Superhub 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey) - Page 20

Ignitionnet · 04-04-2015, 14:49

Indeed. Abysmal speeds from PSN last night - initially sub-1Mb. Had to keep restarting the download and even then the best I could get was about 7Mb.

General Maximus · 04-04-2015, 15:22

I have no probs getting 15MB/sec on Steam these days

Kushan · 04-04-2015, 16:11

I've had similar experiences. Xbox Live, at least a couple of years ago, wasn't too bad for download speeds. It never maxed the connection but seemed reasonable enough for me. PSN was always slower than dogshit. It has gotten better with the PS4 but still not anywhere near maxing the connection for me.

Steam is all right for me. I do often find myself struggling to download at faster than about 5MB/s in the evening but I think that's local congestion rather than Steam.

qasdfdsaq · 04-04-2015, 21:12

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Originally Posted by dragon

Steam is not XBL/PSN unlike both of those Valve seems to be able to do CDN right, the only time I've seen steam download slowly recently is during a sale.

Another benefit of PC gaming vs. console it seems...

Ignitionnet · 04-04-2015, 21:18

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Another benefit of PC gaming vs. console it seems...

Looks that way. You pay pretty much if not full retail price for a game to be delivered digitally and it takes so long to download, even over 'superfast' broadband, that it would've been faster for me to walk from deep in the 'burbs, literally right on the edge of Leeds to the city centre and buy it then walk back than to purchase it directly from Sony and give them a whole bunch of profit.

I purchased a game that quoted a ~6GB download before being playable at 8pm and 4 hours later it was still not even half done. Abysmal. If they can't handle delivering their own content there are a whole bunch of companies, Akamai, Limelight, etc, who can.

Hom3r · 04-04-2015, 23:41

I would love 300meg at home, which would be 40x times faster than my works.

Kushan · 05-04-2015, 00:00

We only have 50meg in work, but it's symmetrical so there's that.

Hom3r · 05-04-2015, 18:22

My mobile phone downloads faster at work than my works PC.

mmm · 09-04-2015, 09:53

Thank-you VM, New config received this morning

Code:

Primary Downstream Service Flow
SFID	47006
Max Traffic Rate	225280000 bps
Max Traffic Burst	10000 bytes
Min Traffic Rate	0 bps
Primary Upstream Service Flow
SFID	47005
Max Traffic Rate	12902400 bps
Max Traffic Burst	16320 bytes
Min Traffic Rate	0 bps
Max Concatenated Burst	16320 bps
Scheduling Type	BestEffort

From wireless laptop via my own routers:-

Kushan · 09-04-2015, 10:01

I'm not jealous. I'm not jealous at all.

qasdfdsaq · 09-04-2015, 13:23

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Originally Posted by Kushan

I'm not jealous. I'm not jealous at all.

Ignitionnet · 09-04-2015, 19:28

Sweet, downstream tests went well so onto the full thing.

Meet the middle tier of the uplift, bitches.

Note I said middle tier, not 'M' tier. There's one below and one above this one so this is equivalent to XL / 100Mb.

First time I've seen both downstream and upstream uplift tests though. I'm sure someone on the same segment formerly on 50Mb / L will have the lower uplift tier in place.

Unsure if the top of the shop tier, the new XXL, is being tested yet.

Kushan · 09-04-2015, 20:32

Someone posted that they noticed their speeds going to 300Mbit+ for a small time recently, but it doesn't appear as though anyone's got a 300Mbit active config yet.

Ignitionnet · 09-04-2015, 21:37

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Originally Posted by Kushan

Someone posted that they noticed their speeds going to 300Mbit+ for a small time recently, but it doesn't appear as though anyone's got a 300Mbit active config yet.

Ah yeah I forgot about that!

He was seeing ~330Mb down and 16Mb up.

I need to get more drunk before I start commenting on whether or not that's the final top tier performance.

Note to mods: I have banned myself from the off-topic section so no worries about the standard drunken ranting.

Kushan · 09-04-2015, 22:22

Makes sense and sounds like this is going to be another flat doubling of download speeds. To me it makes more sense to have a nice 100/200/300.

With the way Virgin likes to overprovision by about 10%, that would explain the 330MBit.

Shame the upload is only going to 16Mbit, if that's to be believed. Be nice if they pushed it to at least 20, if only to match FTTC (before STM). That said, I'd settle for 16 and less STM on the upload.