Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Check out the link below Leeds TBC.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Wish they hadn't bothered upgrading mine from 4 to 10mb.
Ever since the net just hangs for 10 min every 5 mins.
Totally pee'd off here.
CS tell me there is wiring work going on & to stick with it.
Will be getting ADSL in if things dont improve by next week.
:confused:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

Site got updated...still TBC in b'ham...

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I just checked and I'm based in the manchester area and its still TBC. Its been TBC for ages, really getting me angry ! :mad:
I think they'll upgrade the next areas in july fingers crossed.:D

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Got the upgrade here on the Lewisham part of the Bromley headend... but beautifully, much like when I had 20Mbps, I'm still topping out at 3.6Mbps downstream and 360kbps upstream. It's pointless me paying any more, I never get any more bandwidth!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

for all the guys be patient, I got upgraded to 10mb for free in South East area last month, I got what they said I would, sometimes even 12mb. Amazing, just upgraded to 20mb and i get 22 mb now. Virgin Media are doing their best you know, i still prefer Virgin Media over BT, AOL, Tiscali, any day. Along with the new FIREFOX 3, im experiencing internet at its best, all i need now is a new pc unit and im happy, cant wait till christmas. lol

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2008/06/32.png

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Anyone in TS17 got the 4 > 10mb? Mine's still on 4mb and I've rebooted the CM a few times. (BTW, it is a Surfboard 4100).
The VM website says Middlesbrough, Stockton areas are complete and there are a couple of recent posts in this thread from Middlesbrough users confirming 10Mb upgrade but I don't seem to be getting any of it :( . So I don't know if it is me or they haven't in fact got round to all TS postcode areas.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Yeah, I got upgraded at the end of May.

http://192.168.100.1/P_operation.htm

User/pass: root

tell us what you see on that page.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I'm TS17, what postcode are you?

The surfboard 4100 doesn't show download/upload bandwidth limits in the configuration menus. There isn't anything obvious to me in the log but I've just rebooted it now, it's still running at 4mb, and here is the log for during reboot (top line is latest)....

080618203043 8-Debug M571.6 CM Cert Upgrade Enabled. Initiate via SNMP
080618203043 8-Debug M571.9 Missing CM Cert Upgrade TLVs.
080618203043 8-Debug M570.1 Motorola CM certificate required
080618203043 8-Debug X501.4 Provisioned Unit Update skipped. Image is current.
080618203043 8-Debug I503.0 Cable Modem is OPERATIONAL
080618203043 7-Information B401.0 Authorized
080618203042 8-Debug F502.1 Bridge Forwarding Enabled.
080618203042 8-Debug F502.3 Bridge Learning Enabled.
080618203042 7-Information B0.0 Baseline Privacy
080618203042 7-Information X519.8 Unit Update - GGFGGD - SCD flags
080618203042 8-Debug I500.1 DOCSIS 1.0 Registration Completed
080618203042 7-Information I500.4 Attempting DOCSIS 1.0 Registration
080618203042 7-Information D509.0 Retrieved TFTP Config File SUCCESS
080618203042 7-Information D507.0 Retrieved Time....... SUCCESS

__________________________________________________ ________________-

http://www.dslmeter.co.uk/rs/200824826.png

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

The Norwich area has had its upgrade and it works as hoped.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

yep so has Ipswich, just rebooted my modem,
and all is working well speed test's are all good
so far.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Seem to be upgraded here - only getting 4.4mb download and 420k upload though and it isn't exactly peak time.


:mad::mad:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

i have no idea where 'here' is!!:D

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Can't even get to the page to see what the progress is at the moment :rolleyes:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

It works perfectly here.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Have you checked in your modem config to check that your modem has the 10Mb/s file loaded.. Also, what modem model do you have?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

No word on Manchester area yet?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I wish they would turn southampton area back to TBC its seams worse to be the only group still listed as june and not complete. they got 11 days left. :mad:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Is this really going to be completed by the end of August/September? Wouldn't be suprised if it rolls into 2009. :rolleyes:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

where is this area?

