XL BB 20 meg has dropped to 4 meg HP1 area

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Isn't 194.117.133.226 Telewest Reading?

No - are you using some kind of geolocation to guess that? It's wrong, it was registered via Telewest Woking, long since closed I believe, and is hosted at Knowsley data centre.

7 17 ms 14 ms 16 ms know-dcore-1b-tenge100.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.162.54]
8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 194.117.133.226

It's the first hop of tools.virginmedia.com when tracing to the beeb. know = Knowsley, dcore = data centre core.

Regardless of this hops don't indicate a bottleneck, I can get >45Mbps to Canada which goes via a somewhat longer route than a couple of hops in the UK.

EDIT: Telewest don't have network in Reading on the public network, this would be ex-ntl who both had the cable franchise and headend there and have core routers and various other kit in addition to the CMTSes hosted at the Reading headend running out of an IBM owned data centre near Reading, Winnersh Triangle to be exact.

[Ignitionnet]

Does our resident Medion Tech Support expert webcrawler2050 have nothing to add to this thread? Given how certain he was of network routing issues previously I'm sure he has some viable further network information to assist customers and especially the orignal poster.

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

Does our resident Medion Tech Support expert webcrawler2050 have nothing to add to this thread? Given how certain he was of network routing issues previously I'm sure he has some viable further network information to assist customers and especially the orignal poster.

Why pick on someone who hasn't even said anything to warrant it. That's just plain bullying

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Ben B

Why pick on someone who hasn't even said anything to warrant it. That's just plain bullying

You'll forgive me if I don't hold too closely to a several months old most helpful post avatar.

Said poster has made several posts with absolute assurance that he knows what he's talking about and is correct in his advice, emphasised with how he's part of Medion Tech Support on the avatar. I don't quite get it given that said poster gives a strong impresssion of having no idea what they're talking about without a misunderstood google search but welcome correction. I do note that said poster was previously looking at this thread but is now not looking at this thread and has no comeback pretty much confirming they've no idea what they are talking about but are quite happy to quote their poorly informed opinions as being fact on people who post on these forums looking for answers to issues.

I would far rather posters on here get some limited but valuable advice rather than a load of total nonsense which is of no value to them beyond wasting their time from people with overinflated egos with no idea what they are talking about, I do apologise if this is so wrong but your prerogative.

I do note that none of the most helpful posts from this month are from the cable section which says volumes for the quality of the posts here recently.

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

You'll forgive me if I don't hold too closely to a several months old most helpful post avatar.

Said poster has made several posts with absolute assurance that he knows what he's talking about and is correct in his advice, emphasised with how he's part of Medion Tech Support on the avatar. I don't quite get it given that said poster gives a strong impresssion of having no idea what they're talking about without a misunderstood google search but welcome correction.

Excuse me but you clearly think very highly of yourself if you think you can belittle and undermine other peoples opinions and help and you make yourself look like a complete know-it-all when that simply isn't the case. webcrawler was offering assistance and if it was incorrect so be it but at least he was giving help rather than just targeting people to put down. As for the avatar, well you can get your facts right on that one because the october vote hasn't finished yet and it was for 'september and october'.

[Ignitionnet]

Webcrawler was offering total crap based on copy/pasting other people's posts but if that's what turns you on that's your prerogative. He's no idea what he's talking about in this thread, if he did he'd realise that Sephiroth who meant well was mistaken as to the locations of the various servers on the traceroute and that it was sourced from tools.virginmedia.com but hey I do apologise for interjecting facts into the the copy/paste love in from people who've no clue what they're talking about.

Assistance is worth nothing if it's very simply wrong, based on wrong opinions based on incorrect facts. By your logic I could say the earth is flat and it's useful.

Yes the October vote isn't over, the October nominations are and the vote is presently underway based on no posts in the cable section, your point is what?

Quality of posts in the cable section has dropped hugely, support posts from people who haven't got a clue you just make people like myself who might actually have a clue and have worked with cable less inclined to offer opinions.

Still if it's what you want based in people whose entire knowledge of cable is a sticky based on a couple of year old post of mine on cable signal levels that's your prerogative and knock yourself out. I've considered not posting further and if you'd rather read 'helpful' but nonsense posts than posts that are actually worth a crap that's your choice. Clearly people who can't tell the difference between a traceroute from a cable modem and one from the website tools.virginmedia.com are bound to know their stuff.

I really can't be bothered. Drink in the guessing and clueless speculation from a guy who blagged a job in tech support for a PC vendor with his BS CV full of fake certifications over someone who has worked in this industry most of his working life and spent over 5 years working in cable and DSL, means little to me.

