Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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....what was it?
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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http://www.adslguide.org.uk
left hand menu speedtest
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Marc
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Location: York
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ta
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Marc
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Downstream 31 Kbps (3.9 KB/sec) 33 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 130 Kbps (16.3 KB/sec) 140 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Ok shits gonna be going down at Tiscali 
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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my tiscali has been really slow for the last week and a bit, thought it was just me. Havenet had over 240k/s at all (on a 512 connection), and usually slower than that. 
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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fook me mark thats bad , sumits killing your bandwidth , do you run peer 2 peer applications.
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Marc
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all ive got running is msn and norton.
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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test is still going.... 
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poole
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Sheffield, UK Drives: 2.5 v6 Calibra
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lol i gave up after letting it run 5mins on my comp
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Demo
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Registered: 27th Sep 01
Location: south wales Drives: astra sri ecoflex
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i believe tiscali have been having technical problems for the past 2 weeks or so
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vibrio
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Registered: 28th Feb 01
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Direction
Actual Speed
True Speed (estimated)
Downstream 503 Kbps (62.9 KB/sec) 543 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 250 Kbps (31.3 KB/sec) 270 Kbps (inc. overheads)
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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Is this amount of packet loss normal?!
Also, i cant connect to my router as it is prompting for username and password, so there might be a fault with that too?
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poole
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Sheffield, UK Drives: 2.5 v6 Calibra
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i get 12 hops to cs and 30ms but my download speeds are shagged
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Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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Nice and quick enough on mine......I'd be worried about why there's a timeout even getting to your router, but since it's Tiscali, anything's possible. When you ring them, assuming you can get the person on the other end of the phone to understand you (not being racist there, just commenting on past experience of people having to repeat everything two or three times), ask them to double-check you've not had your service dumped on a slow-speed low-priority circuit for over-downloading (they do this without telling you, and your speeds drop to below dial-up speed)......a mate of mine checked, and apparently Tiscali "officially" class over-downloading as anything above 100Mb per day (although you'll never find that ANYWHERE in the terms & conditions).
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Dan B
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Oh, and have a look here for details of quite a few complaints about Tiscali:
http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=tiscali
I'd change ISP, if I were you......they're getting the reputation of AOL, where they're not a brilliant ISP but get LOTS of new customers because people see the advertising hype on TV.
And, since I don't believe in not backing up facts, here's that information (compared to the ISP I'm with, and work for) backed up by quite a lot of people (the Zen results based on 1927 votes, the Tiscali results on 2400 votes......not just a few disgruntled people there):
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/isps/compare.asp?tiscali=ON&zen=ON&cmp_action=Compare
[Edited on 28/02/2004 by Dan B]
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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yeah i heard bad things about tiscali, but went with them cos a guy on corsapprt works for them, and he told me that he would change my details to a 2mb connection if i signed up for the normal one. I am now stuck in a 12 month contract with them, and not pleased. Download speeds were better than my old BTO line at first, but as i said, i havent seen anything above 240k, and bit torrent usually downloads about 5kB/s now!
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Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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Not something I'd really recommend doing, but: cancel the account, cancel the direct-debit, and change something on your PSTN line (normal BT line)......something simple like changing the contact name or billing name for your telephone line usually sends a cease-request automatically for your broadband connection.
Alternatively, contact OfTel/OfCom (quite a few people on AdslGuide have got out of their contracts by doing that)...
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Nismo
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
Is this amount of packet loss normal?!
Also, i cant connect to my router as it is prompting for username and password, so there might be a fault with that too?
The missed hops could be firewalls on the network, or just lost packets,
try ping -t www.corsasport.co.uk
let this run for about 20 pings and see what % of packet loss there is , your network could have server issues , or peer 2 peer software can cause issues.
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Nismo
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also Ian/Tim lovin the corsa sport server name
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Dan B
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quote:
Originally posted by Nismo
try ping -t www.corsasport.co.uk
let this run for about 20 pings and see what % of packet loss there is , your network could have server issues , or peer 2 peer software can cause issues.
To add to this, in case you don't know, it's Ctrl-C to stop it! 
Alternatively, and much easier, try using the following, which will run exactly 100 pings, so you don't need to manually stop it:
ping www.corsasport.co.uk -n 100
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groom
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Registered: 19th Apr 03
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
quote:
Originally posted by Nismo
try ping -t www.corsasport.co.uk
let this run for about 20 pings and see what % of packet loss there is , your network could have server issues , or peer 2 peer software can cause issues.
To add to this, in case you don't know, it's Ctrl-C to stop it!
Alternatively, and much easier, try using the following, which will run exactly 100 pings, so you don't need to manually stop it:
ping www.corsasport.co.uk -n 100
btw, i got 2% loss doing that for comparison
average round trip = 165Ms
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Packet loss doesnt look too bad...
No P2Ps running. The net is almost unusable when i have bit torrent running cos its so slow!
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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thats looks fine
2 packets aint nuffin to moan about .
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drunkenfool
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Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Your line speed:
4.3 Kbps
0.5 K bytes/sec
hahahahah! So much for 512!
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Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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Guess I shouldn't laugh, but I'd be straight on the phone to Tiscali to find out why you're getting about 8% of the speed you'd expect from a dial-up connection! 
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