20 Meg From June

[Zee]

Carl, why do you have a connection better then 16Mbps?

[Numenor]

Why the Paris server? Wouldnt you get a better result using London or Dublin??

[Spooky_uk]

look, tired of this sky/vm banter. leave it out

bottom line is - vm cannot deliver 10mb across its network at the moment. and the paragraph that states that in their results is a lie. period. now they have 4 months before they roll out 20mb.

Will they have upgraded all over capacity UBR's before then? NO

Will they have "teething" troubles on the 20mb rollout like the 10mb was with both Telewest and NTHELL ? YES

The 20mb will attract alot more customers, especially high usage ones (which lets face it is the only reason for having such speeds) and before long their will be capacity issues once more. back to square one. And why attract high usage users if you are going to penalise them and throttle that 2omb form the word go?

VM - What a set of ******s.

[smucks]

VM can deliver the XL connection its just that at peak times the connection or should I say download problems happen "simply put" but the up load speed is fine.

I have both adsl and cable and at the moment. At different times they both suffer problems, I am just hanging around to see what happens in June with cable as I run a small game server and no heavy down loads, 20 meg sounds good I would love to know the upload speed.

I know I should get a dedicated server from a company that can support the server but I like to be in control of it at all times in a manor I see fit and not the provider if you know what I mean (custom maps configs ect).

Just my 2p worth....

For information my connection over the last week has been a solid 9.5 meg keep it up VM.

[slowcoach]

Hey Locky, if you had paid more attention to the teacher at school you could have grown up to be a TelCo Engineer
......... there again, you are probably better off as you are, I have yet to meet one who isn't totally ****ed off with the job.

Originally Posted by slowcoach

Hey Locky, if you had paid more attention to the teacher at school you could have grown up to be a TelCo Engineer
......... there again, you are probably better off as you are, I have yet to meet one who isn't totally ****ed off with the job.

Careful


For Carl J

Warrington has STM on between 4 and midnight but at any other time it Full speed ahead

[Carl J]

Originally Posted by Zee

Carl, why do you have a connection better then 16Mbps?

I can do things twice as quickly as someone with 8Mbit

I could be considered to waste it considering I use perhaps 15GB a month but hey...

[RXP]

Originally Posted by Carl J

Don't try and match technical skills with me please, if you are going to I suggest you spend the next 4 years working with cable and DSL

You should attach your CV to your sig!

[Carl J]

Originally Posted by RXP

You should attach your CV to your sig!

Get enough calls from bloody agencies without doing that.

[Downloads]

Originally Posted by Spooky_uk

look, tired of this sky/vm banter. leave it out

bottom line is - vm cannot deliver 10mb across its network at the moment. and the paragraph that states that in their results is a lie. period. now they have 4 months before they roll out 20mb.

Will they have upgraded all over capacity UBR's before then? NO

Will they have "teething" troubles on the 20mb rollout like the 10mb was with both Telewest and NTHELL ? YES

The 20mb will attract alot more customers, especially high usage ones (which lets face it is the only reason for having such speeds) and before long their will be capacity issues once more. back to square one. And why attract high usage users if you are going to penalise them and throttle that 2omb form the word go?

VM - What a set of ******s.

lol Don't be a joke, you say lets leave the Sky/VM banter out then say something that is inflamatory. I don't know an organisation yet who delivers the speeds they are supposed to, to everyone. Maybe a couple of the insignificant ones do!

[Locky]

for the record i was 1 of the lucky ones who did not have ANY teething problems when my 3 meg was upgraded to 10

[slowcoach]

Yes, it makes up for the poor ADSL around here.

[Carl J]

Originally Posted by Bill C

Warrington has STM on between 4 and midnight but at any other time it Full speed ahead

This has already been covered in a fairly big way I think

My connection has no STM at all nor protocol based throttling.

The fact that they see fit to have the STM at peak times only just suggests that rather than being a permanent selective measure to punish heavy downloaders they do not have the capacity to handle the traffic that customers generate so use this instead until capacity is upgraded.

Upgrades are on the way I know, which is good if a bit late. STM shouldn't be necessary especially with the system in use in Warrington and the fact that that same system is offering 24Mbit unthrottled, shaped or capped in Sweden.

Lots of people will I imagine be very busy breaking areas down for VoD and broadband upgrades.

[Carl J]

Originally Posted by Locky

damn, i will let u off :P u get that constant ALL the time ?

Nope. Line can resync from time to time a little lower or higher.

Speed tests are (when the server can handle them) nearly always 17Mbit or higher. That speed test was a little off, upstream is usually a lot higher, around the 1Mbit mark.

Downloading legal content from newsgroups tends to tick along at around the 2150kB/s mark.

---------- Post added at 14:50 ---------- Previous post was at 14:49 ----------

Originally Posted by Numenor

Why the Paris server? Wouldnt you get a better result using London or Dublin??

Depends, London used to be very busy

Dublin has been a bit indifferent on occasion as well.

I'll try some tests later when I get home.

[Sherlock]

Nice carl!