NTL connection slow?

tb2000 · 7 Feb 2007 at 20:50

Hi,

Has anyone's NTL broadband connection gone a bit slow over the past few days? Mine seems to have, although I didn't really notice it till today. I have the 4mb connection and at the minute it only seems to be managing under 1mb connection speed. Average download speed is down to about 60-65kb/s, which is very slow considering I should be getting at least a 400kb/s download speed! I asked my mate who lives on the other side of town and he reckons he's getting about 200kb/s download speed which is still half what it should be. I've tried a few broadband speed tests which confirm it.
I've looked on NTL's service status page which mentions a possible loss of service in Oxford this morning which is about 30 miles away but nothing around here. I know NTL is getting a new webpage and all that but it couldn't slow down service as well could it? :confused:

Cheers, Tony

Camalot · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:03

Ive just had 4mb ntl installed today give me a download link that you get slow speeds with, which normally give u 500 ish and ill test what i get

tb2000 · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:31

Hi,

The first one was here and another one I tried is here .
Cheers

Camalot · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:34

First gave me 2.1 megabits per second.

Second 3437kbps

First site has always been dodgey for me tho mate even on last isp

Barrington · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:38

To test your download speed, try Here

Just pick a biggish file (e.g BF1942 demo) and see what your download speed is. I find it a good way to see if my connection is slow - i'm with blueyonder.

Camalot · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:41

Barrington said:
To test your download speed, try Here

Just pick a biggish file (e.g BF1942 demo) and see what your download speed is. I find it a good way to see if my connection is slow - i'm with blueyonder.

I just did that demo and my speed is going between 475.2kb/s and 490kb/s

how about the thread maker?

tb2000 · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:43

Camalot said:
First gave me 2.1 megabits per second.

Second 3437kbps

First site has always been dodgey for me tho mate even on last isp

Thanks. I can't do the first one again as it says I can only try three test a month on this ip number. The second one gave me 3474 which sounds like it's getting close.

Barrington said:
To test your download speed, try Here

Just pick a biggish file (e.g BF1942 demo) and see what your download speed is. I find it a good way to see if my connection is slow - i'm with blueyonder.

I just had a go and it averaged between 395-410 kb/s. Getting better! Cheers.

ademcg · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:14

Maybe this would explain my recent thoughts on NTL 4 MB performance ?
See here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8713345&postcount=1
Although my Netgear router seems to be playing funny buggers too :confused:

Camalot · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:21

Oh dear, ive just been recomended a netgear as well. I guess now i should avoid them on my ntl 4mb?

Still stuck as to which router to choose

Barrington · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:23

I've used a Belkin 4-port router with a wireless access point for a while on my blueyonder 4mb connection. No problems as far as wireless goes with Belkin for me.

Even their Wireless router is pretty good (in my experience).

Camalot · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:24

Barrington said:
I've used a Belkin 4-port router with a wireless access point for a while on my blueyonder 4mb connection. No problems as far as wireless goes with Belkin for me.

Even their Wireless router is pretty good (in my experience).

Do ocuk sell it? if so could you post a link please?

Cheers

Barrington · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:29

Camalot said:
Do ocuk sell it? if so could you post a link please?

Cheers

Try Here . The first 2

Camalot · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:31

Barrington said:
Try Here . The first 2 - i use the 2nd on that page with a wired Belkin 4-port router.

I was looking at this one. Nearly every other site had reviews saying avoid this router as it overheats and crashes all the time after about 3 months

<Dubz> · 7 Feb 2007 at 22:32

I've deffinately noticed a drop in browsing speed, i'm tested my 10mb download and all seems to be well but general surfing is painfully slow. Problem with dns?

Camalot · 26 Feb 2007 at 13:37

When i posted here i was new to NTL. Since then my 4mb servies has been lagging me out of wow a lot. High pings.

And now when i try that bf demo download ive only been getting 200/230 all week, i used to get 400/500.

Anyone else having problems recently?

Peg · 26 Feb 2007 at 15:00

Camalot said:
Oh dear, ive just been recomended a netgear as well. I guess now i should avoid them on my ntl 4mb?

Still stuck as to which router to choose

I have a netgear router and NTL 10meg. I have just downloaded the BF1942 demo in about 2 mins. There is nothing wrong with Netgear.

tb2000 · 26 Feb 2007 at 15:53

Camalot said:
When i posted here i was new to NTL. Since then my 4mb servies has been lagging me out of wow a lot. High pings.

And now when i try that bf demo download ive only been getting 200/230 all week, i used to get 400/500.

Anyone else having problems recently?

I've got NTL 4mb also, I just tried downloading the BF1942 demo again and was getting around 400kb/s on average. That's pretty good, but I'm sure it should still be a bit higher - I seem to remember getting around 460kb/s up until a while ago. If it keeps up at this 400kb/s speed then I think I might get onto NTL (or is it VirginMedia now?) and try and find out what's going on.

voodooGT · 26 Feb 2007 at 16:42

I think i'm on the 2mb base package. I definately noticed a slow down over the last couple of days, web browsing has become painful, and my connection is lost occasionally. I wonder if these problems are caused by Richard Branson??

Camalot · 26 Feb 2007 at 23:37

The following work will take place between 12am Thursday 22nd February and 12am Thursday 29th February

On the morning of Thursday the 22nd February between midnight and 6 AM,

Network improvements will result in a loss of service in the Oxford and surrounding areas.

Network updates will result in a loss of service in Portsmouth, Poplar, Lichfield and surrounding areas.

Virgin Media customer may also experience degraded performance when trying to register for the service

On the morning of Sunday the 25th February between midnight and 6 AM,

Virgin Media customer may also experience degraded performance when trying to register for the service

On the morning of Monday the 26th February between midnight and 6 AM,

Network improvements will result in a loss of service in Bolton, Wirral, Addlestone, Belfast and surrounding areas.

On the morning of Tuesday the 27th February between midnight and 6 AM,

Network improvements will result in a loss of service in the Fareham, Belfast, Hartlepool, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Derby and surrounding areas.

Network updates will result in a loss of service in Cambridge and surrounding areas.

Updates to the Virgin Media homepage may cause slow performance when browsing the Website

On the morning of Wednesday the 28th February between midnight and 6 AM,

Network improvements will result in a loss of service in the Hemel Hempstead, Hartlepool, Papworth, Luton and surrounding areas.

Im about 20-30mins from lichfield if that counts