newforum and NTL/Virgin

[bunnynogood]

My newforum access from my home broadband NTL/Virgin is basically pants. Specific symptoms are very slow or no response coupled with forum pages that seem to load about 99% but don't complete. If I hit cancel I usually then get the basic page elements and links but none of the 'style' elements. A bit like doing a browse in 'text only'. Needless to say it's rather annoying

Accessing newforum from work on a nice fat JaNet pipe it's fine. Is anyone else having issues of same or similar character with NTL/Virgin ? Other sites are fine (Google, Fleabay, Amazon etc etc) from home. The other PCs in the house have the same problem, though again, other PHP heavy sites and BBs are also all fine. I'm wondering if NTL are doing some sort of 'traffic shaping' on particular domains or internet zones, but nobody can talk with me at that sort of level on their ludicrous helpdesk.

Not quite at wits end but getting close. Sending this from work

[Fritz]

Steam powered dial up is pants at it's very best as is slow broad band, but then again if your PC is full of photos of general shyte the kids look, at or simply full of porn images your old man looks at it will run slow......not to mention any Anti virus software will slow the process down...........or it might even the fact that you live so far away from the exchange, that you have to waite till the wire warms up before it works fully...


Regards


Fritz,,,,,,,,

[Oldiebut goodie]

Steam powered dial up is pants at it's very best as is slow broad band, but then again if your PC is full of photos of general shyte the kids look, at or simply full of porn images your old man looks at it will run slow......not to mention any Anti virus software will slow the process down...........or it might even the fact that you live so far away from the exchange, that you have to waite till the wire warms up before it works fully...
Fritz,,,,,,,,

I don't think that any of them are the problem because........Quote "Other sites are fine (Google, Fleabay, Amazon etc etc) from home. The other PCs in the house have the same problem, though again, other PHP heavy sites and BBs are also all fine."

[fullsunian]

I'm on ntl/virgin broadband and have no problems. Sometimes the forum is slow, but when it is somebody on here usual complains about it. So would have to say its not at my end, even though I have got a very old and generally slow system.

[bunnynogood]

Well well. Good old MicroShaft have 'patched something' it seems. Gawd knows what. It will be 'fun' fault finding.
Running the forum from my Ubuntu Linux PC in the workshop, it all works fine and dandy.

Next bit of IT kit I buy will be a MAC

[CovKid]

Have you tried Firefox browser? I'm using Virgin and stopped using Internet Explorer as it was so slow. Try that first.

[dugcati]

Bunny,...

I'd try either chucking in some different DNS servers in to your router,or at the very least running a few nslookups against your existing DNS servers.


NTHell's transparent proxies are a pain in the jacksy at times, if DNS resolves OK then try a couple of speed tests on more than one machine then get on the blower to them as I have found they usually seem to know of issues but don't broadcast them very well until lots of people complain.

Also make sure you have the KB958644 patch installed as this is to control the Confiker / Downadup virus which if you have installed on your machine then will make it run like a sick dog. worth looking in control panel at scheduled tasks for jobs called .At1 .At2 .At3 etc etc - if you see these your likely fully infected with confiker (it has several levels of infection).



Lastly just found at work the other 2 f our remote workers with weird issues - could ping/resolve DNS fine but not display pages, no browser hijacking going on and it turned out to be 2 exe running in start up svrsvc32.exe and lhaj.exe.... both in C:\WINDOWS\System32, one hidden and the other not; one of them was built as part of Firefox (cheeky gets!) delete em both and reboot

failing all that try the old system restore - mad as it sounds it does work for some random undiagnosable registry corruption issues

Doug

[bunnynogood]

Cheers for all that Dug I'll give the router and DNS hacking a go. I'm 99.9% sure all the systems in the Bun household are virus and spy/ad/kakware free.

I might just run the whole shebang from a separate Linux partition, or just boot from the Ubuntu Live CD. Fault diagnosis like this is a real pain and taking my work home is not a habit I want to get into Rebuilding the PC just fills me with horror, having got all the music studio software working nicely.

[Red Westie]

Oooooooower! Guess what...I'm in Carlton (Nottingham) also on NTL/Virgin and ALSO experiencing the exact same symptoms. BUT ALL SITES!
I have two full PC's and four laptops all experiencing the same lag (have to wait 5 seconds to scroll or type) I have complained that much they sent me a new modem...still the same...then there was something being fixed on the network (about two weeks ago) Strangely seemed fixed for about one day, then the same symptoms re-appeared. This all started about a 4-5 weeks ago (well B4 the 80-90 host swap).
Bearing in mind I've had this connection for 19 years I'm NOT paranoid! the connection has DEFINATELY changed.
I am still complaining...if I had a BT line I'd swap to another ISP tomorrow, as it is I would have to pay BT £125 to get re-connected.
Martin

[andisnewsyncro]

Well well. Good old MicroShaft have 'patched something' it seems. Gawd knows what. It will be 'fun' fault finding.
Running the forum from my Ubuntu Linux PC in the workshop, it all works fine and dandy.

Next bit of IT kit I buy will be a MAC

I think you've hit the nail on the head with that on - since I ditched Microsh**e in favour of Ubuntu, everything is fine with my elderly Sony Vaio that was heading for the landfill.
I've never had any problems with my Macs on the internet either, but personally I like Ubutu & wish I'd switched my day to day machine over years ago. Recently installed it on a very low spec laptop and gave that a new lease of life too
I've always stayed a bit behind the "cutting edge" of technology for financial reasons and now I'm no slower on t'internet than any moder new fangled windoze machine

Andi

[bunnynogood]

Final update. I am pleased but perplexed. Since the forum domain name moved from newforum back to just forum, it's all working fine again now It is August, perhaps the Gremlins are on holiday. Toodle pip.