According to my network monitoring software (aka uTorrent) it went down for an hour between 4:45PM and 5:45PM
sounds like a dns problem. Changing the dns servers should help.
Same thing by me now: no facebook, hotmail, messenger either :S
back up... :happy0203:
Has anyone been experiencing slow downloads and sometimes time outs with flow recently?
For a while now at home ive been experiencing slow downloads and slow streaming, even though all the speed test show my bw at the correct speed of 2Mb, iam getting 30k and less downloads and at work ,10Mb connection but slower than usual downloads and periodic timeouts.
Anyone else experiencing this or know whats going on?
All good here now just got to hate youtube for it's slow load time
o lawwd Flow rel acting up today.
I signed into PSN and everyone seeing me as offline. Not receiving messages... But I could send..
Signing out randomly...sign back in, friends not loading...and web pages taking ages to load.
This happening for anyone else?
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/785875370.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/14999328.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
yea....that bad.
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Last week I called in Flow about the random disconnects and slowdowns.
They sent someone over and he checked the box they installed outside.
He said that he "BOOST" my signal and everything should be fine.
That didn't do one fart as throughout the same day and days following the same thing was happening prior to "signal boosting".
Hmmm good ping and jitter, wtf @ packet loss. My connection seems fine, for now.
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17533728.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Hmm well good going FLOW, though in the past I have gotten a response from them, call back to ensure things ok....yet service still falters from time to time. I remember earlier this year getting dial up speeds. Hopefully things will continue to perform well.
I must say though that I thought it was just me having improved performance during the latter half of this week. I was on youtube the other night and thinking to myself how come the videos loading so fast.....on 720p quality lol. And well that screenshot I posted with the 1209 KB/s rate, yup still getting that speed during the day hehe.
^ditto, it has been running pretty good since Wednesday. I usually get a lag fest in BFBC2 but since Wednesday it has been mostly lag free, speedtest give me close to the advertised speeds to foreign servers, where as i was getting 2-3mbs average before.
Guys, earlier this week I left a less than pleasent comment on Flow's facebook group. Basically, the shitty ping and lag issues had me ticked and calling customer support wasnt getting me far.
Fellas, I must say, Flow have some realll bess customer support and I feel like they care dread. I got a call not 5 minutes ago from someone in the communications department that explained to me that they were doing some upgrades up to tuesday or so this week to the system countrywide and how I found the experience was since then, also if things were still bad they would send someone by me to test.I told her that pings were fine last night and gaming session went smoothly etc etc.
Ah feel like a biteup shilling and not pissed at them anymore. At least I have someone I can call now when the normal tech support not doing it for me. Now is time for some heavy sweat to see how much improvements their upgrades really made.
Apprentice believe me when I say that it wasn't all smooth sailing, the results I am getting recently are way above what I would get at times. Remember I said dial up speeds yuck...
Well I just got off the phone their with support... I actually waited 30mins with the phone to my ears to get through -.-
Usual yadda yadda, maybe router, nothing wrong on their end etc..etc..
So I voiced my frustration and the guy said he's escalating my issue and will contact me today about it and it should be fixed..
If that call doesn't come by tomorrow.. I'll resort to facebook. :)
And mega lulz @ "seriously pissed with these noobs"...Thats the magic line that may have worked for ya :p
Palancing when we on d road, meh Flow palancing!
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/831278231.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Hehe but seriously I was getting worse speeds than u these past few months :p
MW2 works alrightish as its p2p, so it assesses the best game hosts and drops me in a game which may or may not lag.
Tonight though it couldn't find any stable hosts, so it kept dropping me in unstable games and I had "1bar" opposed to everyone's 3 and 4 bar connections.
I just give up... I miss out this whole weekend's double xp event. I can't even synch trophies or change my profile colour as it keeps timing out.
sigh.
lol @ flow palancing
woody, you youtube vids stream smoooth? no stop and go action?
Allyuh want LASH!!! Do I have permission from now to say 'it GOOD!!!" when all them hard-drives fail? :laughing7:
The service is not perfect and I have had problems many times with lousy ping, but one thing I can say for sure is that I never went without a connection. That is more than I can say for TSTT when I had it.Yup that is true. I've had my blink go down for 40 days straight only five months later to go down for 30 days again.
still on the fence. just moved and must admit, flow impressed me with their response time.