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

Yes the October vote isn't over, the October nominations are and the vote is presently underway based on no posts in the cable section, your point is what?

Well if you read the previous drool that you have written already, you were the one that brought up the avatar, not me.

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

You'll forgive me if I don't hold too closely to a several months old most helpful post avatar.

Whether or not help provided is correct it still does not deserve to be be-littled, if it is incorrect it is incorrect there is no need to pick on people or undermine them. There is absolutely no need for it, but oh no you just can't resist can you.

[webcrawler2050]

Well, in all fairness I didn't notice the error until you pointed out. So congratulations on that!

I don't pretend to know "everything" but what you fail to realise is, I've been out of Tech for 12 months. Possibly more. Having lost ALOT of money, £250k + I hit depression and took me 6 months + to get out of it, so keeping my tech up to scratch was the last thing on my mind. What you also, fail to realise is, I've never "worked" with cable, on a profesional level until I came here last year. I had cable, wanted a place to talk about cable etc and came here.

It would be very much appreciated, if you would just back off alot. I do what I do, I help just like anyone else but clearly you have a need to "jump" on me, everytime I say something. Anything. No matter what. To be honest, I don't really care about what you think, it's just when it seems your bullying. You are from as your self proclaimed tittle states, a profesional in this industry but yet, you can't keep the verbal drool in your head can you?

Ill ask, politely, once and once only. I would very much appreciate, if you would back off.

As for the Medion thing, I thought putting it there, might help people with Medion Kit and having issues. You never know.

Well, I'm happy to let bygons be bygons etc.

I really can't be bothered. Drink in the guessing and clueless speculation from a guy who blagged a job in tech support for a PC vendor with his BS CV full of fake certifications over someone who has worked in this industry most of his working life and spent over 5 years working in cable and DSL, means little to me.

You know this for a fact, do you? Forget what you see here, you are absolutle 100% positive. Are you? The answer to your persistant verbal dhoria, is no. You don't know this at all for facts. You simply just guessing and thus jumping to conclusions, which your arrogant attitude presumes.

As for blagging. I actually, had several technical tests and "paper" exams to take before I got the role at Medion. Once they where happy with these findings, they offered me the role. What you also fail to realise is, they "head hunted" me. I did nothing to "find" this job, it came to me.

[Ignitionnet]

It's a fairly major error, you had no idea what you were posting on.

I understood depression was the realm of those too weak to keep it under control?

Basic routing and switching is hardly past 6 months. Your CCNA you claim to have is obviously nonsense along with your MCSE that evidently didn't include such minor things as MAPI, if you had a clue you'd simply have noted that the customer's subnet was nowhere near what was mentioned, a simple reverse traceroute showed it and that the ping times mentioned were impossible for cable.

You were running your web hosting business earlier this year so the 12 months out of tech stuff is nonsense, you were posting to customers that your web hosting company was perfectly intact even while the company was going through the bankruptcy courts less than 12 months ago so let's not go down that route?

I do appreciate your posts here especially given that you're banned from various other forums of this nature, hopefully you'll be far more helpful than I am, here's hoping.

Medion is irrelevant, they use generic PC components configured in a generic way, you think you're the shizzle because you've lied your way into a job with your fiction CV with your fiction certifications you made up. If you had any of them you'd most certainly have been able to resolve basic routing issues on this forum alongside basic issues like problems with Microsoft protocols such as MAPI, and no claiming you 'don't like exchange' isn't adequate to plug holes in knowledge when you are claiming to be a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

In short you back off from me and try apologising for telling lies both in your thread on here regarding your CV and any other threads where you've referred to your alleged expertise. You've run your own hosting company, any skills you have come from there, you obviously don't have the skills in Cisco and Microsoft you claim to else you'd be able to demonstrate more of them on your posts here.

[Ben B]

No matter how major the error was there is no need to basically point and say "haha you got it wrong" and there is also no need to pick at him for no apparent reason like in the 'happy thought thread' http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34...-post1750.html

[Ignitionnet]

Bite me to be honest, you know where the mod report button is if you think my comments about his arrogant fiction masquerading as technical assistance along with the sanctimonious crap about tax payer money being misspent given he's been sucking up benefits for several months is unreasonable.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

.....and is hosted at Knowsley data centre.

7 17 ms 14 ms 16 ms know-dcore-1b-tenge100.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.162.54]
8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 194.117.133.226

It's the first hop of tools.virginmedia.com when tracing to the beeb. know = Knowsley, dcore = data centre core.

