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Tech Talk => Hardware, Tweaking & Networking => Topic started by: TheApprentice on April 03, 2009, 06:11:01 PM

Title: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on April 03, 2009, 06:11:01 PM
Dedicated thread to anything and everything Flow Broadband.
Internet woes? high pings? constant net drops?
Explain and discuss with your fellow GATTERS.


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Is it just me or is FLOW down in South?
My modem has only the power light on and the "DS" light is blinking.

Went offline about 4pm.
Tried resetting, no go...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on April 03, 2009, 06:22:36 PM
ok...just got through to customer service...
my area down...so :(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 06, 2009, 06:47:01 PM
Anyone else experienced downtime earlier this afternoon for about an hour or two?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: AR!Ø on July 06, 2009, 07:19:25 PM
Yeah I got some problems earlier today, not too long ago.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: haterforever on July 06, 2009, 07:26:45 PM
yeah, got some problems, reset the modem a few times and it workin good for the while now
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 06, 2009, 07:53:38 PM
yea was down here too only now came back up
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 06, 2009, 09:51:19 PM
got a call that it was down myself. When I got home, it wasn't working. Came back and forth for a bit. Finally stabilized after 7pm
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on July 06, 2009, 10:04:53 PM
According to my network monitoring software (aka uTorrent) it went down for an hour between 4:45PM and 5:45PM
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on July 07, 2009, 02:32:36 AM
Yep noticed the outtage also...
Was busy in a LAN party though :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 07, 2009, 09:55:27 AM
According to my network monitoring software (aka uTorrent) it went down for an hour between 4:45PM and 5:45PM


lollzzzz
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on July 07, 2009, 10:14:36 AM
Well it was down, here in vistabella too... Came back up last night phone service at the call centre is down as well... And at most flow offices says my friend working there. So doh expect any help from flow for at least a day
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 12, 2009, 01:04:22 PM
anyone getting really slow browsing speeds (and downloads) over the last few days?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 14, 2009, 09:15:20 PM
Why is it GATT and a handful of other sites are the only ones I can connect to in the whole wide wibble? MSN, hotmail, Facebook, nothing.

Confirmations?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 14, 2009, 09:16:32 PM
same here
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on July 14, 2009, 09:18:41 PM
ditto

yahoo and google working

but the ones Cap'n mentioned aren't loading at all...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 14, 2009, 09:19:28 PM
I'm on my berry and the net seems fine. When I get home, will try on flow and report

sounds like a dns problem. Changing the dns servers should help.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 14, 2009, 09:20:30 PM
What the swizzlesticks is going on? Can anyone on Blink report?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on July 14, 2009, 09:23:18 PM
sounds like a dns problem. Changing the dns servers should help.

dude, I already using OpenDNS on my router... so what else can you come with?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 14, 2009, 09:23:40 PM
seems like a dns issue
been pinging and tracerting away

flows dns seems to be screwing up
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on July 14, 2009, 09:24:48 PM
Same problems here... cant get into Guild Wars and a couple sites not loading...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 14, 2009, 09:26:17 PM
yeah flows dns is screwing up, it happens, has happened frequently on tstt in the past.

i predict they will reboot their modem an fix us all in a few minutes
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 14, 2009, 09:27:13 PM
Open DNS not working in truth lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 14, 2009, 09:29:23 PM
is not our dns
its flows



ns1.flowtrinidad.com
ns2.flowtrinidad.com

no iz workingzorzz
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: PikachuManZzZ on July 14, 2009, 09:34:27 PM
uh, not getting any problems with Flow on my end right now. :?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 14, 2009, 09:34:52 PM
Ah ok was wondering was trying to join some ps3 games and I kept getting errors lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 14, 2009, 09:36:47 PM
lots of sites working here, but steam, msn, facebook and hotmail not working...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on July 14, 2009, 09:40:47 PM
Blink is fine, everything working/loading over here in the sister isle :P
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: PikachuManZzZ on July 14, 2009, 09:43:49 PM
Quote
Same thing by me now: no facebook, hotmail, messenger either :S

Same here wrt FB and hotmail/msn (didn't try messenger). It doesn't look like a DNS issue though (they resolve just fine in terminal).
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 14, 2009, 09:45:53 PM
its not OUR dns thats an issue, its flows dns servers
they bennin, dropping packets and timing out
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 14, 2009, 09:53:17 PM
back up... :happy0203:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on July 14, 2009, 09:56:11 PM
back up... :happy0203:

haha yepz
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Saxito Pau on July 14, 2009, 09:57:38 PM
yeah, no MSN for me this night
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 14, 2009, 10:47:49 PM
Working again for me
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 14, 2009, 11:51:30 PM
works fine here
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 23, 2009, 11:24:23 PM
Pinging www.l.google.com (http://) [74.125.159.103] with 32 bytes of
Reply from 74.125.159.103: bytes=32 time=1426ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.159.103: bytes=32 time=1366ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.159.103: bytes=32 time=1656ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.159.103: bytes=32 time=1908ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 74.125.159.103:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1366ms, Maximum = 1908ms, Average = 1589ms

Good lord. Flow is totally cramping my World at War style tonight.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 24, 2009, 12:07:11 AM
hmm no such probs here, peyongin level sf4
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 24, 2009, 06:24:00 AM
Yeah it leveled back out a few mins later.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on August 03, 2009, 12:53:37 PM
Anyone having recent flow issues... I get an upload error when running "www.speedtest.net (http://)" tests... Sites taking forever to load... Vistabella aka South area anyone else???
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 03, 2009, 12:55:23 PM
No such issues here.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on August 03, 2009, 02:33:31 PM
everything good here too.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 03, 2009, 02:45:34 PM
I'm having really slow downloads, during the night 1mb and less
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 03, 2009, 03:01:06 PM
Hmm just did a speed test in cascade, full speeds here.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on August 03, 2009, 05:32:50 PM
Working fine here today, but yesterday i  could not dl anything whole day only pages was loading.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on August 04, 2009, 04:35:29 PM
flow guy was on the street checking each tap off point today... Said they know of low signal in the area but nothing of not working net...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 07, 2009, 09:05:44 PM
Again with the 2000ms ping. Flow, u are beginning to suck now.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on September 13, 2009, 07:03:48 PM
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?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on September 13, 2009, 08:06:52 PM
nope. tings nice here. 10mb speeds as always. like i'm the only one never havin problem wit flow.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on September 13, 2009, 11:42:07 PM
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?

Yeah Crixx I started getting similar issues recently on my 10 mbit at home. Depends on the time of day for me, early mornings seem to be fine but as the day progresses it gets worse, I seem to get pretty bad performance at nights. Just got this at 11:41 pm and this is a "good" result for the night.  Funny thing when I use the local flow server to test it shows full 10 mbit speeds....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/564531162.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on September 14, 2009, 08:47:56 AM
yeah when i use the local flow server it shows full speed
so yu saying when you pick another server the bw difference is huge?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on September 14, 2009, 10:31:55 AM
Yeah this is my bandwidth test from this morning, it will keep getting worse as the day progresses. The difference will keep getting bigger, Flow server always shows maximum speed indicating at least the problem is not on my end.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/564873840.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)


(http://www.speedtest.net/result/564875147.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)



Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on September 14, 2009, 11:16:03 AM
Maybe like TSTT they are approaching their Oversubscription limit.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on September 14, 2009, 12:00:58 PM
Yeah it was bound to happen, all those bandwidth hogs.......
*looks at self in the mirror*
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on December 18, 2009, 07:03:04 PM
Anybody else getting very erratic latency on flow tonight? Sweat buss for me tonight.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on December 18, 2009, 09:14:30 PM
didn't try a sweat yet. (misses still up)

I'll tell you later
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on December 19, 2009, 07:05:22 AM
Seems to have levelled out this morning.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on December 22, 2009, 08:59:42 AM
Last night flow connection went kaput.

It came back up sometime early in the morning (I was sleeping but noticed some GATT posts came in and downloads completed)

The connection is down again as I type (using my blackberry as a modem via bluetooth to post this)

Couldn't get through to FLOW's NOC/Helpdesk last night.

Anyone else having issues? I know Berzerk was as well.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Red Paradox on December 22, 2009, 09:33:13 AM
my Flow was working all night last night and this morning...however it's funny u say that...sometimes my Flow connection goes down between, 7:45 am to 10:40-ish am (or even later than that...but not exceeding midday) anyone ever got THAT problem
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on December 22, 2009, 09:40:26 AM
Just did a speedtest and pingtest...my connection has improved recently, hope it stays that way. Back in September and October I would keep getting disconnected randomly.

Oh and yeah Flow tech support, I never could get through to them when I was having issues, would call at different times and no one would answer steups.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/659925428.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/6096569.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on December 22, 2009, 09:41:10 AM
Same here Wyattt, could not even get my phone to dial flow's help desk. everything thing seems to be ok this morning.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on December 30, 2009, 09:41:11 PM
Ok so my Flow connection has been down since 1pm (when i noticed) or earlier.  Still down right now.
Anyone experiencing/experienced a similar outage?

Also its been going down often over the past few weeks for hours at a time.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on December 31, 2009, 04:17:19 PM
Weird..
Am I the only one having flow problems o_O
Then again I wouldn't know from other flow peeps if their innernetz down also.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on December 31, 2009, 05:04:00 PM
No problems on mine.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on December 31, 2009, 05:23:11 PM
none atm but last night it was a bit slow
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on December 31, 2009, 07:46:16 PM
Well as of now Flow still down... it came back up for about 20mins earlier... and then down again.
can't do anything on this mobile internetz i using temporarily.
:(
The next problem is the phone line down along with the internet. so like...this time of year no one can get through.. :|
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on January 01, 2010, 05:16:10 PM
that mightily sucks matey... On flow here in Vistabella
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on January 02, 2010, 02:39:41 PM
Well it did come back up around 8pm old years. So that's good lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on January 18, 2010, 09:39:59 PM
Been getting less than 1mb speed on my 10mb package for the last two days. anyone in south experiencing similar?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on January 18, 2010, 10:01:41 PM
Not that I've tested in ages, but I do find youtube vids often take forever to stream.

Real stop motion animation.

Then again, other streaming sites seem to do ok, so I don't know if its youtube servers being hammered, ISP throttling or what.

Downloads usually in the hundreds, so no complaints there but the vid streaming feels like Dialup days come back again.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on January 18, 2010, 10:17:20 PM
@eroo
flow performance has been down significantly on my end also.
Pings are noticeably higher playing some games, loading some sites.

Also getting less than 5mb performance on my 10mb connection.
When I speedtest foreign servers, get low speeds but when I do local speedtest to flow I get full bandwidth.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: suzieboy on January 18, 2010, 10:56:36 PM
aye for real thats wats up....especially for youtube if feels like dialup so much so i hadda pause a 5min vid till it fully donwlaod it to watch.....flow playin up in dmc.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on January 19, 2010, 08:47:10 AM
They working on more upgrades this year again... last time was de same problems when they were planning the upgrade to 10Mbps
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on January 19, 2010, 05:09:20 PM
yeah, mine stopped too. After being told to reboot a few times, they said it was disconnected because I owing $40.00

and no message or nothing. Just can't make or receive calls.

steups!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: suzieboy on January 19, 2010, 05:34:27 PM
^^^^ OMG for real with that phone ting real "Phoney" so much so my mom get vex an cancel the phone service an change everybody cellphone to postpaid an hop on bmobile family plan ting an that was that..
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Kraeoss on January 19, 2010, 05:57:58 PM
damn.. this kinda ^@^^ attitude that happpening better stop yes...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on February 07, 2010, 12:32:42 AM
OK, tell meh i'm not the only one getting slow speeds from flow all day.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on February 16, 2010, 01:36:44 PM
flow real slow today dial up speed right now

any1 else?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on February 16, 2010, 01:55:39 PM
Downloads are a bit on the slow side but definitely not as bad as dialup speeds.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 16, 2010, 03:32:20 PM
only my youtube streaming missbehaving AS PER USUAL.

Downloads chogging along at a normal 700k
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on February 16, 2010, 07:55:39 PM
All good here now just got to hate youtube for it's slow load time
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on February 16, 2010, 08:51:37 PM
With 10 down you'd think the youtube streaming in sd would be a cinch. Deliberate traffic limiting on that port? Why that and not torrents?

Not that I'm complaining about torrent speeds.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on February 17, 2010, 11:19:47 AM
Torrents use too large a span of ports would be my guess. You can easily restrict a small range of ports, but when your range in torrents are from 15k go up, it's just too large to restrict without affecting other services.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on February 17, 2010, 11:58:52 AM
All good here now just got to hate youtube for it's slow load time

get a video accelerator like me. ByWifi FTW!!!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on February 17, 2010, 12:45:35 PM
interesting suggestion @ bywifi
will check it out later

but last night i did some research and removing hardware acceleration from your flash videos seems to increase streaming speed.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on March 08, 2010, 05:46:15 PM
anyone else flow  going down alot 2day
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on March 10, 2010, 08:16:32 PM
FLOW Speeds just took a REL big deep by me... 256K speeds to servers other than local which giving 2mbps.
THE 1 DAY I have a livestream of something to watch flow flekkin up...
.............................
Anybody else similar? (south area)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on March 10, 2010, 08:47:59 PM
Yes I from south and I thought I actually was running on my blink backup which is 256k.

I think with so many ppl on flow now they running out of bandwidth.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on March 31, 2010, 07:38:09 AM
Is anyone else's flow link down this morning? I'm in Port of Spain.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on March 31, 2010, 08:59:45 AM
Company uses flow
we are up , everything seems fine, we on Charlotte street
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 31, 2010, 12:48:09 PM
Fine here too
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on March 31, 2010, 02:01:10 PM
Yea I shame to say what the problem was. False alarm people.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on April 17, 2010, 03:55:41 PM
I have an open request to anyone one flow. Please run a continuous ping on 4.79.145.210 and post about 100 replies please. Im trying to get to the bottom of my BC2 lag issues.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on April 17, 2010, 04:10:22 PM
Pinging 4.79.145.210 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=143ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=147ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=147ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=153ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=148ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=152ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=112
Request timed out.
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=145ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=151ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=119ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=124ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=136ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=137ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=154ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=145ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=119ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=186ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=185ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=217ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=154ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=112
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Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=137ms TTL=112
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on April 17, 2010, 05:28:13 PM
yes flow pings here in VISTABELLA r horridible, " and yes i spelt it right" .... Imagine trying to get in a COD 4 server and getting booted by all the servers for high ping... 340+ on a specific night earlier this week...


but the silver lining BLink's giving very much balls for service of late and problems with streaming....
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on April 17, 2010, 05:39:11 PM
Did a ping test, all seems ok today. In POS.

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/14990131.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on April 17, 2010, 05:45:49 PM
Wyatt you getting some bess pings to that server boy.  Mine all over the damn place spiking up to 1200 and 1400 ms too regularly, hence my Michael Jackson antics in game.

I could only dream of such great pings. Ill see what happens tonight.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on April 17, 2010, 06:00:51 PM
pings arent horrible but my net keeps on dropping every once in awhile. been happening a couple weeks now.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on April 17, 2010, 06:02:36 PM
Pinging 4.79.145.210 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=112
Reply from 4.79.145.210: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=112
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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on April 17, 2010, 07:58:44 PM
Flow going mad  this week only cutting off.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on April 17, 2010, 08:39:04 PM
It not working good anymore :(

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/14998054.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on April 17, 2010, 09:14:50 PM
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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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".
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on April 17, 2010, 09:45:20 PM
Ok, knock on wood, my pings seems to have levelled out a bit...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15000391.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: haterforever on April 17, 2010, 11:17:27 PM
flow real pull stones whole day. highest pings i ever got. i normally avg 30ms. today i was avg 300ms. bad comapany was lagging too much. first time i got turned off from the game (thanks to flow). hopefully when i wake up tomorrow its fixed
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on April 18, 2010, 01:01:35 AM
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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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".

same with me hoss
stueps
i signin into psn an my friends avatars taking FOREVER to load
cyah even play a couple games of MAG without randomly disconnecting wdmc
i been cussin them a while now they go get fed up of hearing my voice cuz is not no small money i payin wtf

a simple 3-5 min youtube vid takin long to load.....i cudda take a dump come back an it still aint fully load stueps
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on April 18, 2010, 02:05:08 AM
Yeah I had real Flow issues tonight.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: haterforever on April 18, 2010, 08:51:14 AM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15025097.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

ping looking bess today. i hope its maintained
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on April 19, 2010, 12:10:43 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15101418.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15101562.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15101683.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15101715.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/787433629.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)


:(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on April 19, 2010, 10:23:02 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15134287.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/787946098.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15134430.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15134475.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

This REL ridiculous...

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on April 29, 2010, 07:31:32 PM
ppl net back to normal or still acting up?
mines still in a mess and honestly gettin rel fed up
since i cant play ANY online games anymore due to this except for mw2.......an we all know i rather play in traffic than play that bs
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on April 29, 2010, 07:33:42 PM
My 10mb connection from the hours of 5:00pm to 1:00 am becomes dial up
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on April 29, 2010, 07:47:04 PM
This is from my pingtest right now. Games playable but usually there is less jitter....

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/15835225.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

I don't get my full 10mbit bandwidth at night though...


(http://www.speedtest.net/result/798836475.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on April 29, 2010, 09:54:31 PM
yeah I'm not either, they said they will be doing some upgrades to fix the problem, this should occur during the weekend and we should see its benefits by Wednesday hopefully.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 01, 2010, 05:41:40 PM
Having probs today, it's goin slow. Will try later tonight.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 24, 2010, 05:58:47 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17531017.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Flow Broadband Status update = Steaming pile of faeces.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 24, 2010, 06:10:28 PM
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)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on May 24, 2010, 06:18:34 PM
when rain falls by me my net starts to run slow.anyone getting this
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: haterforever on May 24, 2010, 06:19:03 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17534184.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

wow, flow ina mess today. worst i seen on a pingtest i did
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 24, 2010, 07:42:13 PM
:(

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17537904.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on May 24, 2010, 07:49:41 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17538197.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17538259.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 24, 2010, 09:30:58 PM
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)

I know right... so games would run smoothe.. then I'll rubberband halfway across the map and dead lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 25, 2010, 12:32:36 AM
Think this coulda be related somehow to online traffic from people checking elections etc tonight?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 25, 2010, 01:43:25 AM
nah not at all...its been like this for 5days now... But i brushed it off hoping it would be back to normal.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 25, 2010, 07:03:39 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17600243.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17601151.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17601193.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

this depressing....wow..
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 25, 2010, 07:43:32 PM
Better for me tonight...but it was bad these past few days.

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17602372.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 27, 2010, 12:02:24 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/827372635.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17675911.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

So I call Flow Support again tonight.
They said that there's nothing wrong with Flow's network. No congestion, no signal problems or anything.
I explain all the above to them... I know others experiencing the same problem.
The guy said that I might have spyware on my computer or my router acting up :/.

CLEARLY it isn't my pc or router:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/827375223.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

If flow is indeed correct that nothing is wrong..then what could be causing these problems o_O ?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 27, 2010, 01:10:07 AM
Same experience I have with calling the phone support. This is why I wrote a strongly worded note on their Facebook group. Almost EVERY night I get horrible pings and jitter resulting in an unbearable online gaming experience. They HAVE to do better than this shit after all I paying 350mc dollars every month. Best I either downgrade to 2mbps or go back to TSTT yes, at least I never had this problem with them.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 27, 2010, 01:27:05 AM
It tends to work well during off peak times for me, as for download speeds I don't get anything near 10 mbit during the day anymore. Only late at night and early mornings...


(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17678777.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on May 27, 2010, 07:02:26 AM
Legend said this day would come.

Seems flow has gotten too many customers and not enough infrastructure to support.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 27, 2010, 09:52:31 AM
NOOOOOOOOO!!!! lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on May 27, 2010, 09:55:58 AM
A wise man once said............. IT GOOD!!! lmao
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 27, 2010, 10:21:09 AM
HYMC Warning (1 of 3)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on May 27, 2010, 10:23:29 AM
Buh wtmc, man deface mih sig yes, I have been victimized!! My freedom as a citizen to state my opinion on a matter has been trampled upon with reckless abandon....

