Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer

[sloopy]

Originally Posted by brundles

In theory it should, but in practise it's often not the case.

If there are a lot of wireless networks near you, try and move to the least used channel (remembering the only fully seperate bands are 1, 6 and 11). The other thing to do is take a look around the house at what wireless equipment you have (phones, TV senders, etc) - if you've still got manuals, then maybe check the frequencies they run at and make sure there isn't an overlap. It can take a little bit of time but can make a difference.

Also, how many machines do you have sharing your wireless LAN? Remember that (best case) you're essentially looking at having half of the indicated bandwidth available and that divided among the machines connected. For example, if the adapter indicates it's connected at 54mbps then I'd only take 27 of that as maximum useful throughput. If you have 3 machines then that's a maximum of 9mbps per machine. This is all assuming perfect conditions of course!

Thanks for that & also the responses by Southwell & Zeph.

There are other wireless networks in the area and I recently changed channels to escape interference - this worked fine and I was consistently getting 3.9Mb in the 'old' 4Mb days.

Yes I do have cordless phones (just changed these as well) so I will check. I am not far from the router, the room above, but obviously not in line of sight but no change there.

There is another PC on the network but it was not connected when I did the speed tests.

I have rechecked my settings and the router is set to G only. However, when looking at the NICs they offer me only 2 choices for Adhoc Wireless mode - B only or B/G mix. Both cards are Linksys PCI and one is only a few months old, they are set to B/G mix. Is there a possibility that the implied presence of a B device could slug the speed even if no such device is actually on the network?

Thanks again.

[RealDiamond]

The new STM is not Fully UK wide yet. it took 45mins to download 800MB but when IT did.

Ive lost my 4Mb line and are stuck on 1Mb/s for 5 hours now, Sorry broadbandbug you are wrong again. its still the old STM for me and that means the day time STM will not be in effect. altering the Download manager back to the old settings.
Some areas are not on this new STM. This is going to add to the confusion even more now. this might explain why I haven't got that downloading letter yet as im not in the New STM areas.

[kingwahwah]

Originally Posted by broadbandbug

I would say completed by September

I was told on phone by september yesterday while calling retentions.

Cancelled phone. They offerrf phone and 4mb for same price as 4mb but with phorm I do not want 12 month contract.

Come on Reading.

[Abdi89]

hey i live in london North london on ma connection fingy it says i am from dalston but i live in holloway n dalston is like 30 mins bus ride away from ma house.......do u know when haringey update is out......................

[grubbymitts]

^somewhere a little part of England just died

[Zain]

^ Lol!

[bliss]

Originally Posted by grubbymitts

^somewhere a little part of England just died

That's the funniest thing i've read in a long time.

[Jelly]

Originally Posted by Abdi89

Hey, I live in North London. Using the "Connection" option at the top of the forum, I found that my exchange is Dalston but I live in Holloway. Dalston is like a 30 minute bus ride from my house. Does anyone know when Holloway is being upgraded?

You are using the Dalston exchange, so your connection will be upgraded when Dalston is.

Originally Posted by Abdi89

hey i live in london North london on ma connection fingy it says i am from dalston but i live in holloway n dalston is like 30 mins bus ride away from ma house.......do u know when haringey update is out......................

Heres the upgrade link below you are TBC

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

[Ruki]

Anyone know when Enfield will be upgraded?

[Abdi89]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

Heres the upgrade link below you are TBC

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

thanks man

[broadbandbug]

Originally Posted by RealDiamond

The new STM is not Fully UK wide yet. it took 45mins to download 800MB but when IT did.

Ive lost my 4Mb line and are stuck on 1Mb/s for 5 hours now, Sorry broadbandbug you are wrong again. its still the old STM for me and that means the day time STM will not be in effect. altering the Download manager back to the old settings.
Some areas are not on this new STM. This is going to add to the confusion even more now. this might explain why I haven't got that downloading letter yet as im not in the New STM areas.

Thanks for keeping track of the occasions when I am wrong.. Sorry for not being perfect.. I am sure you must be

[RealDiamond]

POOLE/BOURNEMOUTH being updated.

its a bit random speed still.
But its makes this forum so much faster.

[dave.m]

The schedule has been updated - lots of new July dates.

[dave6x]

ANDOVER appears to have been upgraded, I've checked and I have the new modem configs.

Speed test results using various testers seem to be very poor and pretty random ranging from 2.5Mb/s to 6Mb/s, although a sample 60MB multi-thread download from VM newsgroups resulted in approx 1.1-1.2MB/s so proves the old NTL 120 can still hack it!!!

Hope the download settles down, I've been used to usually getting rock-solid 480KB/s, when on 4Mb, from good sources, although Newsgroups download have not been reliable since I had to change from NTL to VM newsgroup servers a couple of months ago.

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:17:18 UTC

Test 1: 1024K took 1643 ms = 623.3 KB/sec, approx 5136 Kbps, 5.02 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 1702 ms = 601.6 KB/sec, approx 4957 Kbps, 4.84 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 1703 ms = 601.3 KB/sec, approx 4955 Kbps, 4.84 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 4045 ms = 506.3 KB/sec, approx 4172 Kbps, 4.07 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 4805 Kbps, 4.69 Mbps


To repeat this test from the source server click here.

Above is a pretty typical speedtest result I am getting today , Speedtest.net was worse, but this was measured immediately after a 300MB dowload from newsgroups that ran at 1.0-1.2MB/s