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Old 08-05-2010, 14:48   #135
speedfreak
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Age: 44
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Re: Why I regret joining virgin media

Well had the CM changed, still got the codewords so its looking like a repull, also had the V+ box changed due to random reboots, now got the samsung one. Felt sorry for the tech he was here ages. Yes the other guys are on different cabs, Im in chorley, they are in preston. I've mentioned testing at my cab but its not happened, I'll ask again before the hassle of a repull

Seph, I'll try and search for some better info for you but looking here http://forum.o2.co.uk/viewtopic.php?...er=asc&start=0 it will work with o2 though you might need to put the latest firmware on. I used it with TT and it vastly improved my speeds and sorted out my noisy line, snr was up and down on my old router but very steady using this firmware on this one. I had loads of graphs showing how much better it was but they have been lost after a format There was no contacting ISP, you just access the router and theres a slide bar where you can increase or decrease your target SNR. For example TT had me set on SNR6 but I tweaked it down to snr1 and it was great Though tweaking it down too low sometimes affects throughput, its finding the right balance depending on your line
It has other benefits but I never found the time to get in to it all

Thanks for the info, I'll pass it onto VM and see what they say, pm me you're address and I'll post it out to you in the week, rather post you that than post you a curry


edit: found some of my old stats, not bad considering I had noise interfering with the line or it would have been higher

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 16671 kbps 1019 kbps
Line Attenuation 27.5 db 14.5 db
Noise Margin 2.7 db 10.6 db

You've nothing to lose if it doesnt work out you can just swap back to your router, I cant think of any reason you'd have to contact o2. If you're projected at 3Mb does your main phone socket have a test socket behind the faceplate? If so it might be worth you trying that if you havent already. The only thing i am unsure of is I was on LLU, I dont know if that matters or not
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