Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

For the last couple of weeks I have noticed a tremendous improvement in my speeds, jitter, ping and latency. I am not on the beta R36, have I just been lucky or is there something going on in VM network? I am now not getting wasted as easily due to crappy ping on BF3 and my downloads are constitent. All I need now is a SHUB that can provide 100mbps over wireless and I am set. Quite ironic when I was on the verge of leaving for BT Infinity. :erm: I can't believe I am saying this, but bloody bravo Virgin! :D

Before improvements:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...21-06-2012.png

Current Stats:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...02-07-2012.png

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

Mine went very similar


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...28-06-2012.png

Not sure if it will last.

J

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Really strange, and yes I am wondering how long it will last lol. Wondering if someone who works for Virgin can comment without breaking their NDA lol?

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My IP has changed in Lincoln but sadly not much else. I could definitely do with some of whatever you've got.

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Yikes, I was having similar a few months ago. You just have to keep at them, threaten them with CEO office and rince and repeat. Don't give up is the key! I seem to be ok for about 12 months after a massive rant, then things go to pot. I then have to spend another 3-4 months ranting, tech visits, senior tech visits and numerous phone calls until it gets fixed.

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My change happended on 26 June
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...26-06-2012.png

25 June looked like this
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...25-06-2012.png

PS: On the 20Mbps connection, but interesting something has changed for us all.

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Mine changed around 27th June. mmmm..

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...27-06-2012.png

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As of now:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...03-07-2012.png
Major improvement :D

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from this

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...05-06-2012.png
to this
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...03-07-2012.png

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

Good grief babis3g, that's a massive improvement dude :)

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As usual with VM I suspect they will be skipping problem areas, my area has yet to see this sudden improvment and I suspect its too expensive here for VM to upgrade.

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thanks...seems had issue with upstream utilisation but fixed ... hopefully

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Let's hope it's permanent man :)

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How much you wanna bet it's all just students going away on holiday... Same every year, July is perfect, September it all crashes down again.

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You can't have it all ways - in a different thread you were telling me the improvement was down to local network changes and here it's because the students are off. I doubt you'd find any students at all in my local network area.

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Students leaving a local network is a local network change

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Yes...

From this:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...21-06-2012.png

And this:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...24-06-2012.png

To this:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...30-06-2012.png

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

... and as I said there are none near me.....

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Same here... I think it more than likely a peering upgrade/change after the spotify issues ( http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5...-equation.html ) ;)

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Holy Moses - if the peering was too poor to carry audio streaming I'm surprised the fibre wasn't melting down.

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Already said it can't have been.

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They don't have to be near to be on the same segment

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

[QUOTE=Risco;35448906]For the last couple of weeks I have noticed a tremendous improvement in my speeds, jitter, ping and latency. I am not on the beta R36, have I just been lucky or is there something going on in VM network? I am now not getting wasted as easily due to crappy ping on BF3 and my downloads are constitent. All I need now is a SHUB that can provide 100mbps over wireless and I am set. Quite ironic when I was on the verge of leaving for BT Infinity. :erm: I can't believe I am saying this, but bloody bravo Virgin! :D

A Superhub that will do100mbps wireless? Can I have some of what you're taking please? Joking aside, there has been a massive improvement with regard to jitter and latency of late. It would seem that VM have upped their game recently and as you say "Bravo Virgin". We're on the R36 trial and so far it is an huge step forwards. The network upgrades are an entirely different issue Let's hope that this is not a flash in the pan mate :shocked:

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It seems that your definition of the local network is a tad different from mine.

Having seen your many varied posts in numerous threads over the last few days I can't make up my mind if you are trolling or just being a plain arse.

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Just considering all the possibilities.

As others have said, a particular channel set can cover a large geographic area, and not necessarily in an obvious or logical manner. It's the shared capacity that matters not the physical location of the users, people 10 miles away could be sharing your capacity (and affecting your connection) while others on the next street don't

My definition of local on VM would be everything from the CMTS down to the end user, the edge network being everything from the CMTS to the core, and the core being well, the bits that have core in their name.

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[QUOTE=qasdfdsaq;35449267]Already said it can't have been.[COLOR="Silver"]

well I am sticking with my theroy...

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Which has already been proven false.

Good choice.

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The contention point is surely the optical node and that is virtually always within half a mile or so as it gets fed by coax which needs an amp every few hundred meters. The same set of channels almost certainly are used 10 miles away but they aren't using my capacity as my traffic won't be on them just as those people's traffic won't be on mine. Surely you can't believe that my 45.8MHz upstream is shared with everybody else in the country who happens to be on the same frequency?

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"Proven" where?

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I think the "substantial upgrades" are more like substantial changes to p2p throttling, tried p2p'ing before and i might as well have drove to all the seeders houses and copied the data onto a memory stick

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Spot on.

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So instead of making smart-arse one liners as replies and annoying people why didn't you say so days back?

I don't use P2P so wouldn't have any idea if the throttling has changed but it certainly fits my old chestnut about a single 100/10 user seeding being the reason my own connection went to the dogs.

