Death Jester
16-03-2004, 18:26
Firsty, let me say nice forums!
Now then, about July of 2003, I had bad ping problems. It was usually very good, around 20-30 on BF1942, but then around 8pm onwards, it would shoot up to well over 5000.
I contacted ntl, and after a lot of fobbing-off, they finally let an engineer come round to check on it.
He checked my connections, but he also let in on a fact: ntl was not paying the engy's to fix the problems, just to come round and check the wires. He also said that they were over-subscribing the servers, which is why the bad ping.
I went back to ntl with this information, and they told me that they were fixing it. 3 months later, my ping seemed ok.
But recently, it has gone bad again. It is not only after 8pm this time though, it is bad all the time. It does not seem to be too bad while running websites, just playing games (though sometimes it fails to load the websites cause it times out).
Anyone know if this is going to be fixed?
Also, are all broadband ISPs like this, or is it just ntl being crappy again?
Oh, and just for the info, my computer specs are:
Windows XP Home
Athlon XP 3000+
120gb Maxtor Hard Drive (7200rpm)
Abit NF7-S Motherboard
Radeon 9800pro (128mb) Graphics Card
Sounblaster Live! 5.1 Soundcard
AOpen CDWR (52x32x52)
Samsung DVD Drive
Sony 3.5" Floppy Drive
1024mb DDR333 MOT 184pin Dimm PC2700 RAM
GlacialTech Igloo 26dbA CPU Cooler
IIYAMA 19" Monitor
600k connection on broadband modem.
I live in the Hertfordshire area (Letchworth).
Now then, about July of 2003, I had bad ping problems. It was usually very good, around 20-30 on BF1942, but then around 8pm onwards, it would shoot up to well over 5000.
I contacted ntl, and after a lot of fobbing-off, they finally let an engineer come round to check on it.
He checked my connections, but he also let in on a fact: ntl was not paying the engy's to fix the problems, just to come round and check the wires. He also said that they were over-subscribing the servers, which is why the bad ping.
I went back to ntl with this information, and they told me that they were fixing it. 3 months later, my ping seemed ok.
But recently, it has gone bad again. It is not only after 8pm this time though, it is bad all the time. It does not seem to be too bad while running websites, just playing games (though sometimes it fails to load the websites cause it times out).
Anyone know if this is going to be fixed?
Also, are all broadband ISPs like this, or is it just ntl being crappy again?
Oh, and just for the info, my computer specs are:
Windows XP Home
Athlon XP 3000+
120gb Maxtor Hard Drive (7200rpm)
Abit NF7-S Motherboard
Radeon 9800pro (128mb) Graphics Card
Sounblaster Live! 5.1 Soundcard
AOpen CDWR (52x32x52)
Samsung DVD Drive
Sony 3.5" Floppy Drive
1024mb DDR333 MOT 184pin Dimm PC2700 RAM
GlacialTech Igloo 26dbA CPU Cooler
IIYAMA 19" Monitor
600k connection on broadband modem.
I live in the Hertfordshire area (Letchworth).