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slowcoach · 17-04-2008, 22:51

UPDATE as requested:
We had planned network updates for Oldham between Midnight and 6am on Tuesday 15/04/08 and Wednesday 16/04/08, during Wednesday after rebooting the modem I tried to determine if the upgrades had gone ahead or not. Just to be sure I also checked speeds during Thursday as well.

Modem settings:
When I had an Ambit (ntl) 200 modem my Downstream Receive Power Level used to be about +8 or +9 dBmV, after the modem was swapped to a 255 model a while back the Downstream Receive Power Level jumped to +12 or +13 dBmV.
Checking the modem settings on Wednesday the Downstream Receive Power Level is now -4.1 dBmV which does indicate that some changes did take place.
No other modem settings appear to have altered and the connection never dropped.

Browsing:
I have never been impressed previously with cable's browsing speed and I always put it down to a characteristic of the cable network, however, during Wednesday and Thursday browsing was a good deal faster than ever before with sites loading instantly, jumping from site to site is really impressive now, busy sites still have a delay but that is due to the site server struggling to cope.

Download Speed:
On Wednesday with 10 connections to known fast servers I was getting 19Mb/s from early morning through to around 8.00PM, which is unusual as speed usually drops to 10mb/s or less around 4.00PM. At 8.00PM the speed did drop to 10Mb/s until Midnight (perhaps the update had only been partially done) at which time it went back to 19Mb/s.
On Thursday (tonight) the speed only dropped to 18Mb/s at 8.30PM but was back to 19Mb/s from 9.00PM.
Peak time speed has been impressive tonight but jumping from site to site is even more impressive.
One final download before posting (10.45PM) shows download speed still at 19Mb/s.

I am really happy that VM have finally sorted out the area especially as I do not have any other viable alternative, ADSL being a pathetic 512Kb max here.

System Spec:
Ambit 255 Modem (Ethernet connection)
D-Link Dl-604 router with WAN port set at 100Mb/s (Wired connection)
64Bit Debian Lenny (Testing)
Firefox version 2.0.0.12 Browser
DownThemAll Download Manager (Firefox extension)

17-04-2008, 22:51	#24
slowcoach Inactive Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Virgin Islands Age: 80 Services: VM Phone 152 Meg. Posts: 1,552	Re: UBR up-grades UPDATE as requested: We had planned network updates for Oldham between Midnight and 6am on Tuesday 15/04/08 and Wednesday 16/04/08, during Wednesday after rebooting the modem I tried to determine if the upgrades had gone ahead or not. Just to be sure I also checked speeds during Thursday as well. Modem settings: When I had an Ambit (ntl) 200 modem my Downstream Receive Power Level used to be about +8 or +9 dBmV, after the modem was swapped to a 255 model a while back the Downstream Receive Power Level jumped to +12 or +13 dBmV. Checking the modem settings on Wednesday the Downstream Receive Power Level is now -4.1 dBmV which does indicate that some changes did take place. No other modem settings appear to have altered and the connection never dropped. Browsing: I have never been impressed previously with cable's browsing speed and I always put it down to a characteristic of the cable network, however, during Wednesday and Thursday browsing was a good deal faster than ever before with sites loading instantly, jumping from site to site is really impressive now, busy sites still have a delay but that is due to the site server struggling to cope. Download Speed: On Wednesday with 10 connections to known fast servers I was getting 19Mb/s from early morning through to around 8.00PM, which is unusual as speed usually drops to 10mb/s or less around 4.00PM. At 8.00PM the speed did drop to 10Mb/s until Midnight (perhaps the update had only been partially done) at which time it went back to 19Mb/s. On Thursday (tonight) the speed only dropped to 18Mb/s at 8.30PM but was back to 19Mb/s from 9.00PM. Peak time speed has been impressive tonight but jumping from site to site is even more impressive. One final download before posting (10.45PM) shows download speed still at 19Mb/s. I am really happy that VM have finally sorted out the area especially as I do not have any other viable alternative, ADSL being a pathetic 512Kb max here. System Spec: Ambit 255 Modem (Ethernet connection) D-Link Dl-604 router with WAN port set at 100Mb/s (Wired connection) 64Bit Debian Lenny (Testing) Firefox version 2.0.0.12 Browser DownThemAll Download Manager (Firefox extension)