.cable.ubr10.haye.blueyonder.co.uk

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Hayes in West London

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Nothing announced yet. Baguley, Manchester and Liverpool are still showing TBC.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Thanks:)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

The only encouraging thing I can point to is, all but one area with june set as the upgrade period have been upgraded, therefore the areas with TBC written aside them will certainly get a july/august period written by its side.
Hopefully I'm right :).

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I am in Peterborough - done many test throught the day/night- varying from 4.1-4.9.

Presumably I need to call technical support?, although I know I have the correct modem for 10meg etc.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

It is a free call from Virgin landline on 151 so give them a call.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Being in SE9 I think I am in the same area as you. Using my usual WirelessG connection I am getting at best 5+Mb Download but, when connected with wire, tests (speedtest.net & cableforum) show 9+Mb. Perhaps it's time for a wireless upgrade.

Can anyone say that the 'N' standard products are worth buying yet?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

802.11g should easily manage 10mb - maybe check you haven't got it running in 802.11b mode?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

No definitely Wireless G Only. For what it is worth, when doing the wired test I connected via the Wireless Router's ports rather than directly to the cable modem. I have just run a couple of CableForum speedtests now and got 4.8ish Mb results (wireless).

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Would Basingstoke come under Reading?

---------- Post added at 08:13 ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 ----------

How far are you sitting from the router? Have you tried a speedtest by the router? Have you tried changing the channel on the wireless, this can sometimes sort out speed problems.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Depending on signal strength and negotiated speed of course!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

In theory it should, but in practise it's often not the case.

If there are a lot of wireless networks near you, try and move to the least used channel (remembering the only fully seperate bands are 1, 6 and 11). The other thing to do is take a look around the house at what wireless equipment you have (phones, TV senders, etc) - if you've still got manuals, then maybe check the frequencies they run at and make sure there isn't an overlap. It can take a little bit of time but can make a difference.

Also, how many machines do you have sharing your wireless LAN? Remember that (best case) you're essentially looking at having half of the indicated bandwidth available and that divided among the machines connected. For example, if the adapter indicates it's connected at 54mbps then I'd only take 27 of that as maximum useful throughput. If you have 3 machines then that's a maximum of 9mbps per machine. This is all assuming perfect conditions of course!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Well, according to Wikipedia today is the first official day of summer in 2008.

According to http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t_service.html

"By the summer all our customers on Broadband Size: L will be surfing at dizzying speeds of up to 10Mb."

all upgrades should be completed by today... oh dear... :(

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

They most likely mean the end of Summer:D So when does that give them until?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Nope, their statement is clear. That they haven't kept to it is no surprise though.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

so when should we expect it all done by? next year january?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I would say completed by September:)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

okie sweet

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

This year or next? :rolleyes:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

With all our Indian call centres perhaps they mean we are having an indian summer lol.;) Still sitting tight in the Baguely area.:rolleyes:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Nice to see the new STM has started for me even though i'm on 4mb. VM are really starting to p*** me off!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

The new STM is active across all Tiers

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

since when Im still getting hit at 800MB not 1GB. I avoided Downloading the US PSN content as STM had already kicked in yesterday.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

In the daytime?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

no at night 4-9 PM

---------- Post added at 15:44 ---------- Previous post was at 15:36 ----------

ive got over 2.5GB of demos from the US store I want to download. then play online after tonight. If stm is now on during the day time i can't download till Im asleep but every one else not on the 4M/2M from Virgin will be playing them allready.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Thanks for that & also the responses by Southwell & Zeph.

There are other wireless networks in the area and I recently changed channels to escape interference - this worked fine and I was consistently getting 3.9Mb in the 'old' 4Mb days.

Yes I do have cordless phones (just changed these as well) so I will check. I am not far from the router, the room above, but obviously not in line of sight but no change there.

There is another PC on the network but it was not connected when I did the speed tests.

