Broadband going slooooow

[AlucarD]

Hey iv had NTL 750K broadband for about a week and all of a sudden its going really slow.

I used to download off sites around the 80s now its in the 40s and p2p wont go over 15k either :mad:

Iv ran adaware (all i had were trakers , and there gone now) and AVG which showed up nothing either.

Does anyone have any idea whats up ???

Cheers
Alucard

[[M]uuhh]

NTL is well knowen to be slow, there is nothing you can do to stop it.

[AlucarD]

Not that slow !

I USED to download at 80k from sites (so does my mate with same connection) but for the last 2 days its not going over 50k.

You trying to say its normal for there to be a 30k dip in the space of 2 days ?

[[M]uuhh]

for ntl? yes

[AlucarD]

will it go back up ??

[[M]uuhh]

probably, try these threads. http://forums.kustompcs.co.uk/search.php?searchid=50544

[AlucarD]

kool cheers.

If it dont go up soon ill be phoning ntl !!!

[Archaon]

I never have any speed problems with NTL...only problems I've had was it disconnecting. And to be fair, it was during a storm when that happened. :D

[AlucarD]

Its ok, my speeds back now :D

Downloaded a 2meg file from download.com in 1 second :D

[brumster]

Not related to your problem directly, but worth adding here for anyone searching in the future... if you get this after a fresh install of cable, don't assume for one minute that the wiring job to your house is up to standard just because it was done by a cable engineer...

A friend of mine had to call them back in and eventually they tracked it to a sub-standard cable/duff installation.

Likewise I've heard of similar problems (speed-related) when people run iffy network cards in their PCs that default to half-duplex mode. Very uncommon these days but still worth noting - get your NIC in full duplex mode if it's configurable....

Cheers,
Dan