[Nottingham] NTL 10Mb :: Speeeeeeed

[Andy]

Hi Paul

How did u get a free upgrade to 4 meg  ?
Im also on 2 meg ntl.

cheers
andy

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 13:11 +0100, paul at paulmellors.net wrote:
> 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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