Re: NTHell

On 2005-10-15 12:42:45 +0100, Peter Kemp <peterk13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

In article <MMW3f.3282$2z4.2443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Luke Siemaszko
<no.spam.for.me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just did one of my periodic tests and pinged the connection from home to work.

packet loss 40% to 50%
ping times up to nearly 400mS

I use NTHell because I don't have any choice.
Am I unlucky, or are they this bad for everyone?


I've been have exactly the same problem with NTL. My records show ten
calls over seven months, with four engineer visits.

I'm on NTL - just tried a ping to eruvia.org and got 11ms. Tried apple.com and got around 130ms (varied between 110ms and 150ms).

Which machines are you pinging, and which area are you in?


Recently, NTL has been less helpful when I've called - their view now
seems to be that if I can *browse* OK, then that's 'good enough'.

That attitude irritates me a lot. I'm paying for a network connection, not just http reception. I might be using that connection for all sorts of things - video chats, FTP, the odd bittorrent download (I don't do P2P, so I'm talking about thinks like ISOs etc.). Plus I might be uploading too - my web site, the iDisk...whatever. The attitude that thinks the net is nothing bet web sites really gets on my nerves. It also makes talking to technical support sooo much fun (Real life example question: "Your DNS server is inaccurately resolving a particular IP to two unrelated places on successive calls". Real life answer: "Have you tried disabling your antivirus software?").

It's a network. A network. That's it. What I choose to use it for is immaterial, I'm paying for a good network connection not a glorified web kiosk.


Cheers,
Ian

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