significant improvement in the south west area!!

mark1979 · 26-08-2007, 18:43

ever since last week when the sw area (newton abbot) was upgraded i was dissapointed with the upgrade to 20mb. poor speeds,very unstable etc etc

but in the last 2 days i have noticed a vast improvement!!! i no speed tests mean diddly but my results have jumped by 4mb and the dl's from the vm game demo's are maxing out

i must admit i had my doubts about the upgrade but atleast its hopefully stabilizing itself now

mcgeezer · 26-08-2007, 21:25

I have noticed a vast improvment over the last week here in Sunderland.

My connection is maxing out now at all times.

26-08-2007, 21:27

yeah my speedtest are **** but when testing on gamefles its great

Toilet-Duck · 27-08-2007, 02:08

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Originally Posted by mcgeezer

I have noticed a vast improvment over the last week here in Sunderland.

My connection is maxing out now at all times.

Really? I haven't

whats the first part of your postcode?

Adlam · 27-08-2007, 09:03

Yeah I have to agree, before I'd be lucky to reach 12mb/s on the speed test by now I am often reaching 16-18mb/s which I am really happy with!

chickendippers · 27-08-2007, 10:22

I've always got great speeds at gamefiles, I think there's something wrong with VM's peering through because some American servers are terribly slow.

xpod · 27-08-2007, 11:02

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Re: significant improvement in the south west area!!

And the South East it seems.....

After some 3 months waiting to see something at least close to this 20Mb it seems like all the Mb buses have come at once down our street.....

A sustained 24Mb`s i was downloading at yesterday,with multiple downloads of course.(3.09MB)

It`s not much worse today at around 18Mb`s.

I was going to give it a few days before pulling the party hats & streamers out but after testing mine,the next door neighbors and checking with a couple of other VM locals it seems we`re all getting better speeds this last 24 hours

The speedtests results have also dropped back below the DL results i`m seeing and thats not been the case this last couple of weeks.Even the crappy speedtests were giving me better results than any of the usual downloads i`d use to test.

Oh well,Patience is a virtue eh

Happy Bank holiday people

EYEZ · 27-08-2007, 18:50

No Change for me in Plymouth since 20Mb .... !!

Even had a engineer out On Thursday...

who seem to be up his own $$$

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Well i get nearly 2.0mb/s

Cant find any Fault with my PC ..... Changed Modem still the same,then he Rang a Counterpart of his and told me they would ring me in the Morning ( Friday )
Guess Wat .........................................Still Waiting

janipewter · 27-08-2007, 18:55

Can someone explain to me how to download at 3 megabytes per second on 20Mbit? Thanks.

By the way, no improvement here in Plymouth.

susan · 27-08-2007, 19:54

I am stealing it all janipewter,PL2 area going like the clapper's for a change.

xpod · 27-08-2007, 20:39

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Can someone explain to me how to download at 3 megabytes per second on 20Mbit? Thanks.

I`d like to know the answer to that too,especially after the last 3 months.

I thought it was some kind of Brucie bonus for inconvenience caused this last 3 months.

Attachment 14692

Thats what i`m getting just now with a mix of files

janipewter · 27-08-2007, 20:56

Have a look at your modem config buddy. You're getting speeds higher than you should on 20Mb.

mark1979 · 27-08-2007, 21:01

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Originally Posted by janipewter

Can someone explain to me how to download at 3 megabytes per second on 20Mbit? Thanks.

By the way, no improvement here in Plymouth.

have you got anything running while your doing these speed tests?

reason i ask is i have had utorrent running(dl'ing) before,without realising,and oviously that affected my results

is plymouth over subscribed perhaps? saying that surely i would get affected to by being on the same newton abbot ubr(that if you do run off that ubr)

do people in cornwall run from newton abbot too?

heres my latest result

xpod · 27-08-2007, 21:25

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Have a look at your modem config buddy. You're getting speeds higher than you should on 20Mb.
Today 20:39

Code:

Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 	20480000

EDITED
My mistake with the torrents,i thought that was for moi

janipewter · 27-08-2007, 22:07

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Originally Posted by mark1979

have you got anything running while your doing these speed tests?

Nah, I'm not that stupid. I know how stuff works

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is plymouth over subscribed perhaps? saying that surely i would get affected to by being on the same newton abbot ubr(that if you do run off that ubr)

I reckon it's just a problem with my street cab or something like that, but there's no point of me telling them because they either won't believe me, or won't do anything about it.