ALL IN LINCOLN AREA

[Ben Taylor]

According to the intarweb:

Short for unspecified bit rate, or Class D quality of service, an ATM bandwidth-allocation service that does not guarantee any throughput levels and uses only available bandwidth. UBR is often used when transmitting data that can tolerate delays.

I think the network is saturated?

[Nedkelly]

You both seem to be on the same ubr but you will be on different cards i will have a look in the morning

[york]

Thanks Guys very greatful for your help

[Ben Taylor]

Thanks Ned, nice to see someone is actually listening, all i got was a default response from NTL india

[york]

You should try the broadband medic chat help, its alot better and alot quicker and alot more understandable. Really cant fault it tbh i talked with a guy at about 8:30pm and got answered within 5 mins (oh and its completly free )

[Ben Taylor]

Here is my friend, living in Cherry Willingham on NTL 10mb

http://www.imagetrash.net/image_71932.jpg

Apparently his is slow, but his ping is ok it seems

[TheCrow]

Im in lincoln to on 10mb and its been awful tonight, so bad in fact that i gave up and watched telly instead!

Ive noticed it like this for a good few weeks now.

[Sneck]

My speeds have been ok all night, about 3.5-3.8 so we'll see how it goes today. I tried to do a traceroute to the BBC but I get this...


C:\>tracert bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.228.155]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 Destination host unreachable.

Trace complete.


Which is a bit odd, I have tried it on other sites and it does start doing it but ends up timing out. Not sure why.

My browser and everything seems to be working ok though, must be a problem with my set up maybe.

[york]

I thought that too but last nights trace route basically blew my 'only happens during peak hours' claim out the water, it does get worse and significantly noticable during peak hour but the problem exists even now, when using ping plotter my first hop is ranging from 5-50ms which is just not normal, a range of 5-10ms would be alot more normal.

Target Name: www.bbc.co.uk
IP: 212.58.227.79
Date/Time: 24/11/2006 10:12:12

1 10 ms 9 ms 47 ms 14 ms 9 ms 32 ms 40 ms 18 ms 7 ms 13 ms [10.234.92.1]
2 47 ms 47 ms 26 ms 23 ms 13 ms 13 ms 16 ms 11 ms 23 ms 14 ms nott-t2cam2-a-v635.inet.ntl.com [82.13.49.77]
3 20 ms 23 ms 55 ms 12 ms 30 ms 21 ms 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms 14 ms nott-t3core-1a-ge-110-0.inet.ntl.com [195.182.175.129]
4 33 ms 47 ms 32 ms 31 ms * 51 ms 12 ms 23 ms 17 ms 36 ms lee-bb-a-so-020-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.169]
5 19 ms 20 ms 49 ms 49 ms 43 ms 28 ms 51 ms 18 ms 22 ms 44 ms pop-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.238]
6 30 ms 20 ms 19 ms 20 ms 44 ms 42 ms 22 ms 15 ms 53 ms 16 ms gfd-bb-a-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.137]
7 18 ms 21 ms 39 ms 17 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 26 ms 54 ms gfd-bb-b-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.6]
8 19 ms 20 ms 18 ms 48 ms 33 ms 26 ms 32 ms 39 ms 20 ms 35 ms tele-ic-1-so-110-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.78]
9 43 ms 52 ms 20 ms 19 ms 28 ms 19 ms 18 ms 60 ms 29 ms 20 ms [212.58.238.189]
10 20 ms 26 ms 20 ms 24 ms 29 ms 23 ms 23 ms 37 ms 23 ms 23 ms [212.58.238.133]
11 22 ms 46 ms 34 ms 24 ms 49 ms 23 ms 20 ms 23 ms 42 ms 21 ms [212.58.238.145]
12 27 ms 22 ms 26 ms 58 ms 20 ms 39 ms 64 ms 54 ms 26 ms 21 ms www9.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [212.58.227.79]

---------- Post added at 10:32 ---------- Previous post was at 10:17 ----------

Hate to sound like NTL india but have you got any firewalls/spyware/anti virus running? that maybe could be causing the trace route probs?

[Sneck]

Nope all turned off but maybe could have something to do with my router? maybe? I'm not sure.

It seems to time out on every site except the beeb where it just won't even start. Tried Ping Plotter and on the beeb it just says destination address unreachable. Strange as I have no problem going to the website.

I'm going to keep on the speedtests today and see if goes wobbly.

[york]

im not sure buddy as i dont have a router, my only other thought would be if your using a proxy, you will know because you have manually enter the IP for the proxy in internet settings.

---------- Post added at 11:30 ---------- Previous post was at 11:25 ----------

Just had a PM from Ned, Sneck. He was right the UBRs are full and he said he has notified the right guys, he will let us know when they are going to fix it.

PS Cheers Ned

[Sneck]

Nice one and thanks Ned.

[Sneck]

Well I've been doing a few speedtests today and at the minute I'm getting between 2.5 and 3mb which is a lot better than this time yesterday but still lower than I was getting this morning.

At least I can browse properly now though.

[york]

Must admit my connection seems alot better than yesterday too, i can even play BF2142 but ping plotter still reports the same issue with my first hop, makes me wonder how long this problem has been going on tbh.

I did notice this on the NTL status:

On the morning of Tuesday the 28th November between midnight and 6 AM,

Network optimisation will result in a loss of service in the Acton, Poplar, Northampton, Coventry, Luton, Nottingham, Reading, CArdiff and the surrounding areas.

Maybe they will sort out the UBRs then

[Sneck]

If so we can look forward to a slow weekend.