50M 100mb in Lincoln - Page 3

General Maximus · 07-11-2011, 21:21

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I got an E4200 General, it's good for more than the 8 channels in my Superhub - over 600Mbit. Not such an issue for you on the VMNG300 - you'll be forced to take a Superhub if you want to upgrade to 200Mb when it is released.

yeah I was just looking at that, I think I am going to have to get one as well. I have just read that my current router won't do more than 92mbits and on the charts the E2500 won't do more than 91mbits (so I am assuming the E2000 will be the same) and the E3000 does 218mbits.

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well this ain't good, I am looking at Â£100 for the E3000 and Â£125 for the E4200. I had might as well go for the E4200, at least it will last me till the end of time

Ignitionnet · 07-11-2011, 22:29

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

yeah I was just looking at that, I think I am going to have to get one as well. I have just read that my current router won't do more than 92mbits and on the charts the E2500 won't do more than 91mbits (so I am assuming the E2000 will be the same) and the E3000 does 218mbits.

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well this ain't good, I am looking at Â£100 for the E3000 and Â£125 for the E4200. I had might as well go for the E4200, at least it will last me till the end of time

It has very strong wireless capabilities too - moving from Superhub to the E4200 pushed the wireless performance in mini-Ignition's room from barely clinging onto anything up to 120Mbit/s and in the same room 160Mbit-180Mbit. That's wirelessly just to remind.

I bought it to replace a mini-PC. It works and works extremely well. The NAS is a bit pants performance wise but other than that it's nice.

General Maximus · 07-11-2011, 22:37

cool, looks like I'll be going for it. It is a shame VM didn't team up with Cisco/Linksys to make the superhubs, it certainly would have guaranteed a minimum working standard. Tieing Cisco with VM would have been a great brand quality boost on VMs part, something they could have advertised, I defo would have been interested as a selling point. If the blab was "upgrade to 30/50/100mbit and we'll give you a free Cisco homehub" I wouldn't think twice about it.

GazCBG · 08-11-2011, 08:54

For the ones that got to have a Tech out to check the power levels and what not.
Are you being charge a fitting fee, if so how much?

General Maximus · 08-11-2011, 15:41

if you are upgrading to 100mbit they have got an offer on atm and it is free. Technically though, according to the website, it is normally Â£49.95.

Although I don't want the engineer to come round, I haven't really kicked up too much of a stink about it because it is their time and money they are wasting. If on the other hand I had to pay Â£50 for them to come round and do something which I could tell them (my power levels are fine) or they could do over the phone then I would go nuts.

beasty54 · 08-11-2011, 20:00

Well i'm certainly not managing to get 100mb during peak times, i'm struggling to get 70mb at the moment. With my 50mb connection, i was able to hit the full 50mb no matter what time of day it was so its clear they cant provide 100mb, even in a small city like lincoln.

Ignitionnet · 08-11-2011, 20:05

They aren't aiming to provide 100Mb 24x7 to everyone, peak times are peak times, some slow down should be expected and if it doesn't happen it's a bonus.

Size of the town/city isn't an issue.

beasty54 · 08-11-2011, 20:16

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

They aren't aiming to provide 100Mb 24x7 to everyone, peak times are peak times, some slow down should be expected and if it doesn't happen it's a bonus.

Size of the town/city isn't an issue.

I don't care what they aren't aiming for, i was just saying that on 50mb i could hit it 24/7 but with 100mb i cant. Some slow down is of course expected at peak times but almost a third of your advertised speed?? i would class that as more than "a little slow down"

I'll make it clear though that i'm not complaining, my upload has doubled and that's what i wanted it for so until i've had my repull on the 15th of November and i start using the superhub, i'm more than happy with what i've got.

General Maximus · 08-11-2011, 20:24

I am going to be the same dude. I would be over the moon with 50/10. That being said, I have always had full speed on 50mbit as well so I am looking forward to seeing what I am going to get on 100mbit. I have still got to wait another 2 weeks but i'll do some thorough speed testing and thrash it out on torrents and newsgroups and let you know what it is like. I'll be disappointed if I can't hit 100mbit some of the time.

Ignitionnet · 08-11-2011, 21:56

The initial slow speeds could well be due to people doing exactly what General Maximus mentioned, thorough speed testing and thrashing it out on torrents and newsgroups.

See if it calms down. A lot of speed increases, which this is even if it's a new tier, bring dodgy performance initially until the novelty of the higher speed goes away and everyone stops trying to download the internet.

GazCBG · 12-11-2011, 10:16

I just phoned up, got a UK Customer service and was total it would be up to 24hrs for the update to come though.
As I came off the phone the Superhub rebooted and I now can get 100.1Mb via newsgroups (download a linux OS), but speedtest.net I can find one that give me more then 70Mb

They wanted to send a tech out and charge me Â£30, I said I got just my Superhub, 2 weeks ago and she went off to check and then said it be upgraded within 24 hours

beasty54 · 13-11-2011, 00:13

After a few days with 100mb i'm going to have to say its crap. 90% of the time i get less than 50mb no matter what i try to download and streaming video is a joke.

General Maximus · 13-11-2011, 08:52

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Originally Posted by Big-Gaz

They wanted to send a tech out and charge me Â£30

They are trying to pull the same crap as when they did 50mbit. Technically you are supposed to pay Â£49.95 for "installation" which is the engineer bringing you a superhub which they could post to you (and I don't want anyway) and a Â£30 activation fee for him ringing up and getting them to push the new config file down which they could have done over the phone when you rang up to upgrade.

They have got an offer on atm where the "installation" charge is free but I think you are still supposed to pay the Â£30 activation fee. I am going to wait to see what happens when my bill comes through because when I rang up to upgrade I got an Indian lady who spoke perfect english and she made it crystal clear twice that I only "have to pay Â£10 a month for 100mbit and everything else is free". Thank god for them recording phone calls

GazCBG · 13-11-2011, 11:00

I was told the Â£30 was for the Tech to come out. They did say the Â£49.95 is free at the moment.

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I have noticed on speedtest.net there are 2 London servers, it change between them.
When testing you need the Namesco server and not the Trance FM one.

When reading on the VM site they said about another speedtest, link: http://speedtest.magnet.ie/

I get around 94Mb down and 8Mb up

General Maximus · 13-11-2011, 19:15

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Originally Posted by Big-Gaz

I was told the Â£30 was for the Tech to come out. They did say the Â£49.95 is free at the moment

well they want Â£50 for "installation" and Â£30 as a one off "activation" fee, either way it is a joke for getting somebody to deliver something and make a phone call. Maybe if they stopped wasting money like this they could afford to get UK call centres back.