Virgin Media 70, 150 & 200 Mb Upgrades

[ianch99]

Do you think network segments that have outstanding utilisation tickets will be part of the pending tier upgrade?

[Ignitionnet]

When they are fixed, sure.

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

When they are fixed, sure.

Well, it has been over 3 years now so maybe in another 3 then?

[thenry]

location?

[japitts]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

When they are fixed, sure.

On a related note, will the speed uplift program be likely to have any impact on expected fix dates for outstanding utilisation issues? In either direction :-)

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by japitts

On a related note, will the speed uplift program be likely to have any impact on expected fix dates for outstanding utilisation issues? In either direction :-)

Very much doubt it.

[thenry]

The two being intertwined, possibly.

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by thenry

location?

headend : sotn
cmts: sotn15

[Kushan]

Every time there's a speed uplift, the question arises as to whether it'll help congested areas. The answer is usually that "Capacity and speed uplifts can be scheduled together" but the end result is usually that congested areas remain congested, they might get better speeds but they'll still be congested.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I've been told that there are student areas where there's fibre basically to the tap as usage is huge, uptake high, and all the houses are HMOs.

Wouldn't be surprised if this happened where I used to live. Usage was always problematic, and not only was everything 5-storey HMOs, the ex-TW area had shared drops as well. You could easily get over 40 users on a single drop.

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Wouldn't be surprised if this happened where I used to live. Usage was always problematic, and not only was everything 5-storey HMOs, the ex-TW area had shared drops as well. You could easily get over 40 users on a single drop.

Can you clarify "drop"? Thanks ..

[BenMcr]

Drop cable I think i.e. the coax cable that runs from a property to the cabinet.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Every time there's a speed uplift, the question arises as to whether it'll help congested areas. The answer is usually that "Capacity and speed uplifts can be scheduled together" but the end result is usually that congested areas remain congested, they might get better speeds but they'll still be congested.

indeed.

When I was on VM basically they treated uplift work as also capacity relief, actual capacity relief was put aside with the claim the uplift work will fix the problem (which it never seems to unless it comes way before modem configs get updated).

[alanbjames]

I used to live in the Brynmill area of Swansea which i was surrounded by Student accomedations and u could garentee every 6-9 months virgin would have to add extra bandwith as the area would slow down to a crawl and this was back when 20mb was the maximum, i dread to think at what its like now especially with new student accomedations opening in the area to add the extra 75,000 students swansea uni are expecting after their £460 million new campus is built and almost finished.

[roughbeast]

Well, we were promised a couple of hours outage on 22nd September as part of local network upgrades. The letter we received stated that this was preparation for speed upgrades. Unfortunately, nothing happened. No outages have occurred since some channel changes a few weeks ago.

Perhaps the delay was due to the finding of a 1 tonne (Hermann) bomb in the immediate vicinity of the expected works. The exclusion zone and the massive traffic problems may well have made it impossible for work to commence. The controlled explosion that came just before 11pm rattled our windows, but was too late for any delayed work to start.

I may be entirely wrong about this, so I would be interested if any VM insiders can shed some light.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/new...-bomb-10112097