Dire speeds?

[bertles86]

If it's oversubscribed is it ever going to improve? Seriously considering BT/Sky now, it's ridiculous we can't even load google and pings are 250-300 consistently on games!

[Marci]

Dunno - am on osr01wake-v11.network.virginmedia.net and should supposedly have a 10Mb connection - I've been speedtesting at random times over the past month and not once seen it go any higher than 4Mb at the very best. Usually downstream tops out at 2Mb with an upstream of 456Kb. Modem config file is the correct one for 10Mb, but no matter what I do I never see anything near 50% of the downstream that I should have.

Doesn't help with the whacky route things take to go to any website... no matter which site I traceroute to, I get routed as follows:

osr01wake-v11.network.virginmedia.net >
osr01barn-tenge73.network.virginmedia.net >
osr01brad-tenge71.network.virginmedia.net >
man-bb-a-ge-110-0.network.virginmedia.net >
off to the rest of the net.

This might not sound so bad... barnsley is just down the road from us... however, osr01barn-tenge73.network.virginmedia.net is in Westminster, so I go from to London to Bradford to Manchester before I've even left their network... to view some UK sites, t tI find I go on a route that leaves the UK, heads round 4 servers in Europe, then back to the UK again... but that's only after going from here to westminster, to bradford, to manchester, BACK to westminster, out to servers in france, then germany, then amsterdam, then back to westminster, then back up to my server here in wakefield.

These tracert's never used to go on such ridiculous paths to get to these sites.

---------- Post added at 22:00 ---------- Previous post was at 21:21 ----------

Support have just found some odd routing issues on UBRs in my area that could be causing the slow down and are shifting it to 2nd line support at the moment. High TX rates on this UBR also so it's in need of an upgrade to cope with capacity... which won't be helping Rx rates.

[bertles86]

cable.ubr14.live.blueyonder.co.uk
osr01live-v11.network.virginmedia.net
osr02know-tenge71.network.virginmedia.net
man-bb-b-ge-130-0.network.virginmedia.net
man-bb-a-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net
gfd-bb-b-so-200-0.network.virginmedia.net
redb-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net

I get that in south liverpool from a ping test ^^^

[Marci]

If you want a laugh, try and get hold of NeoTrace (old discontinued software), whack it in map mode, and do a trace to www.mosthauntedlive.net.... one of Virgin's own companies, with the site (registered to Virgin but not on their own network for some reason) being run from a server in Westminster...


Wakefield > Westminster > Bradford > Leeds > Northampton > Birmingham > Zurich > Frankfurt > Amsterdam > Westminster.