1.5mbit / Coventry / Something Wrong / Plz Help

[Fed-Cov]

Hey all

In the last 2 days my 1.5mbit line started playing up.

It was fine and all of us sudden my downloads dropped from a steady 180k/s to below 30k/s, then climb to 40/50 and then drop below 30 again. It keeps doing this.

If anyone can offer me any advice on this issue I would greatly appreciate it.

Browsing websites is fine I dont notice any difference, but when downloading it become a joke. I have tried tons of places to download from like tucows.com / cnet.com / download.com and numerous others.

I work in the computer industry myself so I have gone through everything to hopefully eliminate the problem being me.

I am using a black terayon modem and its connected via ethernet as it has been for the last 3 years.

* I have scanned for spyware with spybot, adaware, pest control and many more.

* i have done a virus scan with av2004 and avg7 - nothing was picked up..

All the software was fully up to date with definitions etc..

* I have tried a different ethernet card.

* After all the above made no difference whatsoever, I decided to try the modem alone on my girlfriends pc, again no difference, it was exactly the same.

* As last resolt I tried the modem on a brand new system I just build for a friend and again exactly the same.

I love just outside the city centre, by the cov and warwick hosptital, I am not sure what ubr I am on tho.

I run the tech support and as always they tell me there is nothing wrong but its so obvious that THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG.

Also I have done some speedtests, and here they are:

Sun, 9 Jan 2005 05:07:39 UTC
1st 128K took 4610 ms = 28432 Bytes/sec = approx 237 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 8312 ms = 15769 Bytes/sec = approx 131 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 5735 ms = 22855 Bytes/sec = approx 190 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 8547 ms = 15335 Bytes/sec = approx 128 kbits/sec

Actual Speed / True Speed (estimated)
Downstream 601 Kbps (75.1 KB/sec) 649 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 248 Kbps (31.0 KB/sec) 267 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Communications 229 kilobits per second
Storage 27.9 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 36.6 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre

Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Fed-Cov

[paulyoung666]

hi and :welcome: to the site , it looks as though you have covered pretty much everything :disturbd: , maybe one of our resident ntl peeps will offer to have a look for you :tu: :D :D

[Neil]

Are you uploading anything when these problems occur?

[jtwn]

I can't be of much help but to find which ubr you are on you can do a traceroute to yourself and it should be one of/the last hops.

[Ignition]

Hmm.

PM me your IP address will have a peek.

EDIT: First guess is that you need a new modem but will check it out and try and confirm.

[Fed-Cov]

Thanks for the replies guys, here is some more info.

Neil - There is absolutely no UPloading at all.

Ignition - I have PM'd you my ip as requestes, hopefully you can shed some light on this :)

Many thanks

Fed-Cov