[Gllug] ntl cable slowed down

[Robin Smith]

It was bad last night - I agree about the proxies it would make sense to
opt out of using them.

Robin

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 20:53, Ian Northeast wrote:
> 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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