They said a tech would come out on saturday and hook up the scene.
Promptly on Saturday, tech was in the place hooking up the scene.
Now comes the requisite speed tests and youtube streaming to see if they perform better here than in my old residence.
Hoss, I THIS close to f**king telling flow HTMC and take back they F**King modem. You know them site not even working? The mc HELPLINE giving a busytone.
WHAT THE F**K is this? THIS is service? This shit so bad I seriously contemplating taking back tstt broadband. Ah swear.
that is not a flow problem guy. that is a wiring problem. I had that same issue with blink whenever it rained my connection went to shit.
yeah, just got hooked back up
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/868081933.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Flow made the decision to downgrade real easy though....cause I'm still not getting 1mb up with my 10mb/1mb connection.
Stuck with a wshb 10mb/256k.
So come July 15th, is heavy 5mb/256k immc.
Save a cool $100.00
on the plus side, at least the youtube streaming much better here. Though saturday @ 4PM ain't exactly primetime for a test. Will continue to monitor.
Bandwidth was horrible all day on FLOW..something definitely wrong :(
I downloaded 500 gigs........this week :s lol
Well dred, is like this. I 100% sure tstt not this bad hoss. Words cannot describe how disappointing my flow experience is
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/20898396.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
This is what I getting for the last 4 nights. Totally unacceptable.
I've only gotten an 'A' one time.
Yea boy arc like u need a fb account to see the comments.
lol @ cartoon network comments. But nahhhhh I eh lolling with allyuh cuz man realll rubbin they low ping in my face. I have a bc2 knife book for all allyuh mc.
Well...I say give em until July 30th 2010 and see if the service improves after the upgrade. If not...Blink idmc. Simple as that.
As I've said before, I have never had any problems with my FLOW connection. Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Youtube videos play fine (with ByWifi at least),
720p videos stream off Appletrailers buffer free, online gaming barely has any lag, and just about all my downloads (torrent & http) run at max speeds.
Just this morning I acquired a copy of Starcraft II for test purposes (I actually mean it this time, I WILL be buying the game) and I took under an hour
to download the entire 7+ GB file. The speeds maxed out at around 2.5mb/s. FLOW could gladly take meh money. :lol:
Hard drive space really becoming an issue, so as soon as I watch stuff I hit the delete button hehe.
Looking good hehe.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/895468168.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/895623670.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21197987.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Now...if Flow could only do something about them UPLOAD SPEEDS DAMMIT!!! :(
Right now I in trouble with Fileporn.org and Bootytape.com.
Guy came and did a line test this week, said it was all clear.
and look at this...
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21676425.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Morning time, suddenly it working more civilised. As soon as later in the day reach, back to the nonsense.
Modem just not a night person? Work ok in the morning and take a break in the night?
so after a lot of complaints i am getting my 5mb speed, low pings and youtube working for the first time in months. However it appears torrents are being throttled. They take long to move from 1 k and then they slowly move to around 110k and then go back to 1k and repeat. Anyone else experiencing this?
Good day. My name is X. You may have remembered me and the issues I have been having.
A technician came today and reported that everything was fine with the wiring and other infrastructure at my home yet I continue to have SERIOUS issues with the service. As far as he and you all are concerned there IS no problem but this can't be further from the truth. These days it seems to work barely ok in the morning and in the night (8pm and beyond) is when everything goes wrong.
Is it that this problem cannot be fixed in my area? I know at least 10 people with the service in other parts of the country that are not having this issue. I need to know if I can get a resolution this week. I am completely fed up. If it can't be fixed I would have no choice but to make alternative arrangements for my internet connection needs. I can't take it anymore.
Good day. After many promises of being contacted with updates without follow through and promises of resolution followed by even worse service, I have decided that I have had enough.
I have already set in motion arrangements to have an alternative service setup and as soon as this is in place I will discontinue your 'service'. This has become absolutely necessary since my connection has proven to be totally unsatisfactory for the past few months. I will also not be paying any further bills due. Thanks a lot...for nothing.
lol @ the love hate flow relationship
I surprise men touting running back to blink like it so easy to do.
well hoss, threatening to go back tstt eh even make Flow BLINK...hahah yea.
check...QuoteGood day. My name is X. You may have remembered me and the issues I have been having.
