I see the christmas slow down has started
 

It seems to be an anual feature with NTL/Virgin. Come Chistmas something packs up and its not fixed until after boxing day.

This year as Sunday is near Christmas it's started early with slow if any browsing

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OK so far in South Wales.

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Fine in North West Leeds on 4Mb.

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Fine in Leicester too, I'm on 4Mb. :)

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Fine In Birmingham 20Mb

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Felixstowe: went completely there. Hopefully that was it.

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In East London my normally excellent 4MB speed went down for an hour and now seems to be fixed at 1MB.

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:39:18 UTC
Test 1: 1024K took 8752 ms = 117 KB/sec, approx 964 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 8753 ms = 117 KB/sec, approx 964 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 8723 ms = 117.4 KB/sec, approx 967 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 17505 ms = 117 KB/sec, approx 964 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 965 Kbps, 0.94 Mbps

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Sounds like you've been Traffic Managed - have you downloaded over 750MB since 16:00?

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What Christmas slow down ? my Slowband sorry :angel: Broadband is in the slow lane all the TIME :mad:

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Thats a me too. I did down load a video & now i've been managed to:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2007/12/5.png

As it's now down to less than 1meg I'm no longer on high speed broadband.

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Shhhhhh its not just a glitch its a conspiracy - they planned it for Christmas, less 50p's in the meter.

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Seems as if a few people are being STM'ed - nothing to do with Christmas, methinks.

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no problems in cardiff for me anways

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Only getting about 7Mb/sec instead of 20 at the moment. It's before 4pm so should not have any throttling/STM.

I think the basic problem is everyone is off work and using their broadband, and the network simply can't cope. Can you imagine how much fun this is going to be once all the 4meg people go up to 10 and 50meg rolls out?

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Children aren't in school and lots of people at home having finished work for the holidays. = Contention on Baguley server worse than ever.

Downstream...1148.15 Kbps Upstream...375.27 Kbps on my 4MB BB having done no downloading and it's not even 4pm yet.:(

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Tell me about it! I've been down for ages, i keep going offline for a few hours at a go!

Really starting to annoy me. I'm on Bagueley too, are we the only ones that get hammered? I've got 800ms pings on loads of websites, google.com is between 200ms and 800ms and external sites have me at 150ms for pings.

Download rate is 16.7kbps or 160k. I should be at 400k but i never get that these days anyway.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2007/12/4.png

I even changed my DNS, as that used to be the problem five years ago. But that didn't really make it much better.

Virgin really have messed up this network. Has this hapepend before? Technical support were a pain in the ar**.

Cheers,

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Happy for now in Swinton/Manchester

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:07:17 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 1140 ms = 898.2 KB/sec, approx 7401 Kbps, 7.23 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 110 ms = 9309.1 KB/sec, approx 76707 Kbps, 74.91 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 422 ms = 2426.5 KB/sec, approx 19994 Kbps, 19.53 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 7453 ms = 274.8 KB/sec, approx 2264 Kbps, 2.21 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 26592 Kbps, 25.97 Mbps

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50meg would be on a different frequency spectrum so it wouldnt clash with normal lower tier users (docsis 3 for the 50meg whilst still on docsis 1/1.1/2 for the lower tiers)

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No.

It may be a different frequency but that isn't the problem. The problem is that Virgin's network is too slow and external bandwidth is not enough. When an area gets slow, it's because the bandwidth from the local routers to the main Virgin network is not enough, and when everything gets slow it's because the main Virgin network does not have enough bandwidth.

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With most people back at work my speeds during the day have returned to normal.

It will be interesting to see if the price and terms for the new 50Mb will lure the 20Mb heavy down loaders and whether their migration to Docsis 3 will reduce the contention on the Baguley server.

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I can't see myself going for it. 20 meg is fast enough for the 3-400GB/month I am currently doing, and as I get it for only £25 the projected price point of 50meg (£47) seems unlikely to interest me.

What I would be interested in is a better upload speed. It would be very useful for online backup/bittorrent/etc. Reports at the moment suggest the 50meg will have an upload speed of 1.5Mb, which is a joke really.

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My usage of the internet is quite modest and I have been able to work around the STM to a large extent. Upping my BB from 2 to 4Mb has sorted me out but it would be great if I could drop back down to the lowest tier and still be guaranteed a usable connection at a more reasonable cost.

I wish I had a crystal ball and could see what our service will be like over the next 12 months. :D Mind if I had one I would just check next weeks lottery results and buy out Virginmedia, recable Manchester, get a new computer ,...buy a dessert island.........https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2008/01/11.gif

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That would be sweet.......... ;)


Or am I a pudding for saying that?

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Call retentions and tell them you only want to pay for the slower speed (and only need the slower speed) but that because of STM you are forced to have the 4meg package. Demand they give you it for the cost of the 2meg package and they will.

No-one in their right mind pays full wack for Virgin services when a single phone call gets you a massive discount. I pay £25/month for 20meg.

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Stop trifling with her.... ;)

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I can't load Facebook properly, and also a couple of others i know on VM can't get on either :(

Why is this?! It was fine an hour ago :td:

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Some of the recent posters on CF have tried the old "cut my price or I leave" ploy - lately, VM appear to be saying "bye bye".

btw, if you do try this, may I suggest you don't "demand anything" - asking nicely often works better (imho).