Flow Internet Thread

mitch1980 · Postby **mitch1980** » January 6th, 2014, 12:59 pm

Flow indicated to our Company of disruption of Internet services today on the Metro Line.

kg494EJ-1 · Postby **kg494EJ-1** » January 6th, 2014, 8:23 pm

Terabyte wrote:There was a disruption of broadband service at one of our sites in that area. it still appears to be down. Metro-E / WAN services unaffected.

Well that's strange because I am "supposed" to be on the Metro line,I am a Business subscriber after all with Columbus Communications, lost quite a bit today due to this but things happen also my backup was slow as hell, thanks green network :cry:

stev · Postby **stev** » January 6th, 2014, 8:46 pm

5.7Mbps down in Waterloo

anyone else having problems?

Postby **M_2NR** » January 6th, 2014, 10:45 pm

Mine is a bit weird but I blame my file server too. YouTube streaming fine. I guess I'm expecting too much or got too accustomed to getting the Max speed all the time

kg494EJ-1 · Postby **kg494EJ-1** » January 7th, 2014, 1:05 am

Its completely out for me now at home valsayn/curepe area

kg494EJ-1 · Postby **kg494EJ-1** » January 7th, 2014, 1:13 am

and its back, connection seems to a bit unstable speeds are constantly varying with drop offs every now and again. Its not my router because I am also using some direct Ethernet connections.

killercow · Postby **killercow** » January 7th, 2014, 1:49 pm

I'm now making the switch over to flow (first time for internet only).
How long approximately does it take for you to actually obtain the service
after signing up online and what procedures again will be effected
(apart from the installation payment). Also, what's the contract like
(I'm certain there's going to be some kind of contract entered into)
and if so, what's the time frame/package like (if choices are available)?

fouljuice · Postby **fouljuice** » January 8th, 2014, 2:27 am

I don't know about that online thing, but if you called and spoke to someone they usually give you a date for installation.

No contract (as far as I know)

http://www.discoverflow.co/trinidad/internet/rates-and-packages

Tired Accord · Postby **Tired Accord** » January 8th, 2014, 1:56 pm

I'm in Endeavour, Chaguanas on Flow (10MB basic) and for the past few days I've noticed torrents d/l at max +/- 125 kbps. This is at varying times during the day - up to 10 pm at night, and currently during the day at 1330 hrs. Other streaming services (Netflix, youtube, etc) work pretty fine. It is possible that torrent traffic is being throttled still.

I did a speed test to Miami and got between 7-8 Mbps down & 0.75 Mbps up. I then did a speedtest to London and got 1.4 Mbps down and 0.13 up !!!! WTF??!!

I thought that was rather interesting. Anyone has any thoughts on that?

volcanosnowstorm · Postby **volcanosnowstorm** » January 9th, 2014, 5:36 am

Down in Chaguanas right now? Seems so to me.

volcanosnowstorm · Postby **volcanosnowstorm** » January 9th, 2014, 5:43 am

And it's back.

sonygoup · Postby **sonygoup** » January 9th, 2014, 9:07 am

Got crappy speeds last night during 2 so playing COD -_-

GeneralHonda · Postby **GeneralHonda** » January 9th, 2014, 9:53 am

According to the OOKLA Speedtest I did (today):
Ping: 70ms
DS: 1.00 Mbps
US: 1.17 Mbps

I have the Turbo 20 i.e. 20 Mbps/2 Mbps

GeneralHonda · Postby **GeneralHonda** » January 9th, 2014, 12:55 pm

I called FLOW about 3 times on different days. All they did was reset from their end and still no improvement. When I do resets still nothing better. Many times I go way under the 1.00 Mbps for both DS & US. Cannot even go on You Tube to watch a vid @ 144p.