I have rechecked my settings and the router is set to G only. However, when looking at the NICs they offer me only 2 choices for Adhoc Wireless mode - B only or B/G mix. Both cards are Linksys PCI and one is only a few months old, they are set to B/G mix. Is there a possibility that the implied presence of a B device could slug the speed even if no such device is actually on the network?

Thanks again.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

The new STM is not Fully UK wide yet. it took 45mins to download 800MB but when IT did.
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2008/06/21.png
Ive lost my 4Mb line and are stuck on 1Mb/s for 5 hours now, Sorry broadbandbug you are wrong again. its still the old STM for me and that means the day time STM will not be in effect. altering the Download manager back to the old settings.
Some areas are not on this new STM. This is going to add to the confusion even more now. this might explain why I haven't got that downloading letter yet as im not in the New STM areas.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I was told on phone by september yesterday while calling retentions.

Cancelled phone. They offerrf phone and 4mb for same price as 4mb but with phorm I do not want 12 month contract.

Come on Reading.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

hey i live in london North london on ma connection fingy it says i am from dalston but i live in holloway n dalston is like 30 mins bus ride away from ma house.......do u know when haringey update is out......................

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

^somewhere a little part of England just died

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

^ Lol!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

That's the funniest thing i've read in a long time. :D

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

You are using the Dalston exchange, so your connection will be upgraded when Dalston is.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Heres the upgrade link below you are TBC

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Anyone know when Enfield will be upgraded?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

thanks man

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Thanks for keeping track of the occasions when I am wrong.. Sorry for not being perfect.. I am sure you must be:dozey:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

POOLE/BOURNEMOUTH being updated.
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2008/06/15.png
its a bit random speed still.
But its makes this forum so much faster.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

The schedule has been updated - lots of new July dates.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

ANDOVER appears to have been upgraded, I've checked and I have the new modem configs.

Speed test results using various testers seem to be very poor and pretty random ranging from 2.5Mb/s to 6Mb/s, although a sample 60MB multi-thread download from VM newsgroups resulted in approx 1.1-1.2MB/s so proves the old NTL 120 can still hack it!!!

Hope the download settles down, I've been used to usually getting rock-solid 480KB/s, when on 4Mb, from good sources, although Newsgroups download have not been reliable since I had to change from NTL to VM newsgroup servers a couple of months ago.

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:17:18 UTC

Test 1: 1024K took 1643 ms = 623.3 KB/sec, approx 5136 Kbps, 5.02 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 1702 ms = 601.6 KB/sec, approx 4957 Kbps, 4.84 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 1703 ms = 601.3 KB/sec, approx 4955 Kbps, 4.84 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 4045 ms = 506.3 KB/sec, approx 4172 Kbps, 4.07 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 4805 Kbps, 4.69 Mbps


To repeat this test from the source server click here.

Above is a pretty typical speedtest result I am getting today , Speedtest.net was worse, but this was measured immediately after a 300MB dowload from newsgroups that ran at 1.0-1.2MB/s

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Baguley is still TBC. :(

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:10:43 UTC

Test 1: 1024K took 32 ms = 32000 KB/sec, approx 263680 Kbps, 257.5 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 203 ms = 5044.3 KB/sec, approx 41565 Kbps, 40.59 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 797 ms = 1284.8 KB/sec, approx 10587 Kbps, 10.34 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 1734 ms = 1181.1 KB/sec, approx 9732 Kbps, 9.5 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 81391 Kbps, 79.48 Mbps


These results appear to be quite fast - this page could possibly be in your browser cache.

To repeat this test from the source server click here.




What a useless speedtest site !!!!! :shocked:

Why do people even bother using this when what it downloads is far too small to test anything ???
As you can see from the results above not very good is it and no it wasn't in my browser cache either :rolleyes:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Finally it says Leicester will be upgraded in July. :D

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Save the best 'til last ;)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Ive got 10meg here in Poole according to the Modem but I've yet to see full speed!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

*nods*

:(

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Sorry if this one has been answered and I have looked at the upgrade schedule and still don't understand. I live in PETERBOROUGH and have the 4mb package ...... should I now be able to get 10mb ?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Have you rebooted your modem by unplugging the power lead?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Manchester will be upgraded in July hooray. Maybe time to move up from the lowest tier.....

