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NTL broadband update [July 2006]

MartMax · 2006-07-30 09:48:58

Hi Rather than digging up older and day-long threads, I hope that the mods won't mind me starting this. Had been experiencing cable modem "resets" every 2 mins in the last half an hour. We had 10Mbps connection before and now it turns out NTL has downgraded the speed to 6Mbps (as advertised) after having checked the modem…

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#332 29-12-2006 12:14am
kgcviper

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has anybody got 10mbit speed since ntl capped it to the 6 for which we are paying for?

and onother, this opendns thing, am i authenticated to us-servers as a us pc or still irish? bec. some shows on nbc can only be seen online if ip is in usa

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#333 29-12-2006 12:17am
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kgcviper wrote:

and onother, this opendns thing, am i authenticated to us-servers as a us pc or still irish? bec. some shows on nbc can only be seen online if ip is in usa

They still see you as irish, what you need is an open US proxy server, but i've no idea where you'd find one.

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#334 29-12-2006 10:51am
kgcviper

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http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/
well here is a full list to look in, lets try...
hm very slow these proxys, fastest is 55kb/s, not sure if this is enough for video streaming

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