A technician came today and reported that everything was fine with the wiring and other infrastructure at my home yet I continue to have SERIOUS issues with the service. As far as he and you all are concerned there IS no problem but this can't be further from the truth. These days it seems to work barely ok in the morning and in the night (8pm and beyond) is when everything goes wrong.
Is it that this problem cannot be fixed in my area? I know at least 10 people with the service in other parts of the country that are not having this issue. I need to know if I can get a resolution this week. I am completely fed up. If it can't be fixed I would have no choice but to make alternative arrangements for my internet connection needs. I can't take it anymore.
Not a call, not an email, nada. Worse company ever. NB this was sent last week Thursday eh.
So yea, I counting on the fact that I had Blink before may make things easier and quicker. I calling them every week to get a status. Nuh leaving them alone no months at all at all. Friggin flow is the worst, cah handle it. And for spite I eh paying no bill. Fcukin come and take the money from my cold dead hands. Is NOW they go call or email, but fcuk that.
Oh, and here's another mail I sent the communications manager last week again.QuoteGood day. After many promises of being contacted with updates without follow through and promises of resolution followed by even worse service, I have decided that I have had enough.
I have already set in motion arrangements to have an alternative service setup and as soon as this is in place I will discontinue your 'service'. This has become absolutely necessary since my connection has proven to be totally unsatisfactory for the past few months. I will also not be paying any further bills due. Thanks a lot...for nothing.
Yea...no response. I could only imagine what they saying in they head. Well f**in go na we eh go miss yuh measely $200 a month.
Your fears confirmed: "up to" broadband speeds are bogus
By Nate Anderson | Last updated about 20 hours ago
Broadband providers in the US have long hawked their wares in "up to" terms. You know—"up to" 10Mbps, where "up to" sits like a tiny pebble beside the huge font size of the raw number.
In reality, no one gets these speeds. That's not news to the techno-literate, of course, but a new Federal Communications Commission report (PDF) shines a probing flashlight on the issue and makes a sharp conclusion: broadband users get, on average, a mere 50 percent of that "up to" speed they had hoped to achieve.
After crunching the data, FCC wonks have concluded that ISPs advertised an average (mean) "up to" download speed of 6.7Mbps in 2009. That's not what broadband users got, though.
"However, FCC analysis shows that the median actual speed consumers experienced in the first half of 2009 was roughly 3 Mbps, while the average (mean) actual speed was approximately 4 Mbps," says the report. "Therefore actual download speeds experienced by US consumers appear to lag advertised speeds by roughly 50 percent."
The agency used metrics data from Akamai and comScore to make this determination, though a more accurate direct measurement is currently taking place under FCC auspices. The more accurate measurement will put small boxes in people's homes for weeks at a time, recording actual line speeds in thousands of US homes at all times of the day and night. But, until that data set is complete, Internet traffic data from Akamai and comScore will have to suffice.
When you look at actual speeds, most Americans have fairly slow service
Data source: FCC
The gap between advertisement and reality isn't a function of technology—it applied to all kinds of broadband connections, from cable to DSL to fiber. The less-than-ideal speeds aren't necessarily the "fault" of the ISP, either; crufty computers, poky routers, misconfigured WiFi, transient line noise, and Internet congestion all play a role.
Whatever the cause, though, the FCC has concluded that advertising the "up to" speed is so inaccurate (and so confusing to consumers) that something better should be tried, sort of a "nutrition label" for Internet access. The National Broadband Plan suggested something along these lines and the new FCC report supports the idea, recommending that a standard truth-in-labeling form should be drafted by the FCC, "the National Institute of Standards and Technology, consumer groups, industry and other technical experts."
The FCC has proposed a few example labels of its own:
Example broadband labels (source: FCC)
The New America Foundation last year proposed a standardized "truth-in-labeling" box with far more detail, and it used the new FCC report as a way to pitch its idea once more.
New America Foundation's prototype Schumer Box for broadband customers
For now, broadband buyers should just expect their connections to offer about half the promised maximum speed. If that gets you down, just remember: you aren't in this alone. UK broadband users also see speeds only half as fast as advertised.
apprentice, what's your results to a foreign server?
also, what are your torrent download speeds like?
Flow: Failure as usual. Look at this shit.
