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Old Jul 12, 2011 | 03:47 PM
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2 months earlier that the rollout suggested. tech bod coming out on thursday to install new superhub.
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Old Jul 12, 2011 | 03:51 PM
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hate my 50meg keeps turning my wireless signal off and at times turns my lan off had the hub changed
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Old Jul 12, 2011 | 04:34 PM
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are you running the new firmware for the superhub? R28 i think it is? I think i will ask the tech bod if i can keep my netgear router and just use the superhub as a cable modem. is that even possible?
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Old Jul 12, 2011 | 04:41 PM
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Yes im running latest firmware had the engineer out to it replaced the hub but still get drop out atleast 4 times a day but i cant go anywhere else as i download a lot and the kids all play online with there xboxes
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Old Jul 12, 2011 | 05:55 PM
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How much is the 100mb line and what areas are they fitting it in I'm sick to death of my wireless going down all the time or the modem constantly playing up.
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Old Jul 12, 2011 | 11:59 PM
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new roll out schedule from today. got this on the cable forum.

http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/...t_12_07_11.pdf

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Old Jul 13, 2011 | 12:04 AM
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just checked my upload has been upgraded to 5mb/s , yeay!
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 11:10 AM
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as happy as a pig in $hite
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 11:22 AM
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Lush, shame Virgin aren't extending their network to those of us unable to receive their service. Mind you I'm getting



And paying less than £11 per month for it so I shouldn't complain
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 11:32 AM
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this what i get with 50 meg http://www.speedtest.net/result/1385113730.png

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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 11:37 AM
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new roll out schedule from today. got this on the cable forum.

http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/...t_12_07_11.pdf
*****. my area's still being planned ,and yet its available now in Barry!! I thought they'd only just got used to using the black magic that is electricity there, let alone computers!
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Originally Posted by peter zippy reid
this what i get with 50 meg
now THAT is $hite
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 11:57 AM
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I know and its just me thats on the internet none of the kids on
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bigsinky
as happy as a pig in $hite
I'm not jealous at all of course! roflol

That is brutal.
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 01:09 PM
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Strange stats

Would have expected a higher U/L and faster ping

I get ~38d / 8u / 15ms Ping on BT Infinity (FTTC)

Someone I know has FTTP and was getting 90d / 29u / 5ms ping
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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 01:15 PM
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At work I'm getting 29D 24U and 35ms

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Old Jul 14, 2011 | 02:37 PM
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Strange stats

Would have expected a higher U/L and faster ping

I get ~38d / 8u / 15ms Ping on BT Infinity (FTTC)

Someone I know has FTTP and was getting 90d / 29u / 5ms ping
i know what you mean. but 2 things.

1. my 50Mbit had a ping of about 15ms to both London and Dublin servers

2. now while on 100Mbit my ping varies dependant on server. as you can see 47ms to dublin, yet only 24ms to London albeit with a slightly lower speed.

Virgin do advertise a 100/10 service. i can't seem to crack 9Mbit upload for some reason. the tech bod reckoned my speed was as good as it was going to get. (not that he spent that much time trying. basically plugged in the superhub and left). I have asked on CableForum if i can tweek the modem to squeeze some more out of it.
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Old Jul 15, 2011 | 02:01 PM
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biginky -what download cap do you have with VM?
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Jesus, since changing to Virgin I was happy with 2.8meg I can`t imagine what your lots speeds would be like :-(
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This really pi$$es me off!

At my shop I get 7.5meg down all day long, and a ping of around 40ms.

At my home I get an amazing 1.5meg down and a ping of around 60ms.

Why the **** cant these people sort it out so everyone can have these bad boy connections. ******* bunch of w@nkers thats why!!!!!!!
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Urban there is no cap...
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Old Jul 15, 2011 | 02:37 PM
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if your on the 50mb and gettting lower than 40mb speed tests ring virgin. Engineer told me if its below 40 then they will look at it for you.
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Old Jul 15, 2011 | 09:46 PM
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@urban

ant is right there is no cap. they got quite pissy last month when i downloaded 1.5TB in about 20 days. they asked that i move my downloads to between 9pm and 9am. so no probs, i have my newsgroups downloads go overnight now.
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by DoZZa
This really pi$$es me off!

At my shop I get 7.5meg down all day long, and a ping of around 40ms.

At my home I get an amazing 1.5meg down and a ping of around 60ms.

Why the **** cant these people sort it out so everyone can have these bad boy connections. ******* bunch of w@nkers thats why!!!!!!!
I can only assume you live out in the sticks somewhere?

It's a case of cost to supply and demand for cable stuff, which is what this thread is about for the speeds given so far.

I suspect your best "hope" will be for BT to upgrade your area to FTTC in the future.

Are you sure your speed is as it should be?

A friend of mine lived miles from an exchange (in a village) and was getting around 500Kb DL! Until I sorted his internal wiring out he then jumped up to 2Mb (this was only this year and he had the previous speed for years). I could get even more if I played with his modem SNR settings.

I have had similar experiences with my own line:

Used to achieve 3.5 to 4Mb DL and after tweeks to the Modem and alterations to my internal wiring I got that up to a stable 5Mb.

I then recently swapped over to ADSL2+ and with Modem tweaks I now get 7.15Mb. I'm pretty chuffed with that and fortunately our town is getting upgraded to FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) before March 2012.

I can't wait!
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Our company are doing satellite broadband speeds up to 10mb.
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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 09:37 AM
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Heres mine



I went from 10Mb Virgin to this with Sky, I use wireless laptops, 2 PS3s in the house and I haven't noticed one bit of difference...


Heres the second one I did just now

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Old Jul 16, 2011 | 09:51 AM
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Heres mine



I went from 10Mb Virgin to this with Sky, I use wireless laptops, 2 PS3s in the house and I haven't noticed one bit of difference...


Heres the second one I did just now
It depends on what you're doing..... if you're DL stuff you would could notice a difference of up to 50% decrease in DL bandwidth against your previous 10Mb connection. If you were and are doing normal browser stuff I would agree the difference would be arguable.
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Originally Posted by peter zippy reid
hate my 50meg keeps turning my wireless signal off and at times turns my lan off had the hub changed
rip their **** out Pete and pop a nice new router in ive got that Playstation looking black thing they gave me backed into a netgear 2000 and its rock solid always has been
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your all warez *****
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rip their **** out Pete and pop a nice new router in ive got that Playstation looking black thing they gave me backed into a netgear 2000 and its rock solid always has been
Cheers will give that a try
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