New upload speeds and Network Management - Page 14

nutellajunkie · 10-10-2010, 18:47

At last, did they actually listen to us, or are they afraid of the competition? Either way Id never actually move off cable. The deals we get are spectacular compared to the others. Ive always been happy with the tiers I have been on, and with the uploads being upgraded, this is only but even better. I am very happy about this. Im not much of a sharer, but uploading photos to get prints should be a little quicker.

Thank you VM!

Ignitionnet · 10-10-2010, 21:04

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Originally Posted by Bman

How do i know what exchange i'm connected to? When my IP is logged in certain sites it also shows something like this:

xxxxxxxNAILxxxxxxxxxx.AZTW.CABLE.VIRGINMEDIA.COM

I assumed "nail" and "aztw" stood for nailsea and aztec west, but now i see Nailsea has already been upgraded, i must be on a different exchange right?

That doesn't mean that each and every card in the area has been upgraded, just that some have.

Horace · 13-10-2010, 04:15

Have only briefly skimmed this thread but did Teesside just get upgraded? My modem had a fit earlier and it's now reporting.

Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 10240000 Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 1072000

Speed test results agree too.

Logs are full of UCD related references.

Ignitionnet · 13-10-2010, 06:14

Your bit of Teesside just did, yeah.

Synthetic · 13-10-2010, 14:07

Does that mean the rest of the north east could be due to be upgraded soon? or are they just dotting around certain areas of the country

Horace · 13-10-2010, 17:18

Most of the people in Redcar that I've talked to appear to have been upgraded but not Stockton. So it is pretty local. It looks like it's testing throttling at the same time, when I do a speed test the upload maxes at 1meg then suddenly jolts to 6-700kbps after 3-4 seconds.

Ignitionnet · 13-10-2010, 17:50

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Originally Posted by Synthetic

Does that mean the rest of the north east could be due to be upgraded soon? or are they just dotting around certain areas of the country

It'll be done according by sections of the Virgin network not according to areas of the country. An upgrade to Ex-Telewest Newcastle means nothing for Ex-ntl Teesside for example.

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Originally Posted by Horace

Most of the people in Redcar that I've talked to appear to have been upgraded but not Stockton. So it is pretty local. It looks like it's testing throttling at the same time, when I do a speed test the upload maxes at 1meg then suddenly jolts to 6-700kbps after 3-4 seconds.

Speed tests aren't shaped, but you have highlighted something, every variation in speed, absolutely everything will be blamed on shaping for a while now it's been announced

Horace · 13-10-2010, 18:15

I did say testing, it was just a speedtest.net test so no volume to incur throttling. It's very consistent over 5 or 6 tests - 3 seconds at 1meg then immediately back to 6-700kbps. Internet is also very flaky at the moment with huge amounts of jitter showing up on Pingtest. My connection is always very consistent, always scoring an A on that site but understandable if these upgrades are as comprehensive as I've read.

Ignitionnet · 13-10-2010, 18:25

Upload isn't shaped yet, not under testing either so probably related to the other issues.

Zaim7890 · 14-10-2010, 00:38

Mines just been done

Network Access : Allowed
Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 20480000
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 2080000

irishguymcr · 14-10-2010, 04:02

not this part of Manchester unfortunately

blackthorn · 14-10-2010, 04:32

Wirral seems to have been done overnight.

Radeon · 14-10-2010, 07:08

Neath seems to have been upgraded, I woke up and went to surf the net on my on my iPhone but the net was down

, rebooted modem, as my net very rarely goes down I thought I would check the modem config, and to my shock it's been upgraded

Chrysalis · 14-10-2010, 12:16

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Originally Posted by Horace

I did say testing, it was just a speedtest.net test so no volume to incur throttling. It's very consistent over 5 or 6 tests - 3 seconds at 1meg then immediately back to 6-700kbps. Internet is also very flaky at the moment with huge amounts of jitter showing up on Pingtest. My connection is always very consistent, always scoring an A on that site but understandable if these upgrades are as comprehensive as I've read.

tiscali style shaping

tiscali used to let a few seconds of data go through unthrottled so good for browsing but then the throttling kicked in regardless of port.

not saying yours is shaping but certianly is suspicous when you can repeat the behaviour. one thing I learned with isps is they tend to not be honest when it comes to shaping.

Sirius · 14-10-2010, 14:19

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

tiscali style shaping

one thing I learned with isps is they tend to not be honest when it comes to shaping.

Well said

That is the same reason i dont trust them with DPI