re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

Any news on if they are going to be traffic managed like the existing ones?

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

As far as I know, "superfast" is indeed anything above 30Mbit (or possibly anything above 24Mbit), the definition seems to shift a bit depending on who you ask.

However, I don't think there's any consensus on what "ultrafast" is, it may as well be a made-up term but it sounds better than "superfast", hence you could argue that it's misleading. However, I think you and I agree, the terms themselves are more or less meaningless, even if there's a consensus on what "superfast" is.

Only upload is currently traffic managed but if I had to guess, I'd say that STM will still be in place for the upgrade. Hopefully they'll up the limits a bit to compensate.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

I had a brief outage last night. Looking at my SH2 config today I see that I have been dropped from three to two upstream channels. Given a background of network upgrades I have to say I wasn't expecting that!

US-1 US-2 US-3 US-4
Channel Type 2.0 2.0 N/A N/A
Channel ID 1 2 N/A N/A
Frequency (Hz) 46200000 39400000 N/A N/A
Ranging Status Success Success Other Other
Modulation 16QAM 16QAM N/A N/A
Symbol Rate 5120000 5120000 N/A N/A
Mini-Slot Size 4 4 N/A N/A
Power Level 42.75 40.75 N/A N/A

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

I regularly bounce from 1 to 3 upstreams.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

I had that dude when they did some maintenance a few weekends ago, as soon as I noticed the drop to two channels (a few days later) I rebooted the shub and came back on 3.

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Why would VM do That?

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

Because the network is sorely lacking in capacity and they are attempting to dynamically load balance?

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

Dynamic load balancing doesn't involve bouncing.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

I had 3 upstream channels a few weeks ago, for a few days, then dropped back down to 2 and have sat at 2 ever since.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

have you tried a reboot?

Edit: Arse, I have just looked at mine again out of curiosity and I am back down to 2, I have lost my qam64 channels. Maybe they have taken the extra channels away while they do some work for the speed increase next month.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

The 3 upstream channel profile was part of the WiFi project. Some room for confusion was put in as the odd area has been moved to 4 upstreams as part of capacity upgrades.

Again as said many times if there's no congestion on 2 channels being on 3 or not makes no difference. When it's necessary they'll be reintroduced.

Likely the change to 2 upstreams was the result of a move back to a 'standard' profile from a WiFi one.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

Yeah I wasn't arsed about loosing the extra upstream because it was all working just fine and I have no upstream congestion issues. If anything I'm glad to know there's extra capacity there if it's ever needed.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

Oh those have been there for a while. Most, if not all, areas have 3 or 4 channels, albeit not bonded.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

Is there a reason they're not bonded? I thought that bonding channels was better than trying to load balance them?

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Oh great going off my parents current peak speeds of 10% of the advertised speed they should be able to enjoy 20mbps soon.:D

If they keep upgrading each year one day they may actually get their current advertised speed (100mbps) at peak times , should be around the time their tier hits 1gbps.:D