Just had an NTL engineer round to check on the problem I have been having.
Basically sometimes the cable modem can take hours or days to connect. This is usually worse in the evenings or weekends. He checked the signal levels and confirmed that these were all ok.
He mentioned that there are problems on the segment of the network I am connected to (and around 2000 other people) in that the DHCP is having problems dishing out IP addresses or something. He also mentioned that another part of the problem is that they need to lay new fibre, had no idea about timescales etc.
He said this is all based around the Leicester - Oswin Road Head End. Anybody know of any network problems in Leicester (LE3), there is no mention of any on the 'Server status' page or the 'Server status telephone line'.
