Ribnet speed

jwalker · 22 January 2006, 17:10

Is it just me who's having difficulty with ribnet speed? It's been poor for me for a few months but today is particularly bad with pages timing out.

Boat bad is fine.

codprawn · 22 January 2006, 17:12

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Originally Posted by jwalker

Is it just me who's having difficulty with ribnet speed? It's been poor for me for a few months but today is particularly bad with pages timing out.

Boat bad is fine.

Ok for me 95% of the time!!! Only thing I find a big problem is the Members list - takes AGES!!!

Biggles · 22 January 2006, 18:36

Never had a problem with RIBNET.

Nasher · 22 January 2006, 19:41

I've never had a problem with Ribnet even when I was still using a dial up 52K modem. Now I'm with broadband I can even click on the thumbnails to see the bigger images

Nasher

IanE · 22 January 2006, 20:07

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Ok for me 95% of the time!!! Only thing I find a big problem is the Members list - takes AGES!!!

I'm sure that's server/software not banwidth - I'm on 2Mb broadband and its still awful

Hugh Jardon · 22 January 2006, 20:18

last couple of days have been quite bad for me too

codprawn · 22 January 2006, 20:33

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Originally Posted by IanE

I'm sure that's server/software not banwidth - I'm on 2Mb broadband and its still awful

No probs my end either - nice 10mb connection - it is seriously rapid - vids come through at 1.3mbps if the site is up to it!!!

Alex Brown · 22 January 2006, 20:45

I wonder whether this problem is bad routing between different ISPs and the US server that ribnet is sat on - for me, the forums don't appear slow.

If you want to check and you have windows, goto command prompt, type in tracert www.rib.net and press enter. This will give you the route from your pc to rib.net - I am currently seeing average 25ms in the uk, and 110ms the moment it gets across the pond. Dialup users will see this probably go around the 500 to 1000ms mark maybe (it's been a while).

-Alex

Biggles · 22 January 2006, 21:37

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Originally Posted by Hugh Jardon

last couple of days have been quite bad for me too

I have had some problems recently with playing games and its been my son. He's got an IPOD and downloads the podcasts. That just soaks up all my bandwidth and gives me awful latency.

If your on a router check what the rest of your family are up to.

jwalker · 22 January 2006, 22:21

Thanks for the replies, guys. I gave up earlier. The Boat bad comment was a freudian typo but I couldn't get to the edit page to fix it!

Sorry JF. Now the traffic is low, I'm back to normal speed.

Alex, I'll do a trace next time it slows up....teatime tomorrow. I've checked the line speed and it reports ok.

Edit: I've just done a trace while speed is good. It'll be interesting to compare the timings at various points when it's slow.

Is it possible to dump the contents of a DOS screen to the printer or copy/paste it?

roycruse · 22 January 2006, 23:03

yes you can just right click in the command prompt window and select mark - then drag a hilight over the text you want then right click again on the hilighted bit. Then you will be able to paste the text into word or notepad etc...

alternatively type

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tracert www.rib.net > c:\output.txt

and the whole results will get saved to the file output.txt on your c:\ drive (you can use any filename instead of output.txt)

heres my trace if anyone wants a comparison

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Tracing route to www.rib.net [69.5.13.57]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 27 ms 25 ms 26 ms i-194-106-33-150.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.150]
3 31 ms 30 ms 30 ms i-194-106-32-62.freedom2surf.net [194.106.32.62]
4 30 ms 32 ms 30 ms ge-3-3.a01.londen03.uk.ra.verio.net [213.130.48.201]
5 31 ms 31 ms 30 ms ge-0-1-1-4.r21.londen03.uk.bb.verio.net [213.130.47.81]
6 106 ms 104 ms 107 ms p16-0-1-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.5.91]
7 111 ms 110 ms 110 ms p64-2-0-0.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2.181]
8 109 ms 110 ms 111 ms xe-1-3-0.r20.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2.170]
9 136 ms 137 ms 136 ms p16-3-0-0.r01.miamfl02.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.3.167]
10 135 ms 138 ms 135 ms ge-1-2.a00.miamfl02.us.ra.verio.net [129.250.30.18]
11 136 ms 137 ms 137 ms ge-4-2.a00.miamfl02.us.ce.verio.net [130.94.195.118]
12 136 ms 135 ms 136 ms border3.ge2-0.bbnet1.mia003.pnap.net [69.25.0.11]
13 144 ms 143 ms 146 ms futurequest-2.border3.mia003.pnap.net [216.52.162.126]
14 148 ms 145 ms 145 ms core-x-02-2.futurequest.net [66.151.33.253]
15 146 ms 148 ms 145 ms rib.net [69.5.13.57]

Trace complete.

jwalker · 23 January 2006, 01:13

Ta for that RC.