But I will Rise!! Yes I will Rise!!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 27, 2010, 10:23:45 AM
It not good lol, means that our ISP options are getting crappier. Both Blink and Flow......Greendot? lol


Lol wat is going on with ur sign.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 27, 2010, 10:42:23 AM
LOL @ reckless abandon. I was wondering what going on with your sig. That wasnt intentional?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on May 27, 2010, 11:01:20 AM
I don't know what the hell going on but I demand an inquiry into the defacing of my damn sig!!!

This is injustice of the Highest Order!! I demand answers!!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 27, 2010, 11:06:53 AM
Weird it showing fine here
http://bfbcs.com/stats_pc/Redfish_TT/graphics (http://bfbcs.com/stats_pc/Redfish_TT/graphics)

I wonder if it is the opposition party doing this? Percy would not be happy lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on May 27, 2010, 11:12:43 AM
You know how long it take me to find that one, and now this happen......STEUPS!!

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 27, 2010, 05:47:39 PM
I getting some decent speeds this afternoon surprisingly......


Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 27, 2010, 06:27:52 PM
^ can I haz ur innernetz?

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/828285940.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 28, 2010, 02:43:47 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 28, 2010, 02:52:08 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on May 28, 2010, 03:20:59 PM
^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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 28, 2010, 03:21:40 PM
Well woody that is great news. Customer service ftw. I still reserve judgement until I see how it goes this weekend into next week.

Who say level 'testing' in some bc2 to make sure everything working properly hehe.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 28, 2010, 03:23:56 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/829196064.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)


Can't remember the last time I saw such speeds during the day :p Normally I only get this late at night....time to run some downloadinnanetz.exe
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on May 28, 2010, 03:58:18 PM
LOL @ 'downloadinnanetz.exe'

Somehow I never got the issues you guys did, since I switched to Flow.
Its been peaches and cream since then, as I have always gotten the speed and ping I'm paying for.

As for 'testing' later, I'm all for that.  :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 28, 2010, 04:33:22 PM
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.

What flippin' alternate universe ya'll living in and how can I communicate with you guys oO

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/829256200.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17777174.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Its been 8months or so since I've gotten what Woody posted :/
I think this is the part where I ask flow for some kinda compensation? A customer can't be paying $350 for 10mb but getting 2mb speeds :/ .
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 28, 2010, 04:47:00 PM
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...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 28, 2010, 04:52:24 PM
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...

yea i know hehe... been there experienced that lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 28, 2010, 05:16:21 PM
Apprentice, Facebook is your friend. USE IT :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 28, 2010, 05:27:17 PM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 28, 2010, 07:44:54 PM
Wait nah there reps actually check facebook? so what they pm u? lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 28, 2010, 08:45:22 PM
Like allyuh wasnt listening. Is their facebook group I posted in and YES they do check it, quite regularly. Yes, pm's.

Yes @ apprentice with the 30mins on the phone before talking to someone. As if that wasnt bad enough, they dont even have a damn toll free line for customer support wtf? I told the lady (and yes she was a very nice lady) about that same exact issue as on at least two occasions I ran out at least $25 on my cell holding on the line. I also indicated that the best the support does is to tell you to plug your router into one machine directly and reboot, which does not help one bit. I waiting to see what happens.

I encourage anyone who is having problems for extended periods to use the facebook option. You wont get an immediate response but within a day or two there should be a reply.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on May 28, 2010, 09:51:23 PM
yeah boy, I remember being on hold for an inordinate amount of time myself.

That used to be a TSTT offense. Now flow starting to steal some of their bad support thunder.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 29, 2010, 05:34:10 AM
Ok early morning check here (insomnia)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/829711304.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/829716669.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17805109.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

 :dropjaw:

 :ohhoho:

If this continues throughout the weekend... my prayers have been answered :D :D

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 29, 2010, 01:12:44 PM
Spoke too soon...  :shakehead:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/830064395.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17824798.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on May 29, 2010, 04:30:41 PM
check again at 6pm them every 3hrs
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 29, 2010, 09:09:19 PM
Speed test at 6pm and every 3 hours afterwards?
I tested at 6pm and the download speed was 5mbps, but 100ms and 11% packet loss.

And well a test at 9pm now =
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/830372082.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17844798.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on May 30, 2010, 02:39:06 AM
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

hoss....i fedup tell yuh flow customer service reps is ppl they jus pick off off d street dred
they NEVER know anything and ALWAYS run u through d same process over an over i doh waste time on dem no more....i call i ask for yuh mc supervisor one time no stickin
dem supers know me good by now

d supers are actually more help and right now i in two supers mc on a daily basis till my shit fix
i not payin $690 for 0.61Mbps MAX average does be around 0.45 wdmc

sad thing i just get a rebate from them for d LAST friggin problem last friday and d day after shit start back? stueps

Nov 09...last time i got a full month of workin service from flow
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on May 30, 2010, 07:35:33 AM
last night was the first time in about 2 weeks that my ping in battlefield drop below 200.

And that was on a Saturday, 9pm-ish. Peak time.

Hopefully they fixed/ugpraded something in our area.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on May 30, 2010, 09:06:05 AM
Hoss, I have torrents running and still getting this...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/17867677.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on May 30, 2010, 09:20:53 AM
dazwhawetalkinbout
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 30, 2010, 11:56:02 AM
Whole week this connection on d road meh connection palancing :p

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/830877154.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on May 30, 2010, 12:38:15 PM
wdmc where allya livin???
cuz me an app can only game it seems between the hours of 4am and bout 9ish

as we speak i gettin lvl packet loss right now
a youtube vid takin ages to load :(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 30, 2010, 06:40:25 PM
Hoss I RELLY dunno what going on..
Its a conspiracy to mash up PSN pro players (j/k).
I mean you living near Trinicity side, I living San Fernando area. And we having Synchronised issues.. Same kinda speeds, same kinda packet loss, same timeframe.
And people living minutes from me getting speeds like woodyear getting. CLEARLY Flow screwing up somewhere... :/

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/831175593.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on May 30, 2010, 08:20:55 PM
hoss, I fedup cuss bout the youtube vid Dialupesque streaming issues.

Who have Kamla direct number dey?

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 30, 2010, 10:27:08 PM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on May 30, 2010, 11:46:16 PM
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


nobody gettin more problems than me i sure
nov 09.....2009 was d last time i get a full month of net runnin smooth everyday
das like almost 7 months now

dvon livin diego no problems on his side , ghosty livin a 5mins from me and she doh get no problems

app livin south and both of us having the exact same issues
suki livin right dey next to app an no problems WDMC

at least app cud still play a lil mw2 even tho it might be laggy a lil bit....i cyah even touch MAG i emptyin enough rounds plus chop to kill a small army an men not dyin then he will spin roun shoot me four times an i dead plus u cant even finish a game cuz u get disconnected quarter way through
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on May 31, 2010, 02:58:56 AM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on May 31, 2010, 07:40:51 AM
lol @ flow palancing

woody, you youtube vids stream smoooth? no stop and go action?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on May 31, 2010, 10:31:39 AM
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.

well i talked to the supervisor again yesterday evening he said some work was done on my line (which is true cuz flow was outside my house  a few fays ago) but said he I still not gettin d required lvls and has escalated d matter again to the ISP admins.....so nothin gettin done till tuesday at earliest as today is a holiday so i prayin i see some better results by wednesday

app boy at least u cud still play some mw2...salt for me
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on May 31, 2010, 10:37:25 AM
lol @ flow palancing

woody, you youtube vids stream smoooth? no stop and go action?

Yeah surprisingly, I'm even able to play 720p quality ones instantly with plenty buffer available :)


Have not experienced this level of flowiness in a while :p
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on May 31, 2010, 11:19:46 AM
There is apparently no time when I can get youtube to work good again. Glad I never got rid of my blink line. I will downgrade my flow to 2mb and upgrade my blink
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on June 01, 2010, 02:51:02 PM
Bywifi   http://www.bywifi.com/ (http://www.bywifi.com/)

Saw it on a thread here... that stuff works for my youtube, facebook, couple other vids... They reach 25% and freeze for a lil while then they buffer straight to 75 or 100% depending on the size... I give them 5 thumbs up

This my specs on a 2meg flow in sando @2:50pm Tues

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/833183643.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on June 01, 2010, 07:05:17 PM
What magic does it do? Open multiple connections to increase download speed?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on June 03, 2010, 06:05:16 PM
I think so... but i'm sure it helps... ...Otherwise today i'm having problems with www.live.twit.tv (http://www.live.twit.tv)  Leo laporte's live streaming video site... It keeps sticking and buffering
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on June 06, 2010, 12:08:26 PM
Not a Flow problem but I've recently gotten hooked on HD downloads...
Does anyone else download alot on Flow? With file sizes ranging between 10 - 20 gigs each if ppl abuse this surely Flow won't be happy lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on June 06, 2010, 12:45:59 PM
I make it a point to download everything (where available) in 720p. Im now getting started watching 24 season 8...27gigs total.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on June 06, 2010, 01:04:02 PM
Yeah I been making do with xvid/divx but now that I am hooked onto 1080p downloads may very well be 10 times what I would normally get per month. I just bought a 500 gig hard drive, it seems too small now lol.

It feels like just the other day downloading a few gigs in a day seemed like alot lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on June 06, 2010, 02:03:04 PM
Allyuh want LASH!!!  Do I have permission from now to say 'it GOOD!!!" when all them hard-drives fail?  :laughing7:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on June 06, 2010, 02:35:43 PM
But blank dvds small and them does go bad too :p
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on June 06, 2010, 05:17:01 PM
Electricity gone by me, tried out a torrent on my phone. It's funny how gprs on a phone is faster than dialup from just a few years back.

(http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7563/4675652729a723a292c7b.th.jpg) (http://img69.imageshack.us/i/4675652729a723a292c7b.jpg/)

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on June 06, 2010, 08:10:43 PM
Allyuh want LASH!!!  Do I have permission from now to say 'it GOOD!!!" when all them hard-drives fail?  :laughing7:

Well well, the most diabolical hater this side of the Mississippi, or in our case, the East Dry River.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on June 06, 2010, 08:33:21 PM
lol, man runnin torrents on his phone yes. alyuh evil beyond measure.

I tried that bywifi app and it gave bogus results.

doesn't work with chrome (boo) and even with IE, still got sputtering streaming, despite clicking accelerate 15 times.

steups
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 01, 2010, 04:15:04 PM
Just sharing some information I gathered today.

Those wanting to downgrade their packages (like me) or upgrade as the case may be, you have to do so on the 15th when this madness goes into effect.

What you do is call 223-3569, ext 2002 to make your order after which your speed should be adjusted immediately.

This public service announcement brought to you by old spice, im on a horse.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on July 02, 2010, 09:00:16 AM
I looking to downgrade to the 2Mbps package from now yes... I not home these days to be using any net, so the extra $200 month end will come in handy
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on July 02, 2010, 09:34:21 AM
I've been eye balling flow for a while and playing a lag ridden gameS last night cause it was an ALL trini sweat with a majority on FLOW and I on TSTT didn't help the situation... however it is troubling that there is a Flow STATUS thread, plus the horrors i've seen u guys post now and again... so the question I pose to you now FLOW users.... based on experience to date.... is it WORTH IT?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 02, 2010, 10:20:11 AM
Hmm well pings fluctuate, recently though my connection has improved. I do know that I get my bandwidth speeds........the 1 Terabyte+ I downloaded over the past month shows that :p

I'm probably the only person here thinking about upgrading packages :p
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on July 02, 2010, 10:39:51 AM
Win I might be the closest to you (I'm in Palmiste) and I can tell you right now Flow is horrible. It used to have very low pings and I always got close to my rated speed but those days are long past. I kept my blink 256k as a backup. There are times I actually switch to the blink because it is better than my 10Mb Flow. I will definitely be downgrading my Flow.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 02, 2010, 11:21:16 AM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 02, 2010, 11:43:32 AM
Yeah boy service real inconsistent, some areas good others crap. Then again same can be said for Blink :p
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on July 02, 2010, 08:11:02 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 02, 2010, 11:06:04 PM
My 2Mb has been totally worth it thus far.  I have only had to rebbot my modem once since I took on the service.  Pings are quite good, and I get my advertised speed.  What's not to like?

...AND I getting a super upgrade for only 10 dollars more per month?

Shee-it.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 03, 2010, 12:47:59 PM
that 10 dollars for 3 mega bits is de flick!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 03, 2010, 03:31:48 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 03, 2010, 04:23:29 PM
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.

You move?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 03, 2010, 04:56:31 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 03, 2010, 06:07:55 PM
You mean save a cool $200.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 03, 2010, 10:20:13 PM
even better fete
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 07, 2010, 10:05:50 PM
WTF FLOW WENT DOWN HERE FOR HOURS IT NOW COME BACK I SO MAD /rant over
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 07, 2010, 10:45:48 PM
My pings sky high since I reach home, still like that actually. No game for me either.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on July 08, 2010, 01:46:31 AM
Bandwidth was horrible all day on FLOW..something definitely wrong :(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 08, 2010, 11:54:51 AM
No issues here, getting about 1,200KB/s download speed atm.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 08, 2010, 09:00:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: haterforever on July 08, 2010, 09:07:56 PM
lol i never had blink so i can't compare but flow friggin up whole day. guess we can't use the internet when it raining...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on July 09, 2010, 11:05:30 AM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 09, 2010, 11:10:05 AM
My net works well even when it rains...I have another problem tho, I tend to hear an explosion and all my electronics go dead :(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 09, 2010, 11:25:36 AM
hmm flow kinda working better than usual on this side.

1mb downloads consistent and thing, while peyonging games online.


wonder if those upgrades came already or something.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 09, 2010, 11:44:19 AM
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.

dread as bad as flow service might be at times now
it cannot and does not compare to the years of intentional bad mind service from tstt
them didnt give a fuck about us, raping us with price an shitting on us with bad service cause they had no competition.
Flow come and in months of their broadband service reaching prices fall by 80% across de board.
That alone is reason to support them
FUCK TSTT!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on July 09, 2010, 11:46:02 AM
where you living woodyear i have that same problem, the transformer by me explode April, May, June. It happen again last week but it was normal compared to the previous ones.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 09, 2010, 11:51:20 AM
Lol I up in St. Anns, seems like once there is a heavy shower there is a good chance it will blow.

Yeah and I agree with Crixx ppl can complain about Flow poor service etc. but I will NEVER forget the horror I had with tstt before they had competition. Competition arrive and magically service gets rebranded, prices fall by 80% and speeds magically increase. Whatever tstt, Flow not perfect but I not switching back at all.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Saxito Pau on July 09, 2010, 12:33:42 PM
I wish Flow would fix my ping issues when playing BC2 (usually close to or at 999ms )and the general slowness of the internet...

This going on for weeks now and it killing my desire to even go online outside of work...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 09, 2010, 12:49:18 PM
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.

Doh get me more damn vex than I already am eh. I do pingtest this morning (when rain was falling) and it was fine. I sure sure that when I reach back home it go be back to hell.

Oh and btw, i spend a total of 45 minutes on the phone yesterday evening and couldnt get to talk to anyone.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 09, 2010, 08:25:58 PM
granted, it ain't all roses with flow....but it has been a welcome shake up to the internet scene on this island thanks to their entry into the market some years aback.

No denying.

For that alone, we should be very thankful.

Trinis can now boast that they have true broadband. (still not impressed with the youtube streaming, but aside from that)

and now that movietowne has 3d, there is little reason to migrate, lol.

As far as getting quick service, you really need to know someone on the inside. That has saved my neck three times now and counting.

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.

as a follow up to this,

They effected my downgrade, now running at a balmy 2mb/256k and with the same upload speed as with my supposedly 10mb/1mb package.

Hurray for savings

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/874685626.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Now to see if it gets bumped up to the 5mb/256k on the 15th of July.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on July 10, 2010, 02:56:19 PM
Bandwidth was horrible all day on FLOW..something definitely wrong :(

bwdmc app u STILL gettin problems with FLOW?
allya does talk to them too nice on d phone lol

since that last shit net been running smooth and free upgrade to 50Mbps next week :D
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on July 10, 2010, 04:36:58 PM
Since they supposedly fixed our area.. I've been getting 5mbps tops.
And youtube videos actually streamed :/
But past few days, all that "luxury" has dissapeared... back down to 2mbps, sticking youtube etc.
Well the bandwidth is VERY unstable, so I still have my doubt about those upgrades next week.
I really hoping they flip on some switches and I do get the speed I'm paying for.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on July 10, 2010, 09:00:44 PM
i hav a sh!t load of stuff just on standby to dload JUST for next week to test
and with my new 1.5TB external.... :D
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 10, 2010, 10:05:14 PM
I downloaded 500 gigs........this week :s lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 10, 2010, 10:46:21 PM
I downloaded 500 gigs........this week :s lol

dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sonnnnnnnnnn

today my net working like carp 20 min to load a youtube video
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 18, 2010, 04:30:33 PM
Well, I just did a pingtest...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/20597149.png)


Lets just say...Flow could gladly get mih money.  For now.  :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 18, 2010, 08:05:43 PM
you get upgrade yet arc?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 19, 2010, 08:34:32 AM
hmm, cant seem to find the upgrade notice on their site anymore
like we get troll lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 23, 2010, 08:10:56 PM
I am totally flabbergasted with Flow. I am giving them one week to fix my lag issues. 9 out of 10 nights I am getting a connection that can only surf the internet, impossible to game.

At this point, tstt is looking like a bed of roses. Cant be worse than the shit flow shovelling now.



Scratch that. Tomorrow I calling tstt, flow call will come when tstt come through.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 23, 2010, 08:46:25 PM
Dat real poor indeed, service is too inconsistent, both Flow and Tstt.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 23, 2010, 09:16:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 23, 2010, 09:34:51 PM
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.

dam,that's got to be an area problem ,mines working fine
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/20898964.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 23, 2010, 09:57:47 PM
I dont care what the problem is, point is it happening too long and im getting no proper answers or support.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 24, 2010, 02:50:51 AM
Sorry to hear that boy Cap...by me is all rosy...but I figure its because I'm the only one on the service in my area.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 24, 2010, 10:03:39 AM
This is one of my "bad" days, it is usually A with a solid 10 Mb/s. Like I said the service is inconsistent in different areas. I used to get similar issues to Captain, back in 2009.

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/20924177.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)


(http://www.speedtest.net/result/890407626.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 24, 2010, 05:52:36 PM
pressure boy capitan

This is my results (still on the wireless, ain't move the modem upstairs yet)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/20945976.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 26, 2010, 03:56:49 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21049418.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21049644.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Yea, this is the kiss meh f*****ing ass "service" I getting EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY. Used to be that sometimes id get periods of okish service and back to the pits.

But now im in realll hell RIGHT THROUGH.

Well yea I sending mail EVERY DAY about this nonsense. I so goddamn vex I go hit the facebook group everyday too.

No battlefield for me. I going through some serious withdrawal right now.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 26, 2010, 04:11:40 PM
That is real crap.

Just did a ping/speed test.

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21050467.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/892774921.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 26, 2010, 04:17:27 PM
I could only dream of that kind of connection now. I cant even remembr the last time my monitor saw pings and jitters like that. Watch Flow fb page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152628955376&ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=152628955376&ref=ts) for my rants.

In fact, check every muhfuggin day because there is going to be a new one EVERY DAY.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 26, 2010, 04:19:09 PM
just when I think it cant possibly get any worse...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21050930.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

it does!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 26, 2010, 05:13:14 PM
Well, funny enough...I am getting these results:

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21053316.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21053432.png)


...but it doesn't seem to have any effect on my online gameplay.
I can log onto bad Company servers and see pings of 85-120 ms, which is quite good for gameplay.


I've only gotten an 'A' one time.

...and like they delete your comments, because I not seeing em.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 26, 2010, 05:18:58 PM
Not seeing those rants on fb, like they censor u :p
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 26, 2010, 05:33:47 PM
Serious? Nah the comments there I just check. There's a couple on their wall, comments on  'Please check out and join Flow's New Fan Page'

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 26, 2010, 07:14:31 PM


I've only gotten an 'A' one time.


My first  "A" in a ping test

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21059835.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)


I see  all the fb comments i think
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 26, 2010, 07:49:53 PM
Do you need to be a Facebook member to see all comments?  I not seeing yours at all boy Cap. 

