wow more upgrades - Page 2

Noggo · 22-04-2008, 09:55

Slowcoach,

As your connection is now fixed, could you do me a favour and ping a Jolt games server for me. My problem aside from download speed is one with erratic latency with spikes every few seconds off-peak and all the time peak times which makes on-gaming impossible and I would like to know if the upgrade for high capacity issues resolves it.

Have a look at this thread and if you could post a couple of sets of results, one off-peak and one peak time. I would be grateful.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ter-image.html

TIA

mrsnooch · 22-04-2008, 10:25

My internet cut out last night after 12, as stated on that status page (I live in Belfast). According to that page there will be another disconnect tonight, and again tomorrow, and we're supposed to be getting 4 to 10mb upgrade during April.

Can't see it happening unless they work very fast!

Wonder why we're getting 3 days of upgrades. Belfast obviously sucks

PeteTheMusicGuy · 22-04-2008, 10:30

Mines was fine last night

BT11

Noggo · 22-04-2008, 10:58

I guess there's a lot of connections to sort out

tay77 · 23-04-2008, 09:22

Wow, I'm actually impressed. After Luton had their first night of maintenance last night, my speedtest results are now showing as just over 5 meg, which is a big change from the 2.5meg I was having the other day.

Hopefully, after tonight's maintenance, I'll be getting the full 10meg.

tay77 · 24-04-2008, 11:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by tay77

Hopefully, after tonight's maintenance, I'll be getting the full 10meg.

I'm still getting 3.5meg at the very most.

Time to get on the newsgroups and/or phone to VM CS I think.

slowcoach · 24-04-2008, 11:58

When I was originally upgraded to 10 Meg, before the 20 Meg upgrade, I suddenly couldn't get a decent speed.

First thing I did was change the Ethernet cables but that didn't help, I had originally bought two RealTek 10/100 Ethernet cards and I still had one unused so I changed them over but still no improvement.

These cards would perform well on the local network but no change in the settings seemed to make much difference to the speed of the 10Meg Internet connection for some reason.

I decided to try a new card and as the RealTek Gbit cards didn't cost much more I bought one of those, immediately the Internet connection jumped to a solid 10Meg.

mrsnooch · 24-04-2008, 12:30

Funny you should say that,

I have an onboard 1gb connection, and a PCI 100mb card, and I always notice the jump in performance be it, through the LAN or online! Deffo worth a shot

kingabs · 24-04-2008, 14:34

More upgrades in derby wow 2 weeks ago my ubr was upgraded now i get full 20mbs 24/7.

mrsnooch · 24-04-2008, 16:52

They've updated the Even Faster Region page.

Acathla · 24-04-2008, 23:31

Something has happened with the bagley UBR's too as for the first time ever I have reached max speed on my 20meg connection - previous best being 11meg.

Me is happy although I have a tech coming out tomorrow am to adjust some power levels on my modem...typical!

boroboi · 25-04-2008, 03:46

Looks like some UBR's in middlesbrough are due to be upgraded, along with our upgrade to 10meg in may

Wooo. At last.

scoobadiva · 25-04-2008, 03:58

when i tried to cancel, they told me middlesboro, wearside etc were definately going 10mb on 24/5th april. looks like its pushed back, great.