Appalling speeds in Manchester

[on in an hour!]

barring any problems, GMR is set to go live end of feb,all 50 & 20meg users will be on seperate UBR's from lower tier users,the area will be QAM256 with (hopefully) a 33% increase in bandwith availability

[Rone]

Originally Posted by ntluser

I think Virgin Media divide Manchester into two areas north and south.I'm in the south area on the Baguley Server on the 20mb service and my speeds are pretty good. Which server are you on?

Agreed , touch wood Baguley seems to be reasonably good, it could be better but it could also be a lot worse.

[Retrovertigo]

I'm south manchester on the baguley server. I have clung on as twice now VM have admitted that they are over subbed here but that they are sorting it "soon" - more fool me for listening really.

I know it's contention because as soon as the students are on holiday my speeds go up again. It's a sorry state of affairs and they really should be held to task over over selling a product.

I'm hoping that a lot of students decide that in a house of several people that 50meg is worth the extra cost and it frees up as much bandwidth as possible. I can't watch youtube videos even during the evening. That's a bout as pathetic as things can get.

There is a new racing game due this week on the 360 and I'm going to miss out on joining my friends because my lag is so appallingly bad. It spoils it for everyone with me glitching around the circuits

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by on in an hour!

barring any problems, GMR is set to go live end of feb,all 50 & 20meg users will be on seperate UBR's from lower tier users,the area will be QAM256 with (hopefully) a 33% increase in bandwith availability

10k's all installed and being played with?

I presume you mean a go live as in go live, not when the CMTS are being installed

[Retrovertigo]

Well, into March and haven't seen an increasse in speed. Far from it, downloading a TV show off the newsgroups at 80k at the moment. 80k!!!!!!

The funniest part is seeing folk on this board complaining that they are getting poor service on 50meg. I mean come on - didn't those guys read the forums and see how many people were complaining that VM couldn't maintain 20meg. It would take someone with real trust in VM to think they could step up to 50meg when the 20meg service is so shoddy for so many people.

Before anyone asks, called them last week and was given the usual, have a few quid off and we will be fixing this real soon we promise. The same UBR nonsense they fed me months ago. £28 for less than 100k in the evenings. I can't even get the full 20meg if I try at 4am. I mean what the hell kind of service can't give me full speed at that time of the morning?