What name you post them under?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 26, 2010, 07:55:37 PM
Things still looking peachy on my end.

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21060437.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

surprised the rating didnt improve much now that I'm cabled in and not on wireless anymore.

lol @ all the hate awesome breeding on flow facebook page. Men chimin in about cartoon network and all kinda thing.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 26, 2010, 08:08:19 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 26, 2010, 10:04:14 PM
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.

Sorry ,now remove my name from that book.

Yea they have the wrong cartoon network on i want to see family guy not tom and jerry
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 26, 2010, 10:18:16 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 27, 2010, 03:35:42 AM
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.

Agreed
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 27, 2010, 06:06:15 AM
Well fellas that is IF they having the upgrade on the 30th still.

Sound advice though. Sound advice.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 27, 2010, 08:28:00 AM
but after the amount of old cuss yuh rest on their facebook page, I have a feeling if is one man who not getting upgrade, is you, lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 27, 2010, 09:16:53 AM
Lol. At this point I just interested in getting the damn thing working properly.

If they eh give me my upgrade is another setta cuss on they page and via email.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 28, 2010, 06:39:21 AM
Well I can come here and badtalk Flow, but last night and this morning I have had cause to smile a little...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21148224.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

And who say upgrades...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/894645501.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Anybody else get upgrade? I call first dibs hehe
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 28, 2010, 09:00:57 AM
Ah boy...speed upgrade immc... :)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/894765385.png)


No improvement in ping time though... :(

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21153561.png)



...I wonder if it could be a router setting.

* proceeds to scrutinise settings *
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on July 28, 2010, 09:37:04 AM
getting 20mb with that new upgrade dawg. Hope they fix the uploads those packages just not making sense with the crappy upload speed
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: suzieboy on July 28, 2010, 09:57:58 AM
yea it reach down south too...5mbps immc
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on July 28, 2010, 10:36:42 AM
confirmed upgrade in de valley

plus my corporate on charlotte street at warp 20
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on July 28, 2010, 10:39:58 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/894870965.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/894876520.png)

 :happy0203: :banana: Me sooo happy :crybaby2:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 28, 2010, 11:17:21 AM
Good good. Turns out nothing was done other than the upgrade and im working pretty ok for now. Still have the ticket open, tech doing a site visit next week to fix line noise.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on July 28, 2010, 11:38:42 AM
Well I supposedly get ah upgrade (South is 10 upgraded to 15mbps temporarily)... but it feels like a downgrade :/

I still don't get higher than 5mbps even though I'm paying for 10, and today I getting less than 5mbps with this upgrade :/
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/894934587.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Obviously POS server will give you your speed.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/894936266.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on July 28, 2010, 11:58:14 AM
Apprentice I just checked mine from Palmiste and its the same as you. I downgrading today.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on July 28, 2010, 12:07:37 PM
^yea this is totally ridiculous.
Just like Captain I been attacking their customer support for months.
Had a dedicated supervisor calling me every week to update me on the situation.
When they supposedly had a "fix" a month ago, I went from 2mbps to 5mbps. The supervisor expected me to have my 10mbps speeds after that "fix".
Hoped speed upgrades would finally fix the issue.. apparently not.
Gonna give it a day or 2 again, and then downgrade for next month if it don't stabilise.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 28, 2010, 12:32:39 PM
lol, well you don't really expect everyone to get 15mb - 20mb connections off island? Ah mean, come on???

That's just a numbers game to open your wallets.

I downgraded from 10mb to 2mb and honestly, haven't felt the difference (other than in speedtest reports)

Hopefully they upgraded it to 5mb. Will test this evening.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 28, 2010, 02:02:03 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/895098178.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Mines jumping around 6 mb to 9 mb


Ping ok here
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21170021.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on July 28, 2010, 02:18:55 PM
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:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 28, 2010, 02:25:02 PM
Ho Ho Ho, Bandwidth Santa passed by today, he dropped off my innanetz speed upgrades.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/895119740.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

downloadinternet2.0.exe loading up nicely hehe. Hmm I wonder if I can download more than 100 Gigabytes today.....hehe.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 28, 2010, 02:44:06 PM
Tha u/d ratio looking realll off though. You mean to tell me they couldnt give the 25mbit crowd at least a 2mbps up?

...and the 5 a 1up?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 28, 2010, 02:46:00 PM
Yuh know but I will not be complaining, since I do not upload much data.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 28, 2010, 02:55:18 PM
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:

Never had any big problems with flow here.Biggest problem i had since i got flow is that about 2 weeks ago they went down whole day.

@CAP yea wtf is with the upload speeds they giving us i can use the 1mb upload bad to i can upload more videos.

@woody you mad yes how much hdd's you have hoss.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on July 28, 2010, 03:16:58 PM
well my biggest problem is that i don't have much more stuff left to download. lol. right now i have about 2500 or so movies,

around 500 anime series/movies, a few dozen tv series, over 500 PC games and around 12500 mp3s........dunno if woody sick like me, but i need help. :ko:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 28, 2010, 04:41:35 PM
Hard drive space really becoming an issue, so as soon as I watch stuff I hit the delete button hehe.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 28, 2010, 04:50:28 PM
Hard drive space really becoming an issue, so as soon as I watch stuff I hit the delete button hehe.

i do the same thing .Because i know with these speeds now of days i can get back stuff in a few mins to hours instead of days/weeks
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 28, 2010, 04:57:40 PM
Looking good hehe.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 28, 2010, 05:01:30 PM
Looking good hehe.



Leave some internet for we ok
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on July 28, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Good thing Captain get sorted out, else he woulda be cussing us lol.

Hmm it would be interesting to know how the 100 mbit performing, anyone on the board have that uber package?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on July 28, 2010, 06:30:03 PM
seems like when one man troubles end another guy inherits them. Damn you flow damn to  you to hell.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 28, 2010, 06:45:43 PM
ent @ 5mb / 1mb

that would be heaven

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/895375437.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

not exactly 5, maybe someone's downloading somewhere around the house
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on July 28, 2010, 08:33:20 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/895452811.png)

This is supposed to be my 10Mb account upgraded to 20Mb. I was thinking of downgrading but I think its time to go back to Blink.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: jason19842 on July 28, 2010, 08:59:22 PM
I got mine today but the pingtest are awful
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 28, 2010, 09:09:57 PM
Ah talk too fass fellas..

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21191109.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Back to the old $hit again sighhhh.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on July 28, 2010, 11:41:45 PM
(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)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 29, 2010, 03:01:30 AM
(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)

Wow
that's suppose to be 100mbps right ?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on July 29, 2010, 03:41:17 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/895744835.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)


@3:42am... Mailman waits seeing his ping during peak hours , but youtube videos with biwifi running smooth like baby skin
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 29, 2010, 02:59:33 PM
Very interesting phenomenon here...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/896363419.png)

Whats interesting here is that I got that result using the Chromium browser
in Ubuntu 10.04, on my MSI Wind.  Take a closer look at the ping, which is a much
better result (63 ms) than what I'm getting in Windows 7 (550 ms) on my gaming rig.

Why such a large disparity?  This one has me scratching my head.
If anything, I thought the wi-fi connection would introduce even more latency into the result.

I couldn't do a corresponding pingtest, as Ubuntu is having security issues with how pingtest.net establishes its IP connections across the network.



My question here:  is Windows 7 introducing something into the network equation that is 'corrupting' the pingtest, and skewing the result?  How is it that I'm getting pings of 550 ms
and above, and yet I regularly get 85-120 ms to gameservers in the US?  Browser issue perhaps?  More testing immc.  As stated before, gaming performance seems unaffected,
but still, I'd like to have an accurate picture of the network when I do a pingtest.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 29, 2010, 03:05:12 PM
That is a strange issue indeed. Tried using diff browsers on the same machines, disabling firewalls etc?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on July 29, 2010, 06:36:06 PM
g0tdamn @ 70mb

microone you could run that speedtest to miami? let me see what kinda speeds it manages
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 29, 2010, 09:29:31 PM
Ran the pingtest from my download PC, and interestingly...got these results...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21252469.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21252553.png)





...so I decided to do some digging on my gaming PC, and eventually found the culprit.
So now I'm getting the correct result.  Every time...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21252626.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21253044.png)


I had an app called 'NetLimiter', which allows you to grant/limit bandwidth on a per app basis,
and also serves as a bandwidth monitor, so you can see at a glance which app or process is using
x amount of bandwidth.  It apparently created some extra network interfaces in the Device Manager
to do those jobs, and thats what created the extra latency.  Its not totally necessary anymore, so I
removed it, since the one app I wanted it to regulate (Steam) just wasn't working.

Problem solved.  :happy0203:


Now...if Flow could only do something about them UPLOAD SPEEDS DAMMIT!!!  :(
Right now I in trouble with Fileporn.org and Bootytape.com. 
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on July 29, 2010, 10:20:07 PM


Now...if Flow could only do something about them UPLOAD SPEEDS DAMMIT!!!  :(
Right now I in trouble with Fileporn.org and Bootytape.com. 

Lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on August 03, 2010, 09:03:12 PM
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?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 03, 2010, 10:05:36 PM
lol, netlimiter still around boy? used that aeons upon aeons ago before coming upon the penultimate solution. Dedicated pc as a router doing traffic shaping.

Very useful back in the days of limited bandwidth (128k dsl, what a joke)

No longer a problem on the downstream, with 2mb, 5mb and 10mb iwmc.

Upload still weak but say what. All in due time.

As for Eroo....haven't tried downloading anything since the 5mb upgrade to comment on torrent performance. Don't recall getting 1k speeds much even with the 10mb connection I had.

more like 300 and 400k
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 05, 2010, 07:53:40 PM
^^ I use my router to block all non standard ports, aka, no torrents while gaming.

Sadly, is the sameee ole story with these f*cktards...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/21653866.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Flow For The Fail (ftf), or, for the "F", which is what I am getting constantly these days.

I done quarrel and complain only to get a whole setta promises and no action. If I WANTED promises and no action, I would have gone out and vote.

I have signed back up for Blink. At this point, friggin GREENDOT would be a better option than Flow for me.

Poor conduct Flow. F**k  you very much. Keep yuh "F"in 'service'. Good night.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 05, 2010, 08:21:37 PM
hoss you probably did this already but just in case did you try testing it while directly connected to the cable modem.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 05, 2010, 08:39:19 PM
Did that umteen times. Same results. Its not my router.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 05, 2010, 08:49:23 PM
one last thing and this is a big one can you get a friend with flow to bring their modem to your residence and test it and see if they get the same results as you. if that fails guess you have to say goodbye to flow and good riddance
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 05, 2010, 09:47:51 PM
Not a bad idea. But see the thing is that sometimes it works ok and magically after 7 or 8 pm it goes to hell and in the morning its back to being passable.

The pattern of behaviour indicates its not a modem problem. And it realll not right I should be helping them what they should do on their own.

A guy even came on site and tested the line etc and said that everything was ok.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on August 05, 2010, 09:50:08 PM
I know exactly what you talking about Captain. I feeling to cancel my cable and go to Blink Entertainment just because of how bad flow broadband is.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 06, 2010, 03:19:43 AM
probably have water on the line, lol

but seriously, the modem test is a good one.

Flow working peachy here, might want to consider changing location too capitan.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 06, 2010, 06:52:32 AM
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?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 06, 2010, 10:52:13 AM
not enough capacity in your area. Network congestion probably.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 06, 2010, 11:44:04 AM
THIS UPGRADE WAS A BUNDLE OF C#NT. These packages a basically useless with these crappy upload speeds, seriously people who develop these packages need to be fired. 100mbps is wasted bandwidth.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 06, 2010, 12:05:11 PM
Depends on the consumer, dunno what the average user needs but I happy with my 3+ megaBYTES per second download rate hehe :p
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on August 08, 2010, 02:17:00 AM
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?


It could be a slack connection somewhere on the line??? And the morning's warmth causes the copper to reexpand and touch properly???
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?


http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php (http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php)

Try that these are my Http vs Torrent results

http://loki08.mpi-sws.mpg.de//bb//glasnost.php?protocol1=HTTP&protocol2=controlflow&port=8080&port2=41715&dir=0;1&flow0=239;238;240&flow1=239;240;237&flow2=238;240;240&flow3=229;243;239&flow4=1147;620;793&flow5=415;680;586&flow6=1130;440;862&flow7=715;862;1119&details=yes (http://loki08.mpi-sws.mpg.de//bb//glasnost.php?protocol1=HTTP&protocol2=control)

http://loki09.mpi-sws.mpg.de//bb//glasnost.php?protocol1=BitTorrent&protocol2=controlflow&port=56337&port2=33187&dir=0;1&flow0=53;35;46&flow1=54;44;59&flow2=49;67;50&flow3=54;47;56&flow4=17;18;29&flow5=22;21;22&flow6=22;8;15&flow7=16;19;15&details=yes (http://loki09.mpi-sws.mpg.de//bb//glasnost.php?protocol1=BitTorrent&protocol2=control)


1147 vs 69 kbps .... Http vs Torrents

I was at my friend's in barataria and he was getting 400 k on one torrent... Is it they throttling south alone as i'm in vistabella???

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 08, 2010, 08:51:47 AM
The guy came to check all that, connections are good, Flow service is what sucks.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on August 11, 2010, 08:13:28 PM
anyone having problems today downloading torrents? i haven't been able to download anything off of BT for the day.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on August 11, 2010, 08:33:03 PM
Well I having that problem but days now. Tomorrow is the day I gave Flow to resolve my problems. If when I come home tomorrow its the same shit then its back to Blink.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 11, 2010, 08:40:57 PM
youtube loading like crap again
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 11, 2010, 09:36:38 PM
lol @ the love hate flow relationship

I surprise men touting running back to blink like it so easy to do.

When I was moving, applied for Blink two months in advance.....and now four months later...nada, zilch, nothin. Never cancelled the request, so the story still ongoing.

Imagine if it didn't have flow? All now is busy dialup I sweating SC2 on, like it was the 1990s all over again.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on August 11, 2010, 09:45:01 PM
Flow  working like crap a few days now only getting about 300kbs on rapidshare torrent max out at 40kbs.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 11, 2010, 09:49:05 PM
well hoss, threatening to go back tstt eh even make Flow BLINK...hahah yea.

check...

Quote
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.

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.

Quote
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.

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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on August 11, 2010, 10:05:39 PM
lol @ the love hate flow relationship

I surprise men touting running back to blink like it so easy to do.

I never gave up my blink connection when I got Flow. I just downgraded to a 256k to have as a backup. Its a good thing too because at times I have to use it as its better than my Flow connection. All I have to do is call and tell then to upgrade me.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on August 11, 2010, 11:22:52 PM
...... you payin for 2 net connections? u have money to burn? anyhow, i still love FLOW. first time they ever givin me problems.

i doh even kno if to blame them, as i could be my router playin up. doubt it though.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 11, 2010, 11:38:29 PM
Boy captain, I woulda try ordering another flow connection under a different name

When it comes, test it out, if it working good, discontinue the original.

boom bang connect.

If it works like crap, disconnect both.

Also, many moons ago it was said that TSTT bought out flow (or at least a substantial shareholding) which means its less of a competition between them now.

No doubt some serious high level back door dealing went on to secure that "insurance policy".

Or maybe it had something to do with TSTT targetting flow's meat and potatoes by offering TV themselves. Who knows.

Bottom line, if it's true...consumers lose and we can expect more "bess-less" service from these service providers.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 12, 2010, 06:19:34 AM
I sooo pissed off with Flow right now, I cant, in good conscience, give them a tie-dye cent. (as u know, to take out a new connection you have to pay the first month's subscription up front)

Is months now I trying to get them to do something about this nonsense, they did absolutely NOTHING worthwhile. They send somebody for a 5 minutes to check the line and das it.

I say time to give them and they GPRS connection the heavy steeltoe boot.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on August 12, 2010, 10:00:15 AM
well hoss, threatening to go back tstt eh even make Flow BLINK...hahah yea.

check...

Quote
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.

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.

Quote
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.

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.

dread, everything you describe here, sound like a vacation, a gift, compared to the treatment i got from tstt for 6 months
where for 4 months every single day i open a ticket about my internet not working
bill was payed every  month
my mom went into tstt every day
and raised a ticket every day
one day we went in and they said they had no record of us ever having a problem, ever raising a call, nothing.
We went postal in tstt, and all they did was raise a ticket
after many visits and many calls raising many more tickets for the next 2 months
still no fix.
the day we cancel the net, we get call every hour to see what they could do to keep our business
and i literally cuss that woman for 10 minutes straight on de fone.
then switch to flow, got net the next day.
havent had a problem in 2 years

so while i empathize, with your plight
NOTHING nothing nothing flow has done, could equate to the shaft tstt has in the past and continues to give us today
WORST ISP EVER!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on August 15, 2010, 11:36:18 AM
I've been noticing different speeds whether i speedtest to flow servers in trinidad vs any outside of the flow ring.... Inside i getting 4-4.5 meg outside same 2meg speed?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 15, 2010, 12:16:16 PM
That is to be expected mailman.

Its just a numbers game with flow.

Like the 100mb connection you get to your speedstream router or that 54mb connection to your wireless router.

It's only guaranteed to the device. Everything beyond that is a crap shoot.

So flow can offer people 500MB to their gateway but once you're past their...you're limited to the bandwidth to the remote devices (web servers) which will be hindered by tons of bottlenecks (according to how many hops away they are from FLOWs gateway).

Which explains why my 10mb connection didn't feel much faster than my 5mb.

Someone mentioned this before and now I'm seeing similar.....torrent speeds gone to like 40k. Everything else seems fine. Throttlin iwmc?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on August 16, 2010, 09:12:11 PM
Had my modem off for 4 days. Went on a little mini vacation.
Boot back up to see my nice 15mbps.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/917313635.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Yep. Level complaints to Flow resuming very soon.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 16, 2010, 11:28:48 PM
at least your ping is some what decent
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 17, 2010, 12:21:11 AM
steups, well now I clocking about 10k

On the plus side, could leave torrents running while playing starcraft 2, because it not eating all the bandwidth

on the negative side, it will now take 34 weeks to download anything.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on August 17, 2010, 03:22:54 PM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 17, 2010, 03:26:05 PM
It was a lil slow yesterday for me, just checked and it ok now. Pings are usually better though.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/918264720.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 18, 2010, 01:01:22 AM
apprentice, what's your results to a foreign server?

also, what are your torrent download speeds like?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 18, 2010, 09:35:46 AM
allyuh men lucky still getting 10mbs local and about 8-10mbs to the US east coast and 4-6mbs to the west coast.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 18, 2010, 12:17:08 PM
Well it's not only in Trinidad, large ISPs in the US and UK also use Up to....tactics.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/08/your-worst-fears-confirmed-real-broadband-speeds-half-of-whats-advertised.ars (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/08/your-worst-fears-confirmed-real-broadband-speeds-half-of-whats-advertised.ars)


Quote
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on August 18, 2010, 02:50:43 PM
apprentice, what's your results to a foreign server?

also, what are your torrent download speeds like?

I tested to New York in the earlier speedtest for 15mbps.
And well to Toronto:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/919490183.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

I don't use torrents at all, but to RapidShare I'm getting full line speed.
Fluctuating 2mb - 3mb.
Average =


Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 18, 2010, 03:17:25 PM
no torrents, how do you live guy
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 18, 2010, 06:28:11 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 18, 2010, 06:30:55 PM
I take it you canceled?

Today my performance is "slow" in comparison to yesterday

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/919711916.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 18, 2010, 06:47:21 PM
hmm, that is what you calling slow??

lol @ no torrents and rapidshare

What do you download on rapidshare??
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 18, 2010, 06:49:10 PM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on August 18, 2010, 06:56:46 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/919335283.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)


WTMC @ my net
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on August 18, 2010, 08:58:40 PM
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.




Well Cap...I'm convinced that its an 'area' issue, and not a Flow issue...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/22419787.png)

Same server.  Same distance.


What can I say?  I cannot complain (for now).
Flow's performance has been pretty consistent for me.  I can't go back to Blink
until TSTT upgrades the phone lines in my area, so I'll be pengoed if Flow starts playing up.

Since I got this account though, its been all gravy baby. :)
I really can't understand why yours was so dismal these last few months.