Right now I am at:
Ping: 81ms
DS: 0.30 Mbps
US: 1.61 Mbps

FLOW needs to come clean and explain what is going on to their customers. I also got an e-mail that some maintenance work is going to be done tonight in my area. Maybe some improvement will be noted.

fred1266 · Postby **fred1266** » January 9th, 2014, 1:28 pm

i also getting horrible service with blink, keep drooping when playing game, is a a coincidence they both have horrible service all of a sudden

sonygoup · Postby **sonygoup** » January 9th, 2014, 1:30 pm

fred1266 wrote:i also getting horrible service with blink, keep drooping when playing game, is a a coincidence they both have horrible service all of a sudden

Wrong thread bro nobody care about blink!

gastly369 · Postby **gastly369** » January 9th, 2014, 2:59 pm

question for the 10mbit flow guys whats yr max dl speed on torrents?
eg 1gb file takes me avg 15 min with the other ISP

Trini Hookah · Postby **Trini Hookah** » January 9th, 2014, 3:11 pm

You Max out at ~1.2Mb/s

Lowest I ever got was 600kb/s or so

gastly369 · Postby **gastly369** » January 9th, 2014, 3:14 pm

orr cool

volcanosnowstorm · Postby **volcanosnowstorm** » January 9th, 2014, 6:03 pm

Came home and net was out again. Reset modem and router and it's working, but lke this:

DOWNLOAD
0.55Mb/s
UPLOAD
0.23Mb/s

DOWNLOAD
0.49Mb/s
UPLOAD
0.07Mb/s

Postby **M_2NR** » January 9th, 2014, 6:33 pm

Its a bit ridiculous. My pings all over the place and speeds also. However for once YouTube videos load :/

For instance its a bumper cart race in forza :/

volcanosnowstorm · Postby **volcanosnowstorm** » January 9th, 2014, 6:35 pm

gameaddict wrote:^ That was me last night...reset didn't help at all. I didn't contact them, figured I would if it persisted. Returned at full speed around 12.

^ guess I'll just wait maybe a maintenence issue?

brickman · Postby **brickman** » January 10th, 2014, 1:52 am

Like the first week of the month has been treating you guy hard,been good for me so far though.

volcanosnowstorm · Postby **volcanosnowstorm** » January 10th, 2014, 5:34 am

Almost celebrated this morning when I got my 10 back...
Unfortunately:
DOWNLOAD
10.02Mb/s
UPLOAD
0.20Mb/s

DOWNLOAD
0.43Mb/s
UPLOAD
0.08Mb/s

DOWNLOAD
0.46Mb/s
UPLOAD
0.18Mb/s

DOWNLOAD
0.67Mb/s
UPLOAD
0.09Mb/s

I think I'll call them this evening if this continues.

air wick · Postby **air wick** » January 10th, 2014, 5:49 am

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/734110905

Postby **M_2NR** » January 10th, 2014, 7:49 am

I'm going to downgrade. I almost never get what I pay for now.

EDIT: Downgraded a few mins ago so I'm waiting for the changes to take effect. This morning, the most I'm seeing on servers is 7mbit.

kg494EJ-1 · Postby **kg494EJ-1** » January 10th, 2014, 9:11 am

Yesterday they contacted me to ask if I wanted to upgrade my business package, I couldn't help but chuckle, explained that at this time the current bandwidth I have is under utilised. Flow's service started out excellent but as time goes on it is seriously deteriorating but when the other option isn't much better, what is one to do.

brickman · Postby **brickman** » January 10th, 2014, 11:04 am

Still great here,those of you with problems do your neighbours have it also?Could be there are too many people on the node.

Postby **M_2NR** » January 10th, 2014, 4:36 pm

Yea. They checked that. My area isn't event reached the Max yet according to them. And apparently it's ok on their end. I'll live with 10mbit for now.

volcanosnowstorm · Postby **volcanosnowstorm** » January 10th, 2014, 7:44 pm

So I got home and checked it about half 6, on http://www.speedtest.net/, http://speedtest.tstt.net.tt/ and http://speedtest.flowtrinidad.com/. The first two gave similar results, but flow's site showed what should actually be my speed. Did these a couple times switching them up, but results were consistent. Just checked this thread and was literally about to call, but I decided to hit a speedtest.net one more time, and would you believe that it's back to normal? (well 9.72DL/0.47UL - close enough) Psh... I'll monitor it and if it keeps dipping back down I'll call immediately. Thanks for the advice guys.