[Nottingham] NTL 10Mb :: Speeeeeeed

[paul at paulmellors.net]

Hello

I'm just waiting for my free 2mb to 4mb upgrade, knowing my luck it 
will be done
on the 30th :) [to be honest what the hell i need 4mb for is beyond me :)]

Paul


Quoting Raph NLUG <nlug at domainarena.net>:

> Hi,
>
> I am on NTL 10Mb and in the contrary i experienced speed improvements 
> recently, up to 23Mbps! (10 threads on giganews going up to nearly 
> 24Mbps +/- 2.9MBps!!)
> That lasted about two hours and then fell back down to my usual 10Mb...
> I think they might be doing tests as you said. But for me those tests 
> were quite a good surprise hehe...
> I should mention i leave about one mile away from their main building 
> on the Colwick loop road. This could explain why.
>
> Raphael Gangneux
>
>
>
> David Bean wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 01:50 +0100, Richard Bagshaw wrote:
>>
>>> Slightly off topic, anyone having problems with NTL tonight? the 
>>> usual 1100k/sec download has dropped to around 30 - 100k/sec.  
>>> Weirdly enough I have downloaded quite a bit tonight and im a bit 
>>> worried about caps and QoS.
>>>
>>
>> Seems like NTL are either having issues, or are doing some maintenance:
>>
>> $ nslookup
>>
>>> www.ebay.co.uk
>>>
>> Server:         194.168.4.100
>> Address:        194.168.4.100#53
>>
>> ** server can't find www.ebay.co.uk: SERVFAIL
>>
>>> server 194.168.8.100
>>>
>> Default server: 194.168.8.100
>> Address: 194.168.8.100#53
>>
>>> www.ebay.co.uk
>>>
>> Server:         194.168.8.100
>> Address:        194.168.8.100#53
>>
>> ** server can't find www.ebay.co.uk: SERVFAIL
>>
>>
>> Seems like some sites can't be resolved with NTL's cache DNS servers,
>> while others can.
>>
>> Dave Bean
>>
>>
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