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About LinkBacksMy 50mb upgrade is coming next Tuesday...Originally Posted by Barrichello
My 50mb upgrade is coming next Tuesday...
Woohoo
Nice... bang on 50... but 7 Mb upload... What the heck is going on there!!!
Either you're in a trial area, or your browser/AV is caching speedtests (i.e. skewing them) like the one in Lee's sig.Woohoo
Have a look in the modem config pages at 192.168.100.1 and see what your upload is set to?
That last one was via opera, the one below is from Internet explorer 8.Either you're in a trial area, or your browser/AV is caching speedtests (i.e. skewing them) like the one in Lee's sig.
Checked 192.168.100.1 but couldn't spot the link speeds anywhere.
If it was your AV it wouldn't matter which browser you used, the only way to check is to either disable your AV while you re-run the test (after clearing your browser cache and cookies), or to check the modem config. The latter is easier.
Go to http://192.168.100.1/ and click the Operation Config link on the left. In the bottom box on the right, "Primary Upstream Service Flow", you'll see Max Traffic Rate. On normal 50 megs it should be set to 1750000 bps - which is 1.75Mbps. After overheads that gives around 1.5Mb/sec up.If you're in a trial area, that number will be waaay higher; closer to 10000000 bps
Primary Downstream Service Flow
SFID : 355
Max Traffic Rate : 53000000 bps
Max Traffic Burst : 3044 bytes
Min Traffic Rate : 0 bps
Primary Upstream Service Flow
SFID : 354
Max Traffic Rate : 10250000 bps
Max Traffic Burst : 16320 bytes
Min Traffic Rate : 0 bps
Max Concatenated Burst : 16320 bytes
Scheduling Type : Best Effort
Guess thats 10.25 mbps then.
I hate you.
lol, thanks.
Time to hammer my skydrive with my backups then.
Win.
My experience with Virgin/NTL is that their broadband service is generally very good, and I had few problems, other than in the very early NTL days and with inktomi proxies.
My experience with administration, however, was very different indeed, and ranks, in my experience, firmly in the realm of grossly incompetent. And I too got put onto a new 12-month contract without my knowledge, and I informed them, right quick and in writing, precisely where they could shove that.
I had their 10mbps service and during the day never got over 1mbps. I talk to a tech on the news group who told me that the area was over subbed but there was no date to have it fixed. I decided to just do a little test, called VM, gave them the postcode of the guy down the road and asked for their upto 20mbps package. I asked if the area was over subbed the sales guy said no, I asked if there where any issues in the area with speed the sales guy said no.
So to cut it short they where willikng to sell me a 20mbps package when they know full well that I won't even get 1mbps most of the time.
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Luckily my area is under-utilised if anything. In your shoes I'd be writing to VM by recorded delivery asking for a rebate given that they fully admit they can't provide anywhere near the service they're advertising... Worth a go.
Never got into usenet. Maybe something to learn about now.Win.
After signing up and playing around with usenet, I did an upload test as requested - Results below.Win.
O...M...G.
Hurry up and do me, VM. Me, me, me!!Thanks for taking the time to test that for me, you have a sweet connection there. Enjoy!
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