Upload Speed for 50Mb when it being upgraded

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by pcoventry

Bearing in mind it's not up to 10mbps it is 10mbps. I know that for a fact through various things.

So besides seeing someone pushing over 10mb on a trial what other "various things" prove this fact?

[pcoventry]

The technology was trialled to see if the 10mbps was achiveable. And it was. I'm not going in to any more details I value my job

[Ignitionnet]

Oh you mean on BT's FTTC?

Yeah it is achievable but distance limited - VDSL2 can actually pump out 100Mbit symmetrical if close enough to the cabinet but there are some quite strict power masks that have to be applied to VDSL in the UK which further reduce capacity.

Certainly the 10Mbps is doable, indeed 20Mbps can be easily done even with the masking if close enough to cabinet.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by pcoventry

The technology was trialled to see if the 10mbps was achiveable. And it was. I'm not going in to any more details I value my job

Fair enough however I think it is reasonable to expect it to be 10Mb to counter BT's recent offering.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by pip08456

Fair enough however I think it is reasonable to expect it to be 10Mb to counter BT's recent offering.

I have strong doubts. BT offer 2Mbps as standard with 10Mbps as an extra upgrade, I suspect VM will offer perhaps 5 as standard with 10 as an extra cost upgrade but I'm far from optimistic of an upgrade to 50/10.

[pcoventry]

Well 5 would do me as it still beats BT maybe they will do 5 and then say 10 or 20? The streeet cab on our road is right outside my house. it's just under 5 meters from my computer. So I hope to have the choice of |VM or BT when BT get's here and the competition hots up.

[bbxxl]

In America they seem to have much higher upload speeds, a friend has just moved house and got Verizon 15 down 5 up.
While I'm happy with my 50 Meg down 1.6 Up is a bit slow. 5 would be good, 10 would be better.
Is there any way of telling if my area is ex-telewest or NTL or something different? I only moved to Woking a couple of years ago so no idea what it was before.

[pip08456]

Press connection at the top of the page and you will get similar to below

cpc1-bary2-0-0-custxxx.cdif.cable.ntl.com

As you can see I'm in an ex ntl area

[pcoventry]

cpc2-shef11-2-0-custxxx.barn.cable.virginmedia.com

Is this ex Telewest then? I believe it is as the building VM now have in sheffield used to have their blue logos on.

[pip08456]

I believe Sheffield area is ex Telewest.

[buba3d]

has the upload speed been beefed up? because i'm uploading a some files to rapidshare, custom mods etc for gta and pacs and i'm hitting just over 300kbps

[pcoventry]

I do not believe so.. Mine is still "Max Traffic Rate :1750000 bps" but I can't speak for your area.
What does it say at http://192.168.100.1/CmOpConfig.asp ?

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[janipewter]

Originally Posted by bbxxl

In America they seem to have much higher upload speeds, a friend has just moved house and got Verizon 15 down 5 up.

You'll find that Verizon's "FiOS" service is fibre to the house. Whilst the last segment of the VM HFC network is still a coaxial cable to your door.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by buba3d

has the upload speed been beefed up? because i'm uploading a some files to rapidshare, custom mods etc for gta and pacs and i'm hitting just over 300kbps

If you are in Coventry or Huddersfield you could be right. They are test areas for 5Mb and 10Mb uploads. I am on 5Mb and get up to 600kbps on torrent uploads.

Your config stats will confirm.
http://192.168.100.1/CmOpConfig.asp


Here's mine:-

Cable Modem Operation Configuration
General Configuration
Network Access : Allowed
Maximum Number of CPEs : 1
Baseline Privacy : Enabled
DOCSIS Mode : DOCSIS 3.0
Config File : sfd;kfoA,.iyewrkldJK
Primary Downstream Service Flow
SFID : 1665
Max Traffic Rate : 53000000 bps
Max Traffic Burst : 3044 bytes
Min Traffic Rate : 0 bps
Primary Upstream Service Flow
SFID : 1664
Max Traffic Rate : 5120000 bps**
Max Traffic Burst : 8160 bytes
Min Traffic Rate : 0 bps
Max Concatenated Burst : 8160 bytes
Scheduling Type : Best Effort

[StumpyBloke]

Hi guys,

Newbie here and hope its alright to post on this topic.

I have had the 50mb service for the last few months but recently my upload speed has dropped to around 600kbps. I used to get over 1.5mbps. I have now had 2 visits and each time I phoned them up they said the voltage was too high at the modem. Today the engineer added an attenuator to lower the voltage but the upload speed it still rubbish.

I was given the usual guff that the posible 1.5mbps speed is only "up to" to which I replied is ****!! Surely to god I should be able to get a better speed than this???!!! I am so sick of being given the run-around!!

My download speed normally comes back at about 50000kbps.

Any advice appreciated.

TIA, Rich