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Old 13-01-2004, 11:25   #46
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I would helped via PM eng, but STB and me = ?!?!?! = Guess City.

Have you erm...tried a reboot?
Its back to normal now whoever has tweaked it thank you

Tuesday, 13 January 2004, 12:23.
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Actual Speed

True Speed (estimated)

Downstream550 Kbps (68.8 KB/sec)594 Kbps (inc. overheads)Upstream114 Kbps (14.3 KB/sec)123 Kbps (inc. overheads)

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Downstream564 Kbps (70.5 KB/sec)609 Kbps (inc. overheads)Upstream77 Kbps (9.6 KB/sec)83 Kbps (inc. overheads
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Old 13-01-2004, 13:54   #47
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Re: browsing in Manchester

Well, something is not quite up to scratch at the moment. Many sites feel particularly clunky. For example, the 'today' page at scan can download at as little as 4 kbyte/sec. It all feels very intermittent.

Here are some traceroutes that I ran straight after each other this afternoon. The ping times appear all over the shop and every now and then one is lost completely.
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Old 13-01-2004, 16:12   #48
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Re: browsing in Manchester

.... and at the risk of repeating, the response times from tele-ic-1 are again poor. Compare them to the response before and after that step. If this is not a problem with that stage then why does it happen ??
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Old 13-01-2004, 18:28   #49
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Re: browsing in Manchester

The hop straight after it is mega low, then it goes high!

8 18 ms 16 ms 18 ms lndnuk1icx1.wcg.net [195.66.224.105]
9 128 ms 128 ms 127 ms nycmny2wcx2-oc12.wcg.net [64.200.87.153]

EDIT : Sorry Pem i just completely miss-read what you wrote. Ignore that.

Afaik tel-1c or whatever is a known issue. Well JAN00b said so a few posts back anyway
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Old 14-01-2004, 11:32   #50
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yep, that hop is still bad, minly at peak times...
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Old 15-01-2004, 07:30   #51
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Re: browsing in Manchester

Yep Scan is crawling for me, yet foreign pages load much faster. Some are certainly slower than they should be.
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Old 15-01-2004, 17:27   #52
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Re: browsing in Manchester

Ugh.

It's running like a bag o' spanners.

I'm on 1meg ntl wideband and it feels like 56k.

I'm in Stockport
(cheadle heath, shhh but don't tell anyone)

I've tried a tip from one of the stickied threads in this forum, using the IP for Imperial College 155.198.20.20 for the DNS info.

At first, it seemed to be rocket fast, and I sat here all excited like, but after 5 or 6 page refreshes of another forum, it began to crawl again, often not displaying all the images (red cross hell)

So, what to do? I've tried lots of proxies in the past, but like the Imperial one, they seem great at first, but soon die a death.

Also, remember the Internet Explorer issue of it slowly displaying images, or not at all, is this still an issue, did they ever resolve that?

Anyone know?
Anyone care?!

I use Avant Browser, which is a plug-in/front end for IE, and don't fancy changing it, bah.
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Old 15-01-2004, 17:32   #53
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Re: browsing in Manchester

I am using Zen's DNS at the moment
212.23.8.1
212.23.8.6 and browsing is flying along. Using IE 6
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Re: browsing in Manchester

Poxy proxies a back in Manchester, this has just happened today. I've been happy with my service from NTL for the best part of 2 and a half years, is this the beginning of the end or the start of even faster browsing?
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Re: browsing in Manchester

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Poxy proxies a back in Manchester, this has just happened today. I've been happy with my service from NTL for the best part of 2 and a half years, is this the beginning of the end or the start of even faster browsing?
Just tried the proxy test at All Nettools, still reports "no proxy detected"
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Old 15-01-2004, 18:55   #56
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Re: browsing in Manchester

maybe its just the baguley headend for now? (cache2-bagu.server.ntli.net)
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Re: browsing in Manchester

Curiously, neither of these two work for me:
http://www.all-nettools.com/pr.htm (just hangs)
http://www.broadband-help.com/cm_diagnose.asp?init=1 (reports cache IP as mine!)

but this one does:
http://www.nthellworld.co.uk/?page=proxy (but reports a different cache!)
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Re: browsing in Manchester

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but this one does:
http://www.nthellworld.co.uk/?page=proxy (but reports a different cache!)
That one also reports that I am not using a proxy. And a trace reports Baguley POP 80.5.164.9 as my second hop.
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Fine for me and no proxy detected
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Re: browsing in Manchester

That Imperial DNS I was using for the last hour or so was useless, it wouldn't even let me access this forum!

I've just switched back to "connect directly" and *touches wood* seems ok now.
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