What Flow -should- have done is a proper end-to-end test from your home,
back to their servers.  They do it for corporate customers with a fancy
piece of equipment.  I wonder if they do the same for residential?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on August 18, 2010, 09:04:56 PM
Definitely an issue in the area....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/919825318.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on August 18, 2010, 10:11:00 PM
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.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on August 19, 2010, 03:13:45 AM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on August 19, 2010, 03:16:16 AM
Yup rapidshare ftw but since their new setup they are dieing so it might be time to hit up Hotfile

yup! exactly. This is my last year with a rapidshare subscription.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 19, 2010, 06:36:51 AM
Definitely an issue in the area....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/919825318.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Area problem or not, shit going on for months and is just runaround ole talk I getting from them so I am replying to them in my own language...money...not giving it to them.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Saxito Pau on August 19, 2010, 08:35:35 AM
you should change the working in that last sig pic so that it says "Flow rapin' errbody out here"
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 19, 2010, 05:13:58 PM
I called to cancel this 'service', thought i'd connect the modem directly to my machine to see what kind of performance im getting...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/22472423.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Good riddance.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on August 19, 2010, 06:26:47 PM
^they did a mojor fix in south area on monday.
Flow has never been this good in my history of using their service. (after 5months of complaining too)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on September 08, 2010, 09:37:48 PM
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?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on September 08, 2010, 09:41:47 PM
hmm i acquired about 40 gigs is 4 hours today oui.  :happy0203:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on September 08, 2010, 10:22:47 PM
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?


past 2 days flow download speed is crap ,youtube working like crap i think it's all the rain
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on September 08, 2010, 10:46:09 PM
not getting my 25 mbps, connection slow tonight to NY :(

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/946121465.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on September 17, 2010, 09:48:45 AM
Any flow went down last nite at 7:20pm and came back on this morning at 7:20am? Not only my net dropped but the tv to.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on September 18, 2010, 07:39:31 AM
flow really been doin a number since dat "upgrade"
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on September 18, 2010, 04:35:04 PM
Hmm this thread has been hidden from public view? lol

Anyone noticed the forums moving slow today? Could it be from the massive traffic generated from our lil showing at Flow World?? lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on September 20, 2010, 11:25:28 PM
Now that Flow's World is done, can we 'unhide' this thread?

After all that...there goes my internet...and just when I'm about to go on vacation too.  Aint THAT a bitch.  :(

...and I actually have to wait till the 29th before they send someone.  Wooptee-do.  :(

I had better be getting a f@#king rebate.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on September 20, 2010, 11:27:45 PM
Doh watch us in dat Gayelle interview, yuh might smash yuh TV lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on September 20, 2010, 11:33:59 PM
lol, well I think you have the wrong approach, of trying to embarass them into action.

Instead, ask one of our friends at flow to expedite the repair.

I'm certain you've met one of the network support team over our three day stint? If not, I can ask Robin to point us in the right direction for a quick fix!

and Woody, yeah the website has been going back and forth between slow and extremely fast.

Investigating. Traffic has increased but also, a google bot was crawling over the site. Trying to optimize so neither has such an impact again.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on September 21, 2010, 12:09:34 AM
Now that expo is over, back to the regular scheduled programming...

Flow break down boy seriously? And they taking more than a week to even come and investigate the problem? hmmmm...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on September 21, 2010, 02:06:06 AM
Lol cap
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Crixx_Creww on September 21, 2010, 09:38:00 AM
as a man say that
can we get a view of the traffic over the last few days?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on September 21, 2010, 07:11:01 PM
Well lookee here...connection is back on again.  :)

Lets see for how long this time...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 15, 2010, 06:00:20 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/991283389.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/991284890.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

This is what I've been getting for the past week :(
Those are also "off peak" speedtests. Downloads from servers that were pushing a steady 2000kb/s are now going @ 60kb/s.
Also at random moments in the day, all the lights on my flow modem will turn off (except for the last 2) causing a stall in internet service for about 5 seconds, then all the lights turn back on and internet resumes where it left off o_O.

Anyone else getting these issues?
Seems flow can't handle these packages at all, at least in my area.
I mean, if you're offering 100mbps connection, I understand if a customer on that connection getting about 80mbps... but I mean, every lower package SHOULD get their max line speeds due to there being a higher package... LAWWDD...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 15, 2010, 06:15:14 AM
If flow continue like this, they will easily grab all of TSTT bad rep. Over 2 months on the competing network here and smooth sailing so far.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 15, 2010, 07:39:34 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/991368946.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

These are my results just now.

They look fine and I haven't had any connection issues.

The only thing is that youtube and torrents still run much slower than you'd expect for a 5mb.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 15, 2010, 08:59:40 AM
That's the problem with both networks, they are very inconsistent in terms of service. While one person may be getting nice speeds on Flow/Tstt their are others getting shaft at the same time lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 15, 2010, 08:02:39 PM
I wonder if it's like T&TECs load shedding? Where they just move the trouble spots around? lol

I'll see if we can get a flow rep to investigate and at least give us some answers.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 15, 2010, 08:17:46 PM
^^ If you lucky, they'll say that they know just the person who is an expert in the matter and THEN proceed to give you the ghost...if youre lucky.

I think they should sell their internet services division to somebody more serious and stick to event planning, co-ordination and marketing because it seems thats the only thing they like to get just right. Customer service be damned and delivering actual decent service can hold on to the muffler, dragging on the ground behind the bus.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 15, 2010, 09:07:03 PM
I don't think so, the network manager is a good friend of mine, we did martial arts together. lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 15, 2010, 09:33:02 PM
lolz, today has been much better compared to the past week, HD youtube and gametrailers was streaming. 2000kb/s from adobe site.
But ping has been 170ms to miami , 200 to NYC etc.. :/
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 15, 2010, 09:57:57 PM
I don't think so, the network manager is a good friend of mine, we did martial arts together. lol


Tell your friend that you have a next friend who is very disappointed in them, make me switch back the the dark side because of flow incompetence.

I'll accept 2 months free (AND trouble free) internet service for all to be forgiven.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 15, 2010, 10:54:08 PM
lol, I think your facebook posts made that clear enough

They probably have a dart board with your picture on it.

Apprentice, what speed you have again?

cause youtube hd never streams by me smooth, ever.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 16, 2010, 03:46:24 AM
25mpbs -.-

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/992437088.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 16, 2010, 06:48:14 AM
interesting, 2.87mb on a 25mb connection? nice
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 16, 2010, 12:01:02 PM
that's megabits not megabytes right
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 16, 2010, 12:22:45 PM
Yeah thats all in bits.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on October 16, 2010, 10:25:27 PM
Flow internet and cable down in Palmiste for over 6 hours now.

I'm using my backup blink line. Anybody know if blink doing some upgrades because ,y backup line is the 256k package but look at the results I getting

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/993400027.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 17, 2010, 01:28:34 AM
that's megabits not megabytes right

yea megabits. Don't know why speedtest.net have the speed results in the "Mb/s" format which implies megabytes/s. Terrible speeds for a 25mbps connection.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 17, 2010, 08:49:28 PM
I nearly cuss up that flow CSR boy..way...
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26257367.png)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/994429695.png)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/994434991.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/994434472.png)

I explaining to him that I not getting any speeds near what I'm paying for to overseas servers BUT everything is fine in local speedtests. This is the same exact effing problem I getting for over a year eh. It worked fine the first month after the 10-25mbps upgrade and gone back down the gutter.

The man busy lecturing me for 5mins on how "we not physically at those servers", "how they might be down", "giving trouble". I ask him so you implying that google's servers, microsoft's servers, adobe's servers, rapidshare's servers ALL giving trouble at the same time? He start back on the same friggin lecture loop, "We can't do anything about that".
Something frickin wrong but everything perfect on their end. He say how its not Flow's fault, its the websites and servers I connecting to overseas fault and that I'd NEVER get 25mbps overseas.

What friggin idiots they have working in there, seriously. Instead of arguing with the customer how bout being like "Ok there seems to be a problem with our network and I'll elevate to such and such to see what the problem is".

The solution they have is sending a technician to replace the modem.
I dunno if that'd change anything seeing that family living in my area having similar latency/speed issues.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: joel1730 on October 17, 2010, 10:42:33 PM
you guys are very lucky to have flow.. am in central and all i can sign up for is blink and greendot...although my tstt line is disconnected,  i payed to fix the line 2 months now and they haven't reached yet but with greendot they came after 30 days.. and hooked me up with a 1mb..  :crybaby2: does anybody know when flow will reach central areas like couva??

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 12:54:21 AM
must really be something in your area apprentice

This is what I am getting

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/994585490.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

I'm on the 5mb, testing to the same servers, using the same isp.

So it can't be external factors. Has to be something internal to Flow causing the slow down in your area.

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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 06:02:49 AM
Apprentice, I hope u have more luck than I did in getting that sorted out.

More and more men seem to be "having problems in their area".

Trinidad not so big, hopefully the term 'area' dont eventually translate into 'the whole country'.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 09:53:55 AM
lol, could always count on Awesome to be part of the solution.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 18, 2010, 10:03:47 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995025549.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Youtube doh play smooth even with these speeds lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 11:02:34 AM
hmmmmm

Can I just jump in and say that with my lowly 2meg blink I can very often stream 720p video on youtube with no interruptions. I watched about 20 of the Old Spice Man's responses to comments with no waiting.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 18, 2010, 12:00:19 PM
Hehe yeah but I use my connection to download primarily 1080 stuff on usenet, getting a solid 2500 KB/s :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 12:44:35 PM
Yeah boy, cant argue with the sheer bandwidth. But right now meh lil 720p rips does chug along @ 200k, go hadda wait hour and a half but it does come.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 18, 2010, 12:46:23 PM
For real, yuh definitely made the right choice after all the Flow horrors in ur area..
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 18, 2010, 04:41:22 PM
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

Exactly. This is a very mind-boggling issue that the IT people at flow refuse to understand. They busy argue with you that "Flow doesn't host those servers" (DUH!) and not accept that "Hey, there might be a problem here."
So far with my calling around and what not it does seem to be an area-wide issue.
Its not a congestion issue as Flow staff say our area is and never really passes 30% capacity.

Aha!
It has to be south people discrimination. Damn world treating we like sh!t too -.-
lol

Edit - It is also a very inconsistent issue.
This evening these are my results:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995532356.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995535236.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26311406.png)

I dunno yes. Another factor in this whole debacle is my looking like an a$$ complaining about Flow's service when it runs like how it runs now. Something is wrong somewhere in the south area. Some bug in the system, trolling foreign connections. Regular Flow I.T. staff may not be able to find this one :/
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 05:10:02 PM
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.

Then eventually it get so bad that the service was horrible horrible horrible ALL the time.

Real hope that dont happen, i wont wish it on my worst enemy.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 06:36:26 PM
very strange stuff.  I can't wrap my brain around it either.

Just did some tests again and all looks fine on my side.

oddly, getting heavy lag in starcraft 2.

Figured it might be someone else at home on the wireless sucking the bandwidth.

but then, the tests should reflect that.

They aren't. Download speed and pingtest results look fine.

Still, disconnected everyone from the router except the machine running starcraft 2. still laggin.

Pings to www.carigamers.com (http://www.carigamers.com) are normal.

Ghost in the machine yes.

Restarted machine and router and now the ping test at least looking like the way the connection performing. C immc

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26318624.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

also, just for kicks, I did a speedtest to curacao.

nasty results. Not blaming flow for this, I'm just guessing curacao has crappy bandwidth available to this server.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995659449.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Now here is one to florida, normally clock a lot higher to this server:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995660814.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

And the requisite flow server:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995661790.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Which is running like lightning.

Only thing I can interpret from this, is that the congestion is external to flow.

If it were all the people in my area congesting the connection, we should not get such a solid speed back to the flow server.

sigh.

Someone put a hand
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: suzieboy on October 18, 2010, 07:14:57 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26319085.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995671907.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

...is wat i gettin.....normal for me i guess
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks suzie,

if anyone else can run the tests now, so we can compare. That would be great
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 18, 2010, 07:39:48 PM
My 25 mbit package.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995685235.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26320177.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 07:40:28 PM
Yes, blame Flow oui. Look what 'the competing network' pumping out.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995665330.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995666446.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

2 megs. Its what im paying for.

And the best part is that torrents were running in the tests above!



The following are no torrents running.


(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995672134.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995673003.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)


and a pingtest for good measure...

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26319550.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

...and this is any day, any time. Lemme see yall flow connection push THAT kinna ping and jitter (CONSISTENTLY)

I much much rather this than this kinna sometimeish performance Flow like to heap on people. They say the grass greener on the other side, it very true in my case. Dried, dead hay with Flow, Nothern Range in the rainy season with Blink.

No, I never get tired of saying this. Each and everybody here on this forum who is on Flow NEED to stand up to Flow and let them know that this is unacceptable. We DONT want a service that kinna ok sometimes and other times questionable. We want it GREAT and we want it CONSISTENTLY.

It is ONLY when all of us, as a community of TECHNICAL people stand up and make our voices heard will anything of substance be done. See, we are in a unique position because of our organization to instigate a change in the status-quo. If WE dont, what do you leave for the ordinary man on the street who have no real voice?

I for one will not tolerate that nonsense. If you all are ok with that, then we not serious. We hold an honorary title of 'techie'.

Wyatt, you especially, I was a bit disappointed when I asked you to talk to the big man in flow who is your real boy. You have the contacts. What is the use in having them if they are not put to use for the betterment of the service you receive, your members receive and the country as a whole receives? Take heed.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 07:55:02 PM
lol, come off the soap box nah awesome.

These things take time. You feel flow want to give bad service? That isn't in their interest at all.

Some constructive feedback on poor performance will go a much longer distance than a rantfest on any facebook page.

We already agreed to try and get someone to look into the issues posted on the forum.

Takes time.

I wonder how woodyear getting such great figures while some of us catchin we backside?

hmmm. Maybe there is some sort of vlan type deal going on at the outside of the flow connection to the external world. So it divvys up the bandwidth per region, some sort of traffic shaping deal. Lets say they allocate 100MB of bandwidth per region.

So if 100 men from st. anns reach their router, it allocates 1MB a man.

If 10 reach from Arima. It allocates 10MB a man.

When you do a speedtest to flow, it stops at the inside of the router....where no traffic shaping is taking place and as a result you'll get the full speed regardless.

I know once traffic shaping is taking place it introduces jitter. That could explain the deterioration in connection quality.

Its all theory though. Hopefully we'll get someone who knows to answer/confirm soon.


Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 08:24:22 PM
I dont think they WANT to give a bad service, its just that they dont CARE. Countless calls to their 'customer service' line and an equal number of calls and emails to higer up people over a period of 3 to 4 months, all resulted in a big fat round ZERO. I have logged many an official complaint to them and to this day I have not been contacted to ascertain...well anything about fixing the service. But guess what. I cancel the service, THE NEXT DAY THEY CALL ME TO FIND OUT WHEN I COMING IN TO PAY THE BALANCE!!!!!!! The NEXT dayyyyy!!!!

How much more time they want? How much more time am I going to give them to f**k with me?

Ask bout a rebate, they be like...and I QUOTE.."Or ok, I dont know, but we go see how it go nah".

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.

So the Facebook rants didnt just come out of the blue. Give me a little more credit than that. The facebook was the last last resort, and guess what, they just deleted my comments and left the neutral ones...like water off a duck back.

Now I not saying that the service have to be good ALL the time and never ever go down or dip in performance. I am saying that they NEED to work much much harder on their customer service. MUCH harder man. This is the message I trying to get across to you which you probably didnt understand before, so im trying to explain myself a little better.

People could say what they want about TSTT but the times I had to call them in the last couple months, I got a foreigner, yes, who I had to listen hard to to understand what they were saying, but they were respectful, informative and helpful. They said someone would get into contact with me when I was getting only 1mb out of the 2, the guy said someone would contact me X day at X time, GUESS WHAT,  I got a call  x+5 minutes, technician on the other end, AT the exchange working on the problem.

"We agreed to get someone to TRY to look into it?" What is the status on that? Have we recieved any feedback? Im sorry, are we BEGGING for a service? Wow, I was under the impression that we were paying good money every month and deserve something better than 'we go try to get somebody to look into it.'

Wow, we is really Trini. We REALLY 'like it so'.




Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 08:52:28 PM
awesome, I'm happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but TSTT has given me the worst ISP experience of all time....of all time.

lol

Let the rest of us try with flow nah, oh gorm.

We know you have endless nerdrage for 'em but trying to conduct an exercise here to get to the bottom of this performance prob.

I ordered internet from flow and blink for our new home. Flow installed in 2 weeks.

3 months later, TSTT now send a mail saying service available. wshb.

You know how much sweat I woulda miss out on if I had to wait on TSTT?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 18, 2010, 08:54:34 PM
I see where you coming from Captain, and I've had my fair share of issues with Flow. From the dialup like speeds on their internet to the poor reception on the tv service. Things are nice for me now that they HAVE rectified my issues.

As for TSTT yeah I'll say it, I had a VERY bad experience with them on multiple occasions. It left a taste so bad in my mouth that I refuse to go back with them, and on top of that their packages are more expensive per mbit. I am happy with my Flow service at the moment and if it gives trouble again I'll have to complain more.

As I keep pointing out the issue with both ISPs is the wide disparity of service in various areas....both have their problems.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 09:12:18 PM
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 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...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Wyspa on October 18, 2010, 09:31:29 PM
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 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...
I couldn't agree with you more.. well said!!! Ah done talk!! lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 18, 2010, 09:46:36 PM
This is me at present...


(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26325053.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995773409.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)


Its good for now, but some of you know the woes I've been having over the past month or so.
I still get frequent disconnects.  All this after a few months of stellar service.  Not sure what happened
at Flow, or in my area over the past month to explain the serious deterioration in service.
More users perhaps?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 09:52:01 PM
extreme lol @ fertilized money tree

well that's much better said than the jibes and quips.

no ISP is perfect. (kinda obvious, but if it feels good saying it out loud, then by all means, go ahead)

So I ask again, now that awesome has had his rant, could anyone on "FLOW" post their speed tests tonight so we can compare performance?

Thanks again to Suzie, Woody, Arcmanov and Apprentice who posted their results thus far.

Arc, that ping looking kinda high in the speedtest though, 578
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 10:03:36 PM
Aww I love how you guys tolerate my rants. Ure da best lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 18, 2010, 10:08:41 PM
Not sure why the ping in both results are not similar.  Tried it on more than one PC and i get the same result.  Every time.  I think that may be a browser issue..
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 10:12:13 PM
hmm.

a browser issue causing a scary ping like that?

what is your ping to www.carigamers.com? (http://www.carigamers.com?) Averaging 237ms here.

lol, awesome why you so idle, you don't have men to go and kill in medal of honor or something with yuh low ping connection?

Just did a test again, its 10pm now and things still lookin lil dicey.

Will do another test in the morning, off peak and compare yes

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995789710.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 18, 2010, 10:40:50 PM
Actually, yes...it does seem like a browser issue.  These results are from my test rig,
with a freshly installed Windows 7 Ultimate, and not much else.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995794730.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26327109.png)


...or it could be a Flash issue, as the pingtest doesn't use Flash.  It uses Javascript.


Ping average to carigamers is about 147 ms.

Investigations immc...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2010, 10:56:42 PM
hmm, my money is on flash.

ent @ investigations. Sherlock Holmes business.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 18, 2010, 10:57:03 PM
119ms to carigamers. Or you only want Flow results, my bad amma let u finish lmao.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 19, 2010, 12:53:35 AM
Just did a lil ping

Pinging carigamers.com [72.52.247.183] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=130ms TTL=45
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=130ms TTL=45
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=130ms TTL=45
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=45

    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 130ms, Maximum = 131ms, Average = 130ms


(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26331867.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 19, 2010, 02:34:35 AM
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.

Then eventually it get so bad that the service was horrible horrible horrible ALL the time.
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.

After I posted that last speedtest on this thread, about 30mins later it was back to the 1mbps speed.
sigh.
I rel jealous of Woodyear's consistent service :/


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.

This is what I got on my last phone call to them. I didn't like it at all. :(

119ms to carigamers. Or you only want Flow results, my bad amma let u finish lmao.

