Virgin Media Discussion Thread

KIA · 11 Sep 2014 at 17:56

Speedtest.net isn't 100% accurate. Try a different server or website.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speed...on&utm_campaign=speedtest&utm_content=sidebar

Ryan111 · 11 Sep 2014 at 19:53

I seem to have hit the limit for my Asus RT-N16, can't pull more than around 145Mbps through it, which is what seems to be the max WAN>LAN throughput for this router

Duke · 11 Sep 2014 at 21:57

100MB result on SH2.

Psycho Sonny · 12 Sep 2014 at 09:07

The cabinet is directly outside my house (touches the hedge).

mp260767 · 12 Sep 2014 at 15:10

Ryan111 said:
Anyone know why I would loose upload speed by upgrading?

fairly certain its happened to other people around here as well, have you give them a call ?

wam7 · 12 Sep 2014 at 15:34

Ryan111 said:
I seem to have hit the limit for my Asus RT-N16, can't pull more than around 145Mbps through it, which is what seems to be the max WAN>LAN throughput for this router

Same experience got me. Replaced with the N66u. Much better all round.

UberTiger · 12 Sep 2014 at 18:45

Finally all installed!

Took the engineer 5 hours in the end as he had to wait for his colleagues to come in another van with conduit to lay in the ground.

He was an Algerian chap, absolutely brilliant. He jumped through a ton of hoops to lay the cable in a certain way, drilling through multiple walls and routing the wire indoors and outdoors to minimise it's visibility, all to the exacting standards of my landlord.

Another chap is going to return in the morning to finish burying the outdoor conduit as he had 2 more jobs to go to and it was already 6pm. Luckily his colleague helped him out by taking one, but still. It will be a night for him and he had a good attitude about it. All together I'm very impressed with the service and enjoying all these new fancy channels on Tivo and an uncapped fast net connection for the first time in nearly 6 weeks

BlackAle · 12 Sep 2014 at 19:28

Finally got round to upgrading my 120Mbps to 152Mbps. Has been running great. Was supplied with the new Superhub 2ac.

Arthur Hucksake · 13 Sep 2014 at 20:56

Noticing my usenet speeds actually slower than 75Mbit BT Infinity, even though I am hitting 156MBit on speedtest.net.

Any ideas?

Nymins · 13 Sep 2014 at 23:44

Try a different port, VM throttles certain Usenet ports. 563 SSL works fine for me.

BlackAle · 13 Sep 2014 at 23:45

Arthur Hucksake said:
Noticing my usenet speeds actually slower than 75Mbit BT Infinity, even though I am hitting 156MBit on speedtest.net.

What usenet provider, number of connections, usenet client?

BlackAle · 13 Sep 2014 at 23:46

Nymins said:
Try a different port, VM throttles certain Usenet ports. 563 SSL works fine for me.

Not experienced that myself, I just use port 119. Guess it's area dependent.

Nymins · 13 Sep 2014 at 23:56

119 is unencrypted, whereas 563 is. Both provide the same speeds (depends on the device you're using if it can sustain high download speeds with SSL)

Arthur Hucksake · 14 Sep 2014 at 07:28

BlackAle said:
What usenet provider, number of connections, usenet client?

Eweka, 8 connections and Newsleecher. With or without SSL.

Tops out around 8.5mb , use to get 8.8mb on BT Infinity.

Happy with the speed, but it doesn't make sense as to why it's slower for Usenet. Might try a different provider.

Anyone recommend a decent Dutch one? Thought about trying XNews.

jh30uk · 14 Sep 2014 at 10:08

IMO Highwinds sucks, I use Astraweb, less takedown and always max speed (162Mb/s) apart from an odd time on late Sunday nights when known maintenance is done.

Still can get the unlimited $96per year deal if you look.

I use SSL 443.

Arthur Hucksake · 14 Sep 2014 at 13:59

jh30uk said:
IMO Highwinds sucks, I use Astraweb, less takedown and always max speed (162Mb/s) apart from an odd time on late Sunday nights when known maintenance is done.

Still can get the unlimited $96per year deal if you look.

I use SSL 443.

I use the XSNews, Cambrium, Euroaccess ones because there is far fewer takedowns.

Even legit stuff is getting taken down on a lot of them.

Eweka was good for awhile but think ill change end of the month.

Adrianr · 14 Sep 2014 at 19:44

jh30uk said:
IMO Highwinds sucks, I use Astraweb, less takedown and always max speed (162Mb/s) apart from an odd time on late Sunday nights when known maintenance is done.

Still can get the unlimited $96per year deal if you look.

I use SSL 443.

I'm actually thinking of jacking in Astraweb. Maybe imagining it but the amount of missing articles especially on larger downloads seems to be increasing by the week. I think I've also only seen my connection at sustained max once, although that could be more to do with only being able to use my computer during peak times and Virgin still having traffic shaping policies on Usenet ports.

Proving quite difficult finding a good set up to partner this connection.

Arthur Hucksake · 14 Sep 2014 at 20:28

Nothing ever changes with these clowns. Day two and already want shot of them.

Here is your 152MBit tonight.

EDIT: Looks like it's the awful Superhub 2ac beta hub to blame. Powered totally off rather than a reboot, now its upto 135. Better at least.

Adrianr · 14 Sep 2014 at 21:49

Arthur Hucksake said:
Nothing ever changes with these clowns. Day two and already want shot of them.

Here is your 152MBit tonight.

EDIT: Looks like it's the awful Superhub 2ac beta hub to blame. Powered totally off rather than a reboot, now its upto 135. Better at least.

Twice as quick as I'm getting this evening :mad:

Arthur Hucksake · 14 Sep 2014 at 22:32

Spoke to some folks, turns out it is most likely down to low power levels. Utilization isn't the issue luckily.

Rang tech support, nice Scottish fella took one look and just went "power levels".

So that's that. Engineer coming on Tuesday.

Why the installers don't check this stuff is beyond me. PC was setup and everything.