Any one else having problems with NTL Today?

Moojuice

Hi,

NTL went doen on me last night. My girlfriend accidently unplugged the cable modem. When I plug into it now I get an IP address from the modem for a minute or two before a self assigned Ip address is assigned. Needless to say, I have no internet access at all. Any one else having this problem? I am hoping it is a problem with their network and not my specific router.

christophicus

NTl seems to be slow today but its still working for me.

Moojuice

Yeah it came back this afternoon. Stoopid NTL. But I do not usually hsve much trouble with them. Thanks for replying. Your sig is pretty cool btw

christophicus

Yeah sure , no problem. My sig is cool??? Thanks are you sure you dont mean my avatar?? That is a standard boards avatar. but thanks anyway:).

OfflerCrocGod

christophicus wrote:

Yeah sure , no problem. My sig is cool??? Thanks are you sure you dont mean my avatar?? That is a standard boards avatar. but thanks anyway:).

Well it is a real monster of a machine

christophicus

(duffmans voice) OOOooooo yeah. No one beats christophicus's rig when it comes to out and out performance.

Dariukas

i had few problems this afternoon.. lost connection for ~20 minutes.. and once it came back my internet speed went really bad.. and for some reasons none of torrents would work :eek:

once i posted this.. all the torrents start working hm..



this question not related at all.. but do the boards work really slowly or just me

DemonOfTheFall

My ntl has been ****e this evening, had cutouts of a few seconds a good few times, just enough to punt me off Xfire, MSN, hamachi and ventrilo. Now I can't connect to my newsgroup server (easynews). I havent tried using a non-standard port cos its late and i couldnt be arsed. feck em anyway.

electro.ie

Slow as hell this afternoon and all over the weekend, better now tho

Moojuice

Yep the sig is cool. I find it funny when people have the specs of their beast machines in their sig, yours is refreshing. My NTL went AGAIN last night and was still gone until 11 this morning. Could it be that NTL are doing something to stop torrents? Any time I use bit commet the connection seems to go.........

Dariukas

I really doubed they trying to stop it... and if they really wanted i thinks it's really easy to stop it... my torrents back to normal agains.. downloading full speed

dathiultaigh

Was really slow for me late last night. Have not used it yet today though

Moojuice

When it came back this morning it seemed fine. Anytime it goes it messes up my wireless router too. I have to restart it to get back on. Damn Netgear. All the problems that I used to think were the fault of the router now to seem to be NTL's fault.

Terry

My friends has been gone for 3 days. I told him I would have a look around here to see if anyone else was having the same problem.
His sister lives just down the road from him and her's is working fine.
I rang customer care and after speaking to three different people, they said there was work being done on the line. I didn't believe that for one second.
I checked 192.168.100.1 for the modem info and it said the modem not connected.
I informed customer care of this and they hadn't got a clue what I was talking about. Now, I'm no expert, but I really don't think the folks on the other end of the line had a clue what they were doing.

Anyway, I'm in the Leixlip area. Anyone else around these parts having problems over the past few days?
Of course, if you're having problems now, you won't be able to read this.

baz909

NTL is possibly the worst internet service provider in ireland!....
my internet connection has been crap since October .... eventually an
Engineer was to call out to the house in Tallaght. I waited in all morning as they said the engineer would call out between 9am and 1pm... at 13:20 I rang NTL and they said an engineer called out and checked the Junction Box in the area and everything was working... I turned on my pc and I had access for 10 minutes then it automatically dropped the connection (again) so I rang them up and cursed them for 10 minutes... then the Rep said she would send another Engineer out the following friday. I said I dont want another engineer I want one sent out today.

They have continued to provide the worst service ever and I had to ring a phone number in Limerick to cancel the Broadband....

My advice is to look around for a better Internet service... NTL must stand for No Technical Lemmings!!!!

Moojuice

damn thats harsh....I hope that my problems are not the start of something like your ordeal.

christophicus

Moojuice wrote:

Yep the sig is cool. I find it funny when people have the specs of their beast machines in their sig, yours is refreshing.

Lol cheers man .

mang87

Good god, my NTL connection has been absolutely crawling since yesterday, my torrents don't seem to be connecting either. I thought maybe NTL are punishing me by blocking all my ports and throttling the bejaysus out of my connection, for being such a bad boy and downloading 130GBs last month...

christophicus

**** yeah, my connection is really slow, only getting 100 KB down!!!

and to the person asking about boards taking ages to load. ITs been like that for me for a month or two now.

mang87

Boards ia always slow loading

christophicus

eyah which is REALLY annoying. Switch to a new server people!!!

DubDani

NTL has become completely unreliable lately.

