100M : Just upgraded to 100Mb Hayes

[olisun]

Hi,

I just upgraded to the 100mb even though my area Hayes is still showing as "Being Planned"

Will post results later

[Ignitionnet]

Fingers crossed for you, they sold 100Mb early in Newcastle by accident and ended up doing a 'recall' as they couldn't provide it!

Have a few thoughts for your cousins just to your south in Mortlake, Richmond, Twickenham, Kingston and Croydon though, who still haven't received their upstream upgrade and won't until December 2011 - April 2012

[olisun]

I hope it lives up to it's name... I do my downloads overnight so am expectecting to see a good improvement over my previous 50mb speed.

The current speed tests are not generating any confidence as such so will keep my eyes open...

The reason for this upgrade was not for the download but purely for the upload speed.

BT Infinity has started the profile 17a upgrades while that looks very tempting, I had a very bad experience with BT.

[olisun]

Done a few tests and dowloads are over 10MB most of the time...

NG's do a steady 11.3x MB and same with the HTTP downloads...

[Cobbydaler]

Crikey, I thought for one minute you were getting 100Mb through a Hayes modem...

[roughbeast]

The 100Mb upgrade is due in Coventry this month. Two days to go!

For the first time ever, this morning my 50Mb connection did not live up to its name. Overnight it had slumped to a paltry 2Mb. Rebooting the modem fixed it.

Is this indicative? Can I dare hope that engineers were making last minute adjustments ready for official 100Mb activation on Monday?

OK. I know. The roll out schedule isn't definitive.

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Oh! It's back down to 2Mb. There's something afoot.

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Interesting downstream stats!

Cable Modem Downstream
DS-1 DS-2 DS-3 DS-4
Frequency 307000000 291000000 299000000 315000000
Lock Status
(QAM Lock/FEC Sync/MPEG Lock) Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y
Channel Id 211 209 210 212
Modulation 256QAM 256QAM 256QAM 256QAM
Symbol Rate
(Msym/sec) 6.952 6.952 6.952 6.952
Interleave Depth I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17
Power Level
(dBmV) -13.14 -12.51 -13.53 -13.69
RxMER
(dB) 33.83 34.21 33.60 34.08
Correctable
Codewords 28491 10970 59074 20446
Uncorrectable
Codewords 294 282 290 283

[horseman]

Originally Posted by roughbeast

The 100Mb upgrade is due in Coventry this month. Two days to go!

…..
Power Level
(dBmV) -13.14 -12.51 -13.53 -13.69
RxMER
(dB) 33.83 34.21 33.60 34.08
…..

You could be right! - D/S decidely chilly and consequent lower RxMER means the Hub's tending towards partially deaf…..

[Ignitionnet]

It's not indicative of anything beyond that something is broken sadly.

100Mb release is largely nothing to do with physical work in the RF network, it's mostly done at the hub.

[adzii_nufc]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Fingers crossed for you, they sold 100Mb early in Newcastle by accident and ended up doing a 'recall' as they couldn't provide it!

Any idea if its been re-released as I'm sitting on 100Mb.

I'm in Washington though so may be part of the Sunderland version, not sure what Virgin class it under.

[Chrysalis]

O_o

First I heard of newcastle recall, that sounds unlike VM.

What happened did they accept orders and then cancel? or people got activated, they moaned so all got downgraded again?

[Ignitionnet]

People were activated then rolled back, the area was released for sale by mistake and when this was noticed the recall was done.

[roughbeast]

It's now November. The 100Mb upgrade, scheduled for October 2011, has not occurred in Coventry.

[Gordon_30]

Originally Posted by roughbeast

It's now November. The 100Mb upgrade, scheduled for October 2011, has not occurred in Coventry.

Have you tried phoning them

I live 5 miles from Coventry and have 100mb for over 3 months

Pay no attention to that website for the timetable , that's like the Governments spending plans ie : very misleading

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by roughbeast

It's now November. The 100Mb upgrade, scheduled for October 2011, has not occurred in Coventry.

just order it.

[olisun]

My connection is all over the place since the last 1 week.

Usenet is really bad and so are the http downloads...