UPC (NTL) Very Slow this Evening (Dublin 11)

Steffano2002

Hi there,

Anybody having problems with their UPC broadband this evening? I usually get full speed (1200KB/s) but tonight it's at a pathetic 600KB/s...

Anybody else experiencing problems?

bus77

Also got slow for me earlier, now I can't connect to a lot of sites. On UPC in Dublin 24

oceanclub

Same here in Dublin 8. Also cannot access Hotmail at all.

P.

christophicus

Same deal, I am on the 20 Mb package.



I can't connect to one of my Ventrilo Servers, and I MSN and Quakenet are constantly connecting and disconnecting.

Waterford btw ....

rainbow kirby

Can't get on to Something Awful, and a few other sites. (Dublin 24)

Krieg

Same probs here, some sites I can't access at all
Galway here, so might be nationwide

tba

only able to get a few select sites, Dublin 8 here, normally 10mb which I get a full whack of from speed test

oceanclub

Anyone rang them? I once assumed that someone else had, but when I rang up with a problem that several other boardies had (that time in the same area), they said it was the first they heard of it!

landmonster

Same here in D12.

US based sites/services really slow in particular.

Donald-Duck

Same d6w, most non .IE sites aren't working

tba

Genius!

christophicus

oceanclub wrote: »

Anyone rang them? I once assumed that someone else had, but when I rang up with a problem that several other boardies had (that time in the same area), they said it was the first they heard of it!

No offence, but thats pretty much what they say all of the time, even when I had rung up a few hours previous telling them exactly the same thing.

Lenny

**** for me, when i was playing the xbox.. when i was the host of the game it would cause the xbox to lock up due to the load.. now i can't sign into live gettin some mtu error..

anonymousjunkie

Same here, in Lucan on a 20Mb but getting about 1.5Mb down and about the same up. Anyone on the phone to them? I'm on hold here.

sdanseo

Also on hold in Malahide, for 11mins now at that. I really do pity the cow who gets to answer me because im going to do my nut given the chance.

We dont deserve this utter ****e on top of €3 for not bothering to direct debit AND a €6 penalty for not having the TV.

Same here, any Microsoft sites, including Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, aren't working and CNN.com isn't either (Dublin 9).

Yggr of Asgard

And it's definetly them, I established a VPN to my office and a VPN to a US provider I have and once established everything on the interweb works fine.

Disconnect the VPN and try using UPC alone and nada, most us sites do not work (I can't even get foxnews.com or microsoft.com).

And it was working so fine in the last couple of days.

GARTECH

I checked my MTU setting by going into Command prompt. But it said my MTU setting was at 1500. I cant connect to xbox live at all. It tells me i dont have my MTU settings set high enough. Anyone got an answer?

anonymousjunkie

Got thru anyway, she tried the whole did you try shutting down your machine and modem rubbish, so i went for the jugular. Finally admitted they were getting a lot of calls "in the last few mins" about it. Someone will call you back within the next 24 hours, don't bother I said it'll be fixed at that stage.

Cow Moolester

Swords here and it's very slow. Can't get onto some sites either

I'm on 20mb.

Steffano2002

Glad it's not just me! Did anybody ring UPC yet? I have to go collect the GF right now...

Cow Moolester

GARTECH wrote: »

I checked my MTU setting by going into Command prompt. But it said my MTU setting was at 1500. I cant connect to xbox live at all. It tells me i dont have my MTU settings set high enough. Anyone got an answer?

Xbox Live won't let you connect if you have an MTU above 300

sdanseo

Just off the phone. Guy was extremely friendly but not helpful but I got the impression it wasn't his fault - told him I'd heard from a number of people accross the country on a message board (didn't mention boards.ie by name don't worry) that the speed seemed crap everywhere and he basically agreed :P

He escalated it, nothing else they could do. Anyhone thinking of phoning I'd say dont bother.

Funnily enough I used to use Teamspeak on DIALUP but its failing on me atm. Queer.

GARTECH

Thanx never had a problem before. On my network test page on xbox it reads as follows "Your network does not have asufficent MTU setting . Xbox live requires a minimum MTU setting of 1364" Its just one of those nights it will be fixed by 2mrw

John_Mc

I'm the same, can't access certain websites :mad:

It's probably DNS errors if the problem is limited to certain sites.

datk

Steffano2002 wrote: »

Glad it's not just me! Did anybody ring UPC yet? I have to go collect the GF right now...

Got automated service saying they are aware of problems with TV, Broadband and Phone in Dublin 11 area and are working to fix it . bla bla bla.

anonymousjunkie

Bleh, speed increased to 15Mb there but didn't last long, down to 5Mb now. All over the shop.

Lenny

Man I'm getting quite pissed off with them about this. its happening quite too often these days, and its always the night I go to have a few games of the xbox

Yggr of Asgard

John_Mc wrote: »

I'm the same, can't access certain websites :mad:

It's probably DNS errors if the problem is limited to certain sites.

I use opendns and have the same problems, it's the routing to the certain us sites.

The fun is that if you try to visit some us sites that for example use akamai technology for hosting/speed the route goves over to uk-xxxx-.aorta.net and hence your us site is there (foxnews.com for example). CNN.com which is hosted in the us dies after us-was-xxx.aorta.net .

So somewhere down the road in the US there is a problem, and given that aorta.net is nothing else than UPC Distribution Services I'm sure they work hard in amsterdam now on solving it.

huggs2

Bad in Galway too.Some 20 meg connection, pitiful service

rainbow kirby

Oddly enough the speed seems to be back up to something relatively normal.

anonymousjunkie

I'm seeing a speed improvement alright, still about 5Mb off what it is usually, but still some dns issues

I can get back on some more sites, all the MS lot are back now

anonymousjunkie

Download speed gone again

GARTECH

xbox live back and running dublin south side

Dr Bolouswki

Gah - all over the shop - it works for 1 minute then it goes back down to this

datk

Looks like they were telling the truth about working on it, I'm back up and full running now.

:cool:

Trotter

Really slow in Waterford tonight too. It wouldnt let me into Gmail for a good while earlier. I'm glad I saw this thread, I bought a new router today and I thought I was having problems with that.

Chris_533976

Its been brutally slow in Galway tonight too.

sdanseo

Seems normal again now for me.

anonymousjunkie

me too

tba

yeah looking good now, I spent the downtime in the pub..... totally worth it....

Cow Moolester

Going...to punch...UPC...



That's my super fast 20mb broadband. My upload is actually faster than my download

Donald-Duck

Mines fine tonight, CowMolestor

tba

this looks like it is happening to me again, is everybody else doing ok?

dunworth1

i am getting my full my 10mb and web pages are loading fast i must say switching to upc from ibb dsl was a good idea and i am very happy with it.

Lenny

tba wrote: »

this looks like it is happening to me again, is everybody else doing ok?

ep been happening to me aswell over the last hour or two.. been trying to play opn the xbox and people having probs connecting to me..

christophicus

I was getting normal speedtest results, but my pings were all over the place lastnight. I Was spiking over 30,000 to a server that I normally ping between 120 and 150 to lastnight .