Manchester - the honeymoon period is over then - Page 14

Retrovertigo · 25-02-2010, 01:04

Anyone Manchester folk having poor browsing speeds today?

Download speeds seem to be fine, but browsing is painful. As an example, this page took maybe 10 seconds to load. Cheers

RyuKokoro · 25-02-2010, 01:13

Yeah, at the moment, I'm struggling to get 1mbps. That's in M14 which is on Rusholme exchange so as soon as BT roll out FTTC for Residential customers, I'm leaving VM behind.

eth01 · 26-02-2010, 12:39

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Originally Posted by Retrovertigo

What should the downstream power level be these days? Initially before summer, my level was over 10 so they added an attenuator. Then when an engineer called he added a second one, so I have this ridiculous chain sticking off the back of my modem. That took my power level to around 3, but checking tonight and despite the daisy chain of attenuators, it is up around 9+ again. Without the attenuators, that means it would be around the 15 dBmv mark, which is surely way too high?

but thats not got nothing to do with you what they use it for and how they use it.

they pay for the service. they are not breaking any rules.

Retrovertigo · 14-03-2010, 01:27

Right, this is beyond a joke now. They seem to have stabilised the connection when surfing the net. But as soon as I put any load on my connection and try downloaing something, I inevitably get disconnected altogether. I then have to reboot my modem to get my connection up and running again.

I can surf all day now with no problems. But there is little point having a 50meg line when as soon as I try to grab anything off the net, I lose my connection.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that they are cutting off people downloading in the manchester area in order to give the illusion that speeds are ok for everyone :P

I am downloading a video off gamespot that is just over a gig. It has taken me over 30 minutes so far because I keep losing my connection and have to restart everything.

I posted on the newsgroups about it and "the problem has been passed on to the network team" - the network team who haven't given this area a decent working stable connection since last November. Bravo boys - great job you are doing whoever you are.

What shred of patience I had, is pretty much gone now. I'd say what I really thought of them, but I know this forums policy on bad language. And I'd use enough to get me banned for ten lifetimes.

Re: eth01, no idea what you are getting at I'm afraid?