50Mb areas - Page 43

Peter_ · 17-04-2009, 20:14

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

Ok virgin tech told me try use cat5e ethernet cable instead and go to network card on the device manager then right click mouse and click advanced and change the speed & duplex from 10/100 or auto to 1Gbps full duplex and click ok and reboot pc and reboot modem. That should solve the speed problem.

Try that and bingo, my speed shoot back up to 51Mbps now.

This post is the continuation from this post and should be in this thread, you are getting confused.http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34777569-post25.html

spiderplant · 17-04-2009, 20:27

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Originally Posted by JdNthLdn

Any news on London Enfield getting the upgrade anytime soon.

As has already been said many times in this thread, no announcements are made until after an area has been enabled.

And for those that missed it:

Please use the postcode checker to check 50 meg is available to your house before calling Virgin.

Ignitionnet · 17-04-2009, 21:47

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

Ok virgin tech told me try use cat5e ethernet cable instead and go to network card on the device manager then right click mouse and click advanced and change the speed & duplex from 10/100 or auto to 1Gbps full duplex and click ok and reboot pc and reboot modem. That should solve the speed problem.

Try that and bingo, my speed shoot back up to 51Mbps now.

I suspect the modem reboot fixed things - if the modem changes duplex for no apparent reason there are major issues with the ethernet port in the modem.

chrispuk2004 · 17-04-2009, 23:19

Finally available in Mansfield

Rik · 18-04-2009, 12:04

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Originally Posted by uniplan

heme-cmts-09.network.virginmedia.com still not here!!!!!

AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!AAAR RRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

Available now in

Luton ("lutn")

But use the postcode checker to check is available to your house before calling.

Hemel Hempstead cant be much longer surely? I am on the lutn network cpc3-hem12-0-0-custxxx.lutn.cable.ntl.com
No joy yet with the postcode checker.........

Bit more patience

Ignitionnet · 18-04-2009, 13:31

It should be useful for someone with a lot of storage or a media centre who wants to stock up on HD as I imagine would be the case with you Rik and the 6.5TB, but beyond that my only remote interest in the upgrade is that my 20M might actually go faster than 6 at peak times once the overlay is done.

I am curious though, what are people on 50Mbit, nearly all of whom are no doubt largely using it to leech HD video, going to do when they run out of stuff to download?

I'm not interested in the rights / wrongs, I don't care at all what you do with your service

just interested in what people are going to do when they run out of HD stuff they actually want, download stuff because it's there?

EDIT: Quick note, I'm not saying higher speeds are pointless I'm a huge fan of them, just that higher speeds with the crappy upload VM offer on them are pointless beyond leeching HD. I'd welcome views and experience from people who have the service to educate me a bit that's all!

AbyssUnderground · 18-04-2009, 14:03

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Originally Posted by Broadbandings

I'd welcome views and experience from people who have the service to educate me a bit that's all!

For me, if I got 50Mbps, it would be so I could backup my France based server quicker. 800GB takes a while on 10Mbps you know! Normally backups don't exceed a few GB a day (incremental) but if something happens to my backups, I'd have to get the whole lot again.

Also, I'm impatient, so the faster I can get something the better!

Ignitionnet · 18-04-2009, 14:28

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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground

For me, if I got 50Mbps, it would be so I could backup my France based server quicker. 800GB takes a while on 10Mbps you know! Normally backups don't exceed a few GB a day (incremental) but if something happens to my backups, I'd have to get the whole lot again

Mmm 800GB.

You know even on 50Mbit it would take you a month and a half to upload that back onto the server

I totally get the impatience thing I just can't bring myself to justify paying the extra even though it's not a huge amount of money to me based on that. There's also the minor 'activist' thing in me. Yes I can afford it but no I will not pay it. To do so justifies VM's flow of bovine excreta regarding the product and their total lack of regard for anything beyond PR in the deployment of it.

50Mbit was nothing to do with wanting to offer uber broadband, the equipment was for the most part being deployed anyway for capacity relief, as the old uBRs have been end of life'd by Cisco and are power / space inefficient. That you could pop a line card in one end and a new modem the other and offer 50Mbit is purely a bonus so VM claiming all this stuff about investment in ultra fast broadband is complete and utter bovine excreta. If they gave a crap about that there would have been some effort on the upstream side of things, whereas there has been absolutely none. Taking an upstream from my area to redeploy with the 50M and causing a touch of upstream congestion doing it extracts the urine and is a pretty clear admission that this area's return path sucks. If they gave a crap they'd have done what Comcast did and spend some cash on the local networks as they were deploying DOCSIS 3 but in normal VM fashion they do nothing until absolutely necessary or PR expedient so just pretending all is fine works.

