BRIGHTON Major Works ?

[db133]

Hi

In March of this year I received an email from Mr Anthony Cronshore at the Chief Executives Office. In which he stated "Major works in my area are due to be finished by mid June 2012"

Are the upgrades finished ?

Kind regards.

[ferretuk]

Originally Posted by db133

Hi

In March of this year I received an email from Mr Anthony Cronshore at the Chief Executives Office. In which he stated "Major works in my area are due to be finished by mid June 2012"

Are the upgrades finished ?

Kind regards.

You'd be better off asking Virgin Media this officially, either via their 'support' forum or via email to the CEO office.

All you'll get here is speculation and rumour...

[horseman]

Originally Posted by ferretuk

You'd be better off asking Virgin Media this officially, either via their 'support' forum or via email to the CEO office.

All you'll get here is speculation and rumour...

Which of course also includes speculation on whether "Major works in the CEO's intended context not only includes Cat C resegmentation (which can often involve civil engineering work, relate planning/highways permissions, notice of works et al to physically split an existing O/E node into two or more separate nodes) and perhaps even "street Cab upgrades", additional upstream channels and corequisite CMTS/uBR upgrades (denser line cards etc)!

It probably "clouds-the-issue" and potentially confuses but for the last year+ I've attempted to keep a record of published (VM H&S and service page) faults in Brighton area, and tracking various estimated dates etc.
You can find my notes here > Brighton VM Problems
A number of utilisation issues appear to be co-dependent on Cat C re-segmentation but not surprisingly we the customers are not automatically informed when a F00 reference is formally closed or specifically which one relates to a particular Cat C reseg. As each CMTS could have 8 or more nodes and Brighton has 17 CMTS chassis (3 of which - brig15/16/17 are
newgen Cisco 10012 DOCSIS 3 compliant) then naturally some of the listed faults may already be closed as equally there may be a number of faults that haven't yet been published on VM forums!

[horseman]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

TBQH you seem to be having endless problems on the Brighton servers, I don't see this over in Worthing (14 miles to the west) despite being on the same servers. …….

Worthing subscribers are typically provisioned from Lancing CMTS cluster(with 7 CMTS chassis).
"lanc6/7" being the most referred for many problems, you can check by host name from your reverse dns, eg > MyuBR

[saabmania2]

I'm in the back of Portslade/mile oak and have not experienced any of the problems people in central Brighton do, I have friends that live up London rd area and it's awful.
until recently I've been on the 20mb service and always got between 18 and 20meg and I've just moved onto the 60 meg service and seem to be getting a constant 58+ meg and that's on wireless.

[db133]

Hi

I received the following :

Thank you for your recent email.

With regards to the works in your area, these are now complete however the last stages of testing are still underway. These should be complete over the coming weeks and then a date for releasing the rest of the bandwidth will be announced.

With the above in mind I have now changed over to the VM Superhub and I am very pleased with the results.

[horseman]

Originally Posted by db133

Hi

... and then a date for releasing the rest of the bandwidth will be announced.

….

There's already evidence that upstream bundling has started. As of 8am Sunday I've had 2 upstreams on US0(45.8MHz) & US2(27.4MHz) on a BN3 node serviced from Brig15 CMTS. Nothing yet on my Brig16 monitor.

Possibly test/pilot trials or start of rollout…. Whatever, but it hopefully won't be much longer.

[horseman]

Originally Posted by horseman

….. Nothing yet on my Brig16 monitor.

….

Oops - I tell a lie! Brig16/BN3 node just got UBG implemented about 7am today. Same US0 and US2 channels.
Could actually be rolling out unless VM are testig various nodes/CMTS concurrently?

[qasdfdsaq]

Don't see why not. Upstream bonding has been deployed in many places.

[craigj2k12]

...Certainly somethings being done on the Brig16 CMTS

[qasdfdsaq]

You should probably save those before they disappear

[Qtx]

Brighton has been broken for about 18 months, in a similar way to Bristol. Unbelievable VM's fix times...

[horseman]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

You should probably save those before they disappear

Wish the "peering bump" on Linx would disappear from that live snapshot as quick, but if that was a serious suggestion then I still have access to the "history/previous days" snapshots anyway!

Also judging from DB133's Hub stats he kindly supplied via his other thread it appears "brig17" also had it's UBG implemented around 9am yesterday morning. Although I note with interest it's using US1(35.8MHz) and US2 (27.4MHz) on Davids BN1 node (but then I suspect my BN3 nodes still have an outstanding SNR/FEC issue on US1 anyway)

That hopefully completes all 3 D3 chassis (AFAIK) in Brighton and assuming VM have sensibly configured Load Balance Groups one hopes a significant improvement in upstream utilisation problems….

Time will tell….

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Brighton has been broken for about 18 months, in a similar way to Bristol. Unbelievable VM's fix times...

Can't speak about Bristol but some will attest to variable "hot/not spots" utilisation issues in Brighton for years!….

Accompanied by much cynical discrediting of VM's "planning permissions" reasons for protracted delays. Regarding the latter, just out of interest, I'm currently awaiting a "Freedom of Information" response I submitted recently regarding VM's previous and planned "Street Works" from B&H council.

[db133]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

You should probably save those before they disappear

How do I 'save' them before they disappear ?

Regards.

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by horseman

Accompanied by much cynical discrediting of VM's "planning permissions" reasons for protracted delays. Regarding the latter, just out of interest, I'm currently awaiting a "Freedom of Information" response I submitted recently regarding VM's previous and planned "Street Works" from B&H council.

Brilliant! Hope the information gleaned can be useful