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No one is questioning if the 100's can do 10meg... even my old Ammy 100 done 10meg, they are just proving to be very unstable and like to reboot when under heavy load like when using Bit Torrent for example.

I would suggest trying to download something juicy like a Linux iso or something of BT to be sure your 100 does not suffer from the reboot problem.

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Well, it would seem, after reading this thread http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=38424 that my 3 year old netgear RP614 only has a 10mb half duplex WAN port, hence the degraded speed when going through it. Looks like Santa's going to have to get me a new full duplex one.

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Well you just need to look at the logistics of it, a ubr has a capacity of under 40mbit so its now taking less user's to saturate the downstream, which equates to higher contention. It has never been denied by any staff and one member of staff has sort of admitted it is increased. Its more or less the same situation with ipstream adsl, bt were undercutting the contention for years with 512kbit and it was nowhere near the advertised 50:1 ratio, now people have 2mbit they are seeing contention, and they can expect nearer 50:1 when 8mbit maxdsl is reached. With higher speeds at the same price its too expensive to maintain the same ratio's.

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I've only just heard about the 10meg service. I am wondering if I will be able to get it.

I have a Samsung SMT-2100C Silver Set Top Box to connect to Broadband, Is this OK for the 10 meg Service? If not How do I get It?

Thanx In Advance

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We are still waiting for NTL to announce what is happening with the Samsungs. Some people say they will handle 10MB, but NTL have not yet wriiten the necessary config file. Others say they will only handle 7-8 MB and NTL will provide a stand-alone cable modem to Samsung users. If you keep an eye on the NTL web site, they should be clarifying this on Monday (5th) when the 10MB service is 'officially' launched.

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Thanks for that, I am phoning them soon to see if i can upgrade today, fingers crossed.

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Let us know how you get on... ;)

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I have had fluctuating pings (to my NTL gateway, and beyond) since I've had my NTL service, and they're still no better with 10mbit.. despite ALL my many cools to support they always say its fine :(

Would love a solid connection heh. Tried different eth cards, cables, 99.999% sure its not my end! The install was a bit of a bodge, guy didnt know what he was doing.

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CS told me, "yes sir, the STB it will handle 10MB, thats why we started using them, there will be no need to change to a modem" Ah ok I said.

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Rebooted my modem last night and i was sitting on 10mb, Download speeds are a bit all over the place but i guess being in a city like brighton there under heavy use.

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This might be sooner than we thought, I have a Samsung STB, last night my router returned the following between 3am and 6am.

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

I had a bittorrent session running, but this is the first time I've cleared above 2.4 Meg. Strangely a speed test shows I am still on 3Meg, perhaps they were testing?

Fingers crossed anyway.

Tim.

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Tim,

What program did you use to get that speed graph?

Thanks,
John

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Hi Johnnygal,

I have MRTG running on my linux box although there is a windows version also available, it gets SNMP information from my DD-WRT and plots these graphs for me.

Regards,

Tim

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Cheers Tim

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Hey there....anyone in the belfast area on 10meg keep disconnecting every 5 minutes?