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Title: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Tequila 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!

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: odeon 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?

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Tequila on October 04, 2007, 01:56:17 PM

Mac OS X, Firefox, 2MB (but Virgin are shit - I'm moving anyroad).

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Christopher McCandless 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.

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: odeon 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?

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Tequila 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.

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: duncvis 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.

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Tequila on October 04, 2007, 02:19:02 PM

I'm off to an up to 8Mb connection on ADSL24 on Monday.  :)

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: duncvis on October 04, 2007, 02:21:34 PM

woo. hopefully it will be a bit more reliable. :smash:

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Tequila on October 04, 2007, 02:24:08 PM

700kb/sec sounds good to moi!

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Calandale on October 04, 2007, 05:45:03 PM

I fucking miss internet backbone.  :'(

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Scrapheap 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:

Title: Re: Oh, flangey-flaps!
Post by: Calandale 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.