Good accurate and reliable speed test - Page 5

Chrysalis · 14-01-2012, 18:29

that is accurate (the speed) as downloads are matching that, abysmal.

and my area is in progression for speed doubling

qasdfdsaq · 14-01-2012, 18:48

I do wonder what they're doing with the contention ratios during this whole kerfuffle...

Chrysalis · 14-01-2012, 18:55

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

I do wonder what they're doing with the contention ratios during this whole kerfuffle...

Well publically they have stated they spending 110 million or so GBP on these upgrades. To me that doesnt sound like a lot of cash, as a comparison BT are spending many billions to put into perspective. I suspect early areas 'may' get what work they need for good performance as long as its easy then the latter areas (which seems like the upstream uplift 2 channels vs earlier area 3 channels) will simply get corners cut and the absolute min work done, I wouldnt be surprised if some areas have no work done and the configs are just switched over. Which is what I think happened here when 100mbit was activated as all I seen was a sudden drop in performance with no new special 5th DS channel etc.

I hope infinity gets rolled out here ahead of schedule as the lack of credible competition here is hurting.

Skie · 14-01-2012, 20:02

100 million on Usain Bolt. 10 million on green paint for the cabs.

qasdfdsaq · 14-01-2012, 23:09

Pretty much spot on there Skie

Pedro1 · 15-01-2012, 00:25

Lol lol Skie lol.......................

Chrysalis · 15-01-2012, 11:56

sounds about right for their budget allocations.

Ignitionnet · 15-01-2012, 13:32

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

that is accurate (the speed) as downloads are matching that, abysmal.

and my area is in progression for speed doubling

Check again. April - July.

No-where is in progress yet, first areas will go to that in March as card by card the uplift is done.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

I do wonder what they're doing with the contention ratios during this whole kerfuffle...

Not really relevant, more down to average usage. If average usage is 200kbps at peak times contention ratio looks hideous selling lots of 50Mb services but is fine in practice.

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Well publically they have stated they spending 110 million or so GBP on these upgrades. To me that doesnt sound like a lot of cash, as a comparison BT are spending many billions to put into perspective.

At a guess something to do with BT having to build an entire network overlay from final cabinet to exchange complete with tens of thousands of active MSAN cabinets, tons of new fibre runs and in some areas a complete network overbuild from access network to core. Along with that new OSS systems, additional equiment within exchanges, etc, etc, etc.

A slightly bigger task than upgrading an existing HFC network, hence why even with the huge amounts of people BT have working on this project it's taking 5 years while VM can complete their upgrades in 18 months.

Chrysalis · 15-01-2012, 13:33

Yeah says the dates you said now just tried it again.

I guess was an error before.