wow more upgrades

[Noggo]

http://status-cable.virginmedia.com/vmstatus/maintenanceissue.do;jsessionid=F0A6AE928FC9F556DF7 534DB42C0102C.jsps305p:28009?ticket=210408

Shame mines not one of 'em, blah

[joglynne]

Mines not on either but at least it's good news for some.

[Jonathan90]

ok don't quite get it its says week commencing 28/04 but starts on 21st?

[joglynne]

Change Request Number 210408
Start Time 21/04/2008 08:00
End Time 28/04/2008 08:00
Description of Change Planned Network Maintenance Week commencing Monday 28/4/08
Customers Affected TV and Internet
Posted By Les Watkinson
Posted On 21/04/2008 10:26

I am assuming that the start and end dates are correct but that a typo has been made on the following line. Nobody's perfect least of all Virgin. :)

Last weeks work seems to have been carried out as per last weeks schedule.

[Noggo]

yep you're right. In the 'Description of Change' it states week commencing 28/04 and in the full description it says it starts on the 21/04. Hey, everything is `subject to change' according to VM. I guess whoever wrote it changed their mine half way through.:D

[tay77]

Hmmm. Luton area on Tuesday and Wednesday night. Wonder if on Thursday I'll be able to get a decent speed again after my 10mb upgrade...

[Noggo]

Glad for ya Tay77. You mean that you got the free 4Meg to 10Meg upgrade and the UBR couldn't cope?

[Jonathan90]

yeah so the work is going to be carried out this week?

[Noggo]

I don't know, may it starts 21/04/2108 (subject to change)

[Welshchris]

think u will find that they r not all upgrades as in speed upgrades. They might just be UBR upgrades to make headroom for the 4-10mb upgrades when they should happen.

[Noggo]

I know they're to resolve capacity problems;
`Network maintenance in the following areas is planned to improve the capacity of our network'

[tay77]

Glad for ya Tay77. You mean that you got the free 4Meg to 10Meg upgrade and the UBR couldn't cope?
I know (read: assume) my UBR was upgraded, and most people I know are getting 7/8/9mb out of it. Whereas I'm now struggling to get 2.5mb. Hopefully, this'll get fixed by Thursday without me having to contact Virgin. Not holding my breath though!

[slowcoach]

I know they're to resolve capacity problems;
`Network maintenance in the following areas is planned to improve the capacity of our network'
That was the same maintenance we got last week, been 19meg around the clock since, even throughout the weekend. :tu:
happy days are here again :D

[frogstamper]

That was the same maintenance we got last week, been 19meg around the clock since, even throughout the weekend. :tu:
happy days are here again :D

That's great news slowcoach, now your getting what you pay for:tu:. Only problem now is your name!.;)

[slowcoach]

That's great news slowcoach, now your getting what you pay for:tu:. Only problem now is your name!.;)
Can't help feeling that changing my name would be pushing my luck. :dunce:

[Noggo]

Slowcoach,

As your connection is now fixed, could you do me a favour and ping a Jolt games server for me. My problem aside from download speed is one with erratic latency with spikes every few seconds off-peak and all the time peak times which makes on-gaming impossible and I would like to know if the upgrade for high capacity issues resolves it.

Have a look at this thread and if you could post a couple of sets of results, one off-peak and one peak time. I would be grateful.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33628180-can-you-post-ping-plotter-image.html

TIA

[mrsnooch]

My internet cut out last night after 12, as stated on that status page (I live in Belfast). According to that page there will be another disconnect tonight, and again tomorrow, and we're supposed to be getting 4 to 10mb upgrade during April.


Can't see it happening unless they work very fast!

Wonder why we're getting 3 days of upgrades. Belfast obviously sucks

[PeteTheMusicGuy]

Mines was fine last night :) BT11

[Noggo]

I guess there's a lot of connections to sort out
http://www.ushartford.com/images/oldcomputer.jpg

[tay77]

Wow, I'm actually impressed. After Luton had their first night of maintenance last night, my speedtest results are now showing as just over 5 meg, which is a big change from the 2.5meg I was having the other day.

Hopefully, after tonight's maintenance, I'll be getting the full 10meg.

[tay77]

Hopefully, after tonight's maintenance, I'll be getting the full 10meg.
I'm still getting 3.5meg at the very most.

Time to get on the newsgroups and/or phone to VM CS I think.

[slowcoach]

When I was originally upgraded to 10 Meg, before the 20 Meg upgrade, I suddenly couldn't get a decent speed.

First thing I did was change the Ethernet cables but that didn't help, I had originally bought two RealTek 10/100 Ethernet cards and I still had one unused so I changed them over but still no improvement.

These cards would perform well on the local network but no change in the settings seemed to make much difference to the speed of the 10Meg Internet connection for some reason.

I decided to try a new card and as the RealTek Gbit cards didn't cost much more I bought one of those, immediately the Internet connection jumped to a solid 10Meg.

[mrsnooch]

Funny you should say that,

I have an onboard 1gb connection, and a PCI 100mb card, and I always notice the jump in performance be it, through the LAN or online! Deffo worth a shot :)

[kingabs]

More upgrades in derby wow 2 weeks ago my ubr was upgraded now i get full 20mbs 24/7.

[mrsnooch]

They've updated the Even Faster Region page.

[Acathla]

Something has happened with the bagley UBR's too as for the first time ever I have reached max speed on my 20meg connection - previous best being 11meg.

Me is happy although I have a tech coming out tomorrow am to adjust some power levels on my modem...typical!

[boroboi]

Looks like some UBR's in middlesbrough are due to be upgraded, along with our upgrade to 10meg in may :D

Wooo. At last.

[scoobadiva]

when i tried to cancel, they told me middlesboro, wearside etc were definately going 10mb on 24/5th april. looks like its pushed back, great.