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[Elite Pete]

i had virgin cable internet at uni... fast but very unreliable.

We were re-booting the cable modem daily, however we did hammer it, sometimes hitting 30gb a day  

Im useless with computers why would you need 30 Gariboldis a day

[Mr Skrunts]

Download firefox!

Use Firefox.

Suffered your problems last week, am ok now.

[tunnie]

i had virgin cable internet at uni... fast but very unreliable.

We were re-booting the cable modem daily, however we did hammer it, sometimes hitting 30gb a day  

Im useless with computers why would you need 30 Gariboldis a day

4 students on a 10mbit internet connection  

TV shows, films, applications for uni.

Trouble is we never sat down and said you get this, you get that, we would download the same stuff.

Worked out at 7.5gb each a day, i had a seperate PC that was always on  

[dbug]

First try clearing IE cache and cookies, and reboot router.

Had a similar problem at work yesterday - BT broadband - changed their krappy router for a spare BT krappy router, manually configured and straight onto net!  2nd time we have had a BT router fail!

   

[TheBoy]

First try clearing IE cache and cookies, and reboot router.

Had a similar problem at work yesterday - BT broadband - changed their krappy router for a spare BT krappy router, manually configured and straight onto net!  2nd time we have had a BT router fail!

There were/are some big DNS issues affecting more than 1 ISP yesterday.  People manually configuring DNS IPs need to ensure they enter at least 2, and that they are geographically diverse.  Or let ISP do it via DHCP

[rickyboy]

If you open IE, click tools, internet options, connections tab, lan settings then make sure the automatically detect settings box is ticked, click ok, then ok again.  Exit IE then re-open it and this will often sort this problem.

[bob.dent]

I dunno......a bad workman always blames his tools!

[Brian T]

i had virgin cable internet at uni... fast but very unreliable.

We were re-booting the cable modem daily, however we did hammer it, sometimes hitting 30gb a day  

There are very few (legal) reasons to be using that sort of bandwidth.  That kind of usage is what has buggered up NTL - its unsustainable.  Actually, thats whats buggered up the Internet everywhere.

More inclined to think that BT's ageing copper wire telephone system doesn't help. I've been with Virgin for 3 years now and my router currently has an up time of 3.5 months, it would have been longer but swmbo pulled the plug out!

[Plomien]

there have been problems the last couple of days on Virgin medias network with dropouts it seems to have been fixed for now.

[TheBoy]

i had virgin cable internet at uni... fast but very unreliable.

We were re-booting the cable modem daily, however we did hammer it, sometimes hitting 30gb a day  

There are very few (legal) reasons to be using that sort of bandwidth.  That kind of usage is what has buggered up NTL - its unsustainable.  Actually, thats whats buggered up the Internet everywhere.

More inclined to think that BT's ageing copper wire telephone system doesn't help. I've been with Virgin for 3 years now and my router currently has an up time of 3.5 months, it would have been longer but swmbo pulled the plug out!

A popularist view often touted in many coloumns of certain parts of the press. Wrongly.

Currently, the last mile 'copper' (if you're lucky) networks are not the bottleneck.


Currently OOF main router stats:

System up:   258 days 16 hours 22 minutes
Line up:     257 days 10 hours 43 minutes
Attenuation:
        Local:  35 dB
        Remote: 16 dB
Noise Margin:
        Upstream:       24 dB
        Downstream:     29 dB
Xmit Power Level:       11.93 dBm


Line up has been over 400 days before, showing 'BTs ageing copper network' is not really a problem for stability or speed.

[TheBoy]

there have been problems the last couple of days on Virgin medias network with dropouts it seems to have been fixed for now.

VIrgin/NTL use transparent proxies, no problem with that, only theirs do seem to suffer big stability issues

[Plomien]

BTW I work for Virgin media (albiet not for much longer as the buggers are closing my department) so I know there have been problems the last couple of days with dropouts

[Markie]

....similarly useless with computers....

I`ve also been having this issue, with Wanadoo/Orange since yesterday. Never had a problem in the 2 years prior...

Wonder if its linked  :-/

[dbug]

First try clearing IE cache and cookies, and reboot router.

Had a similar problem at work yesterday - BT broadband - changed their krappy router for a spare BT krappy router, manually configured and straight onto net!  2nd time we have had a BT router fail!

There were/are some big DNS issues affecting more than 1 ISP yesterday.  People manually configuring DNS IPs need to ensure they enter at least 2, and that they are geographically diverse.  Or let ISP do it via DHCP

Yeh know about this - however put the old router back in this am & guess wot - wouldn't connect.  Swapped it over & connected strtaight back on.  Both manually configured for same DNS servers (one UK, one USA).  Think the orig router breaked!!

[TheBoy]

First try clearing IE cache and cookies, and reboot router.

Had a similar problem at work yesterday - BT broadband - changed their krappy router for a spare BT krappy router, manually configured and straight onto net!  2nd time we have had a BT router fail!

There were/are some big DNS issues affecting more than 1 ISP yesterday.  People manually configuring DNS IPs need to ensure they enter at least 2, and that they are geographically diverse.  Or let ISP do it via DHCP

Yeh know about this - however put the old router back in this am & guess wot - wouldn't connect.  Swapped it over & connected strtaight back on.  Both manually configured for same DNS servers (one UK, one USA).  Think the orig router breaked!!

What router is it - thought BT were still dishing out Efficient/Siemens to non Hub customers, unless you're really unlucky and get one of those crap 2wire ones?