm not techy enough to know about proxy stuff.

sdjl · 03-03-2006, 18:21

This is the one NTL told me to use:

IP: 62.252.32.11
Port: 8080

To set it up for Firefox click on tools then options, then the general tab.
Click on Connection Settings.
Choose Manual Proxy Configuration
In the HTTP Proxy box type in the above IP and in the port box, the port number above.
Done, it should work.

You can do a similar thing with IE and with different IP's.

David

chocky909 · 03-03-2006, 18:26

Fantastic - thanks sdjl.

No idea what I just did but it works. I guess I just return the settings later?

sdjl · 03-03-2006, 18:31

Yeah. I have a feeling it will be a case of disabling it and seeing if service has returned to normal and then re-enabling it if it hasn't.

Theodoric · 03-03-2006, 18:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by sdjl

This is the one NTL told me to use:

IP: 62.252.32.11
Port: 8080

To set it up for Firefox click on tools then options, then the general tab.
Click on Connection Settings.
Choose Manual Proxy Configuration
In the HTTP Proxy box type in the above IP and in the port box, the port number above.
Done, it should work.

You can do a similar thing with IE and with different IP's.

David

Amazing! Thanks! I just popped in to see if the problem was general and there is a solution sitting there waiting for me.

Chris W · 03-03-2006, 18:38

moved to proxy discussion and title edited....

03-03-2006, 18:40

If using FireFox, then the 'SwitchProxy' extension is handy to have - once set up changing proxies is a doddle

https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...firefox&id=125

**Paul** · 03-03-2006, 18:40

That ip is the Cardiff 1 proxy.

bilal · 03-03-2006, 19:35

Thanks a lot for the temporary fix

neoapple · 03-03-2006, 21:49

this is anoying, i dont want to have to keep bloody proxy jumping all the time! if ntl got their heads out their a$$ and done soemthing like BT then i would not have to keep changing proxys every so often.

This service for the past 3 days has been a joke, tech support is useless on this, they keep saying its your computer or something wrong your end, so i end up hanging up as i CBA to speak to them anymore.