Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

I had 8 downstream even before the speed doubling.. Still though only on a single upstream and 20:1 ratio..

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

So that's 400Mbps down and 18 up - just under 5%. Do you see any congestion issues?

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Never seen much congestion at all but I do live in a small village with the head-end in a small local town.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

and I am wondering what village and a small town are doing with 8 DS whilst a big city with downstream congestion has 5 DS ?

I suspect down to cost, your village probably has the room for the extra channels to simply be turned on whilst my city probably would need some expensive work doing to add extra cards etc.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

A big city will have many optical nodes each with their own channel set.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

along with extra users.

my US channel covering 5 parts of the city, and my street cabinet is covering quite a lot of houses in the 100s range with some also converted to multiple occupancy.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Close to what I was allowed on the Coventry trial; 8 channels down and 2 up. Speed 370 down 24 up.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

I've been told that the upgrade work in my area is due to be completed on the 29th August.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Chances are they will have fewer users per node, hence why each node has less capacity.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

The opposite.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Prove it

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Well neither of us can prove anything.

All I know is I look at graphs from people in villages and such always better. My area has many houses converted to flats/bedsits I expect like many inner city areas, and innier cities I expect also part of earlier cable rollouts when the initial rollouts went for more houses per cabinet. Of course also that most student areas will reside in city areas,

I also have figures for my service group and figures for kirby muxloe (a lower populated village type area) and they speak for themselves, not only does that area have about 30% of the customer numbers it also has more channel capacity.

This is all of what I base my opinion off.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

I am in Swindon, shows as July for upgrade, just called CS to find out when and was told that all speed doubling work has been put on hold until after the olympics. I asked if that was all areas or just Swindon and the agent confirmed all areas. Is this really true?

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

What modem was going the upstream bonding? I thought they still had problems with it.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

They were both an Arris Touchstone. I can't remember the model. One may have been a CM900. I have sent both to recycling.

Either way, they came pre-configured.

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I just checked old Trial Forum messages. Ashford used an Arris-WBM760 and CM900S. Apparently they had wanted a combined modem router for the trial, but went for stand-alone modems when they changed supplier. No idea who the old supplier was.