Plus now we dont get any of the basic sky channels! (Im not on the internet, just fancy a bit of a hijack ) Grrrrrrr.

Tom... I shall rip out your still beating heart and feed it to the oompaloompas!

Orrrr agree heartily with you and moan at the lack of any bloody decent entertainment channels on cable.

problem with going on Sky is you still need to get a BT line, meaning you pay for sky, then you pay your BT line to get the "free" broadband.  

I decided to plug my firewalled laptop directly into my modem to rule out any network issues before calling NTL...

QuoteMon, 12 Mar 2007 22:12:12 GMT
1st 128K took 111 ms = 1180829 Bytes/sec = approx 9824 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 90 ms = 1456356 Bytes/sec = approx 12117 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 120 ms = 1092267 Bytes/sec = approx 9088 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 90 ms = 1456356 Bytes/sec = approx 12117 kbits/sec

Looks like the problem is the 10mbit IC on my Cisco router


BUGGER.


and back via the router:

QuoteMon, 12 Mar 2007 22:32:08 GMT
1st 128K took 610 ms = 214872 Bytes/sec = approx 1788 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 453 ms = 289342 Bytes/sec = approx 2407 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 453 ms = 289342 Bytes/sec = approx 2407 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 390 ms = 336082 Bytes/sec = approx 2796 kbits/sec

I guess the problem is that the routers IC is only 10mb and only appears to be able to talk to the modem at half-duplex. If I whack the IC to 10mb full the speeds drop even slower
I might have a fiddle with my queuing but I think I know where the buck stops on this one for me

Have you got anywhere with solving this proble M3t4 ?

I bought a Linksys BEFSR41 Cable router that had a 100mb WAN interface. This totally sorted my connection speed problem out.

...I then got offered a fantastic upgrade deal for my Cisco router which I jumped at and that has also sorted out my problem

yeah nimrod, it is a case of opportune router failure.

Virgin did the switch, since then QoS doesnt work. just completely knocks everyone down to 10kb/s or less. that 10kb being shared between 8 computers.