LMAO you troll. :P


Pinging carigamers.com [72.52.247.183] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=127ms TTL=46
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=127ms TTL=46
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=46
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=46

Ping statistics for 72.52.247.183:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 125ms, Maximum = 127ms, Average = 126ms

Well this is...good o_O

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ah tonight Flow seems to be very nice to me:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/995963640.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26335133.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Best speedtest and ping for the past week BUT I assure you tomorrow is a different story :shakehead:




Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 19, 2010, 07:42:49 AM
What time was that apprentice? Offpeak? looking like 2AM or so from your post timestamp

Here are my results this morning

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/996195270.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26344871.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

The requisite test to Flow:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/996202980.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

and just for kicks, here is one to curacao

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/996200607.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Looking at the difference between offpeak tests compared to peak time tests, I'd say the problem is related to traffic shaping on the outside interface of the flow router.

A measure taken to regulate too much demand per area, probably.

Solution A ) nuke your town/city.

Solution B ) Massive increase in bandwidth by Flow to the outside world so such traffic shaping is unnecessary

thanks for the feedback, I'll email in the results today and cross some fingers.

The lag in starcraft last night was unbearable (and unplayable)

Oh, and ping to carigamers is down considerably as well:

Pinging carigamers.com [72.52.247.183] with 32 bytes
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=142ms TTL=46
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=46
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=46
Reply from 72.52.247.183: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=46
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: DyN on October 19, 2010, 11:40:30 AM
My speeds with FLOW 25Mb around 11:30AM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26356944.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

this is what im getting to FLOW servers

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/996467109.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

to Fort Myers FL

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/996468935.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)



It gradually deteriorates for me till i get 225ms from about 7pm to 1am for the last month or so

Bear in mind i live in south, La Romain per say.

Now i have an appartment up uwi and results there on peak hours are consistently better, will post those later during the day.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on October 19, 2010, 11:56:47 AM
Flow sucks!

Apprentice I used to have horrible horrible speeds with my 10Mbit connection. I downgraded to 2Mbit was still horrible. They upgraded me to 5Mbit and it was bad for the first month but now its moving good. I've gotten torrents up to 600k . There is still a day here and there where it moves like toots but that's few and far between.

However Flow service is HORRIBLE. I complained for months and they didn't give a crap.

Right now for some strange reason it seems I'm paying Blink 79.00 a month for a 5Mbit speed.  :banana:

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 19, 2010, 12:06:05 PM
Hehe $79 a month for 5 mbit, you can't go wrong :p

Just did a test

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/996514347.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

I could never understand why both ISPs, would offer a speedtest to their local servers as their only troubleshooting tool over the phone. Obviously having poor speeds to places outside of their network would be an issue lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 19, 2010, 01:47:36 PM
woodyear, what area you living again?

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 19, 2010, 01:48:11 PM
St. Anns
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 19, 2010, 04:57:20 PM
The last Flow CSR I spoke to recently told me that they have a tool in their office that shows overall area congestion. For my area he said that historically and in the past day, it never really passes 30%. He said that load for the area is fine and that shouldn't be the issue.   

Yes the speedtests above were taken @ 2am, time of post.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 19, 2010, 05:53:24 PM
OK, got a reply. Network manager said to provide the account #s and he'll take a look.

Could you PM the account #s?

This is tonights status (as of 7:35PM)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26386751.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/997036156.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Mez on October 19, 2010, 08:09:54 PM
Well not sure how to do this but yeah.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/997037512.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26388333.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 19, 2010, 08:45:25 PM
nice, well I just connected the flow modem directly to my PC to eliminate all other possibilities.

Results are "concerning"

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26389867.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 20, 2010, 12:11:31 AM
Mez you may have noise on your line, try this line quality test from dslreports.
http://www.dslreports.com/linequality (http://www.dslreports.com/linequality)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 20, 2010, 08:52:02 AM
And now for the offpeak tests, taken this morning at 8:49am

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/997614890.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/997616749.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/997613676.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

and for kicks, one to curacao

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/997617922.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Pingtest

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26416170.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)


Tested in game as well. and working smooth as silk.

So it's back to fantastic in the morning.

Wreaks of congestion at peak times.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on October 20, 2010, 09:17:48 AM
Those Mother !!@!@!#!# don't have enough bandwidth, I give that a Samuel L. Jackson crazy look....lol

(http://www.solaceincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/blacksnakemoan.jpg)

But that is truly messed up man, I mean peak hours and that kinda lag you was getting last night in SC2, not acceptable.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 20, 2010, 05:23:48 PM
lol, that picture is a classic

Doing some tests from the office for jones:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998243154.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26447665.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

and one to flow:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998245362.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Talk about pace. A little slice of Korea yes. If only they could put some starcraft 2 servers on flow network.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on October 20, 2010, 06:05:26 PM
i couldnt even complete a proper pingtest to miami

wtf is that!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 20, 2010, 07:50:23 PM
Try a different miami server, there are two.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998363845.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26455415.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

The fun begins, now to test a game

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on October 21, 2010, 09:41:58 AM
i did
i tried a number of servers

here is my work connection..

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998993567.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998995298.png)
that is full load on the DCHP servers..so everyone is online..doing there ting..youtube..browsing, facebook..we have over 600+ clients on that connection
notice the upload isnt being used much if at all...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998996844.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 21, 2010, 03:36:48 PM
Flow came and swapped my modem today from the old one to the new one we had @ Flow's World.

Did not solve the problem..lol

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/999441238.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/999438298.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26506629.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Service still underperforming with respects to bandwidth at least.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 21, 2010, 04:18:54 PM
interesting results there captain.

Apprentice, those pings looking pretty decent. If that holds up during peak time (say from 7pm gmt-4 to 11pm) you're back in the game.

I'll be very keen on seeing your results then.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 21, 2010, 07:59:40 PM
Shortlived as expected. New modem has not solved the problems.. Flow really has to fix this. Don't offer 100mbps/50mbps/25mbps/10mbps if you can't even deliver 5mbps at peak hours.. sigh.

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26520903.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/26520929.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/999683676.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

These were taken few minutes before 8pm.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on October 21, 2010, 08:17:23 PM


here is my work connection..

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/998993567.png)



DO you know how much for a connection like that u have at work... Price in TT$???
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 23, 2010, 08:37:58 AM
Well yesterday I did a peak time test at the sis-in-law's residence in the diego area. She has the new flow modem and was doing 60ms pings and 5mb flat to florida.

This was around 8-9pm.

So that gives more credence to the theory that each geographic area has its own share of bandwidth.

Our area is clearly over loaded. They need to give us a bigger slice of the pie.

Off Peak here and look at pace.

boom @ 58ms ping

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1001583937.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 26, 2010, 09:54:32 AM
ok have not been here in a bit but it seems that they have improved

check

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1004706226.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1005109934.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1005161882.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1005166826.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

and this is at home
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 26, 2010, 10:19:21 AM
Its common to get those results when testing against Flow's on servers.

A test up the islands or Miami is what you should do.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 26, 2010, 10:46:30 AM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Preston786 on October 26, 2010, 10:54:16 AM
*Jumps In*

BLINK FTW!!!

*runs out thread*
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 26, 2010, 11:37:59 AM
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

English is really a funny thing.

Maybe I should have explained myself better.

Right now you are getting close to 100Mbps on flow's servers, which is all fine and dandy but what would be interesting is to see what kind of DL speed you get on another server that is NOT flow's own.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 27, 2010, 07:05:31 AM
@microone

^Flow's local servers will always give you your bandwidth.
Do some tests to multiple foreign servers ad well as show the download speed off of Microsoft/Adobe servers etc.

The issue alot of us recognized is that flow is failing with overseas connections while local speedtests paint a different picture. It'll be nice to see whether you are getting your moneys  worth with that 100mbps or if in reality you're getting speeds equivalent to or less than 25mbps overseas, because thats the point right? :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 27, 2010, 08:12:48 AM
Yeah micro, redo those tests to a Florida server.

I'd be happy with 5mb overseas but more importantly, a sub 100ms ping. That is critical for gaming.

Right now, that only happens during off peak times.

Remember, all the game servers are based overseas. I don't think there is a single game server running at flow.

If their were game servers running on the Flow network, then at least my connection could be useful during the hours of 6PM - midnight.

The problem doesn't affect all areas from the tests done so far. Some parts of the island are apparently congested and in need of attention/intervention.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 09:21:58 AM
time to jump in, recently get ah 50 meg home.
Did ah 2 days of testing.

Speedtest to flow giving 15meg, so striaght up something seems wrong there.
Speedtest to new york gives 4meg.

But with most connections wiht problems, (TSTT!) i found that downloading with multiple connections solves d problems. with my 2MB tstt, if i download 1 file, ill get like 150kbs or so.
If i download dat same file using getright with multiple connections to host, i get 250kbs

So i tested d flow in same method, download from a high bandwith source using multi-connections. i downloaded at 1800kbs. which equates to about 14-15MB.
And dats coming from US foreign servers.

So seems im getin the Local Speedtest speeds, abroad, once downloading with multiconnection.

Using Getright with 4 Connections from microosft should yeild similar test results. (though my source i was using 10 connections, @ 3 connection was only getin 500kbs, bumbed up to 10, and it shoot up to 1800kbs) Dis was like 8pm-10pm)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 10:03:45 AM
Thats actually a good point I did not consider, the multi connection download managers. Indeed they help with download speed.

The problem most of us have is ping to foreign servers which is poor. No amount of download manager could help with pings.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 10:14:01 AM
yea, if pings lack luster yuh screwed, my pings is about 50-60 during dem hours.
but i not too worried, becuase i have 2 internet lines going into ah load balancer.

It was 2 TSTT at first, no is d Flow and ah TSTT, so either one play up, i good.
I letting d flow go through d paces right now, den i go activate back d tstt line on d load blaancer, get another 250k on meh downloads. which go bump meh up to ah nice 2000kbs, i coudl live wiht dat.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 10:23:43 AM
That load balancer sounds interesting. What is that an appliance? If so, what is it?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on October 27, 2010, 10:44:14 AM
http://www.amazon.com/Duolinks-SW24-2PORT-Balancing-Router/dp/B0012ZQ0GA/ref=pd_cp_e_3 (http://www.amazon.com/Duolinks-SW24-2PORT-Balancing-Router/dp/B0012ZQ0GA/ref=pd_cp_e_3)


^^^Is it something like that Messiaah??
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 10:47:17 AM
yes is ah device like that.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019MGNUY/ref=wms_ohs_product (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019MGNUY/ref=wms_ohs_product)

Dis is d one i have, seems to be out doh.

I using one of dat in Trinidad, In cayman, and by ah client, so i know it works.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 10:58:17 AM
Cool, thats an interesting piece of hardware.

I trust a device like this has a built in OS for management.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:00:34 AM
yes, Web Interface to control everything.
It's actually my edge device, firewall and everything, so all port forwarding etc, happens from right there.

I have mines set, to tell connections use whichever line is fastest at the time.
So perfect for multi-connection downloads, or plenty ppl in d house suckin bandwith.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:14:36 AM
ok that hardware won't make a diff cause it is using 10/100 ports not 10/100/1000 so hooking up 2 100mb connections to that won't give any extra speed you need something with gigabit

like this one

http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-FVS336G-ProSafe-GigaBit-Firewall/dp/tech-data/B000X1B4W4/ref=de_a_smtd (http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-FVS336G-ProSafe-GigaBit-Firewall/dp/tech-data/B000X1B4W4/ref=de_a_smtd)

any way i will do those over seas test as you all wanted but i get 15MB/s downloads on my torrents from private sites like Revolutiontt.net

and about the same from downloads from Microsoft and Nvidia (128MB drivers) and just about any high bandwidth site the problem with having 100Mb is that you won't get that on every single site you go on it depends on what is the max bandwidth the site offers

 
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:23:51 AM
dies 15MB/s as in 15,000kb/s ? u getting?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:32:47 AM
ok the test results u guys wanted

now bear in mind i am connected directly to the modem which is a gigabit port

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006607314.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006608268.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006609200.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006610131.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006610893.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006612064.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006613079.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

now i am sure if any of you test the same locations with a 25mb connection you will get the same results well aside from the upload as my max up is 7mb but it should max out your 2 or 1 mb

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:34:25 AM
yes 15MB/s as in 15,000kb/s i am getting i will take a screen shot of a file downloading
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:35:40 AM
Yes, so having a 100mb connection, eh make sense, unless you need d increased upload.

i got d 50meg for d 2meg upload, otherwise i would have downgraded to 25.

But 7meg upload on d 100mb seems compelling, i mite consider upgrading after all.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:37:17 AM
yes 15MB/s as in 15,000kb/s i am getting i will take a screen shot of a file downloading

15,000kbs = 120meg internet connection.

You honestly tellin me u downloading at that speed? *EYE POPS*

Screenshot please.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:42:26 AM
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5516/speedk.jpg (http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5516/speedk.jpg)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:44:18 AM
W! T! F!

Where u living boy?

Dat connectiong wokin BESSSSS.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 27, 2010, 11:44:30 AM
What a beautiful sight  :icon_compress:  I just getting by with my lil 3 megabytes per second yes.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:48:12 AM
all i can say is the i have zero problems with my connection and as you all can see the pings a great
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:48:53 AM
yea but way u living? dat connection is yuh house or work?
and wah area?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:50:52 AM
that is at home
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 27, 2010, 11:51:23 AM
Getting some decent speeds right now.....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006641450.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:51:49 AM
that is at home

what area dude? lolol

chag, pos, toco, seedras, way, lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:52:47 AM
any more test you guys want to see ?????
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 11:55:01 AM
like you have ah moving truck ready to move next door to me ah wah lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 27, 2010, 11:56:11 AM
I assume you have no issues streaming HD stuff from youtube lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 11:56:56 AM
like you have ah moving truck ready to move next door to me ah wah lol

exactly lolol. but seriously, wah area dat is.
it go help answer some of d questions with conjestion etc.

Cuase if men in your area, not getin d same bandwith, something up
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 12:13:00 PM
I am speechless. That 15 Megabyte per second download is on a Flow connection or some connection abroad?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on October 27, 2010, 12:21:12 PM
It's obvious he's a technician ninja that has a mini fibre optic line attached to his modem, hence the secret location.

That is so the reason why he has that speed :P
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 12:23:40 PM
exactly, ah simple question like location u cyah give? u sit down in flow office downloading that, lolol, and if u are a technician workin there, try to link men up, instead of showing off d speed nah, we want speed too.... lolol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 12:48:06 PM
In all fairness, if he doesnt want to give his location, we cant vex with him. Respect of people's privacy is important.

Still, a general geological location will be helpful.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 12:49:56 PM
i living chag, chag is ah big place, lol, i doh think privacy is ah issue lolol.  not askin fuh ah street adress, come on.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 27, 2010, 12:55:48 PM
It is region specific, so where you live is very important. Where is "home"? Yeah, the town is enough, don't need light pole number or half mile mark or anything like that. Just the geographical area will do.

Also, the problem with ping only occurs during peak times.

That is, 6pm - midnight

Rerun the tests then as well.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 01:12:47 PM
Suprisingly my ping during peek is like 50-65 and thing, id say thats pretty good.
plenty ppl in my area mustbe not on flow yet, dey basicaly now reach.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 27, 2010, 02:19:37 PM
Holy sheet @ that 15mb/s from M'soft server.. Flow clearly "wokkin" in that area.

As of right now 2pm, I haven't seen this speed to a foreign speedtest in weeks.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006843712.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Max line speed on downloads from typical Msoft/adobe servers for testing.

If it could be like this all year round eh... :(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 03:13:13 PM
i was getin 15meg to flow servers, so called flow, and tell dem, dey say i was on d wrong package, lol, i was on d 15 meg package, so dey put it on 50 and say, keep testin it shud gradualy reach up.

I getin 4MB/s from my download sources now, NICEEEEEEEEEEE, and climing...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 03:19:09 PM
I didnt even know there was a 50 Mbit package.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 04:46:42 PM
ok it seems like a whole lot of people want to move to my location and no i am not a Flow tech i am indead at home which is in the Caroni area that is all i will say about where i am any way i have tested during peak times and the results is all the same it don't matter what time i do any type of test or download i get the same speed as to the hook up i can help with that just pm me
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 27, 2010, 05:15:22 PM
Shenanigans. 

We are all paying customers of Flow.  I shouldn't have to rely on a 'hook up'
to get what I am PAYING for.

I'll leave that right there.....
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on October 27, 2010, 05:56:31 PM
u clearly have a active imagination as i never said anything about not paying  for service
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 06:12:52 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 06:45:00 PM
i agree with dem statements 100%, when i went to get internet from tstt i get it in 2 weeks, only becuase i had ah link, my other parnters wihtout said link, wait like 6 months, ridiculous.

and flow not providing what dey advertising is even worse.
that being said, im no fool, ill take d HOOK UP YO!

I will pm lata :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 27, 2010, 06:52:18 PM
Speedtests at 6:51 pm

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007140036.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007140810.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007141358.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 27, 2010, 06:59:03 PM
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.

Ent...

What he said.  I'll gladly pay...once I get exactly what I'm paying for.
I will jump the line and RUSH to pay.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on October 27, 2010, 07:17:17 PM
2pm Today
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1006843712.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

7pm Today
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007158425.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

8:45pm Today
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007223401.png)

1AM day after
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007401791.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

9PM Friday 29th  -.-
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009811428.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 27, 2010, 09:12:21 PM
Here are my peak time pings:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007239939.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Microone, could you run your tests now to compare?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 09:29:55 PM
wyatt, what package u have?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 09:55:49 PM
Wyatt and Apprentice have the jingle stones package, I HAD the 'nuts in a big azz vice' special.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on October 27, 2010, 10:21:59 PM
Wyatt and Apprentice have the jingle stones package, I HAD the 'nuts in a big azz vice' special.

in english please, lololoo
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 27, 2010, 10:24:04 PM
I had Flow and give up after months of lousy service, Wyatt and them now starting to get trouble.

Other people working fine. Microone walking on water it seems.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on October 27, 2010, 10:37:35 PM
Did another speed test at 10:37

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007302508.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 28, 2010, 05:30:47 AM
lol @ awesome. Why you dont go in the blink thread yuh big troll!

Spoiler (hover to show)

These are my offpeak results.

Twice as fast in both bandwidth and ping. More importantly, no lag in starcraft 2.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1007595411.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Messiaah, I have the 5mb package
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 28, 2010, 06:27:26 AM
LOL @ 'jingle stones package' :laughing7:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: DyN on October 30, 2010, 09:25:50 PM
Flow 25mbit performing at max tonight on peak hours sub 100pings to florida servers
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 30, 2010, 09:56:42 PM
yeah, I tested mine at peak (7pm-ish) earlier today and got sub 100ms ping as well as near max speed for bandwidth.

Trying not to jinx it.

Gonna test again in a few

Well look at that:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1011010148.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

We back in the broadband game.

Who say sweat!!!!!!!                                                                                                                     
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 30, 2010, 11:04:48 PM
Yeah...it seems like everything is great...right now.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1011042643.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/27101629.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)


Let me see how long this lasts.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 31, 2010, 08:25:24 PM
Flow, how do I love you? Let me count the ways.....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1012077324.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 03:27:46 PM
Flow finally finish upgrade meh to ah proper 50meg.

Results->

Flow:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014477865.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Florida:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014479332.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Microsoft:

(http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/920/microsoftspeedtest.png) (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/microsoftspeedtest.png/)

Other Sources:

(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3343/othersources.png) (http://img259.imageshack.us/i/othersources.png/)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on November 02, 2010, 03:58:04 PM
dazwhawetalkin bout.

Flow back in the game with full force

Where awesome now? lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: phoenix31tt on November 02, 2010, 04:00:05 PM
lol ah man get quieeetttt lol :p...

(yea me and messiah on the same connection) and it sweet... when i see net gone last night i was ready to call flow and rags them up... but i sleep on it.. wake up in the morning net back @ full 50mbs ...

talk about a good morning lol
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on November 02, 2010, 04:11:09 PM
mc's all ah allyuh.

Maybe in the year 2020 I will be able to get some decent pings like allyuh in my area.

This damn 2meg thing reall tugging on my balls, imagine almost two DAYSSS to download 17 gigs!!!

