Internet problems

ash_scotland88 · 25 Jul 2009 at 20:44

Anybody know if anything is up in the edinburgh area?
I can only seem to connect to a very small amount of websites, and even then they dont load fully and its like being on dial-up.
I get the standard "internet explorer cant display webpage" notice. FF is the same, strangely earlier nothing worked but msn was fine.

Azagoth · 25 Jul 2009 at 20:45

DNS problems?

ash_scotland88 · 25 Jul 2009 at 20:47

whats that?

ash_scotland88 · 25 Jul 2009 at 20:56

i think it was my bro downloading stuff. He's stopped it now.

Rroff · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:06

Was he using STEAM?

BT's traffic management system - as used by many ISPs - has a major flaw that they refuse to acknowledge or address whereby certain applications - the most prominent being steam - stall or severely slowdown any other traffic while they are downloading...

Or its possible he was just torrenting with too many connections or too fast/uncapped upload speed.

ash_scotland88 · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:09

It would be the 2nd suggestions, we're on virgin media anyway.