Earwig
31-10-2004, 18:03
I live in the NN10 area (Northants) and for the past week(Just over) I have seen increasingly poor performance from my connection.
Upload seems to be the biggest hit and at it's best seems to be in the range of 2-3KB/s.....( As I speak this seems to be hitting 29KB/s which is what I would expect, but I doubt this will last)
Download seems to be very irratic. Going from Max down to maybe 4-5KB/s.
Web pages seem to load partially. If atall. Pictures and banners seem not to appear at all and if they do they are very simplistic and not completed. (EG: The smilies on this page consist of a load of boxes with red crosses in the corner)
I have looked at the status page on NTL's website and it does indeed report scheduled maintanence but this was supposed to be over on the 25th oct.
Also I have noticed that when I get the biggest dropouts in performance the USB light on my modem appears to flicker like the U/S light. And occasionally I get the ding dong sound from windows as it loses hyardware and then detects it again. Could my problem be the modem and not the connection??
Or could complete loss of connection cuase windows to ding dong like you pulled a plug or something.
Thanks for any help.........:angel: <--------- The only smily I could see LMAO
EDIT: My upload has dropped off again. I am now getting 6-7KB/s
Will ring NTL tech about this now. I am paying nearly £40 PM and have had virtually no connection worth using for over a week.
Upload seems to be the biggest hit and at it's best seems to be in the range of 2-3KB/s.....( As I speak this seems to be hitting 29KB/s which is what I would expect, but I doubt this will last)
Download seems to be very irratic. Going from Max down to maybe 4-5KB/s.
Web pages seem to load partially. If atall. Pictures and banners seem not to appear at all and if they do they are very simplistic and not completed. (EG: The smilies on this page consist of a load of boxes with red crosses in the corner)
I have looked at the status page on NTL's website and it does indeed report scheduled maintanence but this was supposed to be over on the 25th oct.
Also I have noticed that when I get the biggest dropouts in performance the USB light on my modem appears to flicker like the U/S light. And occasionally I get the ding dong sound from windows as it loses hyardware and then detects it again. Could my problem be the modem and not the connection??
Or could complete loss of connection cuase windows to ding dong like you pulled a plug or something.
Thanks for any help.........:angel: <--------- The only smily I could see LMAO
EDIT: My upload has dropped off again. I am now getting 6-7KB/s
Will ring NTL tech about this now. I am paying nearly £40 PM and have had virtually no connection worth using for over a week.