Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 35840751)

I wouldn't mind the 300 meg but they force you to take a stupid phone line. Have you noticed how all the contracts with phone lines are 18 months so that you get milked for something quite useless?

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35840749)

Now i want it

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35840783)

Good stuff, although I was expecting to see posts on this last month ;)

There was a firmware issue making this harder on the Arris kit but hopefully that's sorted too and that platform can receive the same treatment.

Originally Posted by Gobble (Post 35840842)

Yeah, I'm not sure on the reason that it does step down, just used power levels as an example. It might be something to do with noise as higher modulation presents more noise, but how you can visualise that from the router GUI I couldn't say.

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35840749)

Now i want it

Originally Posted by vm_tech (Post 35840866)

You won't be getting 4 upstreams in Bath anytime soon...

Originally Posted by vm_tech (Post 35840866)

You won't be getting 4 upstreams in Bath anytime soon...

Originally Posted by ccarmock (Post 35840894)

LOL New Malden is usually last :-)

Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 35840907)

I wonder when Swansea will get it?

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35840909)

Why you always trying to ruin my fun :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35840916)

You make it sound like its a bad thing

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35840921)

Yeah it is sad but I've always wanted the best that's always been my thing.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35840923)

You certainly seem to have access to far more resources than most who're 18.

Regardless you have the best VM offer for right now. Impatience won't get anything deployed faster.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 35840751)

I wouldn't mind the 300 meg but they force you to take a stupid phone line. Have you noticed how all the contracts with phone lines are 18 months so that you get milked for something quite useless?

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35840925)

I've always put a few things ahead in my monthly budget then others since i was forced to move here last November, kinda glad this flat had Virgin now.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35840929)

Ah enjoy it before responsibilities kick in and mean your priorities have to change.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35840914)

New Malden was I believe overbuilt already for the last 10:1 ratio upgrade stuff so may not be as late this time around.

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The situation is much the same as it was when you asked, err, 9 days ago.

It's not really so great when someone who's apparently 64 is competing with someone who's apparently 18 in terms of obsession with network capacity and impatience.

Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 35841013)

i just want more upload.

Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35841028)

I don't think being enthusiastic about network upgrades is sad. We could do with more of it, I'm a firm believer that top notch infrastructure would benefit the country as a whole and pay for itself in no time at all.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35841022)

Bond a couple of FTTC lines, or get one of these. Problem solved.

Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35841217)

:Yikes::Yikes::Yikes: £2000/month for 100mbits-1gbit

Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35841028)

I don't think being enthusiastic about network upgrades is sad. We could do with more of it, I'm a firm believer that top notch infrastructure would benefit the country as a whole and pay for itself in no time at all.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 35841232)

Remember, Kush, that this is a non-contended line. If it was shared by 200 aggregated users, that would notionally be covered by £2.50/month from each user (plus the costs of any aggregating equipment).

Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 35841297)

Some of us dont have endless money.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35841265)

I agree, which is why I'm enthused by such upgrades. This isn't one of them. DOCSIS 3.1 interests me, as do G.fast or FTTP on the Openreach side.

The original upstream uplift was a much larger increase proportionately and involved a new technology. This is pretty disinteresting relatively.

Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35841358)

Yeah, our line is uncontended as well, but we don't share it with anyone :P

We're in a business centre with many other businesses and it baffles me that the owners don't just fork out for a beefy leased line to rent to the individual businesses like that. Instead, there's literally tens of fibre points coming into the building, to the point where they had to drill a hole in one of the boxes in the basement to be able to roll out additional fibre to our office P

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35841371)

Besides the point that 3.1 is probably going to take a bloody long time to roll out in the next 2-3 years if at all.

Originally Posted by vm_tech (Post 35841407)

VM have just launched a shared MIA service for things like office blocks...

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35840783)

Good stuff, although I was expecting to see posts on this last month ;)

There was a firmware issue making this harder on the Arris kit but hopefully that's sorted too and that platform can receive the same treatment.[COLOR="Silver"]

Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35841632)

all hail Cisco :nworthy::nworthy::nworthy::nworthy:

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35860596)

How is this trial running for you Sir Sephiroth?

I noted discussion on DOCSIS 3.1 in this thread. Just FYI Comhem in Sweden have released 1Gb down, 100Mb up via EuroDoCSIS 3.0.

As I've said a few times still a fair bit of mileage in 3.0 :)

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 35860605)

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35860626)

It's just a 24x8 DoCSIS 3 gateway, same as the SH 3.

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Let's hope they can get it cleaned up and get 64QAM possible across the board. The power is spot on, though, which is good.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 35860648)

When they did that, the downstream power jumped from -3.5dBmv to +3.5 dBmv. (Upstreasm stayed the same-ish). Ordinarily I'd have said they'd changed the amp in my street cabinet - except that they clearly haven't because it was an overnight reset when that happened.

Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35860714)

I've had 1x QAM64 and 1xQAM16 for weeks now:

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Is that a valid/normal configuration or does it indicate a problem somewhere? I mean speeds are fine, so I've not been bothered, it's just unusual to see two channels on different QAM's without there being an issue.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35860723)

It's a legitimate configuration, but could also indicate problems.

Could be ingress in the 50.5MHz -> 56.9MHz range, there's an amateur radio channel there, or could be using some 16QAM and some 64QAM channels intentionally to reduce load on the upstream optics.

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Depending on what you're connected to they may have changed some kit within the hub to connect you to a new Edge QAM and return path line card. Hosted on same CMTS so retaining existing DHCP scope, just CCAP equipment change.

EDIT: Not entirely related but I saw a guy mentioning 20 downstream channels on the Cisco 10k. Yes, possible, but improbable. To go past 10 channels requires installation of a 3 Gb SPA, and as far as I know these have only been used to go to 12 channels to permit release of Homeworks+. VM aren't doing a big investment in these, purchasing the bare minimum in fact, as they are getting shot of the 10ks as part of migration to CCAP. These are being used as an interim solution while issues like power, space and cooling are sorted to make room for the CCAP kit and higher density, dedicated M-CMTS.

People on 20 channels are on E6k or cBR-8 unless there were a very strange set of circumstances that required a very non-standard configuration.

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster (Post 35861655)

I was wondering why i had 20 channels now I know.