Topic: Anybody else experiancing a slow internet today ?

[Tony]

It's been a pig for me today,and the wife says people where she works were complaining also. I'm just wondering if it was a local or national issue. I bet its the BT bit that's the problem.... and its still slow. The times my email software tells me the search session has timed out before its done it...well if I had a fiver [inflation] for each time 

[Clive]

I'm getting my normal 3.3Mb here in Wales Tony. Perhaps it's a local issue. 

[Tony]

END-OF-DAY REPORT: Headline shares closed sharply higher, on a day badly hit by a technical system failure at the London Stock Exchange. Continuous trading only recommenced at 4:00pm, having been suspended at 8:15am this morning.......end quote


The FTSE opens at 8.00 am and closes at 4.30 pm .......    these are indeed historic times regards the financial markets.....1929 anyone 

[Simon]

BT are currently 'upgrading' some exchanges, Tony, and it's possible that yours may be being worked on.  Sam Knows should be able to tell you your WBC date, and if it's nearing, BT may be doing some preparation works.  Have you noticed any BT vans in the areas recently?  If I'm barking up the wrong tree, come back to us, and I'm sure Rik will have some ideas in the morning, as he's good at this sort of thing. 

[Tony]

Yes I dare say it could be that Simon, as the Skipton exchange is struggling. I noticed that when we moved here 3 years ago, and it was registering chock a block way back then.

[Simon]

Could well be congestion then, Tony.  Believe it or not, a lot of ISPs had capacity issues during the Olympics, due to increased usage of the BBC iPlayer, and not to the same extent, but it seems people have got the bug now, and are continuing to use it.  What with that, and BT's delay in upgrading the networks, some areas seem to be struggling.

[Tony]

Totally agree

[Tony]

UP DATE:

The internet is back to normal today, thank goodness.................funny thing is I'm bringing the wheelie bin in on Friday afternoon.......and a BT engineer, obviously lost winds his window down to ask for directions.................so I duly put him right....then make the comment that the Web has been nothing but a pig all week....Guess what his call was.....Yep you guessed it, he was going to a crap internet reported issue.......So I told him........it's your exchange mate that's your problem, that's what wants sorting ...trust me.


OK that's  BT put right, Ebuyer Tech Support, been sorted...... right next..............Look Gordon your problem is you just don't listen, I've been telling you for three years now that you were heading for a crash..........plain as a pike staff .


Got a great email joke with animations regarding Crash Gordon [it's nice an ...err smutty....you'll love it cammy, just need an email address to send it to, so it can be loaded to the site. What with Simon and Sandra leaving that bag o poo ISP Pipex I think I'm storeing old email addresses. 

[Simon]

Mine is the same, but @idnet.com, Tony. 

[Sandra]

Mines just replaced the @dsl.pipex.com with @bethere.co.uk  Tony 

[sam]

even the University's connection was slow yesterday, I think there was a problem with the main high speed line for us... I guess since that is UK wide it could have a knock on effect to commercial networks.