Virgin Media Discussion Thread

70MBps is good. I'm on 152 and only get 2MBps most afternoons/evenings. Review date is May but apparently there is a third party engineer working on the issue? Who knows.
 
chid76 said:
I am hoping that someone could help me with a few quick questions please?

I am looking at joining Virgin and getting the 50mb package. Can somebody tell me what the upload speed would be? I have spoken to Virgin and they are telling me 10% of download, but other places are saying 3mb.

If I was to be streaming on twitch, I think I might hit their traffic management threshold per hour, do any of you stream and are you hitting the hourly limits?

Last of all, they are saying that they throttle all peer to peer, whats people experience with this? Does it affect games that may use peer to peer instead of dedicated servers?

Thanks :)
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From what I've read, 152Mb is what you'll want for Twitch streaming due to the upstream management.
 
FredFlint said:
It’s only just started but it really is ****** me off. I have no idea how to fix it, might uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes it.

Just reset firefox and then synced it and its working again, click refresh firefox on here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
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Thanks,

I did install some add on that forced flash player instead of HTML 5 for youtube that got around it but just reset it now and its fixed it to so dont need another bloated addon.
 
Virgin really should sell their internet with a disclaimer:

"You will only receive 10% of your paid-for speeds from 12pm-12am, and get full speed when you're most likely sleeping or busy"
 
Well I see a problem with that mainly that with the odd acceptable dip in 8 years I've not had that problem even in different cities.
 
chid76 said:
I am hoping that someone could help me with a few quick questions please?

I am looking at joining Virgin and getting the 50mb package. Can somebody tell me what the upload speed would be? I have spoken to Virgin and they are telling me 10% of download, but other places are saying 3mb.

If I was to be streaming on twitch, I think I might hit their traffic management threshold per hour, do any of you stream and are you hitting the hourly limits?

Last of all, they are saying that they throttle all peer to peer, whats people experience with this? Does it affect games that may use peer to peer instead of dedicated servers?

Thanks :)
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I have the Virgin Media 50mb package, my download is a smidge higher, but the upload is a measly 3.1mb. This is at 1 in the afternoon.

Omaeka said:
Virgin really should sell their internet with a disclaimer:

"You will only receive 10% of your paid-for speeds from 12pm-12am, and get full speed when you're most likely sleeping or busy"
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Again, I'm on the 50mb package and I get pretty much get all of it, with the occasional bonus. Heck, concerning what chid76 said about peer-to-peer, I use peer-to-peer services and the only issues I've had were with the programs/settings themselves. Virgin does jack to reduce my speeds there. I usually get speeds of at least 40mb during it any time of day, I've hit the 50mb limit quite often. Considering I live on my own, 50mb is plenty enough. So far, I've only had a single connection issue, which resolved itself when I turned the router on and off.

If I wasn't getting the service I paid for, I would have switched long ago. EE gave me a better offer for having a phone contract, but I declined. Unfortunately I move back to the countryside at the start of next month. Bye-bye fast internet, since the best one gets over there is 10mb, though the service claims up to 20mb. This is with Talk-talk by the way. No point in Virgin since fibre optic is non-existent.

Edit: Turns out Fibre-Optic was rolled out to the area within the last 12 months. I've got to see what I can do to transfer and upgrade my package.
 
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Omaeka said:
Virgin really should sell their internet with a disclaimer:

"You will only receive 10% of your paid-for speeds from 12pm-12am, and get full speed when you're most likely sleeping or busy"
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"Mmm.. that'll boost sales! While we're at it, why don't I just change my name back to Hitler?"
 
Plus1 said:
Sorry about the delay, What section of the superhub config would you like me to show you? The network status page?
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I'm guessing this page is the one: http://192.168.100.1/cgi-bin/VmRouterStatusOperationCfgCgi

The max traffic rate will say what config file your modem is currently running. It will be interesting to see what it says, because at 320Mbit your superhub would be using almost the entire bandwidth allocation for 400 homes for your connection alone.

Just think what the congestion is going to be like when they roll out to everyone :eek:. The only hope is that people with DOCSIS 3.1 modems will only get those files once they go public, because that's going to be seriously messy on the current network.
 
And back to 20% packet loss we go. This area quality just gets better and better.

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DarkBahamut said:
The max traffic rate will say what config file your modem is currently running. It will be interesting to see what it says, because at 320Mbit your superhub would be using almost the entire bandwidth allocation for 400 homes for your connection alone.
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:confused: 400 homes? 320 divide by 400 that would work out at 0.8Mb per home. VM lowest speed you can sign up to is 50Mb
 
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You'd be surprised then!

The exact figures will vary from area to area of course, but basic math make it easy to work out on congested nodes.

If I run a single stream download during peak hours I get around 3mbit. Given that we know the bonded group has around 400Mbit of bandwidth after DOCSIS overheads this means that at the exact moment of the speed test there must be at least 130 other downstream connections on the node all using at least 3Mbit of bandwidth each, otherwise these figure wouldn't occur.

Now, it possible for one property to be offering more than a single download stream, but how many properties won't be using >3Mbit during that moment? Even during peak hours I'd bet the figure is well half of connected hones running at over 3Mbit, and this doesn't count homes that are using bandwidth but running under the available amount. It's certainly not far fetched to expect 300-400 homes to be connected given the figures, and given that some nodes are even worse than mine, I bet some are over that number, however the 400 number has been mentioned as a target VM use previously on their forums so I guess they start splitting them at that point assuming the loading thresholds aren't breached already.
 
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