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Old 17-03-2009, 14:24   #1
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50Mbit Question
Hi all,

I have ordered 50Mbit and its due for fitting on Thursday, I have 10mbit at the moment, my question is does this come with a Wireless N Router, reading on cableforum I see some mention of it but I have not seen any "official" confirmation that I will be getting a router on Thursday ?.

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Hi all,

I have ordered 50Mbit and its due for fitting on Thursday, I have 10mbit at the moment, my question is does this come with a Wireless N Router, reading on cableforum I see some mention of it but I have not seen any "official" confirmation that I will be getting a router on Thursday ?.

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all 50meg customers get the wireless N-router and dongle for free,either posted out to you or the tech will bring it with him,enjoy.
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Old 17-03-2009, 14:31   #3
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thanks for clearing that one up for me....
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Old 17-03-2009, 14:52   #4
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thought the wireless 'n' router send by UPS delivery and the modem send by VM man from his van ?
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Old 17-03-2009, 14:56   #5
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thought the wireless 'n' router send by UPS delivery and the modem send by VM man from his van ?
my wireless was send by VM man in van not send by ups
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thought the wireless 'n' router send by UPS delivery and the modem send by VM man from his van ?
we got a delivery of 50 (router and dongle in same box) so dished those out to the techs,they also got 2 via by-box,now,as long as the wireless code is on the job ICOMS picks it up when its closed down and orders a replacement through the individuals by-box
thats routers/dongles and 50meg modems.
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my wireless was send by VM man in van not send by ups
oh it must have changed now from VM. Last time I had free wireless router as it came by UPS delivery while the VM man bring his modem with him and installed cable broadband in my house last year.
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oh it must have changed now from VM. Last time I had free wireless router as it came by UPS delivery while the VM man bring his modem with him and installed cable broadband in my house last year.
that would have been one of the install partners,all the 50meg are being done in-house at the moment,partners have a fixed stores where they had the routers delivered to and so started taking them to the modem installs (pre 50meg),service techs have to use a locker system for boxes/routers/modems and consumables
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With my installation last Friday 13th, my N router arrived by UPS on the Wednesday (11th), then on the Friday the engineer arrived (who was actually the area Supervisor :O) and he also brought a Wireless N router with him - incase mine never arrived/wasn't sent out.
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thanks for clearing that one up for me....
Also when you install your adaptor, instead of using the provided CD, which is already out of date, get the drivers from,

http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...iverupdate.php

This is the most up-to-date driver Netgear has provided VM.

Mind you, if you can, you should connect your PC direct to your router via ethernet. You will not get 50 mb on a wireless link. I have kept the wireless adaptor for one of my lap tops.
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That's a rather disgraceful ping you're geting there roughbeast, I though the 50Mb was supposed to be "fast"?
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That's a rather disgraceful ping you're geting there roughbeast, I though the 50Mb was supposed to be "fast"?
Lolz. Always get rubbish ping on that test server. Dunno why. I get 6ms on BBC.co.uk and 8ms on Wolfenstien Enemy Territory Euroservers.

Ping test I just did:-
C:\Documents and Settings\Vince>ping pingtest.co.uk

Pinging pingtest.co.uk [85.113.82.116] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57
Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=57
Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 85.113.82.116: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 85.113.82.116:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 9ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 11ms





See still rubbish ping, but my average download speed is 55mb. Top speed was 58.9 mb.
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Thanks for the explanation RB, nice to know the pings are low. May consider upgrading to 50Mb in the future if Virgin Media can offer a better upload than 1.5Mb
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Thanks for the explanation RB, nice to know the pings are low. May consider upgrading to 50Mb in the future if Virgin Media can offer a better upload than 1.5Mb

Thought VM going to bring 5Mbps upload in due course ? I think 50Mbps downstream and 25Mbps upload seem very fair !
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Re: 50Mbit Question
Hi again, got my 50mbit in but my speedtest from speedtest.net is showing which seems a bit slow any ideas ?

My Newsgroup download is showing around 5.78 megabytes a sec is this normal ?

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