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NTL Lightning fast tonight!

HarryHoudini · 2005-12-13 21:49:48

Looks like someone flipped the wrong switch again tonight. In D24 and NTL is lightning fast. Getting 8.38MB down and 485KB up from http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/

13-12-2005 10:49pm

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HarryHoudini

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Looks like someone flipped the wrong switch again tonight.
In D24 and NTL is lightning fast.

Getting 8.38MB down and 485KB up from http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/

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#2 13-12-2005 10:51pm

kin9pin

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where are you Harry? did you power cycle?

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#3 13-12-2005 11:09pm

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Im in Tallaght, Dublin 24.

No, didnt have to power cycle at all.

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#4 13-12-2005 11:10pm

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not speedy here

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#5 14-12-2005 12:02am

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A power cycle did nothing for me.

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#6 14-12-2005 12:05am

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#7 14-12-2005 12:20am

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ntl are upping all 3mb customers in the north and uk to 10mb in the new year ive heard. maybe theyre doing upgrades/testing down here aswell ???? they might have upped the network speed temporarily for testing.

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#8 14-12-2005 12:33am

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enforced power cycle here (esb failed earlier) but normal speed in citywest

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#9 14-12-2005 1:50am

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Mad...must be just me so...

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#10 14-12-2005 10:22am

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ZygOte wrote:

ntl are upping all 3mb customers in the north and uk to 10mb in the new year ive heard. maybe theyre doing upgrades/testing down here aswell ???? they might have upped the network speed temporarily for testing.

NTL UK have upgraded their customers. They are NOT the same company as NTL Ireland.

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#11 14-12-2005 11:08am

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Nowt going on with my 2Mb, down in waterford. Had to power cycle last night as my BB connection dropped, so they obviously must have been up to something.....

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#12 14-12-2005 11:39am

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ZygOte wrote:

ntl are upping all 3mb customers in the north and uk to 10mb in the new year ive heard. maybe theyre doing upgrades/testing down here aswell ???? they might have upped the network speed temporarily for testing.

already done in the north and uk

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#13 14-12-2005 11:40am

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Tony wrote:

esb failed earlier

and for the past 50 years too !

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#14 14-12-2005 12:49pm

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paulm17781 wrote:

NTL UK have upgraded their customers. They are NOT the same company as NTL Ireland.

Actually when the NTL engineers visited a month or so ago to swap out my modem for the newer, smaller blue model I asked them about the buyout and they said that they would be upgrading to 8 - 10 Meg in the near future, and this was the reason for the modem swap. Basically my old terrayon couldnt handle the faster speeds.

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#15 14-12-2005 12:53pm

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paulm17781 wrote:

A power cycle did nothing for me.

But a motor cycle did do somthing for me.

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#16 14-12-2005 1:36pm

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HarryHoudini wrote:

Actually when the NTL engineers visited a month or so ago to swap out my modem for the newer, smaller blue model I asked them about the buyout and they said that they would be upgrading to 8 - 10 Meg in the near future, and this was the reason for the modem swap. Basically my old terrayon couldnt handle the faster speeds.

Perhaps, they are still not the same as NTL UK though. I don't doubt an upgrade is imminent however just because BT up their DSL speeds (in the UK) it doesn't mean Eircon will.

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#17 14-12-2005 3:05pm

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spooky donkey wrote:

But a motor cycle did do somthing for me.

WAAY more than I wanted to know

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#18 14-12-2005 5:32pm

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#19 14-12-2005 5:51pm

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#20 14-12-2005 9:07pm

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Roen wrote:

Nowt going on with my 2Mb, down in waterford. Had to power cycle last night as my BB connection dropped, so they obviously must have been up to something.....

Yeah the were up to something today in Ardkeen village today,they were messing with the exchange even though it had already been activated a good while ago.
I was wondering though because today it was peopel in an unmarked van with casual tracksuits on.

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#21 14-12-2005 9:12pm

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What is this 'power cycle' some of you speak of?

Got a 2mb line in d16 meself and everything is normal.

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#22 14-12-2005 9:16pm

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turning the modem off and on again.

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#23 14-12-2005 9:17pm

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It's nerd speak for "turn it off, wait 30 seconds, turn it on again".
Sorry about that, I just get swept along with this forum lark!

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#24 14-12-2005 9:20pm

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No change down here in Waterford. Still on 3mb

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#25 14-12-2005 9:34pm

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christophicus wrote:

casual tracksuits

*mental image of formal tracksuits*

:v:

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#26 15-12-2005 1:52pm

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Well, 2 days later and I'm still getting ~830KB/s solid download speed, not complaining at all!

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#27 15-12-2005 1:57pm

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I still do...

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#28 15-12-2005 2:45pm

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My NTL bb dropped yesterday too, had to powercycle (sounds like a strange exercise) the modem. Didnt check the speed actually, didnt think of it at all until now, but it seemed faster. (Terenure)

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