[Merged] BB Speed Upgrades

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by BizBo

Erm...in Rugeley and still on 1mb.

So can you confirm?

BizBo

In the words of our own BBKing

Originally Posted by BBKing

Worth pointing out that just because you have or haven't been done doesn't mean your entire area hasn't been done. Some areas are being done later because of capacity work or resegmentations. Hence the postcode checker, although this appears to be working on a random date principle at the moment.

No Paces or Samsungs will have 1.5Mb yet, incidentally.

So, NTL may have only partially upgraded your area, and also if you are on a 1Mb connection through your STB you may have to wait until NTL have finished upgrading those.

[allanprg]

Hooray I've been upgraded from 600K to 750K. Just checked Robin Walkers site. The 4 numbers ranged from 737 to 763. Noticed the speed of going on most websites is a little bit quicker. As also watching videos.

[shibby]

WAhhaa someone from portsmouth that support pompey WAHAAAAAAAAAA

LOL someone else who hates both the colour and that message when you really want to see whats on telly.


I stick with good old TV from newspaper guide

BUt who though of the colour

[Pea-Pod]

Typical I'm one of the 1 in 5 yet to have thier speed increase.

[Euan]

Great i have to wait until november for my broadband to be upgraded in Bearsden

[toytown]

Originally Posted by BizBo

Erm...in Rugeley and still on 1mb.

So can you confirm?

BizBo

Bizbo, i know of at least 10 people in the Rugeley area who have been upgraded, including the pear tree/springfields and breaton area. That includes all 3 tiers but SACM's only. I dont know anybody who as a STB modem. Also whilst my surfboard modem auto rebooted and got the speed upgrade, my brothers who have an ntl home modem had to power cycle theres to recieve it.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Euan

Great i have to wait until november for my broadband to be upgraded in Bearsden

If that's all you've got to worry about in life, I'd say you're doing alright!

[cobbler]

Hooray, Sunny Swindon now up and running on 1.5mb

Cobbler

[markmarkymark]

Yo all

Long time no see - been all over the place.

Anyway I was really not aware of the speed increase for the 1Mbit service ...

So ..

1st 128K took 718 ms = 182552 Bytes/sec = approx 1519 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 704 ms = 186182 Bytes/sec = approx 1549 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 718 ms = 182552 Bytes/sec = approx 1519 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 703 ms = 186447 Bytes/sec = approx 1551 kbits/sec

Thats more like it .... well pleased

Happy weekend people !

MArk

[Nutty]

I'm in the Solent area, and I've been upgraded.

1st 128K took 1452 ms = 90270 Bytes/sec = approx 751 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1452 ms = 90270 Bytes/sec = approx 751 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 1462 ms = 89653 Bytes/sec = approx 746 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 1442 ms = 90896 Bytes/sec = approx 756 kbits/sec

Just a note for some if it says you will be upgraded in November could also mean anytime upto November so check daily

I personally know a few people who was told October NOvemeber etc and have got theres recently.

I'm in Rochdale and got mine August 2nd 1.5mb 185kbs downloads and a happy bunny

Good luck hope you get yours soon

[NormCash]

OK, compared to others, I seem to be having real problems. I'm in Glasgow, and have the mid-speed broadband service, which presumably should be about 700K. The results that I get from the speed test are:

Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:10:40 UTC
1st 128K took 8532 ms = 15362 Bytes/sec = approx 128 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 8793 ms = 14906 Bytes/sec = approx 124 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 8602 ms = 15237 Bytes/sec = approx 127 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 11076 ms = 11834 Bytes/sec = approx 98 kbits/sec

This seems a bit slow, doesn't it? I am NOT particularly technically minded , but I can usually follow simple instructions with breaking too much. Can anyone suggest anything that might help me to speed things up?

You not running anything like p2p torrents or any fileshare program or MSN sending programs/pictures etc, anything running could lag ur connection right down and make it run much slower.

Sometimes even firewalls can knock a little bit off, one way to check ur on 750k is to click

http://192.168.100.1/

type in

username : root

password : root

and click on OPERATIONAL CONFIGURATION then check your upstream downstream.

This should show around 750000bps down and around 128000bbs up or something close into them figures if i am correct there

Hope that Helps a good speed test is here

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...speedtest.html

Good luck

[NormCash]

peacedude2k4

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that link doesn't seem to be working.