Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer

[fusey]

Just to confirm that the Levenshulme area of Manchester, which is M19, has now been upgraded

[eth01]

Originally Posted by slitheen

A couple of days ago I was convinced that it was a similar mistake people were making a lot in this thread. People claiming to be served from Baguley servers (which you and I are both on, I'm Withington/Fallowfield here) were saying they had just gotten the upgrade to 10MB. I was convinced that they were actually on Manchester servers and that they were getting confused. However, a few people posted proof that they were indeed on Baguley servers, and then posted the modem config page to show that they had actually got the 10MB upgrade. So we can deduce from this that Baguley servers are actually being upgraded at this moment in time, area by area (it is huge!), even though it is still saying 'TBC'.

So at least we know we're close.....and not to pay too much attention to the 'Where's My Upgrade' page.

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Yet on the 'Where's My Upgrade' page, Stockport is listed as being on the Manchester servers, which we know are complete. Curious this. It says:

Manchester area - Oldham, Bolton, Burnley, Rochdale, Blackburn, Salford, Stockport - Complete

Baguley area - Birkenhead, Macclesfield, Runcorn, Stoke, Warrington, Brombrough, Stretford, Wilmslow, Withington - TBC

The info on that page must not be 100% accurate if you're in Stockport and on Baguley servers?

It's not updated, correct.

[Bez_ntl]

Originally Posted by eth01

you won't be on the same server if you're in Warrington. you're hitting telewest.

Warrington is quoted has the Baguley server on Virgins website is that wrong ? I was an NTL customer before it became Virgin media not Telewest.

[mentalis]

I think some areas of Warrington (Birchwood, I think) were Telewest. I am close to the Latchford area, and that was NTL.

And I am still waiting for the upgrade... ho hum.

[Bez_ntl]

Originally Posted by mentalis

I think some areas of Warrington (Birchwood, I think) were Telewest. I am close to the Latchford area, and that was NTL.

And I am still waiting for the upgrade... ho hum.

Im close to Latchford to and no upgrade here either

I'm still re-booting a couple of times a day waiting. The page says my town is complete. Most confusing thing for me is a mate (new customer, SACM) less than 2 miles away in the same town had his upgrade last week. I don't know if it's possible for two people in the same area to be on different servers (I'm on Baguley), but it looks as if it may be. Hope it's worth it when it happens.

[eth01]

Originally Posted by kryogenik

I'm still re-booting a couple of times a day waiting. The page says my town is complete. Most confusing thing for me is a mate (new customer, SACM) less than 2 miles away in the same town had his upgrade last week. I don't know if it's possible for two people in the same area to be on different servers (I'm on Baguley), but it looks as if it may be. Hope it's worth it when it happens.

he'll be on a different uBr, otherwise you'd recieve the upgrade as well. It will be happening, just be patient.

Ah, so it is possible then - cheers. He's literally in the same first three character postcode as me. Reassuring to know anyway that he's getting a good solid connection.

[Donkey Fly]

When is this happening in the Bradford Area?

Anyone know?

[gmcl]

Hi guys,
must say I forgot about the upgrade till now. I live in the Stockport area SK7 [cpc5-stkp5-0-0-custxxx.manc.cable.ntl.com].

Despite reboot I'm still getting just under 4MB.

Is my area upgraded yet ?

Appreciate any advice.

Cheers

Graeme

[DerekRothwell]

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:23:06 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 4579 ms = 223.6 KB/sec, approx 1842 Kbps, 1.8 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 4611 ms = 222.1 KB/sec, approx 1830 Kbps, 1.79 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 4085 ms = 250.7 KB/sec, approx 2066 Kbps, 2.02 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 9315 ms = 219.9 KB/sec, approx 1812 Kbps, 1.77 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 1888 Kbps, 1.84 Mbps

Smashing!! £25 for this pile of Poo - thought 10mb was too good to last

[eth01]

Originally Posted by gmcl

Hi guys,
must say I forgot about the upgrade till now. I live in the Stockport area SK7 [cpc5-stkp5-0-0-custxxx.manc.cable.ntl.com].

Despite reboot I'm still getting just under 4MB.

Is my area upgraded yet ?

Appreciate any advice.

Cheers

Graeme

Then you don't have 4mb, nor would this apply to you..?

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Originally Posted by DerekRothwell

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:23:06 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 4579 ms = 223.6 KB/sec, approx 1842 Kbps, 1.8 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 4611 ms = 222.1 KB/sec, approx 1830 Kbps, 1.79 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 4085 ms = 250.7 KB/sec, approx 2066 Kbps, 2.02 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 9315 ms = 219.9 KB/sec, approx 1812 Kbps, 1.77 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 1888 Kbps, 1.84 Mbps

Smashing!! £25 for this pile of Poo - thought 10mb was too good to last

You've probably been STM'ed. Been downloading all day?

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Originally Posted by Bez_ntl

Im close to Latchford to and no upgrade here either

Some customers in Warrington are on the Baguley segment actually. But only a selective amount AFAIK.

[gmcl]

Hi eth01,

I'm paying £25/mth and on an L package according to my account details. I thought all L size accounts were being upgraded to 10MB?

Confused

[antman64]

Originally Posted by gmcl

Hi eth01,

I'm paying £25/mth and on an L package according to my account details. I thought all L size accounts were being upgraded to 10MB?

Confused

This is true. Have you had a look at your modem config page?

go to 192.168.100.1 in your browser and login with user and pass "root"/"root"

click on Operation Config on the left and it should say what your downstream data rate is.

I.E: Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 4096000 (4Mb)

Originally Posted by slitheen

So at least we know we're close.....and not to pay too much attention to the 'Where's My Upgrade' page.

hah ok, here's to hoping

[gmcl]

Hi all

A couple of extra reboots both for modem and router and hey presto - 10MB connection.

Must have rebooted about 10 times in total.

Thanks