Slow Downloads Using Firefox or IE - Page 3

DJ_Price · 13-06-2006, 15:57

I tried it & guess what...... still nothing

I guess im going to have to just stick with having slow downloads for anything that downloads via IE or Firefox & use the download manager for the rest.

pedantic · 14-06-2006, 17:00

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Originally Posted by DJ_Price

I tried it & guess what...... still nothing

I guess im going to have to just stick with having slow downloads for anything that downloads via IE or Firefox & use the download manager for the rest.

Have you tried a traceroute, as advised to lemarsh ? It could show any potential bottlenecks.

DJ_Price · 15-06-2006, 04:26

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Originally Posted by pedantic

Have you tried a traceroute, as advised to lemarsh ? It could show any potential bottlenecks.

Here's the results:

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.87]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.130.228.1

2 7 ms 5 ms 5 ms cdif-t2cam1-b-v118.inet.ntl.com [62.254.254.157]

3 106 ms 227 ms 7 ms cdif-t2core-b-ge-wan83.inet.ntl.com [195.182.175.213]

4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms bre-bb-b-so-030-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.49]

5 12 ms 13 ms 11 ms bre-bb-a-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.225]

6 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms gfd-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.150]

7 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.138]

8 48 ms 130 ms 13 ms 212.58.238.189

9 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms 212.58.238.149

10 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms www50.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.87]

Trace complete.

pedantic · 15-06-2006, 14:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ_Price

Here's the results:

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.87]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.130.228.1

2 7 ms 5 ms 5 ms cdif-t2cam1-b-v118.inet.ntl.com [62.254.254.157]

3 106 ms 227 ms 7 ms cdif-t2core-b-ge-wan83.inet.ntl.com [195.182.175.213]

4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms bre-bb-b-so-030-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.49]

5 12 ms 13 ms 11 ms bre-bb-a-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.225]

6 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms gfd-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.150]

7 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.138]

8 48 ms 130 ms 13 ms 212.58.238.189

9 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms 212.58.238.149

10 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms www50.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.87]

Trace complete.

There are a few spikes in that traceroute, but nothing as serious as I thought there might be. I would just power everything off first. Then power on the modem, leave until everything settles (about a minute) then power on the pc. Pretty much the same thing lemarsh did.

Failing that, call customer services, there may well be a fault somewhere that NTL are not aware of.

DJ_Price · 22-06-2006, 00:32

Sorry for the late response, not been around

Anyway, I tried what you said & I didn't see any difference really. I uninstalled my antivirus program (AVG) & have chosen another one (NOD32). It seems a bit better now, but as NOD32 scans files before they download it seems slow downloading, but I think it may have improved slighty. Im just sticking to using FDM mentioned in a earlier post, theres just the odd file that wants to download in Firefox & IE, so I just copy the link & paste it in FDM. Thanks for everyones help in this topic, I'm very thankful