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/22413282.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
TSTT
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/22413390.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
F*ck yeah bitch. FINALLY. Them fellas cah advantage me in BF just so again. F*ck you Flow, rot in hell.
hmm, that is what you calling slow??
lol @ no torrents and rapidshare
What do you download on rapidshare??
Lol "slow" in comparison to what I normally get these days hehe. I think Apprentice has a premium rapidshare account which would have alot of "content" :p
hmm, that is what you calling slow??
lol @ no torrents and rapidshare
What do you download on rapidshare??Lol "slow" in comparison to what I normally get these days hehe. I think Apprentice has a premium rapidshare account which would have alot of "content" :p
Yup premium account ftw. Rapidshare literally "pushes" bandwidth to you so that you get the best download speed possible.
Yup rapidshare ftw but since their new setup they are dieing so it might be time to hit up Hotfile
Definitely an issue in the area....
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/919825318.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
o_O
Flow went down all night for me.
Woke up to this:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/918260803.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/918261559.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Not complaining :D
o_O
Flow went down all night for me.
Woke up to this:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/918260803.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/918261559.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Not complaining :D
I knew it couldn't last.
Past few days and today. This is average speed test:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/946064448.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/946067906.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/946068796.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
As usual to POS:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/946069643.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Something wrong on the overseas connections for me. Youtube back to a stickfest. And everything slow, page loads everything noticeably slower.
sigh..................................................
Woody what you getting to New York?
I don't think so, the network manager is a good friend of mine, we did martial arts together. lol
that's megabits not megabytes right
but if you're getting high speeds to flow in the last test, how does that explain the choke with the florida tests?
very confusing
Should be an interesting one to investigate
Thing about it, ive been with TSTT, 3 years ago or more, and yeah, things was rough. We waited on the service for about 6 months, went down constantly, couple times well per day. Customer service was bad, the switch to Flow was a no-brainer.I couldn't agree with you more.. well said!!! Ah done talk!! lol
I know I sounding like a TSTT poster boy, but believe me, I too have had serious issues with their service in the past. Luckily, I have an open mind (more like I was backed into a corner, rabid wolves inches away from chomping on my balls) so I had no choice to jump back in bed with the devil.
That said, their service (to me, as the only person I can speak for is myself) has been infinitely beter than Flow's in this year of 2010. Whatever TSTT did between then and now, they do it right.
I understand and appreciate that everyone's experience is different ISP to ISP. Im not saying that TSTT wtfpwns flow ALL across the board. The message that I hope I was successful in delivering here tonight is that regardless of who you are with, you should never never settle for crappy service. Make noise, be a bloody niusance, if enough people willing to back you, form a protest outside they head office if you have to.
In MY case, I tried with Flow, got absolutely nowhere, now im with TSTT. Service is great, I am paying the same as yall for less than half the bandwidth but it is good and stable. Bet your last cent if that changes in the morning they will be hearing from me, every day, twice a day until I am happy again. If they stop doing it for me and go back to the old nasty ways, I will be ditching them (reluctantly) and going back to Flow, also reluctantly.
You guys work hard for your money (although some of us seem to have a very well fertilized money tree(s) iin the backyard). For that money, make sure you are more satisfied than dis-satisfied else they go figure 'oh well them Trini doh really complain, we go give them whatever nah'
Just saying...
Not to alarm you Apprentice, but this is how my troubles started. At first, things would work well in the daytime but as soon as 7pm reach, pressure.Yes this is the exact repeat of what happened October last year when I first started complaining on this thread. For the past year I've only had one month of consistent service and that is only the month they upgraded the bandwidth. Its heading to the same conclusion and I really getting vocal about it.
Then eventually it get so bad that the service was horrible horrible horrible ALL the time.
What? You think I didnt try with Flow the civilized way? I tried and tried until I realised I wasnt dealing with PEOPLE. I was dealing with ANIMALS who saw me, as the paying customer as a LESSER being than an animal, an insect if you will.
119ms to carigamers. Or you only want Flow results, my bad amma let u finish lmao.
here is my work connection..
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998993567.png)
that wont say much cause they don't have the upload to support 100MB+ so the results will obviously be less hence the reason why they have a recommended test
cause if i test my internet speed on a blink speed test it max out at 12mb down but my upload remains at 6 -7 mb
yes 15MB/s as in 15,000kb/s i am getting i will take a screen shot of a file downloading
that is at home
like you have ah moving truck ready to move next door to me ah wah lol
Im pretty sure he was not referring to you directly, just pointing out the fact (which i agree with) that he should not have to resort to a 'pardner with a hookup' to get the proper service he has a RIGHT to recieve as a PAYING customer.
