Got my 100mb upgrade
17 May 2012, 11:46 PM
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To be fair, unless you have clients where you can DL at your line speed (and have no restrictions) it's a bit of ***** waving.
Mines a bit slow tonight! *******s! lol
Mines a bit slow tonight! *******s! lol
18 May 2012, 11:28 AM
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18 May 2012, 11:33 AM
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I just did the same test, using wireless rather than being directly connected to the Home Hub and got this result
I still find it's a massive improvement over the usual 2.5mbps I used to have
18 May 2012, 11:49 AM
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Just to make us ALL feel inadequate, here are the results for the latest FTTP 300Mb BT trials going on with PlusNet users:
That is flaming savage for a home connection!!!!
GIVE IT ME!!!!!
That is flaming savage for a home connection!!!!
GIVE IT ME!!!!!
18 May 2012, 12:14 PM
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Having said that, I don't really need that speed I am just a geek that likes the 'latest' technology and speed. I currently have BE* syncing at 18mb on a good day and that will download a 700mb file in a few minutes and stream iPlayer in HD quite easily.
Steve
18 May 2012, 12:36 PM
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The lower the ping, the quicker the responses back and forth (simplistically). Commonly associated to on-line gaming.
Mine is normally around 5ms on FTTC.... it was a tad lazy on my speed test above.
18 May 2012, 12:51 PM
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30 May 2012, 09:33 PM
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super hub is ****e Ant ive had 100mb for about 4 months now, shove the superhub into Modem Only mode and pipe it to your old faithfull wnr 2000
I eventually bought the Linksys e4500 because you wont achieve 100mb using your wnr2000 as the Ethernet bit it maxes it out at about 80mb.
Soon as u shove superhub into Modem only u cant use the gig ports Only 1 is live to pipe to your router.
you may fall lucky and get a good one but i found it to be terrible even web page lookups were slow as hell.
Now its perfecto and has been for months
I eventually bought the Linksys e4500 because you wont achieve 100mb using your wnr2000 as the Ethernet bit it maxes it out at about 80mb.
Soon as u shove superhub into Modem only u cant use the gig ports Only 1 is live to pipe to your router.
you may fall lucky and get a good one but i found it to be terrible even web page lookups were slow as hell.
Now its perfecto and has been for months
30 May 2012, 11:16 PM
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well running on the original setup a superhub for gigabit and 5ghz wifi, and wnr for the 2.4ghz .
its been ok since i got it, i must be a lucky one
its been ok since i got it, i must be a lucky one
31 May 2012, 12:06 PM
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I have had Virgin Media cable (originally NTL) for years and it has been rock solid reliable without more than two or three dropouts in over 10 years until all this upgrade malarkey started.
Nowadays it is flaky and internittently slow both here and at my business partner's location.
I spoke with a Virgin engineer this morning who told me that the network is under strain due to the roll out of ever increasing speeds and in fact was not as good as it used to be, but (as he put it) as long as people can run speedtest and see a nice big number to quote to their mates in the pub then everyone is happy... the fact that most people will never get those download speeds from most web servers seems to have passed people by. ***** waving basically!
Made me think of this thread
They are going to try and alter some buffering parameters on my connection to see if they can get it back to as good as it used to be on 10Mb/s
Nowadays it is flaky and internittently slow both here and at my business partner's location.
I spoke with a Virgin engineer this morning who told me that the network is under strain due to the roll out of ever increasing speeds and in fact was not as good as it used to be, but (as he put it) as long as people can run speedtest and see a nice big number to quote to their mates in the pub then everyone is happy... the fact that most people will never get those download speeds from most web servers seems to have passed people by. ***** waving basically!
Made me think of this thread
They are going to try and alter some buffering parameters on my connection to see if they can get it back to as good as it used to be on 10Mb/s
31 May 2012, 12:33 PM
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F1 did he say it was definately you dropping out IE Virgins Modem ?
What terminates you to them ? the old school modem or the new SuperHub
If its the old modem then yeah you must have a connection issue.
but i too have been with them since NTL days, and until i got this superhub everything was rock solid, the superhub was released as a upgrade due to the gig ports.
When i got the superhub it replaced a 4 year old rock solid Modem and WNR2000 which in all honesty was the best id ever had never an issue.
Soon as i hit this superhub i had slow DNS lookup for websites slow dloads and total connection drops.
1st things you need to know are
The superhub wireless is shocking
The router has a power issue if you use wireless 5gig it can strip power from the modem thus cause resets, Check internal logs it will show you.
I logged the cal with Virgin told India to shutup and pass me to someone who give a fack and doesnt read a script, and eventually i got to the bottom of it all, The engineer who came was top bloke he handed me his Blackberry and showed me the Internal emails about the Hub, the only real way to get round dropouts and poor wireless was to go to Modem only mode in the router and put another router on it, Same as in the old days.
So i did that, i bought a new Linksys and its been bulletproof yet again,
the technician who came was honest and told me how it was, some people are lucky with the Hub. but i hazard a guess they dont use it like me.
being in IT i have VPNs, FTPs, telnets sessions running and its very crap for anything that strains it, my new setup is great and web pages are lightning fast.
