Slow HTTP - Eclipse

Magma2k

Magma2k

Magma2k

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Hi all,

I'm currently using Eclipse for ADSL in my flat in London. We pay the top rate for an unlimited, 8Mbps line with their best contention ratio.

Over the last couple of months the service has become a joke. HTTP traffic is so slow that it quite often fails to load webpages at all... downloads from websites (various, including Microsoft and Easynews among them) are quite commonly stuck at around 2 or 3k/s.

The strange thing is that some other traffic seems ok. I can routinely get good speeds from torrents (had a torrent bursting up to over 200k/s last night). It's definitely not these eating my bandwidth as I get sucky HTTP performance whether I'm downloading torrents or not.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Could it be that they're (rather ruthlessly) shaping HTTP traffic all of a sudden? Are there any neat little ways round this? I'm using a Belkin wireless router (have also tried going in wired, but it makes no difference, so it's definitely the WAN connection).

Is anyone else using Eclipse in or around central London, are you having the same problems?

Any advice/thoughs appreciated!!
 
Check out the adslguide forums they are full of stories like yours. Eclipse have gone seriously down hill. I migrated back in September and have never looked back. Might be worth leaving to be honest.
 
Seriously contemplating it, to be honest. The only thing stopping me is that I only migrated to them at the end of May, so I'll have to pay to buy myself out of the contract again. Before I moved in the flat was with Plusnet who had capped bandwidth and were very blatant about shaping traffic too.

Who have you moved to? There are 5 of us in the flat and although I'm the only heavy downloader, we definitely need an unmetred service.
 
Magma2k said:
Seriously contemplating it, to be honest. The only thing stopping me is that I only migrated to them at the end of May, so I'll have to pay to buy myself out of the contract again. Before I moved in the flat was with Plusnet who had capped bandwidth and were very blatant about shaping traffic too.

Who have you moved to? There are 5 of us in the flat and although I'm the only heavy downloader, we definitely need an unmetred service.
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They messed up my get out fee, infact they were so useless in the end they even gave me a refund. Only thing was it took about 15 phone calls and 9 emails for them to accept I had migrated and they were no longer my provider.
 
Yup I get the OP's problems too. Half complete web pages etc.

Also get disconnected from BF2142 a lot.. but I think that's the DICE/EA masterserver/server disconnect issue.
 
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