General : Areas already upgraded (2012 double speed upgrades)

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I always thought that made sense and wondered why they didnt do it. I thought they enabled so many channels by tier because I have seen a few 30mbit users on 3 channels.

There were 50Mb users on those same 3 channels. Part of the upgrades for 100Mb was making at least 4 channels available.

The messages telling the modems which downstream channels to connect to arrive at the modem before the tier becomes relevant.

[mcilwraith]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

tbh the shub is rubbish and there is only 1 reason why you would want/need one:

Your ntl 250 modem can handle 20mbit no probs and the only reason why you would get less than that is congestion on the channels you are using. I think your modem can only use 2 downstream channels if I remember correctly. The shub can use a max of 8 channels to load balance across so if for example the 2 channels you are currently using are congested, it will use the free juice on another channel allowing you to achieve full speed. Now that being said, it isnt neccessarily going to happen. VM enable a certain number of bonded channels by area and by tier and even most of the 100mbit users are only using 5 or 6 channels and I have seen 30mbit users on 3 channels so at most you can hope for 1 extra channel on the shub atm (so you will be load balancing across 3 channels). But as Tesco's says: every little helps

Well, I got my SuperHub (£20) and installed it myself (easy). So far using the SuperHub as the modem and wireless router and its a solid 30Mb all the way. Very happy with it so far! Wireless signal strength is even better than my Apple Airport Express which is/was a great piece of kit. So my speed has increased from 10Mb to 30Mb and i have replaced my ancient modem and router with a shiny new SuperHub. One happy camper.

[nemesis01]

Got my upgrade when I turned the PC on this morning, in Scunthorpe.

[carbon60]

My father power cycled the electrical power on the house last Saturday and I ended up upgraded.

Original Speed: 30Mbit
Upgraded Speed: 60Mbit

Upload still 3Mbit

UBR/Headend: brom8-2-0

Now, when we got a new bundle a couple of months back we were told we'd get 60Mbit whenever it became available so whether this is classed as an early upgrade I don't know.

FWIW we are still on only 4 downstreams.

[freeviewer]

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[olisun]

How long does it take from the increase in the no of DS channels to the upload speed increase?

My area is due for speed upgrades between April and July and I have got the DS speed upgrade.

[BenMcr]

Upstream increase schedule hasn't been detailed yet

[Chrysalis]

I am on the bottom tier now which is now of course 30mbit.

VM have been trying to call me 8 times in the past 3 days, I then answered the 9th call. They were basically saying I was getting bumped to 60meg for free soon and of course the inevitable sales pitch then came through trying to make me buy more services, told them I was busy and ended the call as I think cold calling is lame, especially to your own paying customers.

[Mauldor]

Originally Posted by nemesis01

Got my upgrade when I turned the PC on this morning, in Scunthorpe.

Odd - I am in the same area and not been upgraded as of yet..

[kwikbreaks]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I am on the bottom tier now which is now of course 30mbit.

That will be XL and the second tier or you wouldn't be getting the 60Mbps.

The troublesome thing is that anybody can do what I did - upgrade from L 10Mbps to XL and you get 60Mbps regardless of whether the area is getting its general doubling or not - my area doubling is shown as Oct 2011 - Jul 2012 yet the double speed packages are up for sale now. Of course I had to splash out to get that - a whole £2.50 a month extra

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

That will be XL and the second tier or you wouldn't be getting the 60Mbps.

Actually, as we established in another thread, he's on L 30

The troublesome thing is that anybody can do what I did - upgrade from L 10Mbps to XL and you get 60Mbps regardless of whether the area is getting its general doubling or not - my area doubling is shown as Oct 2011 - Jul 2012 yet the double speed packages are up for sale now. Of course I had to splash out to get that - a whole £2.50 a month extra

Yes they can, because doing the odd upgrade or connection onto 60Mbit is a world of difference to upgrading everyone in an area on XL 20 and XL 30 to 60Mbit

[Chrysalis]

yes I am on L 30 or the bottom tier as I call it, so quite what the cold caller was offering not sure but I was busy so had to end the call.

[Lynchy]

Blackpool upgraded on the 27th

[kwikbreaks]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Yes they can, because doing the odd upgrade or connection onto 60Mbit is a world of difference to upgrading everyone in an area on XL 20 and XL 30 to 60Mbit

True enough but it's such a good deal I'm surprised that there isn't a huge takeup - well it's a good deal so long as congestion doesn't ruin things. Right now mine looks to be excellent.

[squirrel1970]

stkp8 Stockport upgraded (my area anyway)
ancient dlink router failing and needs replacing (it can't handle it, it's too old!)
Speeding along at 18.8Mb anyways.