But ah go check allyuh back when $hit hit the fan again dont fear. This troll does watch die hard marathon before stepping foot in this thread.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 04:39:25 PM
Flow come rel good, when d 50meg line was only working like ah 15 meg, i was still happy, becuase u juss cannot get dat speed from TSTT, den when it bumb up to 32meg line ah say nice, i could live with dat, 600TT fuh 32meg, nice. becuase here in cayman is 100CI (700TT) for now upgraded 8meg line :S

So 600tt fuh 32meg cant complain.
Now full 50? JUH!!!!

Tstt betters watch they scrotum. Cause flow aiming to slash it off.
Dey better doh stick on they Fibre Net dey coming out with.

Ah whole bluray movie in under ah hr, EPIC.
Dont see what u going to do with dat 100meg package, dat jus retarded.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 02, 2010, 04:59:42 PM
Past few days Flow has been sustaining a steady 7mbps+ and an alright ping.
 /begs on knees that it at least stays this way.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014669459.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 06:33:03 PM
Found a new program to download from my "Other Sources" at max speed

(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7517/othersources2.png) (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/othersources2.png/)

Yummy, juss took that screenshot, will do again @ 8 and see.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on November 02, 2010, 06:34:22 PM
Spill the beans, sharing is caring :p
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 06:41:21 PM
i done give berzerk d beans long time, pm, mumble, or msn meh to get it.
eh know if i shud be postin them kinda thing on d forums lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on November 02, 2010, 06:44:30 PM
Yeah dude but 'Eragon'?  Seriously?  :laughing7:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on November 02, 2010, 06:49:08 PM
ROFL.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 07:10:17 PM
Earagon mad eh, take yuh time, rofl. Right up there with Alice in wonderland!!!

rofl lmao
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 02, 2010, 07:21:48 PM
lol Eragon was a nice popcorn flick. Don't be hatin!
Definitely awaiting the peak time download results.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 07:25:13 PM
what is peak time btw?

8pm Trini Time?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 02, 2010, 07:47:39 PM
Service usually degrades between 7-10pm.
so 8pm is a good time I suppose.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 07:49:58 PM
ok, going to run back d tests now
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on November 02, 2010, 08:09:06 PM
8:08 pm

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014855300.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 08:16:51 PM
8PM+ Tests--- :banana:


Fflow

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014841625.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Florida

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014858328.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)




Microsoft:

(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3433/8pmmicrosoft.png) (http://img101.imageshack.us/i/8pmmicrosoft.png/)

"Other Sources"

(http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2039/8pmnewsgroups.png) (http://img248.imageshack.us/i/8pmnewsgroups.png/)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 02, 2010, 08:46:35 PM
 =O Flow did some work on their network finally!

This is my speedtest during peak hours.. Haven't seen this in over a month.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1014884053.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

gg flow, at least for now.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 02, 2010, 08:52:07 PM
Yea, Flow earn my money dread, performance up d ying yang.
I even wondering if to keep my second TSTT line, but i go keep it jusssss incase flow frig up, i eh left out in d cold.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on November 02, 2010, 11:36:47 PM
i so wanted the 50mbit line

but still no luck on my side..still gettin bad service
i`m gonna be on leave from the 4th in the US.. hopefully wen i get back dey sort dey shit out
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rb on November 03, 2010, 12:05:09 AM
Flow has been working fine for me since I got it (download wise) always got my full bw (had 50mb briefly downgraded to 25mb) using groups. Today service was down for a bit in Chag but when it came back up pings were reaaally good.

I have never seen so many green and yellow connections in SSF4 before.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on November 04, 2010, 07:51:21 PM
nice to see everyone else is having a nice connection on flow

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1016732318.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on November 05, 2010, 11:25:11 PM

"Other Sources"




PM me as well i;de love to know this new source as well as the program u have the screen shot of
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on November 06, 2010, 12:21:53 AM
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?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on November 06, 2010, 11:18:46 AM
Yesterday I was getting 10Mbit speeds on my 5Mbit connection. Any one had  a similar experience?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on November 06, 2010, 11:23:39 AM
They trying to make up for all the bad service they gave yall recently? hehe
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on November 06, 2010, 02:10:41 PM
lol, ent.

I feeling like I won an internet  lotto
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: MessiaaH on November 06, 2010, 02:41:53 PM
i put 30GB to download, d thing say 40 minutes remaining.
Speed like wow. ah doh knwo what to do with all dat speed.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on November 06, 2010, 03:54:58 PM
i have a few things well yuh could do with that speed!!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: microone on November 06, 2010, 04:50:20 PM
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?

humm well not much that i can say without breaking a NDA lol

(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/945/120gk.jpg) (http://img185.imageshack.us/i/120gk.jpg/)

Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on November 06, 2010, 07:43:42 PM
lol, man talking about NDA yes.

Well whatever they did, I for one am most grateful to the internet angel.

Starcraft running like butter once more. Speaking of which....game up.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 09, 2010, 11:49:20 PM
One week on since the "fix"

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1024235859.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Speeds are holding up at all times of day so far.
:)

*knock on wood*
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on November 10, 2010, 07:17:13 PM
Just came home and Flow working like shit right now
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 10, 2010, 09:41:34 PM
It was TERRIBLY slow from like 5-8pm, its back and working now though.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on November 10, 2010, 09:45:35 PM
my speeds remain as epic as ever

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1025524590.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Didn't notice any slow down
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 24, 2010, 10:24:42 PM
Experiencing a nasty slow down with flow for the past hour.
Connections to google, facebook etc.. are timing out.
Can get through to GATT though it takes upwards of 20seconds to load a page.

Anyone experiencing something similar right now? o_O
Gonna assume it's a DNS issue @ flow?


Back to normal right after posting lol.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on November 25, 2010, 01:14:53 AM
^yea...after I edited my post that my net was giving trouble..It started back. Been like this a while now.
Maybe just a south issue :/
Bandwidth and ping is also terrible atm.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1044380656.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1044382064.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on November 25, 2010, 06:51:08 AM
I'm from south and last night till I left this morning the Flow internet would go down for about 10 minutes come back u for 5 and go down again
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on December 04, 2010, 07:32:32 PM
Past week or so I've been having average speeds and pings as follows:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1057632414.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Anyone else experiencing a dejavu?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on December 04, 2010, 11:18:29 PM
my pings and speeds been holding up.

You're on the 25mb right?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on December 05, 2010, 12:15:23 AM
Yea 25mbps, my connection is back on the high ping/low bandwidth at peak hours again, though this time it drops to 5mbps and not 1-2 like last month. Youtube is back to a crawl etc. /sigh

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1057820060.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
12:14am.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on December 05, 2010, 09:05:11 AM
Flow sucks! TSTT sucks!!

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Saxito Pau on December 05, 2010, 10:39:41 AM
Looks like tings more or less nice with me:

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1058299835.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on December 05, 2010, 09:36:30 PM
Same server tests as Hard O/C. Guessing its issues in my area /sigh

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1058947324.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1058955426.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Preston786 on December 06, 2010, 12:31:13 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1059733921.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Test from Flow connection shared from my neighbour right now

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on December 07, 2010, 11:13:34 PM
must add that flow picked up their act from the labass these past few weeks..

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1061857476.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: UltimateGamer on December 13, 2010, 05:29:28 PM
So TSTT/BLINK WTF ever with an identity crisis, after 3 weeks of no internet and the typical "We are currently doing upgrades in the area" bullsh!t, I would humbly like you to put this in your pie hole!!!

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1069509022.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Ultimategamer is back baby!!!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on December 13, 2010, 07:27:16 PM
lol @ labass and pie hole.

You might wanna update your broadband pic in your profile boy ultimate. It saying Blink bright and bold.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on January 03, 2011, 06:54:46 PM
Flow back to throttling torrents in my area again.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: jason19842 on January 03, 2011, 07:21:42 PM
Is it me or did flow increased uploads to 1MB on 5MB package
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on January 03, 2011, 07:55:24 PM
Is it me or did flow increased uploads to 1MB on 5MB package

i think they did
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on January 17, 2011, 01:37:10 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1114774599.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Same here... ??? :D Silent upgrades :D ???



(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1114786463.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

LOOK AT THAT PING :D
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on January 17, 2011, 07:30:07 AM
Very impressive.

5MB down 1MB up with great pings is exactly where the action needs to be for me. Price and Performance just right.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on February 11, 2011, 02:01:33 AM
Been a while since we had flow issues, but has anyone noticed a severe slow down in bandwidth this past week? Downloads or any data activity seem to top out @ 5mbps on my 25mbps connection.

Speedtest to miami @ 2am:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1152433397.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

And washington to double up:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1152434086.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Additonally data transfer seems to be stalling, online games lagging up alot and it's not the game servers or the p2p host as everyone else seem to be fine. Seeing alot of bandwidth "dips" as well. A download would be running at 300kb/s and then suddenly drop to 15kb/s and stay there when usually I'd be getting a constant 2000kb/s. As for Youtube, video sticking on playback @ 240p  :shakehead:.

Just wanna know if anyone else having issues, could be my connection only.



Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on February 12, 2011, 02:58:51 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1154750273.png)

Flow seemed to have done a small upgrade in truth. Raised the upload speed from 1mb to 1.5. Not bad, for a start.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on February 12, 2011, 03:10:12 PM
should make it 2mbs and call it george
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on February 12, 2011, 03:11:01 PM
This is my 25 mbit at the moment....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1154766573.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on February 12, 2011, 06:44:56 PM
should make it 2mbs and call it george

ent? dais why ah say it good for a start.

This is my 25 mbit at the moment....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1154766573.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

damn. guess we in eldo getting all the bandwidth.  :happy0203:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on February 12, 2011, 06:54:54 PM
I think it is just time of the day, my speedtest @ 6:54 pm

Uploads are better, never saw it go above 1 mbit.....

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1155017603.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 12, 2011, 07:27:30 PM
Yeah, flow's been ripping up these days.

Tested a 10mb racing @ 15mb yesterday.

On another note.....Rage....Zombie Strippers??? really???
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on February 12, 2011, 08:02:27 PM
Flow ripping what up? :/

All week = this and less:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1155072563.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on February 13, 2011, 01:09:14 AM
On another note.....Rage....Zombie Strippers??? really???

hahahaha!!! doh judge me jed!!! lol. it was a surprisingly fun movie actually. :happy0203:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 13, 2011, 04:40:59 PM
lol, well I see Tito Ortiz starring in it, and being a big MMA fan, I'll have to support the fighter and watch this movie.

Apprentice, just ran a test on my 5mb.

Looks normal

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1156222697.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Maybe its in your area. Who else on the forum close to you that on flow? Would be interested to see their results.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: trinigamer on February 23, 2011, 11:01:41 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1171348575.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/35348276.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Speed is ok in San Juan. Ping could use some improvement.

Couple weeks ago it was terrible tho.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on March 11, 2011, 08:40:21 PM
Ok this past 2 weeks = High Latency for me.
Multiplayer games are lagging like hell.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1197060559.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1197065957.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/36648313.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/36648365.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)

Quote
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


Please tell me it's everybody affected and not just me  :shakehead:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 11, 2011, 09:55:18 PM
mines been fine

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1197138381.png)

Been getting epic lag only in League of Legends and I'm pretty sure that has to do with the game itself (and their servers / netcode) than Flow.

Everything else has been running like butter.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on March 11, 2011, 10:06:12 PM
148ms to Florida.. That used to be 60-70ms :/
Things really laggy. Spoke to berserk and his fps pings are 200ms+ like me.


Same speedtest to same server as you on a 25mbps connection:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1197154631.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on March 11, 2011, 10:25:05 PM
Just called Flow support. Guy says everything is normal, he argues that 200ms and higher for FPS games is "OKAY".
He says nothing is wrong with the Flow network and the problem is the servers I connect to.  :shakehead:
While talking to him and explaining certain things he just doesn't reply and gives me the silence treatment.
I tell him to move this up to his superiors and he says everything is good, they can't do anything about it and HANGS UP on me.
This is BS.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on March 11, 2011, 10:57:27 PM
Unfortunately this is becoming the normal treatment from Flow. I tired get shit service from them. Every other week is either they blocking torrents or speed bad.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 12, 2011, 12:06:27 AM
I think we got to look at which part of Trinidad you guys are from as well.

I remember there was a time when it was working bess in Petit Valley and St. Anns but people in Maraval and South was feeling real pain.

Might see a pattern again.

Also, my test was run at peak time, which usually gives that sort of result.

At off peak, I'll usually do better in the latency department.

Still all games running smooth (save for League of Legends)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on March 12, 2011, 01:55:12 AM
I suffering with 2mb download from tstt, real pain, but at least I know im actually getting 2mb and a decent ping to most servers.

Keep that high bandwidth oui. I need good ping which they seem incapable of delivering consistently, hadda be worrying bout peak and off peak. pfffft.

You wanna hold all kinna expo but basic things like proper customer service, COURTESY and competent staff you can't be bothered with. What a pack of friggin jokers.

Allyuh not seeing a red cent from me anytime soon.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 12, 2011, 10:47:18 AM
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.

Quote
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.

Would be interested in seeing the results on a TSTT connection
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Mobscene on March 12, 2011, 11:16:10 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1197996496.png)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1197990424.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/36689816.png) (http://www.pingtest.net)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on March 12, 2011, 01:55:05 PM
Working fine here...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1198216873.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/36699739.png)


...and it seems that Flow has upped their upload bandwidth finally.
I'm consistently getting 1Mb upload.  I hope that's not a fluke.



The NetAlyzr results are similar with the buffering issues...

Quote
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.


Could that be a Flow issue?
How do we engage them on this one?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on March 12, 2011, 02:36:54 PM
I should point out that TSTT's customer service is 50x better than Flow's at this present time.

I'l not saying they should have technical issues but that coupled with POOR support is total fail.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 12, 2011, 03:08:08 PM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TheApprentice on March 12, 2011, 08:48:10 PM
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.

Quote
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.

Would be interested in seeing the results on a TSTT connection

lol... day after I start complaining about the issue things back to normal.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1198762513.png)

^Haven't seen that ping since early December.

And I ran that test, everything is fine.

Quote
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.

Would have loved to see the test results when everything was running horrible.

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:


Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on March 12, 2011, 11:47:57 PM
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


Quote
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.

I do, actually. I got the same result with 2 torrent instances on the network running and the other test was run with them closed.

Only other warning is this

Quote
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.


(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1198928235.png)

Random server in Amsterdam just for kicks...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1198931550.png)



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:


Wonder if wyatt will be as forgiving WHEN something like this happens to him when he's getting an issue.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 13, 2011, 02:07:17 AM
hmm, thanks for the buffer results there awesome. Think thats noteworthy and it may explain my League of Legends issue. Worth investigating.

you pick some real random servers there boy Hard O/C. lol. Seattle and yellowknife oui

lol @ forgiving.

You really don't want this thread to turn into a TSTT horror stories testimonial. Be thankful flow came along and make blink pull up their socks. Else was crapeaud smoking everybody internet pipe.

We'd still be running on 256k (yes, common k) for $300 a month and calling that broadband. lol

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on March 13, 2011, 01:13:33 PM
(http://www.pingtest.net/result/36776343.png)

Allyuh getting some kinna ping and jitter that I NEVER saw with flow, even in the good days. Better hope more ppl dont subscribe in your areas.

As for this result, its what I get regardless of the time of day.

And yes, nothing short of a formal apology AND 6 months rebate of that 'service' will mend Flow's name in my books. And yes, emo-awesome is here to stay.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on March 13, 2011, 01:50:27 PM
Hey Awesome, what DNS servers you using to get that error? Aren't you an OpenDNS user as well?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on March 13, 2011, 05:17:29 PM
Used tstt's default servers in the initial test, switched to google dns and re-ran but got the same result.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on March 14, 2011, 03:41:12 PM
don't know if this was posted before

Official Update on flow package.
BROADBAND
·         The upload speeds for our broadband packages were increased:
o        Turbo 20 hour & Turbo 5 were increased from 256kbps to 1Mbps
o        Turbo 25 was increased from 1 Mbps to 1.5 Mbps
o        Turbo 100 was increased from 2 Mbps to 3 Mbps
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on March 14, 2011, 03:59:34 PM
Ah boy...me and Bootytape can be friends again.  :happy0203:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 14, 2011, 08:34:17 PM
This is phenomenal news and exactly what we asked for.

Kinda surprised they didn't make a huge deal about this. Somebody in PR department lapsin.

No more "straw sized" upload bandwidth.

I kept seeing it in the test results but like an earlier posted mentioned, didn't know if it was "official" or just Flow testing out stuff.

+1 to you notnice
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ViCe on March 15, 2011, 10:14:08 AM
kool everything get a lil boost but d turbo 50...........stueps
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on August 01, 2011, 10:48:20 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 01, 2011, 11:09:00 PM
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.

Sounds worrisome.

Which area are you in and what speed connection did you take?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on August 01, 2011, 11:13:39 PM
^ Carapichaima  in Central.

The standard 5mb package.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on August 04, 2011, 04:46:13 PM
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.

Torrents and flow are not friends well at least with me.I'll say try a wired connection.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on August 04, 2011, 04:53:50 PM
Well the past 3 days I actually have been getting great speeds with my torrents.

Idk if it was something I did or them. I know others who use Flow and DL like there's no tmr. But as of now it seems all good.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Preston786 on August 15, 2011, 10:08:13 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1433777105.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1433781790.png)

2nd one the net was in use but still very good....

.....considering getting flow for home now.....
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on August 15, 2011, 02:18:17 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1434131111.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1434135535.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1434137722.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

Vistabella Sando
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on September 12, 2011, 11:50:42 AM
Anyone else didn't have flow net/cable for 12+ hours like me yesterday?  Just wanted to know if it was just my area
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redlum08 on September 12, 2011, 11:54:49 AM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on September 12, 2011, 12:18:17 PM
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

That has to be it.

Flow said they had some kind of major failure on there end but they couldn't fix due to the SOE till this morning
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: phoenix31tt on September 12, 2011, 01:11:05 PM
we had flow issues for the eid holiday... apparently other areas were affected...

but like it still ongoing hmm
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 22, 2012, 05:24:06 PM
what new package

this new package, lol

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on February 22, 2012, 05:25:36 PM
twas a modified p90 x workout i was trying. Flow came by me today to check on my line. Said my 25 mb package should be upgraded (at least the upload speed) by end of week or so.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 22, 2012, 05:36:18 PM
sweet @ upgrade

keep it coming, keep it coming
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on February 22, 2012, 05:50:42 PM
so all the packages getting updated or only the 5mb. Can someone update the flow thread with all pertinent info please.

PS. suzieboy how that new package running and did the upload also upgraded to.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 22, 2012, 05:51:33 PM
Should be getting mine by the end of the week. God willing.

will post a review soon as well once I do.

Its a new package, so I don't think upgrades will be automatic for any of the existing packages.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on February 22, 2012, 05:56:51 PM
bless
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on February 22, 2012, 06:36:59 PM
Why against the upgrade? Isnt it for free?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 22, 2012, 07:56:52 PM
its not an upgrade afaik

its a new package they're introducing
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: suzieboy on February 22, 2012, 11:26:18 PM
OK WTH mine went back to the 5Mb package whats goin on? but it worked good while it lasted.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 01, 2012, 06:40:16 PM
Anyone else Flow down? also if you don't pay ur bill on time (as in a day late) do they cut it?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on April 01, 2012, 06:50:09 PM
still down

jumped the dns and it works...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 01, 2012, 06:52:42 PM
I don't use flow dns, I use google dns... what are you using chinee? Also confirmed with SlueChin his own is down too (in south, i'm in central)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: mailman166 on April 01, 2012, 06:53:05 PM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 01, 2012, 07:02:55 PM
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

Same here, busy tone iwmc... thank God I have another Internet provider...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on April 01, 2012, 07:08:41 PM
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

thanks to Awesome Sauce for giving me that some time back. I can only browse trinituner on flow's default. So I was like. WTF

Changed DNS and BOOM!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 01, 2012, 07:17:19 PM
But that's google dns... I always use that and its still not working... Wth

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Sharpened3Line on April 01, 2012, 07:18:41 PM
Mine is down... Im in Piarco... My twitter suggests its all over the country...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on April 01, 2012, 08:49:37 PM
Yeah it's all over. 6 Flow vans are currently on the lady young road fixing a unit on a pole. That's all the info I got by phone. I have no idea what went down.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on April 01, 2012, 09:48:42 PM
^^BBM ??
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on April 01, 2012, 09:54:07 PM
Nah -- Old time ring ring method. Where you press the green button and talk verbally.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 01, 2012, 10:15:29 PM
Seems we're not out of the blue yet, my connection giving real beans

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on April 01, 2012, 10:18:16 PM
Same here and other places -

I'm using my Blink HotSpot to access the net.