Quite how they expect to offer enhanced upstream in areas like this one when they don't appear able to offer more than 4 of the most basic ones makes me wonder and hopefully I'll be proven wrong, as a few 50Mbit customers on 1.75Mbit upstream sharing with a few 20M customers on 0.768M up don't fit too well into a 4.4M usable channel.

Ooops I descended into firm rant territory there, sorry!

AbyssUnderground · 18-04-2009, 14:32

True, but I have a friend in Sweden on 10Mbps upload who can do it in a week or so. He has a 1Gbps connection too he could use if necessary.

I just like to keep my own backup too. Still, its better than the 10Mbps upload isn't it

6 months at 512Kbps!

Ignitionnet · 18-04-2009, 14:44

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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground

True, but I have a friend in Sweden on 10Mbps upload who can do it in a week or so. He has a 1Gbps connection too he could use if necessary.

I just like to keep my own backup too. Still, its better than the 10Mbps upload isn't it

6 months at 512Kbps!

Matter of opinion really, just different levels of unfeasibilty.

Sorry for my rant above btw

Mr_Grinch · 18-04-2009, 20:05

For me it's the (current) lack of STM. It'll also mean that I can change from watching standard def tv downloaded tv content to HD (at present two shows downloaded concurrently will cap me) which will be nice.

I know STM will kick in eventually but even if it's at 75% that's still more than a 10mb download rate (and if I'm honest I'd pay Â£50 for an uncapped 10mb product).

uniplan · 19-04-2009, 10:16

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Originally Posted by Rik

Hemel Hempstead cant be much longer surely? I am on the lutn network cpc3-hem12-0-0-custxxx.lutn.cable.ntl.com
No joy yet with the postcode checker.........

Bit more patience

OK maybe you're right... I'll stand the shotgun down from the puppy then

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Originally Posted by Broadbandings

Mmm 800GB.

You know even on 50Mbit it would take you a month and a half to upload that back onto the server

I totally get the impatience thing I just can't bring myself to justify paying the extra even though it's not a huge amount of money to me based on that. There's also the minor 'activist' thing in me. Yes I can afford it but no I will not pay it. To do so justifies VM's flow of bovine excreta regarding the product and their total lack of regard for anything beyond PR in the deployment of it.

50Mbit was nothing to do with wanting to offer uber broadband, the equipment was for the most part being deployed anyway for capacity relief, as the old uBRs have been end of life'd by Cisco and are power / space inefficient. That you could pop a line card in one end and a new modem the other and offer 50Mbit is purely a bonus so VM claiming all this stuff about investment in ultra fast broadband is complete and utter bovine excreta. If they gave a crap about that there would have been some effort on the upstream side of things, whereas there has been absolutely none. Taking an upstream from my area to redeploy with the 50M and causing a touch of upstream congestion doing it extracts the urine and is a pretty clear admission that this area's return path sucks. If they gave a crap they'd have done what Comcast did and spend some cash on the local networks as they were deploying DOCSIS 3 but in normal VM fashion they do nothing until absolutely necessary or PR expedient so just pretending all is fine works.

Quite how they expect to offer enhanced upstream in areas like this one when they don't appear able to offer more than 4 of the most basic ones makes me wonder and hopefully I'll be proven wrong, as a few 50Mbit customers on 1.75Mbit upstream sharing with a few 20M customers on 0.768M up don't fit too well into a 4.4M usable channel.

Ooops I descended into firm rant territory there, sorry!

Sounds like a company on the edge. I guess they don't have enough debt to have them go over the edge in the credit cruch, but they get so little revenue vs. ongoing costs that true investment ain't gonna happen!

Also some clever dick says "hmmm let's spend a few extra quid in these boxes we were going to buy anyways and get Samuel L. Jackson and Bob's your cousin's pappy!"

Genius!

Rik · 19-04-2009, 10:17

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Originally Posted by uniplan

OK maybe you're right... I'll stand the shotgun down from the puppy then

50Mb is soo close I can almost taste it

Ignitionnet · 19-04-2009, 11:48

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Originally Posted by Rik

50Mb is soo close I can almost taste it

Calm down old bean, it's just faster DVDs / Blu Rays.

*sloman* · 23-04-2009, 11:12

50mb now enabled in Derby!!!

Just checked the post code checker!

"Postcode check results
Great news! 50Mb broadband is available where you live"