NTL blocking sites?

christophicus

I cannot create new profile accounts at yahoo.co.uk, the page won't load.

unreggd

geocities doesnt seem t work on NTL bband

CyberGhost

Imagevenue.com,

Some of their servers haven't worked for me for over a year.

christophicus

Same with imageshack. I cannot access some videos from it.

kess-yo

DingDong wrote: »

I work for them. Don't know the time scale christophicus I'm not involved in getting it sorted.

So do you think, that they're not blocking the p2p servers (Soulseek, e-mule etc.) and all this mess with p2p software not connecting through NTL is just because they installed the new router?

Cause if they would block them, you wouldn't be able to connect at all, but now you can connect, but the connection goes on and off all the time. Innit?

The thought of not being able to use Soulseek gives me chills...

DingDong

kess-yo wrote: »

So do you think, that they're not blocking the p2p servers (Soulseek, e-mule etc.) and all this mess with p2p software not connecting through NTL is just because they installed the new router?

Cause if they would block them, you wouldn't be able to connect at all, but now you can connect, but the connection goes on and off all the time. Innit?

The thought of not being able to use Soulseek gives me chills...

TBH I don't know for sure but I don't think the UBR is the problem more the ip address range in use.

moriez

kess-yo wrote: »

So do you think, that they're not blocking the p2p servers (Soulseek, e-mule etc.) and all this mess with p2p software not connecting through NTL is just because they installed the new router?

Cause if they would block them, you wouldn't be able to connect at all, but now you can connect, but the connection goes on and off all the time. Innit?

The thought of not being able to use Soulseek gives me chills...

My housemates got wireless last week and I tried firing up SoulSeek. Forget about it! I dont even get it to turn green.

spektr

moriez wrote: »

My housemates got wireless last week and I tried firing up SoulSeek. Forget about it! I dont even get it to turn green.

the thing was working for two days last week actually but it isn't again since then.

moriez

Ive sent them an email about it. Lets see if they reply. In the meantime, does anyone have a temp solution?

yayamark

moriez wrote: »

Ive sent them an email about it. Lets see if they reply. In the meantime, does anyone have a temp solution?

Use

http://www.getpassit.com/

Should work a treat:)

moriez

yayamark wrote: »

Use

http://www.getpassit.com/

Should work a treat:)

Care to explain mate?;)

NullZer0

del.icio.us did work at one stage with NTL - then it stopped working all of a sudden for me.

With the NTL nameservers Traceroute shows:

traceroute to del.icio.us (69.147.76.140), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  2.706 ms  2.870 ms  5.747 ms
 2  10.91.224.1 (10.91.224.1)  12.290 ms  16.428 ms  22.864 ms
 3  089-101-162065.ntlworld.ie (89.101.162.65)  23.634 ms  24.351 ms  25.828 ms
 4  dbln-t2core-a-ge-2-1-0-0.aorta.net (213.46.165.5)  25.150 ms  26.622 ms  27.325 ms
 5  dbln-bb-a-ae1-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.53)  32.605 ms  33.343 ms  34.014 ms
 6  dbln-bb-b-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.50)  38.661 ms  20.112 ms  20.429 ms
 7  man-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.45)  25.064 ms  31.713 ms  32.429 ms
 8  bir-bb-a-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.133)  29.422 ms  30.170 ms  30.874 ms
 9  florence-pos20.inet.ntl.com (213.105.175.218)  33.387 ms  34.091 ms  34.796 ms
10  brad-wit-pos.telewest.net (194.117.136.22)  41.710 ms  42.412 ms  43.100 ms
11  194.117.136.169 (194.117.136.169)  39.955 ms  40.529 ms *
12  194.117.136.149 (194.117.136.149)  36.034 ms  25.575 ms  23.588 ms
13  pc-62-30-249-173-ha.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.249.173)  26.301 ms  32.776 ms  40.743 ms
14  pc-62-31-0-204-nm.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.0.204)  45.556 ms  46.257 ms  46.962 ms
15  pc-62-30-249-46-ha.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.249.46)  43.574 ms  45.247 ms  52.461 ms
16  194.117.136.145 (194.117.136.145)  53.214 ms  53.937 ms *
17  213.228.222.10 (213.228.222.10)  169.405 ms  183.006 ms  183.828 ms
18  so-1-1-0.pat2.dce.yahoo.com (216.115.101.131)  162.801 ms  166.801 ms  171.383 ms
19  ge-3-1-0-p141.msr1.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.59)  175.599 ms  176.289 ms ge-3-1-0-p151.msr2.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.63)  172.166 ms
20  ge-1-2.bas-a2.re1.yahoo.com (66.196.112.13)  174.777 ms  173.957 ms ge-1-3.bas-a1.re1.yahoo.com (66.196.112.7)  179.063 ms
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I've tried changing my DNS to OpenDNS and ran a traceroute with the similar results.