Imagine we're seeing the day when TSTT can be relied upon.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on April 01, 2012, 10:19:13 PM
^^ ditto
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on April 01, 2012, 10:38:30 PM
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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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Redfish on April 01, 2012, 10:39:33 PM
^LMAO!!!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on April 01, 2012, 10:40:57 PM
Cause-a-lity
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on April 01, 2012, 10:41:58 PM
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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+1 buddie..+1
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: EmperorXavier on April 01, 2012, 10:42:31 PM
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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smh!!! ahh boy
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on April 01, 2012, 10:49:47 PM
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3525/wolagu.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/wolagu.jpg/)

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...we might wanna take off this ad for the hour. Then again according to Chronic, technically if your connection eh working you cah really get lag right?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on April 01, 2012, 11:11:26 PM
LMAO^^
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on April 01, 2012, 11:33:00 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*deading*


Mine seems to be back to normal though...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1869947184.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/60111044.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on April 01, 2012, 11:42:49 PM
hoss....

if you was on mumble when all this was happening...

men stop bf3 early cuz ah that kinda laugh that take place hoss..
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on April 02, 2012, 01:51:43 AM
Any one torrents working,since the black out?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on April 02, 2012, 02:06:00 AM
torrents downloading fine for me.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on April 02, 2012, 02:49:04 AM
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:

Thank the gods for Newsgroups though.  That still works like a charm.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: captainchris on April 02, 2012, 08:22:42 AM
Torrents wokin` !
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on April 02, 2012, 09:16:53 AM
torrents wuking here too. faster actually.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 02, 2012, 09:45:01 AM
Haven't tried tbh, in flow right now waiting to pay and I also upgraded to the  15mbps package though it doesn't take effect until next week when they 'install' the free wireless modem...


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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on April 02, 2012, 10:35:04 AM
All through that "blackout" I was torrenting like a mad man still. Still am.

Guess it's an isolated incident?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Notnice on April 02, 2012, 02:41:25 PM
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:



Hope they fix that carp


EDIT
Torrent working now
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on April 02, 2012, 02:46:48 PM
Hopefully it's fixed by the time I get home, or me and Flow 'would have words'.



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on April 02, 2012, 02:53:18 PM
Hopefully it's fixed by the time I get home, or me and Flow 'would have words'.



SwiftKeyed from my Samsung Galaxy S2 with Tapatalk

That's if they bother to answer their phone in the 1st place.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniLink on April 02, 2012, 04:39:32 PM
Toll not free call, and a cursive Flow of words afterwards xD
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on April 02, 2012, 09:32:52 PM
OK... all torrents wukkin now.


* looks longingly at bootytape.com *  :sassy:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 02, 2012, 10:14:53 PM
:o gosh man arc

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on April 02, 2012, 10:53:45 PM
Well despite the hick up yesterday, everything seems to be fine now. And my connection is flying with wings spread once again =D

This 15 mbps connection is the sweet spot yes.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on April 03, 2012, 07:08:56 AM
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...
Title: Re: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 03, 2012, 08:48:37 AM
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...
Which is MOST people tbh...

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Title: Re: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on April 03, 2012, 08:49:51 AM
:o gosh man arc

Sent from my MB865 using Tapatalk

What can I say... a man must have his vices.

I'm not the least bit ashamed to say so.
You should know me by now.  :)



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on April 03, 2012, 01:40:13 PM
Honestly you should be hoss.

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on April 03, 2012, 04:15:58 PM
Really now?   :laughing7:

One of these days.  Maybe in my old age.



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: k1701 on April 10, 2012, 07:43:04 PM
Hey all, 
           I spoke to FLOW tech support, they said the issue with with low download speeds should be resolved by  the end of this week.I was off from work today and I tried downloading a torrent,my download speed for torrents(25mbps package) would normally be 300kbps-1000kbps.With the  recent outage I would experience under 100kbps. Today it was up to 1000kbps! But by evening time it slowed to 100kbps. I read other posts, and for some it is resolved. It seems to me that they are working on the issue but I hope this reduced download speed is not permanent.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue? 
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on April 22, 2012, 12:24:00 PM
Seems like Flow has an outage in south. Called them. Should be resolved soon hopefully. Some issue with the IP distribution
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: woodyear99 on April 24, 2012, 11:58:25 AM
My 25 mbit isn't that fast during the day again, guess more people using their service in my area?

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1913036712.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 27, 2012, 01:09:58 PM
I found that lately my flow even though is maintaining 14Mbps to the local leg is seriously hampered to the foreign leg... browsing is inconsistent at times with pages not loading. Thankfully my gaming has not yet been affected, but even torrents seem slow... or it could be this wireless modem I got.... any of the testers had any similar experience with these units?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on April 27, 2012, 03:18:36 PM
Shinsoo mentioned something similar and he got it fixed

Might want to raise it with xpider_g, he is our official Flow Technician for any technical problems.

http://www.carigamers.com/cms/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=5745

Was very helpful when I had issues with the wireless modem myself.

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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 27, 2012, 03:47:16 PM
Sadly that wasn't an option since I did the upgrade through the Chag office... so I have the wireless variant... i'll check it again later and if anys hit xpider a PM.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on April 27, 2012, 06:09:24 PM


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.

When Domz asked to get the normal modem they told him he couldnt because the wireless comes with the package =/
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on April 28, 2012, 09:20:07 AM
It is only an option if they go through GATT. It is a special arrangement with Flow for our members only based on the feedback we gave during the beta test.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on April 28, 2012, 10:49:32 AM
Too late to go back now... still having BEANS with the new modem though... gaming works fine but internet browsing of all things is crap...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on April 28, 2012, 02:52:47 PM
Be sure to tell others so they won't make the same mistake!

Go through GATT to get the best deal.

oh and I got the callsign of the second Flow Tech Support person dedicated to assisting gamers.

siddyboy

http://www.carigamers.com/cms/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=5916
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Exar_Kun on May 07, 2012, 12:06:28 PM
So what exactly does it take to get past this obvious p2p throttling FLOW has going on?
The speeds on my torrent remind me of the old days on Carib Link dial up when I used to put stuff to download on GoZilla and wake up in the morning to see that it went all night at 4kB/sec (score!).

Surely you guys don't live with this. Must be something. VPN. SOMETHING to get around this.
Say what you will about Blink, but you can use your bandwidth there however the hell you please once you don't break their daily cap.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on May 07, 2012, 12:48:34 PM
If i recall correctly, Rage called them and they were able to fix the problem. Shinsoo also advised using a VPN but having to use a VPN to download is crap imo. I personally havent seen the problem yet but then again i havent fired up in torrents in weeks so....
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on May 07, 2012, 04:48:55 PM
That 'problem' started right after the big 'outage' some weeks ago.
I noticed it right off the bat, and I thought it was just me.

Coincidence?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on May 07, 2012, 10:19:36 PM
Shinsoo said he got his fixed. Give him a holla and see what it was they changed. Mentioned something about ports but best to get the details from him.

Or ask Xpider_G

Last test I did saw over 1mb in dl speed on torrents but like Virtue, I'm not a heavy user of it so ymmv.

What package do you have at the moment and what speeds are you getting right now?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Exar_Kun on May 08, 2012, 10:09:09 AM
I'm on the 25Mbit package, which as of this morning was working at

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1939041929.png)

I'm wondering if this is just a Chaguanas thing in part. Over the weekend I was literally below 1Mbit, couldn't even log in to PSN. But even with the speed rebound, torrents definitely haven't gone back to where they should be. I've only started using FLOW for about a week now, so when I saw the low torrent speeds last week I did a google search and found a thread on trinituner talking about how FLOW throttles p2p.

I'll take your recommendation and shoot a pm off to Shinsoo though. Thanks. Hopefully this can get sorted out.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on May 08, 2012, 10:26:40 AM
Arc suggested something last night that worked. If you use utorrent, enable DHT and force encryption. The problem is if the site you use monitors you're ul/dl ratio, encrypting means they can't track your uploads.

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on May 08, 2012, 12:33:57 PM
^^ Yea that should work had to do that when I switched to Flow around this time last year. If not then you might have to tweak some other settings in your torrent client.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Shinsoo on May 08, 2012, 12:40:17 PM
3 things to fix problem.

take down router firewall (most likely its up)
randomize ports
if those dont work then use a vpn.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on July 10, 2012, 02:19:07 PM
MC outage in south a few minutes ago.... STEUPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Title: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: suzieboy on July 10, 2012, 02:49:30 PM
Lol like u was about to launch a nuke or wat?lol. Yea experience it to doh beat up. Wasnt out for that long. As soon as rain start.


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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on July 10, 2012, 08:10:19 PM
hoss was in the middle of a DOTA 2 game, me and 2 other friends get drop from the game... le sigh
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on July 13, 2012, 10:41:26 AM
Anybody else's connection went down @ 1.30 this morning in Central? ........was anybody awake at 1.30? XD

But yea, when it went down first thing in my head was Friday the 13th o_o. Woke up this morning and it was it was good.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on July 13, 2012, 12:07:43 PM
Yip mine did, thankfully I have more than one internets

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on August 05, 2012, 09:39:03 PM
damn you flow.....
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: LQDSNK on August 06, 2012, 12:06:46 AM
Should be back up now, was fine for me last couple of hours
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on August 06, 2012, 11:42:34 AM
Last night (ONCE AGAIN) south was gettin hit with some rather shitty connection speeds. It seems they were having a lot of issues as even their test site for speedtest.net was down =/

G G
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on August 06, 2012, 12:58:52 PM
I think it was country-wide yes...but things started to normalize by about 23:30.  Was even able to play a BF3 session adequately enough.

I guess all ISPs have their issues from time to time.



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on August 07, 2012, 01:50:44 PM
You know... i cant game without lag, stream faster or download faster if my connection tripping out every other day -_-
Title: Re: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 08, 2012, 04:53:07 AM
You know... i cant game without lag, stream faster or download faster if my connection tripping out every other day -_-

Doesn't Flow's very own ad on this site boast "game without lag"?

I told u guys, I experienced it first in the heart of town, just a matter of time before most areas have so many subscribers that lag is going to be a 24/7 problem for you guys. I suggest have DSL connection on standby as even that is going to start to look like salvation compared to Flow's degenerating service.

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on August 08, 2012, 08:30:43 AM
'...degenerating service'?

Far from it my friend. 
How ironic it is that 'degenerating service' caused me to switch from Blink DSL in the first place.   :/

A case of 'Captain Awesome' becoming 'Captain Dramatic'?  :laughing7:



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on August 08, 2012, 12:29:34 PM
I have no quams about switching since it is working ,it works as its supposed to, BUT, lately i've been getting spikes in my connection, random downtime, and its quite annoying. 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.
Title: Re: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on August 09, 2012, 08:15:15 AM
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 #
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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on August 09, 2012, 11:26:44 AM
Haven't played any online in a while to see but otherwise dl's and streaming have been fine with no downtimes in my part of central.  Blink used to go down at critical moments (during work on assignments) for days even.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on August 10, 2012, 11:30:54 PM
My connection of late has been very questionable... Level 2 bars in cod when other men on Flow getting 3... Pissing me off

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on August 11, 2012, 12:33:45 PM
I think the problem might actually be CoD.   (troll)



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on August 11, 2012, 12:47:38 PM
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8cucjDPhW1ro4fv5.jpg)
Title: Re: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on August 11, 2012, 03:46:05 PM
I think the problem might actually be CoD.   (troll)



SwiftKeyed from my Samsung Galaxy S2 with Tapatalk 2
That is always a possibility, but in this case it wasn't

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Saxito Pau on August 11, 2012, 07:33:07 PM
Imagine for all the floods in Diego, Flow internet wukking normal???

(Likewise Digicel network)

Blink/TSTT total fail!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on August 22, 2012, 08:32:34 PM
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 >:|
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on August 22, 2012, 08:49:00 PM
Not really, things normal here.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Rebirthoftheundead on August 22, 2012, 10:18:49 PM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on August 23, 2012, 12:07:54 PM
Good luck getting tech support after 6pm
Yup, 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... :*(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on August 23, 2012, 12:35:48 PM
Good luck getting tech support after 6pm
Yup, 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... :*(


I guess someone is actually going to be home tonight XD
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on August 23, 2012, 09:11:21 PM
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.

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!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Rebirthoftheundead on August 23, 2012, 10:08:18 PM
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.

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!
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on August 27, 2012, 01:55:55 PM
This here is to show mileage may vary, my experience on Flow had been 10x better than tstt, latency and bandwidth wise. Gaming online on xbl is VERY consistent and connections to US servers are good. I play predominantly fps COD, bf3, some gears and its more than fine.

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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Doomtack on August 27, 2012, 05:34:30 PM
I actually have to agree with W1nTry here.
I've had a great experience with FLOW so far, after switching from TSTT after 4years.
The only problem i face with FLOW is the obvious p2p port blocked, meaning some torrents don't ever get good speeds, and certain games may have issues (which are usually remedied with some port forwarding, or other setting configurations).
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on August 30, 2012, 06:10:01 PM
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.

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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 30, 2012, 07:56:53 PM
lag is never good

Bring out the spanish inquisition!

I'm sure our two dedicated GATT-Flow technical reps can sort it out. Cassidy and Xpider_G

Lets send them the relevent user account info and see if they can monitor the connections during "rush hour".

Just tested my connection and its moving along at max speed and this is a typical heavy usage period. Clocking 15Mb/s on a download as we type.

Will keep an eye on it.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on August 30, 2012, 08:06:00 PM
I also have the 15Mb/s Package - but I never see speeds as you've quoted above.
More or Less 15exact on a download :S ?

Max I've seen is 3Mb/s
What am I doing wrong ?

Linksys Router connected to the Flow Modem - and PC wired to the Linksys. (Basic)

SpeedTest reads as 14.65Mb/s Down.

Maybe a port forwarding issue ?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on August 30, 2012, 08:18:19 PM
well remember, the server you're downloading from has to be able to offer that sort of speed as well.

In my case, I was downloading team fortress 2 to another machine at home.

You tend to get epic speeds from steam. They have blistering fast servers to distribute their games.

give that a try and see
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on August 30, 2012, 08:27:02 PM
I've Downloading from Steam before but never at such high speeds.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on August 30, 2012, 08:36:10 PM
I've gotten my full speed on Steam as well as torrents. With torrents you may have to fiddle with some settings on the client but it'll work. Only thing weird is around midnight my streaming is slower but not snail slow just slower than usual. Still no complaints from me.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: CMR170889 on August 30, 2012, 08:42:38 PM
I use Vuze to torrent and I'm always fighting up with the TCP and UDP ports. I could never find the proper port to use. Any suggestions anyone. If I get the 15Mb/s through torrents I'll seriously go wild and buy out Western Digital.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on August 30, 2012, 11:09:40 PM
Have you tried any other torrent clients, checked firewalls and PF. Any port outside of 1-1024 should do the trick. What i do is use upnp and the randomize port option.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Rebirthoftheundead on August 31, 2012, 09:21:52 AM
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.

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
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)

Just use a program called battleping and you should be alright, that's what i use to fix it even though i shouldn't HAVE too but there is not much you can do when Flow doesn't want to admit its there fault
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on September 01, 2012, 09:17:27 PM
Yea rebirth that's what i've been using but still as you said. We should not need to use programs to get our games to run properly =/
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on September 05, 2012, 02:39:15 PM
Flow speeds ripping up again.

Really need to find out if they did an upgrade on the sly.

This is what I got sustained while downloading Dragon Age II

More than the maximum speed and it pretty much is constant right through.

impressive
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on September 05, 2012, 03:45:24 PM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on September 05, 2012, 03:58:58 PM
Yea, our Flow assigned techs (XpiderG or Cassidy) should be able to help with those tests if they haven't spoken to them already.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on September 05, 2012, 04:36:12 PM
I doubt its a cable degradation issue, XBL works fine on said connection, so too do other services. I find it odd that Guild Wars 2 would start to lag and basically become unuseable when i'm happily fragging away on XBL AT the EXACT same time... also torrents run like crap for me too in central save when I encrypt the traffic then it improves. Bandwidth isn't the issue, QoS/traffic management/content management is what fits the bill.


*returns to sweating on xbl*
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on September 05, 2012, 06:52:45 PM
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.

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.
,
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Rebirthoftheundead on September 05, 2012, 10:55:24 PM
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.

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.
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 lag
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 07, 2012, 09:40:23 AM
Im having alot of trouble with my Flow connection guys....Coming to a year now..we have had very intermittent service.....either the router would restart itself or no lights would change and we would get no internet for around 20 seconds...then it would be up for a minute and then that cycle would repeat itself. 4 technicians have came by us...First one tightened the coaxial cable at the back saying that would fix it ( LOL...) and last 3 just changed the modem( cuz changing it the third time would solve it? :S)..

  i have called them over 20 times and some people on the line are simply useless promising to call back after monitoring the situation when they wont and some are just plain incompetent....most on the phone tech has checked my signal and said all signals are looking good and also one of the techs went up on the pole and said everything was fine as well as the splitters being changed.. this has been stumping me for a long time now as i cant play any game online really cuz it always signs me out of PSN before i get to do anything really :/.... right now a tehnician is scheduled to come on the 10th to try fix the problem but does anybody here have this problem? Or does any one know why this could be happening? it's really annoying g..can't play any games or watch videos really...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 07, 2012, 11:45:59 AM
probably a line issue, have you tried moving it around your house. The best spot is if you can disconnect it from where it comes into your home and connect the modem directly to that line, sometimes it's just a bad/faulty splitter that causes most problems.

Report back with your findings and ill see what else i can think of.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 07, 2012, 12:49:31 PM
OK ill try that!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on October 07, 2012, 03:08:08 PM
Been having a lot of issues with flow for the last three weeks. The signal seems to be coming in really week. It cant work with a router, only connected directly to a pc. It works for about 10 seconds through the router and then cuts off. I called and they say the signals are high and they need a technician to come but they have yet to schedule that.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 07, 2012, 07:18:04 PM
Well Slaming i tried connecting it at different location but no luck :( still getting same problem...every minute it saying "limited or no connection" then comes back up as usual..
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 07, 2012, 09:14:43 PM
I had this same problem where it would work properly in only some parts of the house due to a faulty splitter, but since it's not working anywhere it could be a backend issue. If can you access the webUI for the modem at 192.168.100.1, try accessing the ip during startup of the modem, access the log page and print screen what you see there.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 08, 2012, 07:00:49 AM
Here these are logs from the two sections on the page.... Good luck xD
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 08, 2012, 01:50:50 PM
my guess right now is that you have a signaling/power issue on the down and upstream. Check the power levels from the status page. I bet the power levels for upstream is greater than 53dBmV

When you tried moving the modem around your home, did you also try connecting it directly to the first point where the cable comes into your home, depending on how they ran the cable this could be ground level or through your roof. You need to try to get to this point as this will allow me rule out if any of your splitters are to blame, as we will be bypassing them all.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 08, 2012, 04:25:14 PM
Sounds like solid advice. I remember being told to place my modem at that point as well for best performance. To avoid the splitters and such.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 09, 2012, 12:43:24 AM
well the upstream power level is 46.25 and downstram power levels on average are 36...but im unsure exactly where the splitters are...is it inside the flow box thing(grey box) is it likely that there are just 4 seperate cables coming from this box into the house and no splitters being present? Ill still check though where i can hook up the modem to bypass these splitters
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 09, 2012, 04:34:49 PM
Would think with those errors in your log the signal would be to high, but from what you just posted everything seems to be within a more than decent range and you should not be having any problems.