John Kennett · 23 January 2006, 11:28

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Originally Posted by jwalker

Is it just me who's having difficulty with ribnet speed? It's been poor for me for a few months but today is particularly bad with pages timing out.

Boat bad is fine.

Should be OK. There are no issues with the server, and BoatBad is running from the same datacentre.

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Ok for me 95% of the time!!! Only thing I find a big problem is the Members list - takes AGES!!!

There definitely seems to be a problem with it the members list, but I haven't got to the bottom of it. There's a software upgrade on the cards which I hope will sort it out.

I find that I have problems with NTL at peak times, when the broadband connection speed drops so far as to be almost unusable. It seems to be worst around tea time. Other than that everything seems to be OK.

John

jwalker · 23 January 2006, 11:50

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Originally Posted by John Kennett

...I find that I have problems with NTL at peak times, when the broadband connection speed drops so far as to be almost unusable. It seems to be worst around tea time. Other than that everything seems to be OK.

Thanks for that JK. It is NTL so it maybe a general problem. They are a bit less that poor when you try to talk to them. My first year contract expires next month so it could be time for a change.

Now then, who's the best alternative?.....

roycruse · 23 January 2006, 12:05

i use freedom 2 surf

never had to call for support - have to reboot my router about twice per year. otherwise 100% up time.

i get no noticable slowdown any time of day but that could be down to living in cornwall.

John Kennett · 23 January 2006, 12:31

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Originally Posted by jwalker

It is NTL so it maybe a general problem. They are a bit less that poor when you try to talk to them.

I would really, really try to avoid having to call NTL about anything. If you do, have some valium handy!

I stayed with them when I moved house, only because they screwed things up so badly that they gave me a year's free line rental and 3 months free broadband. In a previous house move I ended up practically kidnapping two NTL engineers and not letting them go until it was all working. I even lent them the tools they needed

I'll be looking to change provider come April.

John

codprawn · 23 January 2006, 15:59

No probs with NTL in Swansea - although customer service is diabolical. Have had to talk the techies through a few problems myself in the early days but they seem to understand it a bit better now!!!!

Can't really complain as I had FREE broadband for 2 years!!! Bought my own modem in 2000 - went through proper reg process etc etc but NTL just couldn't get it into their thick heads I had broadband - told them about 5 times and then gave up.

Finally caught up with me about 3 years ago - now on the 10mb service and it flies!!!

I find the cable service FAR more reliable than ADSL - we install and support many customers and the number of adsl routers we get back is scary - no matter what make they are!!!

I think it is probably due to static/lightening spikes down the phone lines - can cause havoc when you have wires running around through the air.

jwalker · 27 January 2006, 23:34

This is buggin me. Last evening and this evening, 5 to 7ish, mostly I just couldn't get to ribnet, pages timed out or just didn't come up on screen. Occasionally a page came up. Even the response to the mouse was slow when selecting page items. Boatmad and all the other sites I tried were fine, a little slow at this peak time but still ok. Presently, everything is flying. I traced a few times as Alex suggested but the timings came up fairly similar no matter what. The line speed is testing out at just about 512 which is what it is supposed to be.

Charles · 28 January 2006, 07:04

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Originally Posted by jwalker

Last evening and this evening, 5 to 7ish, mostly I just couldn't get to ribnet, pages timed out or just didn't come up on screen.

Same here, took ages to load - eventually did, clicked on a link and timed out. Gave up in the end. Happens regularly!

Hightower · 28 January 2006, 09:24

I'm having difficulty right now, pages are sluggish to load and some have timed out. Have tried other sites that work fine.

What's going on?