Flow Internet Thread

[sonygoup]

I have a question...how many here with slow speeds from arima?

Checking in

[ModMania]

I think it has something to do with the recent power outages...I noticed when electricity went and came back after a few hrs, modems werent able to get online right away. I assume it was because too many modems were trying to lock at the same time causing a bottle neck...but when I got connected eventually it started being really slow..

[sonygoup]

Didn't loss an power on my side jus the usual light flashing really quick during the rain
It may be the distributor nearly need to reset or be reconfigured... Never really had a problem when rain fall

[ModMania]

Ok so we deduced that the whole of arima effed up...

[S_2NR]

lol. normal here

[jm3]

seems ok now

[-Roach-]

Working fine in central...

[kerwinishere]

Working fine south.... Just high latency

[vtec-ghost]

Speedtest shows the full 10MB but files downloading like 30-50 kbps and pages loading slower than normal. Tunapuna area, happening since rain fall last week yes

[bossmann]

Stop testing on flow servers...

[vtec-ghost]

^^^ on blink speed test i always have shitty speeds lol

[Kronik]

It have times pages crawling to load, but if I open a page for the speed test it loads faster than anything, speed test runs awesome, but all the while everything moves like a snail. Flow throttles the traffic, but never throttles for a speed test

[bossmann]

Test using a US server. Side note however I've never experienced flow throttling my net.

[vtec-ghost]

frigging downloads keeps randomly stopping before completely downloading. Stueps

[Soul Collector]

My speeds are 1mb - 5mb. Called them AGAIN tonight. Last time my router seemed to be the problem as a direct connection to the modem gave me the full 20mb on the speedtest.

Now I hooked up my new router today, and its 1mb - 5mb - even with the direct connection. Tested it in safe mode with networking too cuz the flow tech said she was resetting some kinda thing but it kept coming back and interfering, like some sort of malware but the speedtests on safe mode has the same results.

So now they gona send someone to replace the modem as it has no other explanation. Have to wait till 30th July now for a tech to come. I aint even bother about asking for a rebate na. In any case, my new router just so freaking cool to look at lol

[kerwinishere]

You are one of the people to think that you will get the same speeds wirelessly as wired ent.

Flow just like to fck up people internet

[firstchoicett]

Speedtest shows the full 10MB but files downloading like 30-50 kbps and pages loading slower than normal. Tunapuna area, happening since rain fall last week yes

Could be the website or server.

[firstchoicett]

My speeds are 1mb - 5mb. Called them AGAIN tonight. Last time my router seemed to be the problem as a direct connection to the modem gave me the full 20mb on the speedtest.

Now I hooked up my new router today, and its 1mb - 5mb - even with the direct connection. Tested it in safe mode with networking too cuz the flow tech said she was resetting some kinda thing but it kept coming back and interfering, like some sort of malware but the speedtests on safe mode has the same results.

So now they gona send someone to replace the modem as it has no other explanation. Have to wait till 30th July now for a tech to come. I aint even bother about asking for a rebate na. In any case, my new router just so freaking cool to look at lol

Did you try hooking it up directly ?

[GeneralHonda]

I have been experiencing slow speeds for months now and keep calling about it. I was told yesterday that there is noise on the line and to please bear with FLOW and that the issue would be escalated for the issue to be resolved in the area (Santa Cruz).

[firstchoicett]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3640582117
US Server Rain was falling by me when i did this test.

[syncrod]

Getting good speeds on torrents as of lately


Torrents starting up faster than before, don't know what changed over the weekend

[Soul Collector]

I have been experiencing slow speeds for months now and keep calling about it. I was told yesterday that there is noise on the line and to please bear with FLOW and that the issue would be escalated for the issue to be resolved in the area (Santa Cruz).

They said there is nothing wrong with my line or that anything was affecting my area negatively (Curepe). So I dont know why I have this stupid problem. I just hoping its really a faulty modem.

[volcanosnowstorm]

Just for the record. Couldn't upload this last night :/ lol (look at the times in the taskbar)

Check out previous posts for problem description. Afterward though, been getting pretty decent speeds, even to Florida and with torrents. Upwards of 8 for d/l (wired connection), and I've noticed 10 fairly often as well (10mb package). I use netspeedmonitor to constantly monitor speeds during use.

[volcanosnowstorm]

(Netspeedmonitor you can see next to the chrome icon in the tray.)

[original_lollybob]

anybody getting problems sending mail using flow?

i have both a flow address user@flowtrinidad.com and an external domain address and sending mail from outlook results in mail being returned undeliverable, marked as spam.

if i send mail from webmail mail sends fine...

FLOW's tech support is a little bit less than useless of course

[GeneralHonda]

I have been experiencing slow speeds for months now and keep calling about it. I was told yesterday that there is noise on the line and to please bear with FLOW and that the issue would be escalated for the issue to be resolved in the area (Santa Cruz).

They said there is nothing wrong with my line or that anything was affecting my area negatively (Curepe). So I dont know why I have this stupid problem. I just hoping its really a faulty modem.

Since my modem was changed my speed issues began. Each time I call I tell them this and they insist it is not the modem. I have the 20mb package and my relative 2 houses away has a lesser package and can watch you tube vids at 360p versus me at 144p...240p if I am lucky. I am considering swapping modems and see what will take place.

[Morpheus]

WTF.....I am pissed if I can't get at least 720p on streams. I usually stream youtube at 1080p straight away. On PC, on phone, etc. Even when I had the 5MB package.

Netflix no problems as well. When I see buffering(once or twice every couple months) I'm shocked. FLOW better buck up.

Those speeds and problems to stream allyuh talking about there can be VERY frustrating..... upsets me just reading about it. LoL

[ModMania]

I wonder if they capping streams like torrents

[brickman]

Had a friend with the same fluctuating speed & disconnecting problem using wifi,i checked it this morning & it turned out to be just a loose wire on his wifi card.He even spent $$ on a fancy router thinking it was the issue,i would suggest those of you having problems check your wifi cards.

[M_2NR]

Did a man just say he ear worrying about rebates? Free money giving weh deh?