Bad speeds
 

I was really looking forward to getting 100Mb up and running as 50Mb has been fantastic to me and always got 50Mb Down and 5Mb up so I went for the 100Mb down and 10Mb up and was looking forward to it but for some reason last night I was getting 15Mb and only 5Mb up, so I checked this morning and got 95Mb down and 8Mb up which is around what I should get so I am not happy at all with this congestion, anyone here able to check my area to see what the congestion is like for me.

Re: Bad speeds
 

Obviously I dont work for VM, so I cant check it for you, but what area are you in?

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B63 of Halesowen

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I managed to find something and looked like the utilization was around 95% last night so no wonder I had shocking speeds.

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Is there a site to check my own utilisation?

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unless you break into VM and steal someones username/password..... no :D

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No sorry it internal systems.

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On checking again tonight its terrible ping is 40+ and jitter is around 30 so I am not impressed at all.

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I am in the twilight zone or something? Why cant you look into this stuff yourself broadbandking? I thought that is what you and Ben did?

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he obviously has access to it but doesnt know how to use it, he said he looked into it and it looked like 90% from what he saw

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I am not on the broadband side but I can check somethings but without the knowledge I can only guess but 90% port utilazation to me means over loaded UBR.

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Join my world thanks to STM

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yup, I think the magic number as far as networks are concerned is 80%, anything over that and you need to be looking into it and relieving congestion.

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Wish I could get the STM'd limit.

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Apperantly there isn't a network issue, maybe a torrenter has moved in to my area :rolleyes:

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Well utilisation has to be >90% for 10% of a 7 day period for it to be classed as high utilisation :rolleyes:

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Well I am on day 2

Re: Bad speeds
 

when i upgraded from xl 30 to xxl 100 the lady over the phone checked my connection and told me with the new speed during the busy times or from 5-11 pm i may face speed issues due to traffic so my guess is using fast speeds are causing more congestion

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check out this post number 3 (at the 3rd page) about upgrading speeds
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...1105407/page/3