English is a hell of a thing.
Wyatt and Apprentice have the jingle stones package, I HAD the 'nuts in a big azz vice' special.
"Other Sources"
nice to see everyone else is having a nice connection on flow
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1016732318.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
nice to see everyone else is having a nice connection on flow
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1016732318.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
lol, why do I get the feeling you more than you're letting on?
Come come, spill some beans. They upgrade the off island pipe by an extra gigabit or two or what?
Is it me or did flow increased uploads to 1MB on 5MB package
should make it 2mbs and call it george
This is my 25 mbit at the moment....
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1154766573.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
On another note.....Rage....Zombie Strippers??? really???
Pinging carigamers.com [72.52.247.183] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=532ms TTL=45
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=516ms TTL=45
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=224ms TTL=45
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=246ms TTL=45
Ping statistics for 72.52.247.183:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 224ms, Maximum = 532ms, Average = 379ms
Network buffer measurements (?): Uplink 5900 ms, Downlink 1200 ms
We estimate your uplink as having 5900 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time.
We estimate your downlink as having 1200 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large downloads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large downloads at the same time.
Network buffer measurements (?): Uplink 1600 ms, Downlink 840 ms
We estimate your uplink as having 1600 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time.
We estimate your downlink as having 840 msec of buffering. This level can in some situations prove somewhat high, and you may experience degraded performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large downloads. Real-time applications, such as games or audio chat, may also work poorly when conducting large downloads at the same time.
lol, ok Emo-Awesome. We've heard your anti-flow rant a billion times. Same can be said for Blink as they have scorned many a gamer with dismal performance and lack luster customer service as well.
but enough on the ISP love/hate relationships, lets try and help Apprentice with something on topic.
Here's my offpeak results (ran a few seconds ago)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1197922489.png)
Hit us your results for comparison.
Apprentice, if you can, try running this test as well....it gives some very detailed analysis on your connection. May help pinpoint the source of the problem.
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html (http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html)
In my results, the section on buffering is a bit worrying.QuoteNetwork buffer measurements (?): Uplink 5900 ms, Downlink 1200 ms
We estimate your uplink as having 5900 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time.
We estimate your downlink as having 1200 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large downloads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large downloads at the same time.
Would be interested in seeing the results on a TSTT connection
We estimate your uplink as having 1400 msec of buffering. This is quite high, and you may experience substantial disruption to your network performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. With such a buffer, real-time applications such as games or audio chat can work quite poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time.
We estimate your downlink as having 230 msec of buffering. This level may serve well for maximizing speed while minimizing the impact of large transfers on other traffic.
lol, you still quarrellin? lets see the results from the test on a tstt connection por favor.
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html (http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html)
Especially interested in the buffer results
Network buffer measurements (?): Uplink 210 ms, Downlink is good
We estimate your uplink as having 210 msec of buffering. This level may serve well for maximizing speed while minimizing the impact of large transfers on other traffic.
We were not able to produce enough traffic to load the downlink buffer, or the downlink buffer is particularly small. You probably have excellent behavior when downloading files and attempting to do other tasks.
DNS resolver properties (?): Lookup latency 4000ms
Your ISP's DNS resolver requires 4000 msec to conduct an external lookup. It takes 130 msec for your ISP's DNS resolver to lookup a name on our server.
This is particularly slow, and you may see significant performance degradation as a result.
Anyway this does not give Flow CSR's any excuse to HANG UP on their customers.
One of my friends having the same issue with his connection called 30mins after I called in last night.
The CSR rudely spoke to him saying "is this the same person that called with the same problem" and hangs up.
I did post this issue to their facebook page as well.. Maybe they did look into it after those phone calls last night as well as the facebook post.
O well... Hopefully things run good for some time, which really means about a few weeks before more problems. :shakehead:
Got Flow last Friday, was blazing fast the first day.
The days after however it became unstable. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Browsing works decent most of the time tho torrents dragging a$$.
2 pc's in use both wireless. Idk I'll give it some time.
Got Flow last Friday, was blazing fast the first day.
The days after however it became unstable. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Browsing works decent most of the time tho torrents dragging a$$.
