Norman Dog

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Installed yesterday. Very impressed.
Running Astraweb SSL through port 443 and not getting throttled at all.

Kieran_Burns

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That's the NON upgraded speed - you can expect 5Mb upload at some point.

DannyM

i'm getting 5Mb up on my 50Mb also.

i was also told i'd be getting a free 100Mb upgrade once it is available in my area(7 years no doubt)

jayallen

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Is that wireless? Had my 50meg upgrade on Saturday and its $hit!



Ive been on the VM tech forum this weekend and cant believe how many people have upgraded and cant get anywhere 50meg! Ive also found out that i should of been given a dongle for the wireless but got sod all off the guy that came round to install the "super hub"
If you have the super hub try a ping test, i was getting 70% packet loss until i turned off the firewall and IP flood detection.

Tidgy

jayallen

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Is that wireless Tidgy?

DannyM

that superhub is crap for wireless. using wifi on my laptop/phone its terrible but for my wired PC its brilliant.


it also said it would take 22 hours to transfer 1gb of files between my PC/laptop over the network.(took 2 minutes on my old router)

Tidgy

no through a router into the comp with a cable

Tidgy

did you get the updated router when you got hte faster connection?

Ant

you'll be connecting through wireless g not N that's why

jayallen

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From what i have read its crap full stop!! The first test i posted was wireless, this is a wired test..

jayallen

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I found that out yesterday, read something about needing a dongle.

DannyM

yea, and he buggered off with the older(FASTER!?) one!

Tidgy

barstid,, lol

chrisowe

Looks like I've got the 5mb now.

Norman Dog

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Yes, but I had to go out and spend about £14 on an 'N' adaptor as was only getting about 20mb.

Tried the ping test and I am getting large packet losses, what is the cause of this?

jayallen

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Log into the Hub, Click "Advanced settings" go to "Services" and uncheck "Firewall" and "IP Flood Detection".......then ping retest, should be fine...

Thats if you have the Super Hub

Tidgy

could be worse, could be this



works connection lol

Norman Dog

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Ping test






Thanks for that mate.

bigsinky

jayallen

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Getting there but the upload is still pretty poor for a 50meg connection.

acstua

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Great.

I got on NTL back in the day and had 64k cable, yes 64k
was awesome, low latency etc, very good for gaming
had it all the way to 20Mb before moving out, when they got it turned down to the Smallest package

anyhow moved back to the parents for a few months a little while back and noticed the speed (10Mb) is now down to around 2Mb....
Complained alot and they did various things, sent an engineer, then a new modem etc

checked the other day its now 1.5Mb....... the modems even setup to sync at 10Mb still

Basically seems like they are putting far too many people on certain bits of the network
Or there is a big p2p user or two near my parents, which i doubt :|

either way Virgin have been ffin useless..
been like it for months now

gonna move my parents on to sky internet, cheaper and for them fine

bigsinky

I'm lucky. Ntl engineer told me there were only 2 50meg connection at my green hub in the street, me being one of them

b4nk51e

Thats more like it

bigsinky

from the cache? or do you have a proper 200Mbit connection being trialed in your area?

b4nk51e

I have no idea why I get the speeds I do i'm only paying for 20meg but I consistantly get speeds in excess of 90meg? must be getting my whole streets fair share

kernel

Not using Kaspersky are you? It's a known problem where it screws up the speedtesters.

A recent one of mine

http://speedtest.net/result/1168777641.png

LOL, I'm on a 40Mbps FTTC connection with a router that only has 100Mbps ports.

b4nk51e

I am using kaspersky, thought it was way to high does me nicley anyway