Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer

[squirrel1970]

Well, nothing here.. except an outage in the SK2 area.... oh well....
I live in hope........!

[bliss]

Originally Posted by CT2kX

hey hey, im in the baguley area (wallasey) and my net got the upgrade yesterday, even tho the site still says tbc, anyway, i did a speed test on thinkbroadband.com and i got 9.8 down and 0.5 up which isnt bad, i did a test download at microsoft.com and after connecting at around 3Mbps it settled down and i was getting a steady 1.2Mbps

so finally it looks like the baguley people are getting what they want!!!

I'm on Baguley. No upgrade here yet.

[CT2kX]

im in the CH45 area, maybe yours is on its way man.

[johnnykiller]

Hi,

Completely new...first post.

I live near the city centre in glasgow, I got the free 4mb to 10mb upgrade a few weeks ago.

My main reason for having a broadband connection is online gaming and since the speed upgrade my latency/ping has been garbage making it very difficult to actually play, connection seems to be up/down constantly when playing online games.

It can happily download anything between 500-950kbps and doesnt seem to flux when downloading, just when I'm playing games online.

Seen as I dont have vasts amounts of cash to have a monster gaming pc my altnernative is xbox360; LIVE....Before the upgrade my connection supported good enough gameplay but now its...well like i said garbage.

Any idea's or suggestions ? All appreciated...

[CT2kX]

if your not getting any issues on ur pc and only on the 360, it could be xbox live itself, but i dont own a 360 so i have no idea about the various settings it has for networking.

anybody?

[johnnykiller]

Thanks for replying...

I know what you mean, LIVE itself does suffer from issues but my brother lives in the next street, he's on Tiscali and has no issues whatsoever....When I use his xbox at his place the connection is so fast its scary, and when he comes over to mine, he moans all night that my connection is crap.

As said downloading seems ok...I'm thinking its got something to do with the speed upgrade its like the connection has gained speed but somehow lost quality ???

my ps3 is awesome with my broadband...never lags and it downloads demos in minutes...quality i tell you and its free unlike other services i know cough***xbox live***cough...haha only joking

johnny killer are you wired or wireless, wired is always better but if your wireless try to change your routers broadcast channel...lemme know hw it goes

[BAZ1]

What area of Stockport are you in? Because our modem (we're SK5) just rebooted itself and it's still on 4mb... not that I'm upset about it, it's beginning to feel like we'll be the last part of town to be upgraded anyway (was last time....)

I am SK8 area of stocport

Sorry took so long had problems with password

[lxndr]

Am in Baguley area and can definitely see a change in speed but not what I was expecting. Using multiple NNTP streams my 4Meg connection always maxxed out as 480k/s but now with supposedly a 10Meg connection it's maxxing out at 700K/s and speedtests report between 5.5 and 6 Meg downstream speed. So, not sure what that's all about. Last time when I went from 2Meg to 4Meg I noticed very little difference in downstream speed originally but it turned out that was due to Zone Alarm (since removed) throttling the speed for some reason.

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[nadeem]

Hey,

I'm on 10mb since yesterday, location = "CH66".

Steady stream 10mbit :-)

Nas

Originally Posted by lxndr

Am in Baguley area and can definitely see a change in speed but not what I was expecting. Using multiple NNTP streams my 4Meg connection always maxxed out as 480k/s but now with supposedly a 10Meg connection it's maxxing out at 700K/s and speedtests report between 5.5 and 6 Meg downstream speed. So, not sure what that's all about. Last time when I went from 2Meg to 4Meg I noticed very little difference in downstream speed originally but it turned out that was due to Zone Alarm (since removed) throttling the speed for some reason.

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Baguley is TBC so I think any speed improvements you have seen are just wishful thinking see link.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

[lxndr]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

Baguley is TBC so I think any speed improvements you have seen are just wishful thinking see link.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html.../schedule.html

No, I download using NNTP virtually every day and its always 480k/s. Yesterday and today it's 700K/s and my modem config shows 10Meg.

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[nadeem]

Cable Modem Operation Configuration Network Access : AllowedMaximum Downstream Data Rate : 10240000Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 512000Maximum Upstream Channel Burst : 1600Maximum Number of CPEs : 1Modem Capability : Concatenation Enabled, Fragametation Enabled, PHS Disabled


Also virgin's last update is 08/07, :-)

Originally Posted by lxndr

No, I download using NNTP virtually every day and its always 480k/s. Yesterday and today it's 700K/s.

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All I am pointing out is what the link says.

Post the modem information from your config pages of your modem the same as nadeem

Open a browser and in the address bar put> 192.168.100.1 password and username are both root if required.

DO NOT POST YOUR MAC ADDRESS OR SERIAL NUMBER

---------- Post added at 23:17 ---------- Previous post was at 23:16 ----------

Originally Posted by nadeem

Cable Modem Operation Configuration Network Access : AllowedMaximum Downstream Data Rate : 10240000Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 512000Maximum Upstream Channel Burst : 1600Maximum Number of CPEs : 1Modem Capability : Concatenation Enabled, Fragametation Enabled, PHS Disabled


Also virgin's last update is 08/07, :-)

You are on 10Mb it say so above.

[lxndr]

Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

All I am pointing out is what the link says.

Post the modem information from your config pages of your modem the same as nadeem

Open a browser and in the address bar put> 192.168.100.1 password and username are both root if required.

DO NOT POST YOUR MAC ADDRESS OR SERIAL NUMBER

---------- Post added at 23:17 ---------- Previous post was at 23:16 ----------



You are on 10Mb it say so above.

I checked the modem information the second I saw the increased downstream rate. It's set for 10 Meg, I don't need to post it.

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