Portsmouth area issues?

[shibby]

Ok these last few days i have seen a pretty poor service from virgin, which i find unusual. I've had connection issues every day since thursday (since upgrade work was carried out). The connection is always dropping.

Am i the only one with these problems in the area? Or is there poor other souls out there?

[allanprg]

I'm in Portsmouth. No trouble here at all. Broadband is working great. Has been for the last 4 months. In the PO5 area. I'm on cable modem 250.:)

[Maggy]

Had some connection problems LAST weekend here in Gosport.Been ok internet wise since.

Now to wonder whether to report the occasional 20 second tv blackouts.:erm:

[mike24]

Hi
Im in Southsea area PO5 no problem with my connection, cable modem 250.
michael

[shibby]

Thanks guys,
I will have to keep an eye on my router and modem. Hopefully it will stop today.

Now i wonder if the main V box will let me use the On Demand

[wigro]

Ello

Im in cosham po6 , full speed on 10 meg here .

[jerryl]

what !?!?! im having major high ping problems in southsea PO5

[Greek]

I live down in Portsmouth near Fratton. My connection ****** badly. I run a speed test and i got:

Internet Provider: NTL INTERNET
Total Tests Taken: 1
Fastest Download: 994 kb/s
Fastest Upload: 49 kb/s
Average Download: 994 kb/s
Average Upload: 49 kb/s


IS this a JOKE or not?

49Kb/s is like a modem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My second test half an hour l8r


Internet Provider: NTL INTERNET
Total Tests Taken: 2
Fastest Download: 1947 kb/s
Fastest Upload: 49 kb/s
Average Download: 1471 kb/s
Average Upload: 48 kb/s

[jerryl]

peak times innit

[Greek]

Up to the point that NTL became Virgin was nice. Now i want to cancel my contract. These speeds are a joke. It takes weeks till IE opens a url.

[jerryl]

stupid, even in the morning i still get slow internet speeds great. I thought ntl becoming virgin would make services better aswell...why cant they fix bigger problems in the UK and just leave the TV HD after....

[dunkyb]

Im not sure if this is related, but im having a lot of trouble this evening.. very high packet loss, no more than 0.5Mbit/s (on 10Mbit!) and its unusable really ....

Anyone else in the portsmouth/horndean area having probs tonight?

[jerryl]

its congested UBR in portsmouth apparentely, so some people will get latency issues or slow internet. virgin media said it will take a while to fix...its already been since october for me waiting until now...

[jasonvigus]

Im in waterlooville an am also getting terrible speeds on my 4mb connection.....it ranges from 80kbs to 300kbs for download speeds - usually the lower end of this range. I've only started having this problem since switching to a CM from STB and at the same time switching from 2mb to 4mb.

[dunkyb]

I've noticed my downstream SNR fluctuates every time I refresh the cable modem's info page, but the upstream SNR stays solid. Is this the same with everyone else?

[savvychels]

Poole

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2007/03/80.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

To be honest since I upgraded to 10mb a couple of weeks ago I'm consistently getting near top results - no matter what the time of day. There've been a few '1/2 speed' results, but a 2nd test and they're back up again. I'm pretty impressed.

[jerryl]

moving to sky one soon, taking up that sky package, ntl/VM has just been a joke since october, bills getting more expensives, slow internet less than 1meg.