50Mbit Question
 

Hi all,

I have ordered 50Mbit and its due for fitting on Thursday, I have 10mbit at the moment, my question is does this come with a Wireless N Router, reading on cableforum I see some mention of it but I have not seen any "official" confirmation that I will be getting a router on Thursday ?.

Kindest Regards
Kev.

Re: 50Mbit Question
 

all 50meg customers get the wireless N-router and dongle for free,either posted out to you or the tech will bring it with him,enjoy.;)

Re: 50Mbit Question
 

thanks for clearing that one up for me....

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thought the wireless 'n' router send by UPS delivery and the modem send by VM man from his van ?

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my wireless was send by VM man in van not send by ups :D

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we got a delivery of 50 (router and dongle in same box) so dished those out to the techs,they also got 2 via by-box,now,as long as the wireless code is on the job ICOMS picks it up when its closed down and orders a replacement through the individuals by-box ;)
thats routers/dongles and 50meg modems.

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oh it must have changed now from VM. Last time I had free wireless router as it came by UPS delivery while the VM man bring his modem with him and installed cable broadband in my house last year.

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that would have been one of the install partners,all the 50meg are being done in-house at the moment,partners have a fixed stores where they had the routers delivered to and so started taking them to the modem installs (pre 50meg),service techs have to use a locker system for boxes/routers/modems and consumables ;)

Re: 50Mbit Question
 

With my installation last Friday 13th, my N router arrived by UPS on the Wednesday (11th), then on the Friday the engineer arrived (who was actually the area Supervisor :O) and he also brought a Wireless N router with him - incase mine never arrived/wasn't sent out.

Re: 50Mbit Question
 

Also when you install your adaptor, instead of using the provided CD, which is already out of date, get the drivers from,

http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...iverupdate.php

This is the most up-to-date driver Netgear has provided VM.

Mind you, if you can, you should connect your PC direct to your router via ethernet. You will not get 50 mb on a wireless link. I have kept the wireless adaptor for one of my lap tops.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/03/34.png

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That's a rather disgraceful ping you're geting there roughbeast, I though the 50Mb was supposed to be "fast"?

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Lolz. Always get rubbish ping on that test server. Dunno why. I get 6ms on BBC.co.uk and 8ms on Wolfenstien Enemy Territory Euroservers.

Ping test I just did:-
C:\Documents and Settings\Vince>ping pingtest.co.uk

Pinging pingtest.co.uk [85.113.82.116] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57
Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=57
Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 85.113.82.116:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 9ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 11ms


https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/03/33.png


See still rubbish ping, but my average download speed is 55mb. Top speed was 58.9 mb.

Re: 50Mbit Question
 

Thanks for the explanation RB, nice to know the pings are low. May consider upgrading to 50Mb in the future if Virgin Media can offer a better upload than 1.5Mb

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Thought VM going to bring 5Mbps upload in due course ? I think 50Mbps downstream and 25Mbps upload seem very fair !

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Hi again, got my 50mbit in but my speedtest from speedtest.net is showing https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/03/32.png which seems a bit slow any ideas ?

My Newsgroup download is showing around 5.78 megabytes a sec is this normal ?

Kindest Regards
Kev.