Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I mean the broadband (virgin media) not the forum.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Backpedaling, the fastest way to go nowhere.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

:tu:

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I have 2 connections load balanced. People on VM's new 152Mb obviously are faster than me on downloads but I have pretty sweet upload speeds, depending on how the application takes to being balanced, which Speedtest doesn't, and whether on WiFi or cabled.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/03/54.png https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/03/55.png

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

What connections do you have and what is doing the load balancing?

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

When it's in a good mood it does this (WiFi)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3352895504

Plusnet Fibre Unlimited and Infinity 2.

TP-Link TL-ER5120 v1.0

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I don't get how the upload speed teams? I thought speedtest.net was a single thread speed test, so how's it increasing upload speed?

I downloaded off usenet at 222Mbps but that's with 30-40 odd connections going out across two connections.

The good thing about having cable and fttc is that you get a gold level of resilience. The coax comes in from a different area of the house than copper, it's on two completely separate networks. So it's highly unlikely you will be without both connections outside of natural disaster or a wide power outage.

Businesses pay a lot for that and us home users get it for cheap!

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Quick test wired:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/03/52.png

Speedtest.net servers have a few different configurations, one of them being amount of threads upstream and downstream.

EDIT: I would have loved to have availed myself of both fibre and cable but it wasn't an option. No cable here and never going to be.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Ah, didn't know that. Great upload!

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

It's kinda a blessing that I don't have 152Mb cable as well, using PPPoE as I have to the router maxes out at not much more than I'm pushing through it with the 2 x FTTC lines ;)

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Do you mean WAN-LAN throughput? That TL-ER5120 can do 350Mbps (http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=6612)

I used to have the Draytek 2920, loads of great features but unfortunately 135Mbps WAN-LAN throughput. Now I'm on the Cisco RV042G, does 609. That should last I hope!

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Trust me it really can't do 350Mb with PPPoE enabled and load balancing, the CPU runs very hot at ~145Mb. Suspect de/encapsulating in PPP takes its toll on the throughput.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

They are bugs in cisco firmware which version are you using.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I don't have any limiting rules so it runs at full speed. It's shocking that Cisco haven't fixed the issues though

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I'm running beta firmware which fixes it. However since Cisco have got a new model out I doubt they'll release it.