Virgin Media Broadband 20MB

mr.sly · 31 Mar 2007 at 17:48

Ulfhedjinn said:
That would be me, and yes speeds are awful at least where I live.

Nope, I wasn't talking about you Mr. The World Revolves Around Me.

Darkwave · 31 Mar 2007 at 17:51

Slyvester said:
Nope, I wasn't talking about you Mr. The World Revolves Around Me.

Lies.

Robert · 31 Mar 2007 at 18:03

Giganews are the best news provider.

Oh and it'll be interesting to see if any upgrades start tomorrow/monday

afraser2k · 31 Mar 2007 at 23:17

Rich said:
Its usually due to the translation tables filling up due to large amounts of incoming connections. Used to get it in Emule all the time with home routers. I even had to add a little extra config to my Cisco routers to get them to play nice.
Tried the custom Firmwares like DD-WRT?

Stuck the latest mini-generic DD-WRT on today and torrents are the same. Good thing about this is the extra port forwarding space it gives you over the official firmware, which I always thought was lacking for gamers.

Got the DNS/no connection issues again tonight though so I definately think it's a problem with VM broadband rather than my router now. Tried it with direct connection and got the same issue.

When it works VM broadband is good it just seems that there are more issues now since the V+ boxes came out?

DeeJay-Mo · 1 Apr 2007 at 09:52

I heard they're doing 100Mb
trials in some parts of the country. I heard in Cumbria. I hope they roll out 100Mb in my area. That would be awesome. I also heard in Japan they have up to a gigabit download.

iMacMart · 1 Apr 2007 at 12:14

IF they do I can't see it happening for a long while yet, I bet the monthly cost wouldn't be cheap either?

AssaTM · 1 Apr 2007 at 14:21

DeeJay-Mo said:
I heard they're doing 100Mb
trials in some parts of the country. I heard in Cumbria. I hope they roll out 100Mb in my area. That would be awesome. I also heard in Japan they have up to a gigabit download.

They have a gigabit download in Sweden let alone Japan or anywhere else

Nick1881 · 1 Apr 2007 at 14:43

I should imagine they would go to 30mb well before going to 100mb.

Dont you need fibre optics ran into your house to get really high speeds?

Not sure what the max it can do at the moment is.

Darkwave · 1 Apr 2007 at 15:14

mr_x_plosion said:
I should imagine they would go to 30mb well before going to 100mb.

Dont you need fibre optics ran into your house to get really high speeds?

Not sure what the max it can do at the moment is.

I think that cable is fibre optic.

Werewolf · 1 Apr 2007 at 15:17

cable isn't fibre-optic into the home, it's a fairly high quality co-ax

It is fibre optic from the street box on though I believe.

Darkwave · 1 Apr 2007 at 15:27

Werewolf said:
cable isn't fibre-optic into the home, it's a fairly high quality co-ax
It is fibre optic from the street box on though I believe.

Oh yeah, you're right. It's a co-axial cable when it's run into the house.

Can't coaxial cable support well above 100Mbps anyway though?

Robert · 1 Apr 2007 at 16:57

AssaTM said:
They have a gigabit download in Sweden let alone Japan or anywhere else

From what I know the ISPs in Sweden are a bit flakey.

The_Judge · 1 Apr 2007 at 17:30

sorted the router issue, the ip in the port forwarding section was .101 when it should have been .100

AssaTM · 2 Apr 2007 at 00:21

Robert said:
From what I know the ISPs in Sweden are a bit flakey.

They're not the most reliable, but it's not that they go down a lot, it's just the routing too and from Sweden is fairly bad

Robert · 2 Apr 2007 at 12:55

Well it's the second of April and I'm seeing nothing to suggest that any upgrades will be done this month.

Kol · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:22

Be happy if you see them at all. My letter said 1st May

Darkwave · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:30

Robert said:
Well it's the second of April and I'm seeing nothing to suggest that any upgrades will be done this month.

That's funny, because I'm on 20Mbit now. Have been for a while. :confused:

Robert · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:38

Erm...isn't that because you're on a "trial" where only a select few are subject to the speed upgrades...?

Kol · 2 Apr 2007 at 13:57

Ulfhedjinn said:
That's funny, because I'm on 20Mbit now. Have been for a while.

You're in the trial area though, we aren't.

Darkwave · 2 Apr 2007 at 14:37

Robert said:
Erm...isn't that because you're on a "trial" where only a select few are subject to the speed upgrades...?

Was in the trial area, it's permanent now.