10 Mb upgrade Leeds [Archive]

daveeb

11-07-2008, 19:56

Hi all

This time two weeks ago i was happily using the 2 Mb service getting a steady 240KB/s (until STM kicked in of course :erm:). I then got a new deal for a year on 4 Mb and was getting a steady 460 Mb/s. Rebooted modem tonight to see if the 10 Mb upgrade had taken effect and lo and behold the modem config page showed 10240000 was now set. Trouble is the speeds are fluctuating wildly between 60 MB/s-350 MB/s, nowhere near 10 Mb speeds. I was better off with my 4 Mb package. I have a wired connection via a linksys 54GS router and the modem is an ambit 255. Anyone else in Leeds (ls5) experiencing this loss of speed :(
I know it's early days but i'm not impressed so far. :td:

cimt

11-07-2008, 19:58

Do a ping and tracert to www.virginmedia.co.uk

Are you getting packet loss?

Angry@VMedia

11-07-2008, 20:01

Hi all

This time two weeks ago i was happily using the 2 Mb service getting a steady 240KB/s (until STM kicked in of course :erm:). I then got a new deal for a year on 4 Mb and was getting a steady 460 Mb/s. Rebooted modem tonight to see if the 10 Mb upgrade had taken effect and lo and behold the modem config page showed 10240000 was now set. Trouble is the speeds are fluctuating wildly between 60 MB/s-350 MB/s, nowhere near 10 Mb speeds. I was better off with my 4 Mb package. I have a wired connection via a linksys 54GS router and the modem is an ambit 255. Anyone else in Leeds (ls5) experiencing this loss of speed :(
I know it's early days but i'm not impressed so far. :td:

I'm sure you mean KB/s NOT Mb/s as vigin media dont do more than 50Mb (and this has not been fully rolled out yet!)

so yeah, KB/s = KiloBytes, Kb = KiloBits, MB = MegaBytes and Mb = MegaBits
HTH :)

Hugh

11-07-2008, 20:02

LS16 is fine
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:59:33 UTC

Test 1: 1024K took 856 ms = 1196.3 KB/sec, approx 9858 Kbps, 9.63 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 926 ms = 1105.8 KB/sec, approx 9112 Kbps, 8.9 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 905 ms = 1131.5 KB/sec, approx 9324 Kbps, 9.11 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 1840 ms = 1113 KB/sec, approx 9171 Kbps, 8.96 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 9366 Kbps, 9.15 Mbps
Tracing route to www.virginmedia.co.uk (http://www.virginmedia.co.uk) [212.250.162.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms xx.xxx.xxx.x
3 8 ms 25 ms 9 ms leed-t2cam1-b-xxxxxxx.inet.ntl.com [xx.x.xxx.xxx]
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms leed-t3core-1b-ge-115-0.inet.ntl.com [195.182.179.241]
5 9 ms 9 ms 17 ms lee-bb-b-so-020-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.175.69]
6 9 ms 13 ms 10 ms man-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.193]
7 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms win-bb-b-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [212.43.162.202]
8 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms win-dc-b-v903.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.38]
9 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms www.virginmedia.com (http://www.virginmedia.com) [212.250.162.12]
Trace complete.

dr aardvark

11-07-2008, 20:09

a strange thing just happend in ls8 - i was fine but a few mins ago i couldn't connect to anything although my lights were ok.
i reset the pc and now its fine - not only that but the stm was reset - i was limited but now i'm not - odd.

daveeb

11-07-2008, 20:15

I'm sure you mean KB/s NOT Mb/s as vigin media dont do more than 50Mb (and this has not been fully rolled out yet!)

so yeah, KB/s = KiloBytes, Kb = KiloBits, MB = MegaBytes and Mb = MegaBits
HTH :)

Doh, sorry yes of course i meant KB/s, i got it right at the start but lapsed into typo mode :dunce:

---------- Post added at 20:15 ---------- Previous post was at 20:11 ----------

Do a ping and tracert to www.virginmedia.co.uk (http://www.virginmedia.co.uk)

Are you getting packet loss?

sorry to sound thick but when i run the ping or tracert command in the "run" dialogue box it vanishes as soon as it has finished so i can't copy and paste the results. :confused:

Edit...used command prompt, sorted now. No packet loss.

Leeds_Tykes_RFU

11-07-2008, 20:16

a strange thing just happend in ls8 - i was fine but a few mins ago i couldn't connect to anything although my lights were ok.
i reset the pc and now its fine - not only that but the stm was reset - i was limited but now i'm not - odd.

Same thing happened in LS3 about 40 minutes ago. Well, not the STM bit, but the rest of it!

dr aardvark

11-07-2008, 20:35

well, it only reset the limit as i've just gone stm again - at least i got 2 goes today!

Angry@VMedia

12-07-2008, 00:46

Doh, sorry yes of course i meant KB/s, i got it right at the start but lapsed into typo mode :dunce:

lol its fine! recently I cant seem to type for peanuts, I guess I'll have to look out Mavis Beacon again and give her (sorry, I meant it!!) a good going over :)