2 pc's in use both wireless. Idk I'll give it some time.
Anyone else didn't have flow net/cable for 12+ hours like me yesterday? Just wanted to know if it was just my area
Anyone else didn't have flow net/cable for 12+ hours like me yesterday? Just wanted to know if it was just my area
Too much BF: BC2 Notnice... :P Flow watching your gaming time LOL
what new package
was wondering myself..... I in vistabella i have my router to use opendns and it seeems to be working... Couldn't even get 223-flow busy tone
Hmmm, I understand Flow has been giving a lot of trouble today. At first, I thought somebody in Flow was trolling people, black is white for April fools day.
I just heard, however that apparently somebody bounce down a pole somewhere and cause the entire country to experience problems.
Flow was contacted about the issue and released the following graphic to illustrate the issue. If you look closely, this picture may have been slightly edited...
(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2518/buscrashescopy.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/140/buscrashescopy.jpg/)
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Hmmm, I understand Flow has been giving a lot of trouble today. At first, I thought somebody in Flow was trolling people, black is white for April fools day.smh!!! ahh boy
I just heard, however that apparently somebody bounce down a pole somewhere and cause the entire country to experience problems.
Flow was contacted about the issue and released the following graphic to illustrate the issue. If you look closely, this picture may have been slightly edited...
(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2518/buscrashescopy.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/140/buscrashescopy.jpg/)
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Not mine. Tried updating uTorrent, using a different port, enabling encryption. Nothing worked.
Ran a test on http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php and got a rather interesting result...
(http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/910/capture02042012023657.jpg)
Which suggests that some sort of 'traffic shaping' (aka 'blocking') may have been instituted.
It now makes this 'outage' seem rather suspicious to me. Makes sense that the network would have to be 'suspended' briefly to
institute such a significant policy. I could be wrong though.
I hope it's some kind of April Fools prank.....but I'm not the least bit amused. :angry:
Hopefully it's fixed by the time I get home, or me and Flow 'would have words'.
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Toll not free call, and a cursive Flow of words afterwards xD
Which is MOST people tbh...Toll not free call, and a cursive Flow of words afterwards xD
why you say that TriniLink? Flow to Flow calls are free... unless you took the net only from them...
:o gosh man arc
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Note, the wireless modem is optional. You can upgrade to the Turbo 15 and keep the old regular modem.
Ultimately, I opted to remain with the plain vanilla modem and my own Dlink DIR 655 wireless router combo instead.
You know... i cant game without lag, stream faster or download faster if my connection tripping out every other day -_-
Unfortunately i can say that i actually never had any major issues with blink other than those odd occasions when settings in the modem itself changed on its on and had to reset it.WHAT??? like you have short term memory loss... You forget a time the blink service went down for 2+ MONTHS! AND D MCS still charged we for the service! We had to refuse payment until they rectified the CREDIT they owed us for those 2 months AND it Would have taken longer if I hadn't engaged tatt! Bwdmc blink service no complaints my #insert long list of expletives here #
I think the problem might actually be CoD. (troll)That is always a possibility, but in this case it wasn't
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Anyone else experiencing an internet outage in central? I gots no internets on flow and i've been waiting 20 minutes on tech to pick up the damn phone >:|Good luck getting tech support after 6pm
Good luck getting tech support after 6pmYup, pretty much didn't get through, on another note, I did get through before 7am though and well... yes it IS down and yes they know of the problem but due to inclement weather (of which central is suprisinly unscathed by) I may be without service until tomorrow... :*(
Good luck getting tech support after 6pmYup, pretty much didn't get through, on another note, I did get through before 7am though and well... yes it IS down and yes they know of the problem but due to inclement weather (of which central is suprisinly unscathed by) I may be without service until tomorrow... :*(
The "game without lag" ad on this site by Flow is borderline false advertisement. Their service has seriously deteriorated for the above mentioned purpose over the last couple years.while i agree FULLY with what you say i can't fathom using Tstt again...they dropped sometimes 3 times a day and seems to be unstable...where as flow's ping is horrendous especially with consideration of online MMO's adding a 5 second delay to everything...however i prefer use a program called battle ping and pay 5USD a month and have a stable connection with a much more reasonable ping then be dropping connection at random times during gameplay
Lucky for them, 90% of their customers arent interested in gaming so they have no incentive to do a damn thing about it.
