120M : 152mb speed issues/ubr upgrade

[The Installer]

Originally Posted by ianch99

Don't believe it

And you'd probably we wise not to

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Nedkelly

The trigger level is over 70% for x amount of time . So some nodes can hit 80% for 30 mins in one day and thats the highest it will be for a whole week . Then there are the nodes that do it every day at set times these are the ones that go forward for a reseg

I guess "go forward" in this context means "put on the list of work we will need to do eventually if enough people complain about it"

[scoobydoo[uk]]

Had a reply on the virgin technical forums and they said that low speeds are down to spikes in utilisation but they arent at a level to esculate yet, 25mb on a 152mb service all evening isn't low enough?!! Crazy

[slowcoach]

Originally Posted by scoobydoo[uk]

My area (stoke on trent) is being upgraded in August. I signed up for 152mb last month and during the day i can get this speed no problem on speedtest.net.

Come the evening, anything after 6pm and speeds drop like a stone, down to 50-80mb/s ,

Exactly the same here in Oldham, we are also due the upgrade in August, I am assuming the disconnections of 2-3 hours a few times a week are a sign that work is being done.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Nedkelly

The trigger level is over 70% for x amount of time . So some nodes can hit 80% for 30 mins in one day and thats the highest it will be for a whole week . Then there are the nodes that do it every day at set times these are the ones that go forward for a reseg

Has it been changed from >90% for 10% of a rolling 7 day period?

The number you mention there was the old ntl value but I thought that disappeared post-merger?

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Originally Posted by slowcoach

Exactly the same here in Oldham, we are also due the upgrade in August, I am assuming the disconnections of 2-3 hours a few times a week are a sign that work is being done.

Hmm no. Upgrades should be a single disconnection or group of disconnections, generally in the middle of the night.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by Nedkelly

The trigger level is over 70% for x amount of time . So some nodes can hit 80% for 30 mins in one day and thats the highest it will be for a whole week . Then there are the nodes that do it every day at set times these are the ones that go forward for a reseg

Ignitionnet beat me to it - has this figure changed recently? It used to be an obscene 99% utilisation for 10% on < DOCSIS3 and I think 90% utilisation for > 10% of the time on DOCSIS3.

[qasdfdsaq]

WTF?! 99% util?! I'd be surprised if it was even possible to hit that level of utilisation, particularly on the upstream.

Then again I do recall once being told by VM my segment was at 90% utilisation 90% of the time, when I was complaining about slow speeds...

[Kushan]

Yup, this was years and years ago though (~2009 I think?), I think (hope) it has changed since then.