Hertfordshire Area.....problem?

G.B.H. · 23-03-2004, 14:24

Hiya all,
I was just wondering if anyone else in the Hertfordshire area are having problems with slow browsing?.It's been terrible now for about 3 weeks (had this similar problem last sept-oct).I tried phoning customer support,but it seems they are all out partying due to their rise in the minimum wage!!

Web pages shouldn't take 4 minutes 33 seconds to load (most web pages do this).I just can't find any info from anywhere regarding maintenance around the Herts area.

Any links to info would be a godsend,

Thanks in advance

Neil · 23-03-2004, 14:34

Can you give us a clue as to where you might be?

eoin.miskell · 23-03-2004, 15:07

I live in St. Albans, Hertfordshire and i have been having the same problems for the past few weeks on my 1MB connection.

G.B.H. · 23-03-2004, 15:09

Oops my bad manners...

Hi Neil.....i'm in Stevenage mate.....cheers

Chris W · 23-03-2004, 15:16

Hi GBH and

have you tried specifying a proxy server? try a couple in your area and a couple that aren't and see if this improves things.

gohadz · 23-03-2004, 16:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by G.B.H.

Oops my bad manners...

Hi Neil.....i'm in Stevenage mate.....cheers

I'm also in stevenage (near the sainsbury's, but not the corey's mill 1) and i've had my internet slower aswell, its just bareable, but when i play counter-strike it lags a fair bit.

IanCooper · 23-03-2004, 19:10

Like treacle in Welwyn Garden City also. I've been told that there is oversubscription in postcode areas AL8/9/10 - has been since December and is a known fault.
Taking for ever to fix - or am I just being 'fobbed off' by cs!!??

rick · 23-03-2004, 19:38

Colchester here and some sites are loading fast and others

alex_walke · 23-03-2004, 19:44

im in Hemel Hempstead, experiencing the same problem, and when switching to different proxy servers nothing happens. In fact some sites dont even work properly if i use a different proxy server.

G.B.H. · 23-03-2004, 23:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex_walke

when switching to different proxy servers nothing happens. In fact some sites dont even work properly if i use a different proxy server.

Sounds familiar

steveahall · 24-03-2004, 01:11

I'm in Stevenage and have given up with the "local" luton proxy servers. After a week of switching between them trying to get a decent speed, I'm now using cache3-wtfd.server.ntli.net and haven't had a problem for days....

SMHarman · 24-03-2004, 08:53

Browsing was slow for me in Hertford last night, but I was being slow and reading newsgroups also, so I could not be bothered to fix it.

It's a load thing as the problem does not exist during the day.

G.B.H. · 24-03-2004, 13:18

Yes,they do like over subscribing don't they.....even though my service isn't half as good as it was 4 years ago..they still charge me the same price

Greed is a word that comes to mind.

David25 · 24-03-2004, 14:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by IanCooper

Like treacle in Welwyn Garden City also. I've been told that there is oversubscription in postcode areas AL8/9/10 - has been since December and is a known fault.
Taking for ever to fix - or am I just being 'fobbed off' by cs!!??

This is correct.

There are issues on 5 cables on 2 uBRs in the area. A good way to test if you are on one of the problem cables is to see if there is a difference at peak times. If it is worse at evenings/weekends you are likely to be in an oversubscribed area.

Neil · 24-03-2004, 15:01

The really frustrating thing here, is that last summer I went through all of these Luton/Herts/Beds issue with David Thatcher (then MD for that region)

I supplied him details of all the users that had issues that I collated on .com, & copies of threads we had running here.

And look what happened....