[Gllug] ntl cable slowed down

[Ian Northeast]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, michael norman wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody using ntl cable modem found it slowed down over the last 12 hours
> > or so.  I'm on the 600k connection and its slowed to a crawl.  I'm using SuSE
> > 8.1.
> 
> Last night the web proxies appeared to slow to almost dead.
> 
> My Internet connection was fine however and access to anything other than
> port 80 rocked as usual.

Likewise. I found that many web sites did not work at all - "document
contains no data" errors after some considerable pause - but some were
fine. For instance I could not access google or ebay, but
linuxemporium.co.uk and RIPE were fine. I got the impression that
European based sites were a bit better than US ones but it wasn't 100%
and could have been coincidence. Then about 10pm they presumably
rebooted the blasted things and it all started working.

I wish you could opt out of the web proxies, they're the worst thing
about NTL IMO. Apart from them, their technology seems to work very
well. Of course, I don't try calling them for support, they've probably
heard of Linux but I don't know what they'd make of my telling them I
connect with OpenBSD:) So the one and only time I experienced their
"support" line was the five phone calls it took to "activate" my service
in the first place. If I bypassed the proxies it wouldn't cost NTL a lot
in bandwidth as my web browsing causes a lot less traffic than
downloading Linux CDs etc., which I do a fair bit. But I guess that
isn't true of most users.

Regards, Ian

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