50Mbit Question - Page 2

Stabhappy · 19-03-2009, 15:04

upstream is spot on which means the config file is in effect; it's probably best to contact tech support about this issue via the newsgroups.

K3V1N · 19-03-2009, 15:07

Just seems a bit weird that speedtest is showing 20mbit but when i download from astraweb im getting around 5.78megabytes a sec which is kinda 50mbit...

Wonder if its just the speedtest.net site also whats the address for the virginmedia tech support newsgroup ?

Regards
Kev.

Stabhappy · 19-03-2009, 18:06

I thought that you were actaully experiencing 20mb, it should have been mentioned that you can download at close to 6mb/s in the OP. It doesn't look like you have a problem, 5.8 is not as close as you'd like to 50mb but it's a healthy value and provided you have no issues you shouldnt worry about quality of service.

General Maximus · 19-03-2009, 18:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stabhappy

5.8 is not as close as you'd like to 50mb

eh? i think 5.8 is as close as you are going to get. The absolute max you are going to get with the 53mbit config file is 6.625mb/sec and 5.8 is more than close enough. It is so flipping fast you are going to notice the difference anyway.

Stabhappy · 19-03-2009, 18:56

The overheads arent that massive, I'd like to see atleast 6,300kb/s on my own personal connection.

K3V1N · 19-03-2009, 21:14

So what could cause the loss from 6300k to 5800k then any ideas ?

Stabhappy · 19-03-2009, 21:34

could be anything: source files not up to it, poor routing, etc. Tried using astraweb's european servers? or are you currently doing that?

Pushkar · 19-03-2009, 21:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by telfordcable

Thought VM going to bring 5Mbps upload in due course ? I think 50Mbps downstream and 25Mbps upload seem very fair !

Hahahahah 25mbps upload

K3V1N · 19-03-2009, 21:37

Im hitting Astraweb downloads with 20 connections I cant get past 5.92Mb, whats the newsgroup address for virgins is it news.virginmedia.com ?

Cheers
Kev.

Stabhappy · 19-03-2009, 21:39

I realised that you used astraweb after I posted, so I edited my post. Yes, those are the news servers. Retention is technically 7 days, but people are reporting a blind spot of data between 7-60 days and 60+ days being okay to download via NZB's.

K3V1N · 19-03-2009, 22:11

Hmm Im just wondering if there is anyway to get nearer the 6300k mark, im about half a meg down at the moment, I know it doesnt really matter in the great scheme of things but always nice to get what you pay for.

I wonder if this is to do with the cable connecting to the modem, or if its to do with my ubr.

What was interesting today when the tech installed it, we used my existing ethernet cable and were gettng around 30mbit, when he swapped it out for a new cable this then went up to 49.xx mbit on the virgin speedtest site, thing is i cant get back on that as its asking for a userid/password.

Tis funny cos when I got 10mbit it was bang on, with 20mbit bang on again i was getting about 2.2mbytes a sec download from astraweb, but on 50mbit its falling ever so slightly short. Yup im using europe.astraweb for my connection also.

Kev.

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Does this look ok for signal levels do you know

Frequency 298750000 306750000 314750000 N/A
Lock Status
(QAM Lock/FEC Sync/MPEG Lock) Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y Y/Y/Y N/N/N
Channel Id 27 28 29 N/A
Modulation 256QAM 256QAM 256QAM N/A
Symbol Rate
(Msym/sec) 6.952 6.952 6.952 N/A
Interleave Depth I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17 I=12
J=17 N/A
Power Level
(dBmV) 7.30 7.30 7.24 N/A
RxMER
(dB) 37.09 37.36 37.94 N/A
Correctable
Codewords 0 1 0 N/A
Uncorrectable
Codewords 280 272 268 N/A

ThunderPants73 · 20-03-2009, 12:52

Just checking that this works