Virgin Media UK Confirms Trial of Faster Broadband Upload Speeds

[Synthetic]

Do we think they'd need more than 2 upstreams to do this? My area is 16 down, and never noticed any congestion on the downstream and doesn't struggle to hit the 300meg but a lot of the time it struggles to reach more than 15meg on the upstream...

EDIT: I'm on the homeworks+ package

[toytown]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Personally, I am excited about the prospect of 10:1 uploads but I can't help but wonder if others would be better off if they reduced STM instead.

I agree, i would rather see STM removed before they introduce faster uploads.

[JordanTheToaster]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

Do we think they'd need more than 2 upstreams to do this? My area is 16 down, and never noticed any congestion on the downstream and doesn't struggle to hit the 300meg but a lot of the time it struggles to reach more than 15meg on the upstream...

EDIT: I'm on the homeworks+ package

Probably wrong but 2 upstream can do 40 meg? Someone will probably correct me.

Correction 4 upstream can theoretically do 122 meg so that would be 30.5 per channel so 61 for 2 upstream in theory.

[Synthetic]

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster

Probably wrong but 2 upstream can do 40 meg? Someone will probably correct me.

Correction 4 upstream can theoretically do 122 meg so that would be 30.5 per channel so 61 for 2 upstream in theory.

Ah I see, thanks. Maybe it's upstream congestion in my area then. Is that possible if there's no sign of any downstream?

[Ignitionnet]

I could tell you the score but then I'd have to kill you.

For what it's worth, though, the same upgrades that would remove spectrum restrictions and allow more upstream channels have been necessary anyway to allow for more DOCSIS downstreams and TV channels.

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Originally Posted by Synthetic

Do we think they'd need more than 2 upstreams to do this?

Yes.

[vm_tech]

Just being doing some work in my local headend and was pleased to see some E6000s being installed, so my house will be connected to one in the near future

[Synthetic]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I could tell you the score but then I'd have to kill you.

For what it's worth, though, the same upgrades that would remove spectrum restrictions and allow more upstream channels have been necessary anyway to allow for more DOCSIS downstreams and TV channels.

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Yes.

Fair enough so reading between the lines there, I'm guessing since my area has 16 ds channels it's already capable of more us, just needs a config change?

Vauge nudges in the general right direction appreciated

[JordanTheToaster]

Time to play the waiting game.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

Fair enough so reading between the lines there, I'm guessing since my area has 16 ds channels it's already capable of more us, just needs a config change?

Vauge nudges in the general right direction appreciated

Quite a lot of people seen 3 (And I think even occasionally 4?) Upstreams being locked last year, just before that guest wireless thing was trialled (And subsequently binned off), so hopefully a lot of the work has been done and, as you say, you just need a new config file.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by JordanTheToaster

Time to play the waiting game.

Let's hope it is. I'm happy with a solid 70mbs download but 5 Mbs up is a pain when you need to move larger files.


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[Synthetic]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Quite a lot of people seen 3 (And I think even occasionally 4?) Upstreams being locked last year, just before that guest wireless thing was trialled (And subsequently binned off), so hopefully a lot of the work has been done and, as you say, you just need a new config file.

Fingers crossed they've thought ahead and it can be rolled out quickly

[JordanTheToaster]

That is until the networks burst into flames at everyone's new 100% higher upload.

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I talk bad about virgin then not even an hour later my Hub3 gets nuked and i get this.



Well played Virgin.

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by vm_tech

Just being doing some work in my local headend and was pleased to see some E6000s being installed, so my house will be connected to one in the near future

I wonder if that's what will deliver the new the cloud based tv service, Tivo Cloud, or whatever it'll be called???

New tech always is good news.

[General Maximus]

I wouldn't hold my breath. All they are doing is trialling it atm which is completely unnecessary because they can slap together 3 bonded channels in a jiffy because they have already got that in place from the work they did last year. Once again it will be a PR stint to give the impression that they are keeping up with the competition.

They are way behind on the downstream upgrades atm and my crystal ball tells me that they'll finish them this year, early next year they'll announce the upstream upgrade rollout (to make it sound like we getting another upgrade for free) which will bring us back to 10:1 and by the time they have finished that they'll be announcing the next round of downstream upgrades/docsis3.1 rollout which will involve downstream only upgrades and undo everything they have just achieved in making brining everyone up to 10:1.

[DaMac]

Yeah PR stunt, nearly 18 months ago I was told I would be getting a free speed upgrade to 200mbs, that was planned for last September, then October, then this March, then April now it is May next year, this week I have been sent 2 emails saying I can have the 200mbs now for an extra £6.50 a month, now I'm not really good at maths but I have been trying to subtract £6.50 from zero and I am getting stuck.