I had an email from VM informing me that they were "doing some 
maintenance work on the Virgin Broadband service in your area". Today an 
email arrived informing me that the work was complete and I should 
restart my modem or router. Well I did and my 1Meg connection is now 
running at 2Meg so lets hope it lasts.

Alec

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>I had an email from VM informing me that they were "doing some maintenance 
>work on the Virgin Broadband service in your area". Today an email arrived 
>informing me that the work was complete and I should restart my modem or 
>router. Well I did and my 1Meg connection is now running at 2Meg so lets 
>hope it lasts.
>
> Alec

Based on my past experiences Alec, I question whether you really have 
benefited.  You modem / router may be reporting a higher sync speed, as did 
mine, but are you actually getting that speed in the REAL world.  Try a few 
speed tests ...  http://www.speedtest.net/


-- 
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     My photo galleries at  http://www.pbase.com/davecq
    "I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"

Dave (Sgt. Pepper) wrote:
> 
> 
> Based on my past experiences Alec, I question whether you really have 
> benefited.  You modem / router may be reporting a higher sync speed, as 
> did mine, but are you actually getting that speed in the REAL world.  
> Try a few speed tests ...  http://www.speedtest.net/
> 
> 

First thing I did Dave - it's reporting 1900k at the moment. Odd thing 
is the email talks of an "improved internet connection" but does not 
mention an actual speed increase. I'll keep checking over the next few 
days as they say it may take a few days to settle down so I may find 
myself back at 1Mb.

Alec

I've now noticed that the speed keeps varying between 550k and 2000k 
which is a little worrying as I previously had a rock solid 950k. Also 
noticed that the router stats now show an 8 Meg connection speed rather 
than the 2 Meg it's been since getting ADSL. Don't know what they are 
playing at but I think it's time to start looking around just in case.

Alec

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> I've now noticed that the speed keeps varying between 550k and 2000k which 
> is a little worrying as I previously had a rock solid 950k. Also noticed 
> that the router stats now show an 8 Meg connection speed rather than the 2 
> Meg it's been since getting ADSL. Don't know what they are playing at but 
> I think it's time to start looking around just in case.
>
> Alec

Pretty much what I experience when they 'upgraded' me at the exchange Alec. 
My modem reports a sync speed of typically 6.1 Mbit early in the morning, 
but this usually fades away during the day whenever I reboot, and typically 
reports 4.8Mbit sync at the end of the day.

This of course is just smoke and mirrors because my true speed is never more 
that 1.8Mbit and can be down to dial-up speeds after 4pm, often just 
grinding to a complete halt.  I assume my limited top speed of 1.8Mbit is 
explained by my distance from the exchange and poor quality phone wiring, 
and the slowing during the day is down to Virgin's throttling regime and 
high contention when people get home from school or work.

Have you noticed whether your upload speed has virtually doubled as a result 
of the upgrade?  I now typically get 620kbps and I'm told by the 'experts' 
that it is almost certainly the result of Virgin shifting my service onto a 
Cable & Wireless LLU at the exchange.  Don't be fooled, I haven't a clue 
what I'm talking about  LOL.

-- 
Dave (Sgt. Pepper)       Epsom, England
     My photo galleries at  http://www.pbase.com/davecq
    "I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"

Dave (Sgt. Pepper) wrote:
Pretty much what I experience when they 'upgraded' me at the exchange
> Alec. My modem reports a sync speed of typically 6.1 Mbit early in the 
> morning, but this usually fades away during the day whenever I reboot, 
> and typically reports 4.8Mbit sync at the end of the day.
> 
> This of course is just smoke and mirrors because my true speed is never 
> more that 1.8Mbit and can be down to dial-up speeds after 4pm, often 
> just grinding to a complete halt.  I assume my limited top speed of 
> 1.8Mbit is explained by my distance from the exchange and poor quality 
> phone wiring, and the slowing during the day is down to Virgin's 
> throttling regime and high contention when people get home from school 
> or work.
> 
Sounds just like here. I've been getting 1900k plus all day but now it's 
back to 500k. Some maintenance, I guess I'll have to do everything 
during the day.

> Have you noticed whether your upload speed has virtually doubled as a 
> result of the upgrade?  I now typically get 620kbps and I'm told by the 
> 'experts' that it is almost certainly the result of Virgin shifting my 
> service onto a Cable & Wireless LLU at the exchange.  Don't be fooled, I 
> haven't a clue what I'm talking about  LOL.
> 

The upload has gone from around 250k to 370k since the 'maintenance', so 
the increase is roughly half. LLU - sounds impressive, had to look it 
up. I can't explain this other than to say that when I had a consistent 
connection the router reported a 2Meg connection which was presumably 
throttled to 1Meg. Since the maintenance and variable speed the router 
reports an 8 Meg connection that appears to be throttled to 2Meg. I can 
only assume that I was connected via a server used for the upto 2Meg 
service and have now been switched to the upto 8Meg server and am 
getting the same rubbish service in the evenings as the rest of you. If 
that makes sense?

Whatever, I'll give it a while and if it doesn't improve I'm off to 
pastures new.

Alec

Bloody Virgin! Upload speed is now faster than download and caused me to 
loose something on eBay as I couldn't get a last minute bid in.

Alec

Message-ID: <ytYql.39105$PT2.20215@newsfe11.ams2> from bill@hotmail.com
contained the following:

>Bloody Virgin! Upload speed is now faster than download and caused me to 
>loose something on eBay as I couldn't get a last minute bid in.

You need to snipe it.

https://www.ezsniper.com/
-- 
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My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
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Geoff Berrow wrote:
> 
> Message-ID: <ytYql.39105$PT2.20215@newsfe11.ams2> from bill@hotmail.com
> contained the following:
> 
> >Bloody Virgin! Upload speed is now faster than download and caused me to
> >loose something on eBay as I couldn't get a last minute bid in.
> 
> You need to snipe it.

Thanks, didn't know such things existed.

I also need to get a new ISP  I think.

Alec

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:59:52 +0000, "bill "@hotmail.com did make me awaken from
my chaotic existentialism when they didst announce:

>
>
>Geoff Berrow wrote:
>> 
>> Message-ID: <ytYql.39105$PT2.20215@newsfe11.ams2> from bill@hotmail.com
>> contained the following:
>> 
>> >Bloody Virgin! Upload speed is now faster than download and caused me to
>> >loose something on eBay as I couldn't get a last minute bid in.
>> 
>> You need to snipe it.
>
>Thanks, didn't know such things existed.
>
>I also need to get a new ISP  I think.
>
>Alec

I need a new ISP - they killed USENET
--
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The guy who tells it like it is!

Message-ID:  from OldbieOne
contained the following:

>I need a new ISP - they killed USENET

Bastards!

Hi dude, how ya doin?




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On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:05:19 +0100, Geoff Berrow  did make
me awaken from my chaotic existentialism when they didst announce:

>Message-ID:  from OldbieOne
>contained the following:
>
>>I need a new ISP - they killed USENET
>
>Bastards!
>
>Hi dude, how ya doin?

Doing ok, how 'bout thyself?
--
OldbieOne - 
The guy who tells it like it is!