Let me ask you how is your TV and Voice service if you also get them from flow, When did you notice the problem and were there any significant events that occurred prior to the problem.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 09, 2012, 04:46:25 PM
Tv is fine but we have the flow voice plan but dont really use it..this problem is going on for more than 6 months but got even worse when we got the new 15mb plan wit the huge ass modem...that as far as i can remember but flow tech switched the modem 4 times but the problem stayed the same (although with this one it is the absolute WORST....limited or no connectivity every 35 seconds average but the modem doesnt restart itself at all like the previous ones)...my landline is tstt however and we have an unsolvable problem with the phone were there is constant static...and can only be cleared by flashing the phone multiple times...
*sigh*
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 09, 2012, 04:58:53 PM
what about your neighbours are they also experiencing the same issues, if not can you get one to loan you there modem for 15-20 mins to see if the issue repeats with their modem, you can also do the opposite also.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 09, 2012, 07:27:47 PM
That ive yet to find out..will have to ask next time i see a neighbour...kind an old ppl area so not much with internet tho...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on October 10, 2012, 10:12:33 AM
I've been gaming on Flow without much problems, but browsing can be erratic at times/slow go figure

Sent from my MB865 using Tapatalk 2

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 10, 2012, 10:57:06 AM
got even worse when we got the new 15mb plan wit the huge ass modem...

Wait...are you saying you have the new modem??

Well sir, I have the fix for you.....ask for your old modem back....the original one...not the New model.

I had the EXACT same problem when I first upgraded to the 15mb package.

Got them to give me back my original modem and it worked just fine and yes....you still get the 15mb speed.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 10, 2012, 12:15:58 PM
Ok ill do that when the tech comes :d thanks
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Silex on October 15, 2012, 04:51:13 PM
OK well after some missed visits a technician came and well he did what i asked and gave me back my old modem...everything works perfect now :) thanks for all the help!!
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 16, 2012, 07:53:29 AM
Glad to hear it bro.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Rebirthoftheundead on October 18, 2012, 08:49:43 PM
anyone having problems right now? was playing SC2 with some pals and we all started to lag like hell, tried browsing and everything is extremely slow can't even stream good
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Eroo on October 18, 2012, 09:10:39 PM
Yup cant even get speedtest to load it so slow now
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on October 18, 2012, 09:45:04 PM
dead slow, no TV streaming for me tonight.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 18, 2012, 10:58:17 PM
Did a speedtest and got 5mb instead of the usual 15

Not sure what's going on.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 19, 2012, 08:29:51 AM
Yeah, something was definitely wrong.  I ended up watching *gasp* 'regular' TV.   :laughing7:

...and I'm glad I did, because I got to see Obama on The Daily Show.



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on October 19, 2012, 12:26:02 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,...................................

Somebody lick down a post on lady young again nah...

Sent from my Galaxy Note using Tapatalk 2
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on October 22, 2012, 02:32:43 PM
As is the case, Flow is... iffy for regular browsing and even netflix by me... and of late even gaming i've been getting at least 1-2 disconnects whilst in-game regularly now... overall not bad, but i'm seeing new 'bugs' that didn't occur when I first got the service.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on October 23, 2012, 08:48:18 PM
Sorry guys. Free leech week on Bootytape. I'll give back the bandwidth by Friday.  (troll)
Title: Re: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 24, 2012, 12:19:11 PM
Sorry guys. Free leech week on Bootytape. I'll give back the bandwidth by Friday.  (troll)

Ahahhahaha

I like you.  :laughing7:



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Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 24, 2012, 09:48:16 PM
lol @ rage

I'm still not getting my 15Mb though. Reading 5Mb on the richter scale.

Will have to give xpider_g a holla
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Netizen1 on October 26, 2012, 10:27:24 PM
again 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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 27, 2012, 02:36:55 AM
Hmm, seems Flow redid their website.

Tried registering but it redirects me to the Jamaica site.

Things a gwan.

Liking the online payment, bill history and paperless drive though.
Title: Re: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on October 28, 2012, 12:55:33 PM
again 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
Yip last week or so its been giving trouble like whoa. Keep refreshing it will eventually come up

Sent from my MB865 using Tapatalk 2

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on October 30, 2012, 11:40:23 AM
Having an issue where whenever i start a PC in my house, I can't browse for a few minutes (usually about 10). Have to keep flushing the DNS and even that doesn't work some times. Recently i just had to pull the power plug and restart the modem for it to stop giving me beans =/

Anyone else gets this issue?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 30, 2012, 01:34:07 PM
Never had that happen before. Try the basic things first. Check that you can reach the gateway,  check your network for ip conflicts, check for root kits,  bonnets,  spyware, etc...

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: W1nTry on October 30, 2012, 04:41:00 PM
Time to change that modem Virtue, yuh sticking
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on October 30, 2012, 07:07:38 PM
hmm, never heard of that one.

Ask Xpider_G if they came across that in the Flow technician knowledge base or something.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on May 14, 2013, 09:35:13 PM
Um.....any other Flow ppl getting trouble downloading torrents? Like from today? I know other ppl getting problems too dafuq is going on?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on May 14, 2013, 10:22:05 PM
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.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on May 15, 2013, 06:05:00 AM
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.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2



Actually mine was perfect during the weekend until yesterday. I know they went down Monday so maybe its a result of that outage, will wait and see.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: UltimateGamer on May 15, 2013, 08:18:16 AM
No luck with torrents here either. Http works fine though
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on May 15, 2013, 05:24:55 PM
Seems everything is back to normal, all systems go :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on May 16, 2013, 09:30:10 AM
:laughing7: God knows we can't do without our weekly anime dosage ent  :laughing7:




SwiftKey 3 | Samsung Galaxy Note 2 | Tapatalk 2 | Omega v16

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Rebirthoftheundead on June 13, 2013, 09:09:28 PM
Anyone else experiencing major slowdown in Internet?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Qloxx on June 13, 2013, 10:18:32 PM
Everything running like molases going uphill on a cold day
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Berzerk on July 04, 2013, 12:00:17 PM
So is anyone else getting flow issues? No net at home since yesterday. Speaking to customer service is no help. Woodbrook area.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Stromicuz on July 08, 2013, 09:04:33 PM
i have this little problem where the net is fine all day then 8 o clock reach and like 300 ping packet loss like all 43% and then the next day it fine then deja vu at 8... since about a week now.. Freeport...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on October 19, 2013, 10:33:56 PM
Looks like Flow updated everybody by 5 MB bandwidth...  (+)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3044668336.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/88097113.png)

GG.  :)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: rassmatic on October 19, 2013, 10:59:17 PM
Yup, apparently so...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3044693125.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on October 20, 2013, 12:41:55 PM
I heard is more that they're doubling it so the fastest connection on the island is going to be 200mb.

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: riad on October 25, 2013, 09:11:00 PM
I hope they double, i could use 50mbps for PS4 downloads when it comes out :(
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on December 08, 2013, 03:59:37 PM
So i have quite a few people complaining about Flow again. During the day they seem to be throttling upload speeds making online games unplayable. Anyone getting any issues?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on December 08, 2013, 04:26:04 PM
Steups in guess they are still tuning the network after the upgrades. Once it working at night time I good yes.

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on December 08, 2013, 08:42:00 PM
Could they do a speedtest at the time of the issue and post?

Haven't noticed anything odd of recent myself. Smooth sailing so far.

I could do a test at the same time and compare results.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on December 10, 2013, 02:50:39 PM
Speed test results show up fine but games are still unplayable. This was happening a couple months ago. With MMO's at least.

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Rebirthoftheundead on December 10, 2013, 10:58:18 PM
Speed test results show up fine but games are still unplayable. This was happening a couple months ago. With MMO's at least.

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on December 11, 2013, 06:38:19 AM

Well I don't play any MMOs, so maybe that is why I have never seen this issue.

Dota 2 and Battlefield 4 work fine ping wise.

Will be difficult to figure out if the speedtest results are fine. Not sure what could be causing the issue specific to MMOs.

I got a call yesterday from Flow saying that my connection was being moved over to a new core that would provide superior troubleshooting options.

They maybe able to get to the bottom of this sort of unusual problem if your friend is placed on that system as well.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on March 31, 2014, 11:29:38 AM
Anyone getting a lot of issues with Flow today?

Low download speeds. High latency and packet loss in game.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: UltimateGamer on March 31, 2014, 02:05:05 PM
Anyone getting a lot of issues with Flow today?

Low download speeds. High latency and packet loss in game.



Started last night for me, but back to normal now
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on July 04, 2014, 08:26:20 PM
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:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Steven Ramadar on July 15, 2014, 01:50:39 PM
How much you all think I can get for the router flow gave me? Upgraded so I know longer need it. Not expecting more than $150

In other news I downgraded from the turbo 50 to 20

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 15, 2014, 04:31:30 PM
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:

That happens when you have too many porn torrents active simultaneously (or so I've been told).   :happy0203:





SM-N900 / VN-ROM v13 (KitKat 4.4.2) / SwiftKey / Tapatalk Pro

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Spazosaurus on July 16, 2014, 02:28:57 PM
Or so you've been told. Yeah right. Flow randomly throttles torrent traffic a far as I can tell which explains why that is happening.

Sent from my XT1034 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on July 16, 2014, 02:54:41 PM
I swear.   :lol:

...and yeah, unfortunately Flow engages in some 'packet-shaping' from time to time.

You can use the Glasnost test to check...

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php





SM-N900 / VN-ROM v13 (KitKat 4.4.2) / SwiftKey / Tapatalk Pro

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Saxito Pau on July 17, 2014, 11:10:35 AM
This week an anime torrent episodes that would normally take 30 minutes to download took all of TWO DAYS to finish....
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on July 17, 2014, 11:48:11 AM
Reset modem or clone a new MAC
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on September 24, 2014, 09:36:41 PM
Flow running extremely slow for anyone else.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Agokillya on September 25, 2014, 09:20:00 PM
Almost two months now I getting poor readings. Yuh not alone.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on September 26, 2014, 06:59:05 PM
Slamming could you post your speed test results to Trinidad and then another to Tampa Florida?

I just tested mine (at peak time on a Friday) and the results were fantastic.

Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Arcmanov on September 26, 2014, 08:41:15 PM
Could be something amiss in specific areas.

Arima is working...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3790311957.png)

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3790314286.png)

(http://www.pingtest.net/result/107139649.png)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on September 26, 2014, 09:42:50 PM
Those speeds look on point.

Nice

I'm in the west and its good here too, so wonder which area Slamming is in?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Fkacn_tt on September 27, 2014, 02:01:59 AM
I am in the west to. I did a full reset and it seem to fix the problem.

These are my results now

Trinidad server.
Check out my Ookla Speedtest result. What's your speed? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/981843027


Fort Lauderdale
Check out my Ookla Speedtest result. What's your speed? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/981845479
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on September 27, 2014, 07:00:36 PM
Excellent! Glad to hear it.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Archer on November 10, 2014, 04:03:43 PM
anyone with Flow in the central area or anywhere else experiencing intermittent connection dropping as of yesterday?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on February 04, 2016, 01:41:44 AM
So because Digicel doesn't have a small layout for their Fibre Pricing I'm just going to post Flow's because it's convenient.

Someone needs to talk to these Advertising and Marketing peeps and these companies.  I actually feel like it's an insult to us as a gaming community to be marketing a $500 and $700 package for "gaming".  Digicel is just as bad. 

We've been gaming online since TSTT had their DSL running. More than 10 years ago.  We were fine on Flow's 5 and 10 Mbps connections.  What a slap in the face it is to us, and misleading to those who don't know, that they are portraying that you need that much bandwidth to game online.  Yes, game file size is getting bigger and bigger. More bandwidth = faster patching and downloading. That's fine.

What's important to us is LATENCY. If they could guarantee 50 ping or less to a US server. I'd jump on the wagon one time.  I actually saw it happen when people thought a higher connection meant better gaming. Nope. 200+ Ping in BF and DOTA which as we know makes it very frustrating and almost unplayable in games that require high reaction times.

It may seem petty to many who will pass over this little rant but to me it just shows the shitty level of appreciation our ISPs show towards their customers. Not to mention I've been getting packet loss at certain times of night.  Games like Diablo 3 become unplayable at 6PM DAILY. I don't know if it's traffic or just throttling by Flow's part.  Also, I realized recently that by just launching uTorrent (with no downloads or uploads active), my connection just dies. Wtf is that?

Tell me how many things you see wrong on this page: (hint: the first image is one of them)
http://www.digicelgroup.com/tt/en/play/our-services/fibre-internet.html
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 04, 2016, 02:21:41 AM
Latency is a massive problem, 100% agreed but that isn't easily solvable by a local ISP.

It is highly dependent on so many factors. What can Flow say? 70ms guaranteed to US East Dota 2 server farm, 80ms to CSGO Atlanta Server Farm, 82ms  for Minecraft Florida Server farm? etc...etc...

That is a constantly moving target.

They can only guarantee the latency and bandwidth locally.

Problem really is that we live in the Caribbean and play in the USA (thousands of miles away)

Just like the gamers in Peru and Brazil.

Good news is, we have a solution for that.

Stay tuned.

Side note, the increase bandwidth is still fantastic for downloading huge games as you mentioned but also for sharing that bandwidth with family members, so definitely worth the while. Especially when we are getting twice the bandwidth for basically the same price we were paying before (From 15mb to 30mb for $219.99)
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on February 04, 2016, 09:29:39 AM
My peeve is just how they're wording their sales pitches.  If you read through each one of those packages and what they are "suitable" for it really makes you wonder who's in charge of these things and how much they really know.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 04, 2016, 01:48:45 PM
lol, I don't think its that bad.

How would you re-word it?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: trinigamer on February 04, 2016, 04:35:22 PM
If utorrent is causing connection loss, reduce the global number of incoming connections under preferences, generally don't need more than 50 - 100.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: jason19842 on February 04, 2016, 07:38:43 PM
I give up on flow...right now this 45mb feeling like a 1mb connection and the latency like it got worse than before
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 05, 2016, 07:01:58 AM
Can you do a speedtest Jason9842? And a screenshot of the latency you're experiencing?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: jason19842 on February 06, 2016, 10:49:24 AM
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
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: VirtueTT on February 06, 2016, 09:49:37 PM
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

30ms and 12ms to where? If you're doing speed test to Flow's server in POS that doesn't reflect your latency to US based servers...
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 07, 2016, 10:08:22 AM
Yes, check your latency in game and post a screen shot.

Then follow this guide to trouble shoot your connection and post the results here.

First step: Connect your computer/laptop directly to the Flow modem.

Second step: Do a speedtest to Flow, Trinidad

www.speedtest.net

(http://www.carigamers.com/images/flowserver1.jpg)

Ensure you're getting solid latency, 10 - 15ms should be fine, and bandwidth near your package speed so Around 15mb down, 2mb up for the 15mb package

(http://www.carigamers.com/images/flowlocal.png)

Third step: Do a speedtest to Marathon, Florida

www.speedtest.net

(http://www.carigamers.com/images/flowserver.jpg)

Ensure you're getting decent latency 60 - 80ms should be fine, and bandwidth near your package speed. Around 15mb down and 2mb up for the 15mb package

(http://www.carigamers.com/images/flowforeign.png)


Note, the greater your bandwidth, the less likely you will achieve the maximum speed during peak times (6PM - Midnight) when testing to foreign servers.


If all results look reasonable, any in game performance you are experiencing could be related to issues beyond your internet connection. Examples like server lag due to cpu overload, distance (maybe located in US West), windows updates or other downloads running incognito on your PC or competition for  bandwidth from other users in your household if you share your internet. One person on youtube or netflix can devastate your ping if you do not have QoS properly configured on your home router.

Be mindful, Flow has little control if you're playing on a foreign server. A thousand factors come into play as listed above.

Hope this helps
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: felix on February 23, 2016, 04:08:18 PM
does flow still give discounts to gatt members ????
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on February 23, 2016, 11:23:15 PM
Yes Felix, send me a pm and we can make arrangements
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: dartzreunion on March 08, 2016, 10:50:44 PM
My area having problems with flow since December and they can't seem to fix it. Technicians tired come and test the line and say is area issue.In-fact last time i called in the guy i spoke to said they don't know what do to again  :crybaby2:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 08, 2016, 11:16:11 PM
What area is that? And what exactly is the problem?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: dartzreunion on March 09, 2016, 10:45:31 AM
Hey..yeah it's San Francique area close to Massahood Junction (< South, Siparia Old Road area if you not familiar ). The problem is slow internet speeds i have a 60 Mbps package...getting 4 Mbps average speed max of 12 Mbps (rarely). My neighbors are experiencing this problem as well (but lower max speeds based on their packages). Technicians came already and test the line and said low downstream reading. Flow said they repaired the node,then changed it because the repair didn't work. After the node was changed technicians came again and said lots of errors on the line.This happening since December.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 09, 2016, 01:38:53 PM
Understood, will add you to our chat group so we can do some further testing. Check your pm
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: evankimori on March 20, 2016, 04:17:07 PM
Understood, will add you to our chat group so we can do some further testing. Check your pm

Can I get an invite to this group as well too please? Got the upgrade recently and damn @ drops in connectivity.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 22, 2016, 06:27:43 AM
Certainly Evankimori. Happy to help
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Ieswk on March 23, 2016, 06:15:56 PM
Call me suspicious but ever since I took the flow gamer discount (I always had 60mbps package) my ps4 speed test speeds are locked at 11mbps (previously was between 20-30). I can't get any matches in street fighter and can't play division multiplayer, hits don't register. Anyone else experiencing anything like this or could make some suggestions to a solution cause the only thing that has change was the package swap.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: ratedE on March 24, 2016, 12:29:14 PM
This is interesting. I'm experiencing the same problems. I jus ran a speedtest and have been getting an average of 3Mbps download and .54 Mbps upload speeds. At first I thought it was a problem with my router, however, neighbours are also having the same issue. I am from La Romaine. Can someone help please?
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 25, 2016, 01:38:04 PM
feel free to email support@carigamers.com and we will get you in the VIP Gamer tech support group
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Ieswk on March 25, 2016, 06:39:16 PM
Done, here's hoping Something can be done
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: NeoSpartan117 on March 26, 2016, 01:40:56 AM
FLOW has hands down some of the worst customer service I have EVER experienced. I have been getting reduced quality of net for some time (slow net, incomplete web loading, online lag) until recently it got to the point where I can't even join a game online 95% of the times, and out of the 5% of times that I do join a game lobby, 1% of the times it actually goes into the match (Gears of War UE on XBOX ONE). Whenever I do the test it says that I am experiencing extreme packet loss (90%+) and other times it is at 0%, but mostly it's the former.

I messaged on facebook and was referred to an email address...I sent an email with the relevant information, got one response and that was it, I sent a duplicate email, got another response saying that they would forward my email again to whomever...been 2 days and no response, no follow up again. Tried calling this entire week, no answer for an hour. This is the most infuriating thing ever because I barely get time to play these days and now this happens on a long weekend. Steups.

God I can't wait for Digicel or Massy cause this is seriously ridiculous... 
-----_____-----
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 27, 2016, 11:05:27 AM
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.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: NeoSpartan117 on March 27, 2016, 03:18:28 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.

Well, I tried everything I could think of...no luck. Went by my friend yesterday to test it out and I got to play with little issue...so at least I ruled out my xbox as being the problem. I would not be so pissed if FLOW would actually respond to my emails or actually answer their phones.  It's kinda ridiculous to leave my phone on for 1-2 hours each day and not get a single answer for a whole week.

I'll send the email but it's kinda ridiculous that I need to use a third party to get support for a service I'm paying for.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 27, 2016, 05:56:48 PM
Except this is a Flow service. You will be interacting with Flow technicians as well in the VIP Gamer tech support group.

So yes, do send the email.

Gamers are royalty to Flow and been so for years.
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: Stromicuz on March 27, 2016, 10:00:37 PM
For the past 2 weeks or so i have been having a serious issue concerning flow's connectivity and it's only getting worse. So my internet speeds are fine and i get stable ping/connections to certain applications but when gaming i cannot connect to a single game on my pc whether it be BO2, LOL, Dota, etc every game is the same ol problem i get launched into matchmaking just fine but just lags when i join or most of the time i won't even load into the game, plz help because it's really unbearable. :protest:
Title: Re: Flow Broadband - Status Thread
Post by: TriniXaeno on March 28, 2016, 05:27:00 AM
email support@carigamers.com and we will arrange the VIP Gamer tech support treatment for you
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