My NTL went down on me the last three nights, each time around 9 pm.
If it goes down tonite again I will get rid of NTL.

Moojuice

I rang cust support last night, went through the motions said some one from the broadband support group would ring me......and they did this morning. Told him the problem (It actually came back this morning and was really fast). He went off to check if there was work being done in my area, came back and said that everything should be back to normal by 6 tonight. So here is hoping. I do not think that I have gone over my cap but I am wondering if they can detect torrents being downloaded and so kill someones connection as punishment?

Is this possible?

Oh well hopefully all will be well when I get home.
Ps I live around the IFSC area.

Dariukas

I'm not sure can they c what u downloading... but i'm sure they can c what you at.. are u uploading or downloading and what sort of speed... i would say they even know what ports u use...

christophicus

It is so rediculousely slow at the moment!!!! Im not even getting 50KB down!!

Dariukas

i was downloading torrent at 350kb/s just 5min ago...

christophicus

Really , it must be waterford then. I was downloading a file and I was only getting 20 KB/s, at one stage it was so bad it was taking ages for web pages to load.

Dariukas

Well browsing net for me is really slow especially boards .. i did speed test earlier on.. my download was in same level as ISDN... :rolleyes: and upload was 330kbps...

christophicus

YEah My upload is normally very good aswell. Boards is always really slow for some reason, i think either bad server, to many poeple for the server to handle or too many poeple for the connection, because boards speeds up later on in the night.

skycaptainemily

what the hell is wrong with you people!? your such complainers!
i get on average 6kb/s and you dont see me posting a board complaining my ass off!
just deal with it!

Dariukas

skycaptainemily wrote:

what the hell is wrong with you people!? your such complainers!
i get on average 6kb/s and you dont see me posting a board complaining my ass off!
just deal with it!

well then you pay money for 6mb/s line and u only get 128kbps :eek: on speed test there is nothing else left.... just to complain.

christophicus

Yeah Exactly when you are paying for a 6 Mb line , the least you expect is to get 6 Mb!!!

Futureman

Slow in Baldoyle too.

christophicus

This is really rediculous, it better be because they are changeing onto inex or something that will give us a better service at the other end of this turbulant period!!!

Dariukas

Upload is good enough... download half the speed i'm paying for...

RintPete

christophicus wrote:

Really , it must be waterford then. I was downloading a file and I was only getting 20 KB/s, at one stage it was so bad it was taking ages for web pages to load.

Its a dog in Galwy too...

-=- RintPete

christophicus

yeah your upload is very good. My sown speed is so bad that it took five minutes for the test to start, and heres the result!!!




As you can see my connection is absolutley zipping along. NOT!!!

Fenster

Galway is horrible right now

Dariukas

that's really bad tbh... 100ms... and 50kbps... it makes me laugh.... u should really ring them and ask what's the story... did u try to download anything from heatnet ftp? if you did what sort of speed do u get ?

Fenster

christophicus

No I havent tried heanet, thats been really slow for me for the last 3 or 4o months. I use this site to test speed , i fint it really good.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/downloadsetup.zip

I was gettin 6 KB/s earlier on. Im getting 1KB/s now!!!!

Dariukas

any time i do speed test i get ~3.5mb/s down and 500kbps up.... Seem for me in galway it's ok.. Just pages are loading really slowly...

btw from your link i was only getting 14.5 kb/s ...

christophicus

Boards is acyually loading quickly for me now, but i still havethat crappy download speed. Which tests are you using? did you try the file I suggested?

Dariukas

i use www.speedtest.net

christophicus

Yeah that is not accurate, try the link I gave you.Tell me what you get.

Dariukas

the link you gave me does't load up now :rolleyes: but before that i was getting 14kb/s :eek:

PixelTrawler

christophicus wrote:

No I havent tried heanet, thats been really slow for me for the last 3 or 4o months. I use this site to test speed , i fint it really good.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/downloadsetup.zip

I was gettin 6 KB/s earlier on. Im getting 1KB/s now!!!!

Despite the speed test recording 3.5Meg that link is currently showing 10-11kB/s. Last week it was over 600 its been patchy this week and tonight its dire - pages load okish but downloading anything is impossible

christophicus

Hmm thats odd. NTL must really be ****ing around with the way they are routing things.

OfflerCrocGod

Dariukas wrote:

Well browsing net for me is really slow especially boards ..

Boards is often slow because the site can't handle it's traffic too well don't use boards as a benchmark I suggest news.bbc.co.uk as your benchmark.

BostonB

My NTL has been down and very slow a lot of the past few days. I'm in Dublin. Seems ok, but slower than normal at the moment.

Freddie59

Dariukas wrote:

i use www.speedtest.net

Try this one: http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/