new software in hatfield... false alarm :( - Page 2

12-01-2005, 15:44

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Originally Posted by BBKing

Bye bye DAVIC, hello DOCSIS. How's it working?

well so far its working fine

are there any front box button press comobs to restart it instead of rebooting?

Bob · 12-01-2005, 15:52

Not that I am aware of

How much quicker is Interactive with DOCSIS? I was shocked!

12-01-2005, 16:06

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Originally Posted by Bob

Not that I am aware of

How much quicker is Interactive with DOCSIS? I was shocked!

wow!! your not kidding, it wasnt working earlier but a quick reboot and now it does. i may now even start using interactive! cool

and luckily my tv has audio out, so i could hook it up to my amp with no real worries.

Tristan · 12-01-2005, 16:07

DOCSIS is quicker? Hmm.... Here's one for BBKing, then...

Presumably the Samsungs in original areas are using no-bia.cm -- which is 256/128, isn't it? Yet I remember reading that CR3 enabled the DAVIC modems to go to something like 3Mbit.

So how come Docsis seems faster?

12-01-2005, 17:32

Samsung -- OK + Left + Right

from the sticky at the top of this thread, yey!

Stuart · 12-01-2005, 18:05

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Originally Posted by Tristan

DOCSIS is quicker? Hmm.... Here's one for BBKing, then...

Presumably the Samsungs in original areas are using no-bia.cm -- which is 256/128, isn't it? Yet I remember reading that CR3 enabled the DAVIC modems to go to something like 3Mbit.

So how come Docsis seems faster?

It may be nothing to do with DAVIC/DOCSIS. It may just be that the Samsung has a faster CPU than the low end Paces...

Tristan · 12-01-2005, 18:31

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Originally Posted by scastle

It may be nothing to do with DAVIC/DOCSIS. It may just be that the Samsung has a faster CPU than the low end Paces...

The Samsung has pretty much the same internals as the 4010 in Langley areas, with the exception of the DAVIC-capable modem.

When using Interactive (that is, the Walled Garden), the bottleneck is usually load times rather than page rendering speed.

buba3d · 13-01-2005, 09:39

Whats this i hear regarding the stb crashes in glasgow after the update ?
i got the pace one and so far no crashes.

BBKing · 13-01-2005, 10:14

Presumably the Samsungs in original areas are using no-bia.cm -- which is 256/128, isn't it?

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Presumably the Samsungs in original areas are using no-bia.cm -- which is 256/128, isn't it?

256/192, I believe. I did a lot of tests of the effect on interactive speed of changing the CM file speed many moons ago and the result was that there was no noticeable difference once the downstream speed got above 256, most of the latency was in transmission from the end server and display code on the box. The graphs were a remarkably interesting shape.

Samsungs are faster because the box is faster (2 cpus to 1) and UBRs are better than Intersects, fundamentally. The code version is obviously different too, which may or may not have an effect. The end servers are the same in Langley areas for both DAVIC and Langley Samsungs (which took some sorting out, I can tell you, since of course all existing DOCSIS boxes wanted to talk to Bromley servers). And nowadays the latency in the IP routing is the same for practically all STBs, so that's not a factor.

13-01-2005, 14:28

yep, it really is noticeably faster, i may start using it now...