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Offline Tequila

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Oh, flangey-flaps!
« on: October 04, 2007, 01:28:26 PM »
Why is my ISP so shit?  Why is it taking seconds to load a page?  Virgin Media can suck my ass.  Argh!
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2007, 01:33:55 PM »
what OS and browser are you using, and how fast is your internet connection supposed to be?
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2007, 01:56:17 PM »
Mac OS X, Firefox, 2MB (but Virgin are shit - I'm moving anyroad).
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2007, 01:59:12 PM »
Virgin are normally sluggish in the evenings, its because they have been putting traffic shaping on the network. Just be thankful you are not stuck with a uni connection instead.
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2007, 02:10:27 PM »
Quote from: Tequila on October 04, 2007, 01:56:17 PM
Mac OS X, Firefox, 2MB (but Virgin are shit - I'm moving anyroad).

have you tried disabling network.dns.disableIPv6 in about:config?
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2007, 02:13:54 PM »
I'm just frustrated I guess.  It just seems as though, while I can download stuff, I can't get a consistent connection making listening to higher-bitrate radio impossible.
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2007, 02:17:07 PM »
I've noticed Virgin has gone downhill a bit since they took over NTL. Mine is a 4Mbit connection though so its not bad most of the time, and flies outside peak periods.
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2007, 02:19:02 PM »
I'm off to an up to 8Mb connection on ADSL24 on Monday.  :)
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2007, 02:21:34 PM »
woo. hopefully it will be a bit more reliable. :smash:
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2007, 02:24:08 PM »
700kb/sec sounds good to moi!
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2007, 05:45:03 PM »
I fucking miss internet backbone.  :'(
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2007, 06:40:56 PM »
Tell me about it.

When I finally ran out of free networks to log onto, I made the mistake of paying for Anaheim City wireless network.

Half the time, it's slower that dial-up!!!  :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
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Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2007, 06:47:01 PM »
Well, I wouldn't go THAT far,
but I dropped from (essentially)
100 MPS (limit on the ethernet
connection I was using) to less than
2.

I loved INSTANT access.

Add to that the fucking satellite link
here, and the lags become annoying.
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