Really Bad Service tonight

[lucevans]

Originally Posted by AmAtoL

Why in the space of a minute would my speed fluctuate from 4 to 14 ?
I dare say if I try again I may get 19, but that isn't the point, the damn thing is so unreliable.

My connection seems to vary hour-to-hour. I ran the above test 3 times this morning with virtually identical results. The VM network seems to be highly variable across both time and geographical location; that's unreliable, as you say.

[ceedee]

Originally Posted by AmAtoL

Why in the space of a minute would my speed fluctuate from 4 to 14 ?
I dare say if I try again I may get 19, but that isn't the point, the damn thing is so unreliable.

What kind of results do you get measuring your connection speeds using an accurate method?

[m0rk]

it's like really bad GPRS for me today... it'll sit for 15 mins thinking about loading a page... then gradually open it.

I did some bandwidth tests on a few ubuntu CD's, with several mirrors & it sat doing nothing for 10 mins then gradually the speed picked up to a head 120kB/s

[Welshchris]

im getting between 100k and 220k max this morning on a 4mb connection and the pages are slow opening.

[slowcoach]

Oldham, 29k – 79k all day today so far, not bad for a VM 20Meg service.
Just checked the calendar, 2008, that can’t be right can it?
Hey but WTF, just keep signing up new customers, let’s see just how much we can screw out of the system before meltdown ...... bonus anyone?

Oldham too.

Support in the Newsgroup say:

There is currently a slow speed issue in your area, the internal ticket for
this is 668468. This is showing as open and under investigation to me....It hasn't hit the external outage page due to the number of affected
customers

[slowcoach]

Thanks for the heads up kryogenik. Probably just needs a new wick.

No worries.
You have a PM by the way.

[Swipe]

Absolutely appalling tonight. I'm even having problem streaming a 64kbps radio stream. It keeps buffering every few minutes, a real joke for an alleged 4Mbit service.

[AmAtoL]

Originally Posted by ceedee

What kind of results do you get measuring your connection speeds using an accurate method?

Well to be honest I don't rate my connection by sheer speed alone, the quality is far more important, and that is what I don't seem to be getting.
I don't need to be on 20 meg, but the missus works for VM and we get it at a cost reduction so I stick with it. I even thought it would help with having 3 PC's connected at any one time doing a spot of gaming, but it hasn't.
I've been online gaming before Nynex, C&W, NTL and now VM were even in this country, and I reckon this is the worst its been in all that time. Rarely do I get a night when I can honestly say the connection is right, let alone good.

[Pea-Pod]

Yes, really slow browsing speeds here in Oldham. A simple page of text seems to be loading line by line lol - throw any graphics in and it's back to the nightmare days of dial-up. Weekends are becoming a bit of a drag on the internet lately. I've had cable since Nynex, Cable & Wireless, NTL and now Virgin - never been tempted to sway to sky..... until now.

I'm actually back up to scratch again here. Speed tests are fine, pages loading OK.
Files at http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/ coming down at the correct speed.
That said, I have changed my IP address twice tonight and rebooted all kit about a dozen times.
Finally got everything working again.
I know I'll have spoken too soon!
Makes me wonder how the poor folk who haven't a clue how to resolve things go on.
Especially when Bombay tell you a crock of smelly stuff.

[Welshchris]

Originally Posted by kryogenik

I'm actually back up to scratch again here. Speed tests are fine, pages loading OK.
Files at http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/ coming down at the correct speed.
That said, I have changed my IP address twice tonight and rebooted all kit about a dozen times.
Finally got everything working again.
I know I'll have spoken too soon!
Makes me wonder how the poor folk who haven't a clue how to resolve things go on.
Especially when Bombay tell you a crock of smelly stuff.

ur lucky i still have probs

[boroboi]

Originally Posted by ceedee

Well there are Portsmouths in New Hampshire, Rhode Island (that's in New England, you see), Ohio and Virginia and there's even a Cardiff in Australia.
But as far as I can tell, there's only room for one Skelmersdale.
It's victims call it Skem!

Aye, ive heard of Skem! Unfortunately

Theres also a Newcastle in Australia

[m0rk]

Originally Posted by m0rk

it's like really bad GPRS for me today... it'll sit for 15 mins thinking about loading a page... then gradually open it.

I did some bandwidth tests on a few ubuntu CD's, with several mirrors & it sat doing nothing for 10 mins then gradually the speed picked up to a head 120kB/s

w00t - it's the network's fault

obviously initially they told me it was my wireless router, then my firewall, then y AV

But after they actually did some tests they decided that it's the box outside & an engineer will call.

only took 50 mins

never mind..