Have the hours of shaping been increased as well as the level though? If not why is overnight looking better too - I would have expected it to get worse as people shifted their download schedules.

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No it can't be, the change happened literally overnight.

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For many people it happened in the middle of the day, usually between 12pm and midnight.

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Because I had twenty different suspicious and couldn't be bothered explaining them all, when people are already set on their own ones anyway.

I don't know. People have accused VM of shaping outside the shaping hours and STM'ing outside STM'ing hours so I'm not entirely sure what hours of shaping are or what they're supposed to be.

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The only person pretending to know so far as I can see was you. Now it turns out "knowing" was actually just "twenty different suspicious". Your posts really aren't worth reading anymore so I think I'll just put you on ignore to save my annoyance at the way you respond to people.

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

I don't see where I claim to have "known" the cause, all I did was agree with one other person's suspicions.

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Yeah, mines crawling along at 5.7 MB/s :eek:

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

just had package lose.
Log in to the modem and from 5 downstream channels had before was 4 after the small package lost
reboot modem 5th channel come back
Dont know what VM is up too
Seems like the 5th channel is fake

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

Looking at my ThinkBroadband ping monitor my pings have definitely dropped substantially recently.

This is good - I'm actually less tempted to cancel now.

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Ive never (touch wood) had ANY issues to bring my internet to a halt.

However, I do live in a small town where most people are using satellite, so I must not be sharing my connection with too many heavy users.

Good going VirginMedia! Looking forward to my doubled speed now :D

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Something has definitely happened here (Watford) - TBB graph looks so much better recently, and speedtest results are spot on at the moment.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/07/51.png

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http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...29-06-2012.png

Same with mine, it was awful before

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Snapshot now,

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...05-07-2012.png

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I have gone from 6 downstream channels to 4, speeds are fine. What the hell is going on?

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When did this happen Risco? Did you reboot your PC and modem to ensure that the readings are correct?

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This is mine:
Downstream Channels Lock Status Channel ID Frequency Modulation
Locked 29 299000000 Hz QAM256 1.6 dBmV 43.2 dB 1941 2
Locked 27 283000000 Hz QAM256 1.8 dBmV 43.8 dB 1911 0
Locked 28 291000000 Hz QAM256 1.9 dBmV 43.2 dB 1836 0
Locked 30 307000000 Hz QAM256 1.2 dBmV 43.2 dB 1823 1
Locked 31 315000000 Hz QAM256 2.8 dBmV 43.2 dB 1806 0
Locked 32 323000000 Hz QAM256 2.8 dBmV 43.2 dB 1873 0
Unlocked Unknown 0 Hz Unknown 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown Unknown
Unlocked Unknown 0 Hz Unknown 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB Unknown Unknown

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

Did you have an outage before the change? Could be a cable segmentation change so you now have fewer users sharing the 4 channels.

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Just rebooted, only 4 again?

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

yeah mine seems to improved as well:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...09-07-2012.png

ICM tester running as well.

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

could it be something to do with this.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18734269

maybe VM have been given a truck load of money to help with the Olympics traffic??

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Well that did not last long...

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...16-07-2012.png

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

here in london too

Had a smile for 3 weeks about but did not last

i tried factory reset,reboot,reset,take power cord in out...nothing
And the Olympics is near
My jitter with modem mode gone up to 14ms
We all had jitter from 6-14 varying

My monitor

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

my mate next door
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...16-07-2012.png

mate from work
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...16-07-2012.png

That VM today....HURAYYYYYYY

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

I am in the Leicester area and have noticed a huge difference in speed and latency. Before I couldn't touch 10MBS, I would usually get around 7 or 8, now I can hit OVER 10MBS and hit 11-12 sometimes even 13 on Steam.

Noticed a difference in Ping as well.

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

You won't get over 10Mbps on a 10Mbps connection. You are either measuring it wrongly or you've been doubled and it can't deliver the 20Mbps.

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

hes on 100mbps and talking about MBps ;)

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

It clearly says 100Mb under his services list.

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the speed testers for me quoting 100-106Mbps(Megabits) but when i actually download file it varies from 9-12something MBS(MegaBytes)
Can not wait for the upload...the new VM checker say my area is completed
http://doublespeed.virginmedia.com/?...DoubleSpeeds_2

Re: Is it just me or has VM made some substantial network upgrades?
 

Looks more like they made some substantial network downgrades around these parts, right abouts midnight last night:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/07/39.png

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Rang the support for an other issue and they reboot my modem
Don't know what they done but after call ended thinking they may done something, i thought to give one more reset
Now after the reset (just once) upstream channel changed even with r36 firmware
BINGO! take a note before 3pm how jitter changed
HAPPY :p: :D :dunce:
Hope will stay like this at peak evening hours even today i am using the internet little more
I think is not bad for a busy area here in London
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...18-07-2012.png

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Virgin Media are bunch of ****ing *****, sick of their lies. Clearly they have been ****ing with the network again.

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upgrading ¿

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i think mine could do with some work

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...18-07-2012.png