Never thought I'd say this, but thank GOD for tstt. If it wasnt for them I would have to do without online gaming, something I just cannot fathom.
The only thing worse than their pings is their customer service. I generally feel like i'm begging a favour anytime im on the phone with them...until I realise that im paying them. Corporate service is not much better either!
SO... I have yet another complaint against FLOW. That banner seriously needs to be taken down off this website cuz right now its false advertising.I posted about this same issue right herehttp://www.carigamers.com/cms/forums/index.php?topic=27641.0 (http://www.carigamers.com/cms/forums/index.php?topic=27641.0)
At exactly 6:00 PM till 2:00 AM every day for the last few days, MANY people on Flow have been experiencing drastic lag in games like WoW and GW2.
I gettin cuss from friends who i convinced to get the 15 mb package only to now be hampered while playing their games. It's ridiculous. Many of them called tech support and Flow will not admit to bandwidth throttling or anything along those lines, but nothing else can explain people on Flow, NATION WIDE, are gettin the exact same problem at the exact same time for the last few days.
Mr. Wyatt, i do request you contact your people and find out what this the problem with this else i forsee Flow losing customers very soon
Virtue and Rebirth have you guys gotten your lines tested by a flow technician, it could be that the cables or a splitter has degraded just enough that it is affecting your Interent.
Have you alos tried swapping out the current modem with a new know working modem, even the modems of a friends who's internet is working the way it should be.
You can also check the area you and the people are affected maybe it just a localized problem and you all as a collective group should write TTAT, that usually gets things going.
My lines were checked recently as well as my modem exchanged....the problem as Virtue states starts at 6pm sharp monday to friday and last till 2am With almost ALL..yes you read that correctly ALL online MMO's POOR service and tech support on this issue imagine we having to pay for a program to reduce lag very very bad lagVirtue and Rebirth have you guys gotten your lines tested by a flow technician, it could be that the cables or a splitter has degraded just enough that it is affecting your Interent.
Have you alos tried swapping out the current modem with a new know working modem, even the modems of a friends who's internet is working the way it should be.
You can also check the area you and the people are affected maybe it just a localized problem and you all as a collective group should write TTAT, that usually gets things going.
1) My line was tested within the last 6 months as i got the Turbo 15 package. It is not only me who is gettin the problem but multiple people in different areas (south, central,east and pos) that i play GW2 with.
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2) The modem is almost new as it is the wireless one that came with the turbo 15 package. My friends who also took the turbo 15 package, got it alot more recently than i did and are gettin issues as well.
3) Other people in my area are having issues browsing time to time but my concern is with WoW and GW2 instata lag at 6pm on the dot.
got even worse when we got the new 15mb plan wit the huge ass modem...
Sorry guys. Free leech week on Bootytape. I'll give back the bandwidth by Friday. (troll)
Yip last week or so its been giving trouble like whoa. Keep refreshing it will eventually come upagain with the laggg
not able to load Hulu or Netflix.
Never mind, it wasn't Flow's issue this time... Apparently the Netflix issue also applied to Hulu and Unblock-us service.
http://support.unblock-us.com/customer/portal/articles/796184-updated-netflix-com-player-error-you-cannot-watch-from-this-location
Had nothing to watch last night as a result. I guess technology isn't ready for me to go 100% legit
/me goes back to uTorrent
Heard they had a nation wide outage. My downloads are at a decent speed < 1MB, but Sunday and Monday web and torrents were dead in the water.
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Speed test results show up fine but games are still unplayable. This was happening a couple months ago. With MMO's at least.Just thought you should know that this was never resolved for me. I still need to use Battleping and WTFast to get by my MMO's to be playable. Personally I don't expect great things from Flow anymore I take w/e i can get now
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Anyone getting a lot of issues with Flow today?
Low download speeds. High latency and packet loss in game.
Anyone else experiencing torrent issues? As of this evening when I came home they are dead was working fine this morning.
Edit: Back to normal :lol:
Latency was around 30ms but so far it running at 12ms but I still can't understand when I playing battlefield the other player shots registering before mine
Understood, will add you to our chat group so we can do some further testing. Check your pm
Good luck with that NeoSpartan, if you decide you want our help though, you can email support@carigamers.com and we will get you into the VIP Gamer Tech Support group next week.