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NTL gone to hell?

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  • #52
    Bards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,849 ✭✭✭Bards


    I wonder if my little letter to Comreg had anything to do with it:D


  • #53
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Bards wrote:
    I wonder if my little letter to Comreg had anything to do with it:D


    Comreg told me that they dont have anything to do with broadband. The girl just gave me the number of NTL head office and said bye bye. Highly helpful alright.

    Com Reg.. Communications Regulator. Only in Ireland is the broadband concept nothing to do with communications.


  • #54
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Trotter wrote:
    Comreg told me that they dont have anything to do with broadband. The girl just gave me the number of NTL head office and said bye bye. Highly helpful alright.

    Com Reg.. Communications Regulator. Only in Ireland is the broadband concept nothing to do with communications.

    Just tried the speeds again now - still stable.:D 1.95 Megs from www.apple.com/itunes (just start downloading the iTunes setup file - you don't have to download it fully. Multiply the transfer rate by 8 to get the bitrate)and downloading a driver file for an epson c66 from this link:

    http://esupport.epson-europe.com/SoftwareListing.aspx?lng=en-GB&data=0CCCCE1C7A045DC389B2BF959634B555F59F353BADEA9752BB29D3BAE041F93F


  • #55
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    Getting odd results, 300-350KB/sec from Rapidshare but my Debain iso from Heanet started off at 1440KB/sec and settled at about 12KB/sec......something weird there!


  • #56
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Roen wrote:
    Getting odd results, 300-350KB/sec from Rapidshare but my Debain iso from Heanet started off at 1440KB/sec and settled at about 12KB/sec......something weird there!

    Yeah - Heanet appears to be fcuked. Did you try the Epson link?


  • #57
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    I didn't even notice it tbh, I just tried and got about 370KB/sec down. I wonder is it just Heanet that are kaput or are all ftp transfers slow.


  • #58
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    It must be NTL, my mate is getting 4000KB/sec in his work place from Heanet and I'm getting 20KB/sec on the exact same .iso
    :mad:


  • #59
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    My follow up call came today while I was out, a full week after they said they'd ring. Ah well.

    The message yer man left said they were working on upgrades in the area and that if I didn't notice any improvements in a week to give them a ring back.


  • #60
    christophicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭christophicus


    YEah they are always "working on upgrades" . Its quite pathetic really.


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  • #61
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Roen wrote:
    I didn't even notice it tbh, I just tried and got about 370KB/sec down. I wonder is it just Heanet that are kaput or are all ftp transfers slow.


    This looks like a good one. I get inconsistent results from the two Itish ones, but if you run this, say, three times (just refresh the page - it automatically does the check when you log onto the site) and divide your total results by three it will give you an average of your speed.

    I'd be interested to know how others got on with different ISPs. I'm with NTL.

    http://specials.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/speedtest50.html


  • #62
    christophicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭christophicus


    Its really irratick for me tonight for some reason.


  • #63
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    christophicus wrote:
    Its really irratick for me tonight for some reason.

    It had been odd for the last week or two. But since lunchtime Wednesday it's humming along. Two of my friends confirm this also. Looking good!:D


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