Internet Keeps going offline for a few mins - NB, Problem has returned

[firestorm4th]

lol, nah we aint on the same road, im on buckingham avenue, just off ferry road. the problem has gotten really worse now

[nopcode]

yeah its getting to the point, im hoping i will lose service all together. Then maybe NTL techs can do somthing about it.

Btw u wouldnt be the rooster would u :P

[Carth]

Hi guys, I'm down the Berkley area, it's been crap for a while now. MSN don't stay connected for more than 2 - 3 minutes, online gaming is a joke ( spawn, run for cover, ping out, die) I got so wound up with not being able to contact NTL that I sent a complaint in ( *cough* rather hastily written .... ooops ) No reply yet, mebbe they're still trying to decipher some of the words lol. I ended up ringing the support number (0845 whatever) and a guy named Andrew told me there was an issue with oversubscribing, which they are trying to resolve
Sure hope its sorted soon cos the wife keeps hinting at decorating

[firestorm4th]

oversubscribing lol! wots their next excuse?

nope i aint no rooster

[Carth]

next excuse ?? hmmmm Global Warming

..... the way things are going, oversubscribing is something that NTL may not have to worry about

[Steve H]

From what the guys said, it does look like your local UBR's are oversubscribed. I'd keep ringing them up reminding them that this issue needs solving asap.. I think JANoob may be able to help if he drops in, but hopefully CS will see that some engineers get it sorted asap.

[jarrvo]

i dont think its an over subscribed ubr.
there's not that many people in scunthorfpe that use nTL.

if it was oversubscribed why was it fine up until thursday?
surely it would have been a gradual thing?

what ever it is its only been since thursday, as up until then ive had no problems.

[Steve H]

Not sure, maybe they were rebalanced on wednesday night or something and you ended up with more users on your channel? I believe they rebalance the UBR's every so often so as to even the load, so to speak. Maybe beforehand you didn't have many people on your channel, and with the rebalance you now have a few more, some of whom may be heavy downloaders thus robbing all your bandwidth. But, I could be wrong

[jarrvo]

its weird because some sites just timeout completely, like dns problem.
others sites (like this) are fine.

ive tried cs a few times today but cant get through at all.

[Carth]

Cheers STEVE H, any help is appreciated 'cos it's getting real bad over here. I've got withdrawl symptoms ..... and she's talking about buying WALLPAPER tomorrow fer crying out loud !! You gotta help me out of this one

edit: I get pages not loading on this site Jarvvo, I need to keep hitting refresh until it loads properly

[Hick]

I'm experiencing similar symptoms up here in Ellesmere Port and have been for a day or two. I doubt its oversubscribed UBR's round here because I'm not sure any one else knows what the internet is and we have a very nice ex nynex network

[jarrvo]

this site works.

so does google and ebay.

but thats about it for me.

hotmail,msn, microsoft.com,ntlworld are dead and so is ntl email.

[Carth]

really strange jarvvo, I've got no ntl mail working, but hotmail is ( aint it strange how all that useless junk stuff manages to get through lmao) and msn is almost instant disconnect

[Goo]

guess wot live in Scunthorpe aswell, and my internet has been on and off since Friday night. Its driving me crazy. I get about 1-2 mins of gameplay on CoD and its "Connection Interrupted" MSN signing out Blah Blah, all the rest of it.

I'm just off Westcommon Lane, So is it a Green Box issue?

[Carth]

Hi Goo, welcome to the Scunny gamers problem page lol
Its bigger than a green box problem m8, seems to be in patches nationwide.
Mebbe someone shoud ring Bill Gates and ask what the h*ll was in the last critical update hehe