[Merged] Birmingham Area.

[Stuartbe]

Hi Jizz and to the site

There are no reported problems in your area on the NTL service page. It sounds like a signal loss problem.... Check all the cables to the modem. Try powering off the modem and then powering it back up.

If this does not resolve the problem then you need to call NTL to have this investigated.

[jizz]

tried numerous times powering it on/off to no avail, and all the other lights are solidly lit (pc & power) Guess im gonna have to give the ntl guys a ring in my lunch at work

anyone know which number is the best number to ring? and what would be the likely solution to fix my problem that the engineer will have to do?

p.s thanks for the hi!!

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by jizz

tried numerous times powering it on/off to no avail. Guess im gonna have to give the ntl guys a ring in my lunch at work

anyone know which number is the best number to ring? and what would be the likely solution to fix my problem that the engineer will have to do?

p.s thanks for the hi!!

I would call 151 from the NTL phone and follow the boring old scripts..

[jizz]

i dont have an ntl phone, just the BB service

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by jizz

i dont have an ntl phone, just the BB service

O.K. - Call 0845 650 0121

HTH

[Nikko]

I would suggest you called when you are next to the affected connection rather than from work...

[jizz]

will they be open from 5:30 onwards tho on a weekday?

[Nikko]

Yeah they are there til late

[Flip]

Just got off the phone...Coventry and Birmingham and surrounding areas are currently having difficulty connecting to certain pages....engineers working on it...literally just put down the phone.

[banjo]

I live in Coventry and my 600k is running, sorry, walking, like a 14400 with two broken legs, and has been like this on and off for a fortnight if something is not done soon I shall be off to BT and ADSL

Les

[Flip]

Just got off phone engineers aware of the problem and are working on it.

Funny my game pings are fantastic at the moment, just the majority of web pages wont/don't load and I cannot d/load anything.

Weird.


Anyone know how long it will be before the Birmingham cache is brought up to date?

Am I right in thinking they are still inkomi or summat?

[poolking]

Originally Posted by Flip

Just got off phone engineers aware of the problem and are working on it.

Funny my game pings are fantastic at the moment, just the majority of web pages wont/don't load and I cannot d/load anything.

Weird.


Anyone know how long it will be before the Birmingham cache is brought up to date?

Am I right in thinking they are still inkomi or summat?

Check Robin Walker's site with a list of proxies, I don't think they're inkitomis.

[Jamman960]

I'm currently having problems aswell, it seems to be the transparent proxies again! web pages/downloads via http often freeze half way through or load very slowly but everything else seems fine (newsgroups, ftp etc)

After changing my proxy to 62.255.32.5 (from 62.255.32.6) everything seems fine. I wish they'd just get rid of those f**kin transparent proxies!

[Church Mouse]

Hello,

Today, I am having terrible problems accessing sites. So slow. I live in Coventry, CV7 postcode, but come under Warwick.

I rang TS and they say that the Coventry problems should not be affecting me. I reduced items in my startups and entered a proxy setting as advised by TS. Accessing is a little better but still slow.

I have Broadband 150kb.

Can anyone in the Warwick area please inform me if they are having problems as well.

Also can someone tell me what is a 'ping' is it worth doing and if so how do I do one.

Thank you

Church Mouse

[doolie]

i live in Rugby and yesterday and today it's been dire (well, Rugby is always dire, but am currently referring to the CM service ). Am going to change my proxy and see if that helps