anyone have a 360 on an ntl conection ?

Clover

if so what is the quality of service like and play over xbox live , lag etc...

i have eircom broadband home starter plus 2 meg / 128 k ( yes 128k not 256 k as they made a balls of my upgrade ) and got a call last night from ntl to say my area is now able to get the broadband so i was looking at trying out the 6 meg package for the first 3 months for free.

any feedback welcome .

Clank

Yep not a bother, the connections faultless.
Ive the 3Mb down, 300kb up line an i can host most games adequately aswell.

Clover

thanks for that Clank thats great , i'll get it so and if it holds up i'll get rid of the other broadband .

Tank Top Fever!

I've the same as Clank, previously had the eircom 2mb package

For me NTL is better, noticeably zippier

00sully

meh, i would say 2 months ago all was fine with NTL. then they were taken over by UPC/Chorus with a noticeable degradation in their broadband service particularly with ping times since they route most of their traffic through Amsterdam now (UPC are a Dutch co me thinks!) - be wary

Kenny_D

I've the 6mb package and its plenty fast for live. Get really low latency of about 50ms when playing world of warcraft. Well worth it for €40 a month. Contention ratio is 17:1 as well which is lower than eircom

Clover

thanks for the feedback lads , i'm going to give it a try and have an install date of the 23/10/2006.

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

On the 6meg+ myself and while there has been a drop in the stability of the pings it is still pretty good.

Clover

just got this installed today and so far so good apart from one problem ; no matter what i do i always have a strict nat

i was supplied with a motorola SB5101E modem and a netgear WGR614 V6 wireless router , now it was no trouble setting everything up and getting the pc , laptop and xbox 360 all set up but i'v tried all i can think of to solve the strict nat on the 360.

i have opened the ports for live , put the 360's ip# in the dmz on the netgear router and even upgraded it's firmware but no joy.

i then turned my eyes to the motorola modem but when i look at it's settings and through the pdf , there is no mention of a firewall at all in the modem .

any ideas on what it could be ?

thanks in advance.

Clover

at last i got it

in the end the 360 had to be set to automatically get it's ip and dns from the router even though the settings on manual where the same .

mcgovern

Sorry for raising this thread from the dead, but I'm moving into my new house in the new week or so, and considering getting one of the new UPC packages.
I've heard they route everything through Amsterdam and then New York, even to just get to the UK, so I'd be wary what their pings would be like for gaming?
Anyone using either the new 10mb or 20mb connections on Live?

Korvanica

yea ive the ntl 6mb line, its grand, no lag at all, even when downloading with utorrent... its vomit inducingly good
weve got the tv and broadband deal, 55€ a month, but its cheaper for a while for new customers!

m8

Hi
Seems they do route through Amsterdam then France line 5&6 in the trace but pings seem ok.

Ping and trace to google below.


Pinging www.l.google.com [74.125.39.103] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.39.103: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=244
Reply from 74.125.39.103: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=244
Reply from 74.125.39.103: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=244
Reply from 74.125.39.103: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=244
Ping statistics for 74.125.39.103:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 38ms, Maximum = 46ms, Average = 41ms



Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.39.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 4 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 12 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.53.174.1
3 16 ms 14 ms 15 ms 089-101-162033.ntlworld.ie [89.101.162.33]
4 26 ms 12 ms 13 ms 213.46.165.81
5 34 ms 33 ms 31 ms nl-ams05a-rd1-gige-3-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.97]
6 40 ms 51 ms 43 ms de-fra01a-rd2-pos-12-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.217
]
7 42 ms 42 ms 38 ms 213.46.179.110.aorta.net [213.46.179.110]
8 40 ms 38 ms 41 ms 72.14.198.165
9 37 ms 40 ms 40 ms 209.85.249.180
10 42 ms 43 ms 43 ms 209.85.254.112
11 46 ms 42 ms 49 ms 209.85.254.126
12 42 ms 41 ms 39 ms fx-in-f103.google.com [74.125.39.103]
Trace complete.


This is a 6mb connection.

mcgovern

Thanks for the info guys, by the way, you know you two on the 6mb connection can upgrade to 10mb for free if you contact them?

Korvanica

no, i was on a 3mb connection and moved upto a 6mb connecton, for people on the 6 mmb connection before upgrade its now 12.

m8

yep just phoned them and I was also on the 3mb and upgraded to the 6mb about 1 month ago but now I can upgrade to 10 by filling in the form on the site.

http://www.upc.ie/internet/

Cheers I was not aware of this new offer.

m8

Just got email to say my speed was upgraded.

Checked and now have almost 10mb download and 1mb upload.

Sweet

dazftw

yea mine was upgraded aswell.. 6mb to 20mb download too human demo in about 10 - 15 mins its just over a gig