Quick Question For 50Mbit Customers

[Ignitionnet]

Please could a 50Mbit customer try this speedtest:

http://www.upc.nl/internet/snel_internet/speedtest/

It seems fairly accurate for me though marginally high due to measuring peak transfer speed not an average.

It gave:

Download Speed: 11259 kbps (1407.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 719 kbps (89.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

My usual service of choice gave:

Speed Down 9509.11 Kbps ( 9.3 Mbps )
Speed Up 716.83 Kbps ( 0.7 Mbps )

Though it gives an average not peak so shows more of the congestion that I enjoy every evening.

Please give it a go, it should be fine, goes across LINX then aorta.net, both pretty high bandwidth.

[telfordcable]

I am getting 9.92Mbps and 0.49Mbps on this site.

[homealone]

I am getting 9.92Mbps and 0.49Mbps on this site.

because you are on a 10Mb/s connection - which doesn't help Broadbandings, at all ....

- post again when you actually have your 50Mb/s connection installed :confused:

[telfordcable]

oh sorry for that

I will post here once I was activated 50 Meg on 22nd April.

[broadbandking]

51.90Mbps for download
1.60Mbits for upload mate
Although the next test gave 60+Mbps down lol

[Ignitionnet]

51.90Mbps for download
1.60Mbits for upload mate
Although the next test gave 60+Mbps down lol

Yes that's the trouble with the Ookla tests that measure peak speeds, it's quite possible you did very briefly burst to 60+Mbps and that's what it measured.

Thanks for that though, I'll incorporate it into my test instead of Speedtest.net, I was pretty sure it would be ok given it's used for testing 25, 60 and 120Mbit ;)

[telfordcable]

I tried thinkbroadband on my 10Mb and get this: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/123971446174989129487.html

[broadbandking]

and the issue is?

[telfordcable]

and the issue is?

broadbandking, where do you live ? does your 50Mb get full speed at all times or it sometimes drop below 10Mb ? And how long you been with 50Mb ?

Please tell me honest ! And please post your 50Mb speed test using thinkbroadband now and post here please for me

[broadbandking]

I have 50Mb since around November (trial) and I have kept it longer but meant to lose it on May, I had one issue where the speed wasn't even dial up but that was cleared up by a modem swap, since then I have seen the speeds go no lower than 40Mb.

I am at work at the moment so cnt do a speed test plus look at my sig and you will see my results

[Ignitionnet]

I have 50Mb since around November (trial) and I have kept it longer but meant to lose it on May, I had one issue where the speed wasn't even dial up but that was cleared up by a modem swap, since then I have seen the speeds go no lower than 40Mb.

I am at work at the moment so cnt do a speed test plus look at my sig and you will see my results

Are you in Warrington Broadband King?

[slowcoach]

I got 46.27Mbps - 1.46Mbps, even with all the kids on holiday. :erm:

[broadbandking]

No dudley mate

[indie1982]

I know you asked for 50MB VM customers so this may, or may not be helpful but through my works connection it only hit 40.15Mbps down and 4.3Mbps up.

Speedtest.net on the London site I can get about 90-120Mbps down and 10Mbps up.

[telfordcable]

I got 46.27Mbps - 1.46Mbps, even with all the kids on holiday. :erm:

oh shut up. you made me jealous. wish i had that speed !

[Ignitionnet]

No dudley mate

OK. Warrington did get special attention pre-rollout. They both were worked on quite extensively before 50Mbit so got a lot more attention and maintenance than the rest of the network has before deployment.

I think most of the issues are with return path performance on the network and Warrington had months spent on it before the trial arrived, I'm unsure about Dudley but given that it was a trial area for ATDMA it may have gotten a nice clean up too. I'll leave the people who have access to the CMTSes there to comment more on that.

[broadbandking]

oh shut up. you made me jealous. wish i had that speed !

You can rebook your order

[Ignitionnet]

I know you asked for 50MB VM customers so this may, or may not be helpful but through my works connection it only hit 40.15Mbps down and 4.3Mbps up.

Speedtest.net on the London site I can get about 90-120Mbps down and 10Mbps up.

Hi indie,

That is pretty useful - if you traceroute to the site's IP: 213.46.242.101 how does it look?

[indie1982]

Forgive the editing but...

Tracing route to 213.46.242.101 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
3 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
4 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
5 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms
6 6 ms 5 ms 6 ms so-1-3-3.glas-sbr1.ja.net [146.97.42.5]
7 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms so-1-1-0.warr-sbr1.ja.net [146.97.33.113]
8 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms so-5-1-0.read-sbr1.ja.net [146.97.33.89]
9 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms so-6-0-0.lond-sbr3.ja.net [146.97.33.166]
10 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms po2-0.lond-gw-ixp2.ja.net [146.97.35.242]
11 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms uk-lon01a-rd2-ge-2-2.aorta.net [195.66.226.89]
12 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms uk-lon02a-rd1-pos-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.174.77]
13 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms nl-ams02a-ra1-so-6-1-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.61]
14 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 213.46.161.190
15 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms 213.46.242.101

Trace complete.

[Ignitionnet]

Cheers Indie.

That's a bit weird that there should be performance issues given that you're going across the LINX .226 LAN to UPC. I note that VM have private peering to UPC though.

I can't see any blatant congestion there but wonder if either UKERNA or UPC are a bit short on bandwidth to the LINX LAN.

If you have access to any pretty graphs might be worth having a look at it :)

[indie1982]

I don't work on the networks team here I'm afraid, don't get to see any pretty graphs anymore :(

JANET shouldn't be under much load as there's no students at the majority of institutions this week, could be UPC I suppose.

Was always amazed at how small the LINX suite in THD was, mind I've not been there for a few years!

[spiderplant]

Please could a 50Mbit customer try this speedtest:

http://www.upc.nl/internet/snel_internet/speedtest/

Down 49.85
Up 1.57

[Pushkar]

Download: 50.25mbps
Upload: 1.62mbps

Croydon Area, always recieve full 50mb - was never overloaded on 20mb either :)

[telfordcable]

You can rebook your order

I had done it now, re-order 50Mb. Installation this friday :)

[Ignitionnet]

I had done it now, re-order 50Mb. Installation this friday :)

I'd hate to see what you'd do if you had to actually make a difficult decision :erm:

---------- Post added at 19:52 ---------- Previous post was at 19:52 ----------

Cheers those who posted their speedtest results. Seems that that is a viable 50M tester.

[telfordcable]

I'd hate to see what you'd do if you had to actually make a difficult decision

not really, I got within 7 days of my right to cancel it if 50Mb isn't spot on. Meaning leaving virgin is the easy way out with 50Mb 7 days cooling off period rather than stuck with my current 10Mb for next 9 more months to go left.

[Pushkar]

not really, I got within 7 days of my right to cancel it if 50Mb isn't spot on. Meaning leaving virgin is the easy way out with 50Mb 7 days cooling off period rather than stuck with my current 10Mb for next 9 more months to go left.

I thought your contract expired in May? :angel:

And anyway, im sure you can't cancel Virgin services if you don't like 50mb, you simply have to go back to your old service without charge.

[telfordcable]

they told me i can cancel 50Mb if i don't like it as long it within 7 days of cooling off period and I ask them again "do you mean i can disconnection from virgin cable within 7 days?" and they say yes that right. I don't have to go back to old 10Mb if my 50Mb doesn't go well.