This is a joke.

yayamark

moriez wrote: »

Care to explain mate?;)

open up getpassit.com and put in the address u want in the place where it says web address

CyberGhost

yayamark wrote: »

open up getpassit.com and put in the address u want in the place where it says web address

That's sad that we have to resort to proxying around the problem.

moriez

yayamark wrote: »

open up getpassit.com and put in the address u want in the place where it says web address

Good good, but my problem is SoulSeek not connecting so I dont think that is gonna help me.

00sully

we should all complain, this is absolutely ridiculous.

so far the list in this thread alone is
http://del.icio.us
Geocities
Zshare
archive.org
http://www.netvibes.com
Imagevenue.com
imageshack

all popular sites and im sure there are more. this coupled with their crippling not even close to advertised speeds is getting out of hand. We should not be sitting back and taking this.

I for one am contemplating action and will be informing them of this.

spektr

00sully wrote: »

we should all complain, this is absolutely ridiculous.

so far the list in this thread alone is
http://del.icio.us
Geocities
Zshare
archive.org
http://www.netvibes.com
Imagevenue.com
imageshack

all popular sites and im sure there are more. this coupled with their crippling not even close to advertised speeds is getting out of hand. We should not be sitting back and taking this.

I for one am contemplating action and will be informing them of this.

http://del.icio.us/ doesn't work.
geocities never worked for me.
archive.org works fine
netvibes.com works fine
imagevenue.com works fine
never had any problems with imageshack

soulseek still doesn't work (for a month now?) as well as dc++ by the way.

John_Mc

00sully wrote: »

we should all complain, this is absolutely ridiculous.

so far the list in this thread alone is
http://del.icio.us
Geocities
Zshare
archive.org
http://www.netvibes.com
Imagevenue.com
imageshack

all popular sites and im sure there are more. this coupled with their crippling not even close to advertised speeds is getting out of hand. We should not be sitting back and taking this.

I for one am contemplating action and will be informing them of this.

I'm with you on that one mate! Thankfully, I'm moving house in January so I may be able to get a better ISP than NTL.

00sully

John_Mc wrote: »

I'm with you on that one mate! Thankfully, I'm moving house in January so I may be able to get a better ISP than NTL.

lucky you man I already tried to move to smart but my line wasn't capable

Im getting stuck right into NTL in new year - its my only resoultion

christophicus

spektr wrote: »

http://del.icio.us/ doesn't work.
geocities never worked for me.
archive.org works fine
netvibes.com works fine
imagevenue.com works fine
never had any problems with imageshack

soulseek still doesn't work (for a month now?) as well as dc++ by the way.

Its only some of imageshacks video section.

anthonymcg

Any word on this since? It's such a pain in the ass

00sully

i've initiated my complaints procedure. WHEN they dont get back to me I have someone in ComReg who said he will follow it up directly with NTL.

moriez

I never had a reply from them after e-mailing them. Awful bunch a w@nkers

sprogman

same here - don't answer emails or phones

casimir23

I've had the same problems - trouble with torrents and a complete inability to connect to soulseek for more than a few seconds. I have no problem with them limiting speeds but completely cutting off soulseek is too much. I've had some success with Relakks but it gets disconnected quite frequently and I have to set it to automatically reconnect.

Check out this thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055132322&highlight=ntl+torrent

It's crazy that I need to pay a third party in order to make use of ntl's service. I'd be happy to pay ntl whatever they need to charge me for my usage.

Philbert

moriez wrote: »

I never had a reply from them after e-mailing them. Awful bunch a w@nkers

sprogman wrote:

same here - don't answer emails or phones

Pfft :rolleyes:

Dont ever bother your arse emailing or calling NTL. It is a complete waste of time. You need to write letters. And keep writing letters until you get a response.

(BTW, everytime I hear or see those three letters N - T - L, my heart skips a beat! :mad:)

John_Mc

Just moved to a new gaff and had NTL 6mb BB installed. In my old place, I could never get soulseek to work. So when I connected just now, I was delighted.

Within 10 minutes, I was disconnected and it will not reconnect. Exact same as in my old place :mad:

Without a doubt, NTL are BLOCKING SOULSEEK :mad:

KJF

Well, del.icio.us is working for me again. Yay!

guttingfish

Anyone else having difficulties connecting to NTL? I've been noticing slowdowns and once lost connection recently. Today the modem won't connect. It just sits there with send flashing and won't turn off or do anything.

I'm wondering if that's related to all these changes they seem to be making.


I was wondering about delicious too, glad to have that riddle solved.

paulm17781

I reported this to NTL last week and a guy from BB support just called. He was helpful and friendly. I told him it wasn't a local issue, people here had it he said that he was aware of del.icio.us and it is now fixed, he then said that this should fix the other issues that people were experiencing with the other sites.

If people are still seeing these issues, please report them to NTL. I know there is a vibe that it is pointless but I didn't expect a call back and got one. If people aren't reporting problems, then they definitely won't fix them.