Be nice to knowif you too do have the superHub F1, and have you tried modem mode.
failing that you must be in a bad area and id be kicking off
What terminates you to them ? the old school modem or the new SuperHub
If its the old modem then yeah you must have a connection issue.
but i too have been with them since NTL days, and until i got this superhub everything was rock solid, the superhub was released as a upgrade due to the gig ports.
When i got the superhub it replaced a 4 year old rock solid Modem and WNR2000 which in all honesty was the best id ever had never an issue.
Soon as i hit this superhub i had slow DNS lookup for websites slow dloads and total connection drops.
1st things you need to know are
The superhub wireless is shocking
The router has a power issue if you use wireless 5gig it can strip power from the modem thus cause resets, Check internal logs it will show you.
I logged the cal with Virgin told India to shutup and pass me to someone who give a fack and doesnt read a script, and eventually i got to the bottom of it all, The engineer who came was top bloke he handed me his Blackberry and showed me the Internal emails about the Hub, the only real way to get round dropouts and poor wireless was to go to Modem only mode in the router and put another router on it, Same as in the old days.
So i did that, i bought a new Linksys and its been bulletproof yet again,
the technician who came was honest and told me how it was, some people are lucky with the Hub. but i hazard a guess they dont use it like me.
being in IT i have VPNs, FTPs, telnets sessions running and its very crap for anything that strains it, my new setup is great and web pages are lightning fast.
Be nice to knowif you too do have the superHub F1, and have you tried modem mode.
failing that you must be in a bad area and id be kicking off
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31 May 2012, 01:00 PM
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F1 did he say it was definately you dropping out IE Virgins Modem ?
What terminates you to them ? the old school modem or the new SuperHub
If its the old modem then yeah you must have a connection issue.
but i too have been with them since NTL days, and until i got this superhub everything was rock solid, the superhub was released as a upgrade due to the gig ports.
When i got the superhub it replaced a 4 year old rock solid Modem and WNR2000 which in all honesty was the best id ever had never an issue.
Soon as i hit this superhub i had slow DNS lookup for websites slow dloads and total connection drops.
1st things you need to know are
The superhub wireless is shocking
The router has a power issue if you use wireless 5gig it can strip power from the modem thus cause resets, Check internal logs it will show you.
I logged the cal with Virgin told India to shutup and pass me to someone who give a fack and doesnt read a script, and eventually i got to the bottom of it all, The engineer who came was top bloke he handed me his Blackberry and showed me the Internal emails about the Hub, the only real way to get round dropouts and poor wireless was to go to Modem only mode in the router and put another router on it, Same as in the old days.
So i did that, i bought a new Linksys and its been bulletproof yet again,
the technician who came was honest and told me how it was, some people are lucky with the Hub. but i hazard a guess they dont use it like me.
being in IT i have VPNs, FTPs, telnets sessions running and its very crap for anything that strains it, my new setup is great and web pages are lightning fast.
Be nice to knowif you too do have the superHub F1, and have you tried modem mode.
failing that you must be in a bad area and id be kicking off
What terminates you to them ? the old school modem or the new SuperHub
If its the old modem then yeah you must have a connection issue.
but i too have been with them since NTL days, and until i got this superhub everything was rock solid, the superhub was released as a upgrade due to the gig ports.
When i got the superhub it replaced a 4 year old rock solid Modem and WNR2000 which in all honesty was the best id ever had never an issue.
Soon as i hit this superhub i had slow DNS lookup for websites slow dloads and total connection drops.
1st things you need to know are
The superhub wireless is shocking
The router has a power issue if you use wireless 5gig it can strip power from the modem thus cause resets, Check internal logs it will show you.
I logged the cal with Virgin told India to shutup and pass me to someone who give a fack and doesnt read a script, and eventually i got to the bottom of it all, The engineer who came was top bloke he handed me his Blackberry and showed me the Internal emails about the Hub, the only real way to get round dropouts and poor wireless was to go to Modem only mode in the router and put another router on it, Same as in the old days.
So i did that, i bought a new Linksys and its been bulletproof yet again,
the technician who came was honest and told me how it was, some people are lucky with the Hub. but i hazard a guess they dont use it like me.
being in IT i have VPNs, FTPs, telnets sessions running and its very crap for anything that strains it, my new setup is great and web pages are lightning fast.
Be nice to knowif you too do have the superHub F1, and have you tried modem mode.
failing that you must be in a bad area and id be kicking off
To be fair Virgin have admitted there is a problem so we will see what happens when they 'tweak' a few things.
31 May 2012, 01:40 PM
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31 May 2012, 03:12 PM
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i hope Plusnet offer uncapped if their going that route. Im not stereo typing people but anybody wanting 300mb, isnt buying it for COD or Battlefield.
Its to dump Blu Ray isos and uk tops on there hdisk in 10 seconds LOL.
all i can se is 120gb cap on plusnet.
Virgins is good uncapped but throttled at peak which is fine.
Its to dump Blu Ray isos and uk tops on there hdisk in 10 seconds LOL.
all i can se is 120gb cap on plusnet.
Virgins is good uncapped but throttled at peak which is fine.
31 May 2012, 04:06 PM
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I can only dream of fast internet, here are my latest results 
Only live 2 miles outside Colchester but no one willing to invest in hardware needed for fast boradband.
Only live 2 miles outside Colchester but no one willing to invest in hardware needed for fast boradband.