You're usually right on this stuff - but I'll be damned if I understand from your post how you translate the OP's

traceroute to www.bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 194.117.133.226 (194.117.133.226) 108.123 ms
2 lee-bb-a-xe-600-0.network.virginmedia.net (212.43.162.49) 5.461 ms
3 nth-bb-b-as2-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.185.101) 5.975 ms
4 tele-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.184.2) 8.197 ms
5 pos6-1.rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.239.237) 8.321 ms
6 212.58.238.129 (212.58.238.129) 8.217 ms
7 te12-1.hsw0.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.239.222) 22.489 ms

into what you've shown as Knowsley?

The reverse DNS on 194.117.133.226 came up nix - so how can we tell it's at Knowsley? Is it an egress port? What

[webcrawler2050]

Originally Posted by Broadbandings

It's a fairly major error, you had no idea what you were posting on.

I understood depression was the realm of those too weak to keep it under control?

Basic routing and switching is hardly past 6 months. Your CCNA you claim to have is obviously nonsense along with your MCSE that evidently didn't include such minor things as MAPI, if you had a clue you'd simply have noted that the customer's subnet was nowhere near what was mentioned, a simple reverse traceroute showed it and that the ping times mentioned were impossible for cable.

You were running your web hosting business earlier this year so the 12 months out of tech stuff is nonsense, you were posting to customers that your web hosting company was perfectly intact even while the company was going through the bankruptcy courts less than 12 months ago so let's not go down that route?

Medion is irrelevant, they use generic PC components configured in a generic way, you think you're the shizzle because you've lied your way into a job with your fiction CV with your fiction certifications you made up. If you had any of them you'd most certainly have been able to resolve basic routing issues on this forum alongside basic issues like problems with Microsoft protocols such as MAPI, and no claiming you 'don't like exchange' isn't adequate to plug holes in knowledge when you are claiming to be a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

In short you back off from me and try apologising for telling lies both in your thread on here regarding your CV and any other threads where you've referred to your alleged expertise. You've run your own hosting company, any skills you have come from there, you obviously don't have the skills in Cisco and Microsoft you claim to else you'd be able to demonstrate more of them on your posts here.

Actually you are wrong again. I started, in "IT" when I was 17 - worked for a local PC shop. Then I moved to a local firm, who needed a "all rounder" then I went to Fasthosts, then I went to Serco, then I went started my own firm.

Again, your wrong. Tech support stopped on the 1 January 2009, prior to that I wasn't dealing with tech support on a day to day basis. Infact, tried to concentrate on other aspects. Bankrupcy, again, your wrong there. It was through the high court and as I chose the "easy" option. Walking away, that is. So far you've been wrong 3 times. Wow!


Actually, my Cisco, was done summer last year. I was trained by a very well known tech in the web hosting industry. I won't name names. On a fantastic London MultiHomed AS network. Again, no names.

As for the routing, I didn't even look "properly" just saw he was being bounced around and "assumed"

My comment, is right about depression, if you let it take control it can lead to silly thing sbeing done because of it. You've no idea about me, as a person your arrogance, just assumes. You think, you have the right to look into my personal life, because I made a mistake with a business. A business, might I add, that took off with 400 clients, in less than 72 hours. You see, you making assumptions. Again. Yes, I will happy admit, Bionic Hosting grew so fast, I couldn't control it on my own. However, in a bid to keep the cash flow running and invest in kit etc, I took that chance. It wasn't until Octover of last year, when somebody else came in to "help"

So now, you have what feels like a life story and generally alot of verbal abuse and typing for no aparant reason.

Benefits? You must be kidding right? I'll again, freely say, I was on JSA - However, do you realise, what thats like to be on JSA? Considering, I've worked since the age of 14? Have you any clue, as a parent how that makes you feel? My guess is no. It's like begging, it makes you feel that your not doing you best for your child, its made me sick to the stomach, living on £47.50 a week, to start with is ruddy hard, along with a £250 rent short fall aswell. So excuse me, if I get thrown a bone I snatch it out of there hands. Do you actually know what it feels like to battle your way through life, doing everything on your own. No help from parents, family. etc as they wern't around to put me through uni etc. I have always had to do everything on my own. I worked hard to get that business started, put in savings of my own, quit my "real" job etc and then to loose it and have it pulled out from under your feet and then to top it off to have some arrogant moron, judge me form what he has read on a few forums? Well no, I think not. I've have battled and pulled myself through this year, not for my sake but for the sake of my little one. So I will say, unless you know the solid cold hard facts, then your welcome to talk to me but until then shut up

Now as i've said, I've not lied. Nor do I have nothing to apologise for. It seems your the one who should be apologising.

Your petty attitude to "bite me" is the proof in the pudding

[Gary L]

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by Gary L