Anyone else's internet connection borked?

DeeJay-Mo · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:06

I'm getting a really slow connection to most sites right now, with quite a lot of sites totally uncontactable! OCUK works good as does google.co.uk but practically all .com sites are unreachable. Anyone else experiencing problems?

sarutobi · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:06

nope, maybe your isp?

ElRazur · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:07

Switch off the torrent you are using for the porn download and you will see a better improvement.

Angus-Higgins · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:09

Try "Repair" on the connection?

It could be the ISP; it has happened to me before.

Angus Higgins

DeeJay-Mo · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:12

LOL. I'm not actually downloading porn right now. But incidently the Slackware DVD iso IS downloading fine. I'd be surprised if that was the cause of the problem tho, cos certain sites. Like this one are loading up really fast, so it can't be simply hogging all the bandwidth.

DeeJay-Mo · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:15

Angus-Higgins said:
Try "Repair" on the connection?

It could be the ISP; it has happened to me before.

Angus Higgins

I'm connecting through a router, so there's no "repair" function. I could just try switching eberything off and back on again which would have the same effect. I'll try that and see if it helps.

starscream · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:16

I heard the internet server had to be rebooted earlier today.

Dwbreeze1982 · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:16

bit torrent websites hogg bandwith like no tommorrow . i have to stop all downloads and hey presto my internet is fast again. if not try rebooting your modem, maybe you are getting DOS attacks or being hijacked. Good luck

by the way what ISP you with :confused:

ElRazur · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:17

Dwbreeze1982 said:
by the way what ISP you with

A guess....Tiscali or NTL

Jay · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:19

starscream said:
I heard the internet server had to be rebooted earlier today.

lol

DeeJay-Mo · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:23

ElRazur said:
A guess....Tiscali or NTL

Correct.

Zip · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:25

I did earlyer tonight and last night but its all good now.

Considering where i am it probably doesnt effect you though

Angus-Higgins · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:25

DeeJay-Mo said:
I'm connecting through a router, so there's no "repair" function. I could just try switching eberything off and back on again which would have the same effect. I'll try that and see if it helps.

If you are in Windows XP is it not on the context menu for the connection to the router in the Network Connections window?

Angus Higgins

alexakasloth · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:27

I'm with NTL and it was going quite slow a moment ago, I exited out of azureus and it still did it.

Killa_ken · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:27

blogger was very slow just now but doubt its got anything to do with your connection

Jotun · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:38

I'm finding a lot sites hosted in America quite slow tonight, possibly related, possibly not (not downloading anything here)

HamZilla · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:40

i'm on NTL and haven't been able to get to Hotmail all day.

DeeJay-Mo · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:54

Angus-Higgins said:
If you are in Windows XP is it not on the context menu for the connection to the router in the Network Connections window?

Yeah I could repair the LAN connection to the router if I wanted, but I don't think that's the problem. I'm getting good pings to the router.

$loth said:
I'm with NTL and it was going quite slow a moment ago, I exited out of azureus and it still did it.

Guess it's not just me then.

alexakasloth · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:54

DeeJay-Mo said:
Guess it's not just me then.

Seems fine now though.

Garp · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:58

Not seeing any issues on our infrastruture here at this ISP, nor can I see any issues with the main peers (internet backbone) Telia, Abovenet or the UK's Lynx exchange.