Virgin Official upgrade

[jamin]

Lol! Sorry, I wrote that after a couple of glasses of red wine!

Long and short of it, the upstream is currently very limited in comparison to the downstream, not only in the physical bandwidth available. But also in the way data is transmitted back to Virgin.

Giving customers a 1mb upstream is possible now, but factor in another 300 - 400 customers in the same area with 1mb uploads and we are back to dial up speeds at best.

Trig, my 10mb is fine at home. You may have a fault in your area/installation, if you ring them up, log a fault and ask for a DOCSIS ping to be done (basically pings the internal MAC of the modem excluding your kit from the test) this should show up any problems.

[Metier9]

jamin if you poke your head in again, does virgin media do static ip addresses? For homes...

[Stoo]

Jamin, any idea when they're going to start rolling out to more areas again?

NTL stopped laying cable about 6 miles away

[jamin]

Metier9: Hmm... used to do statics but I'm not sure they are available anymore.

Stoo: Bummer mate, happened to me too, used to live in a new build flat 30m away from a connection. I know there is talk of starting to build the network again and fill in areas that were missed. I have had a look, but can't find any info mate.

[Jay]

the cost of laying fiber is so high it would make your eyes water!

They will probably only lay it if they feel there is a demand for it.

I have a 4mb and never get 4mb from it in any test (always 3.7mb) although my upload is supposed to 384k i do tend to get closer to 420K.

[Sumanji]

In theory, what are the maximum upload/download speeds that could be provided over a standard VM coaxial cable?

Does anyone know this answer to this please?

[Kumagoro]

I read or at leaat i think i read that NTL, virgin etc using current docsis2 can only get up to 38 MB/s and need to upgrade to Docsis 3 to get 50 MB/s +

[adam1701]

I read or at leaat i think i read that NTL, virgin etc using current docsis2 can only get up to 38 MB/s and need to upgrade to Docsis 3 to get 50 MB/s +

... is that not enough???

[Metier9]

Well it also depends whats in local exchange (might be the wrong term) and from there what the connection is.

[Rabs]

Looks as if I got my upgrade early

[Tom Scott]

I dont care if they offer upto* 1000Mb, at the minute my 10Mb is crap and theres rumours abound of there throttling the 10Mb customers during peak times so until I get back my 10Mb they can stick there "plans" where the sun doesnt shine..



And I dont mean under their pillows....

I presume you live near me and I agree 10MB at peak times is about as fast as ISDN round these parts.

20mb/50mb? How about giving customers the 10mb they pay for.

Another reason they're probably rolling this out is that they've been playing with traffic shaping in certain areas, so I imagine this will be enforced on the whole network.

[Tobeman]

Ace

I wonder if the little blue cable modems can handle the speed...

My ntl:home 100 (or is it 150?) the larger, silver predecessor to the blue one (though it had various revisions) cannot handle lots of concurrent connections, such as the BitTorrent protocol, at high speeds

Can't be arsed to try and explain this to whichever call centre I get put through, though back in the day I used to get a load of Welshies, does it only switch over to India out of UK "working hours"?

[Mutley]

I think experiences vary. Where I live for example, my 10Mb NTL cable is rock solid. Of course there are many factors which can affect performance, but when I measure available bandwidth I'm typically getting my 10Mb (or close enough). Its also very reliable, I get very few outages (that I've noticed) in a year.

[Metier9]

my connection is 2mbps, but it seems to run more like a 2.5 - 3 mbps connection. *shrugs*

[alsenior]

My ntl:home 100 (or is it 150?) the larger, silver predecessor to the blue one (though it had various revisions) cannot handle lots of concurrent connections, such as the BitTorrent protocol, at high speeds

Can't be arsed to try and explain this to whichever call centre I get put through, though back in the day I used to get a load of Welshies, does it only switch over to India out of UK "working hours"?

mine struggles to when bit torrent goes over 200kbps. it crashes at 300Kbps bittorent

[Waka]

My 10Mbps gets a solid 1.2MBps on usenet...when newshosting are playing ball.

W.