Ben :)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Combine 2-4 Downloads.
Sites seam reluctant to let me a download at 10Mb/s on a single file. but Ive hit over 10Mb/s from multi apple.com HD trailers.
my top 3 in 1080p are WALL.E, Hancock and The curious case of benjamin button trailers.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Liverpool will be the very last update. Guaranteed!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Nah - it'll be Hayes.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Finally the Manchester area is going to be upgraded ! :D

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Finally LEEDS area has a month! July... Bring it on :-)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Ive got it here in Bournemouth but like you said need to see 10meg...but such a big improvement on 4meg.:D

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

That, and Grimsby will be amongst the last too... Anyone up for a bet :)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Quote:

Sorry if this one has been answered and I have looked at the upgrade schedule and still don't understand. I live in PETERBOROUGH and have the 4mb package ...... should I now be able to get 10mb ?

I've unplugged and rebooted several times and still 4mb.

Is my STB okay for 10mb ? It is a SAMSUNG SMT-2110C.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I've just checked on the virgin media site and it says that your STB won't be able to deliver the speed. You'll have to ring them up and tell them. They'll replace it for you, with a new cable modem free of charge.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

You will get 6Mb max through a Samsung STB, you need to call Tech Support on 151 to sort out getting a Stand Alone Cable Modem.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Gosport is to be upgraded to 10mb in July (same time as Fareham & Cosham).

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

18 areas still TBC. Quite a lot of work to get it finished by 'Summer'. :p:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Assuming six areas a month are upgraded, unless Virgin speed up, then that leaves three more months after July until everyone's upgraded. So fits in with previous, end of September, estimate.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

The finish date is for the end of the 3rd quarter of the year so supposedly finished by October.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Here in Poole with my splendid new modem, rebooted and router re-educated, I'm getting about 9Mbps on average, at peak time too!
Excellent!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

That's really pushing the definition of Summer...

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

That is what we were told in Tech Support and I have posted that at various times also.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Yep Im getting the full 10 most of the time here in BH14, it's nice :D

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Yep Full 10meg
I put my download on at 8:20pm as normal and was traffic shaped by 8:43 bugger at least 2.5Mb/s :) is better than that 1Mb/s. But still capped at 800MB, I now set me download schedular to 8:40pm start time. :) hope not to get capped tomorrow. will see.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

just looked up on where`s my upgrade and manchesters flaged for upgrade in july
AT LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Yay - Leeds are upgrade in July - about time!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Whats betting its done on Thurs 31st lol.

Im in Harrogate, were done the same time as you. :)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Depends what area of Manchester you are in

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Think I'll stick with Harrogate thanks very muchly ;)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Can't believe we are still TBC, but I suppose someone has to be last.

My modem was going absolutely haywire the other day, connection stopped syncing and on the modem status page the speed was going up and down (from 1mb to 40mb) without syncing. I assumed that this was because they were up to something, but alas it looks like they aren't.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Wonder if it will be thee or me :dozey:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

thx

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Don't hold your breath when you do get the upgrade ,I had a better stable speed when I was still on 4 mb service ,occasionally you do get a good speed but most of the time I'm lucky if I get much more than 5 mb some upgrade this has been ,the only + side is the upload speed has gone from 44k up to 60 k ,marketing ploy for bad service "Free upgrade from 4 mb to 10 mb " don't make me laugh Virgin :td:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

It depends where youre based and how subscribed it is, I'm getting 10meg solid until I get STMd :p:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Must admit I'll be interested to see how that falls out here where we are - that's the thing I was always a bit worried about given the number of people complaining about a stable 10 meg connection being turned into an awful 20 meg connection.

I'm optimistic though as I've never heard of any utilisation problems off of Hayes (ha! famous last words!).