Virgin Media Discussion Thread

Naan_H said:
hi guys i wonder if you can shed some more information about virgin and their cable service in general. My local telephone exchange says it is 'cable enabled', but i dont get cable on my street. So i emailed their 'cable my street' address. They said they will look into it and speak with their engineer for the area and will get back to me in about 6-8 weeks. Has anybody had experience with this and been successful?
i really hope so - sick and tired of sky just leaching money off me
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had a similar experience, my street had cable but my house wasnt listed, so i had to go through "cable my street" to find out what was going on.

my advice would be wait for the 6 weeks to be up and if you don't hear anything follow it up, as they tend to get pretty busy and priorities can change, i'd mail them every 3/4 days for updates depending on what sort of updates you get.
 
mp260767 said:
had a similar experience, my street had cable but my house wasnt listed, so i had to go through "cable my street" to find out what was going on.

my advice would be wait for the 6 weeks to be up and if you don't hear anything follow it up, as they tend to get pretty busy and priorities can change, i'd mail them every 3/4 days for updates depending on what sort of updates you get.
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thanks for the advice mate - i live very close to wembley stadium and so i would have thought it would be in their interests too - lots of shops and businesses, and with the olympics coming to london and planned events here, who knows. i think there is a 200mbit cable service in place at a block flats very close to me. i guess theyll survey to see if it would be a viable product - fingers crossed to go ahead with it!
 
Naan_H said:
hi guys i wonder if you can shed some more information about virgin and their cable service in general. My local telephone exchange says it is 'cable enabled', but i dont get cable on my street. So i emailed their 'cable my street' address. They said they will look into it and speak with their engineer for the area and will get back to me in about 6-8 weeks. Has anybody had experience with this and been successful?
i really hope so - sick and tired of sky just leaching money off me
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I emailed cablemystreet last week, as all my neighbours addresses show up in the database, but not mine. They originally replied to say it could take upto 7 weeks, but actually came back to me on Tuesday this week. 50mb cable connection is being installed today.
It may not be as easy or quick for them to enable your street if there is not already cabling down your road, but good luck.
 
Well Virgin came and ive got to wait 2 more weeks as there going to install some fatter cable. As mine is to thin to handle 50mb.
 
Right I've had 50MB installed. The downstairs PC gets 40MB+ all day long (the coax cable comes through the wall, into the modem and then the PC is connected to the modem via the DIR-615 router and CAT5E ethernet cable)

I am using the supplied DLink N Wireless adapter upstairs but I get weak signal and my speed varies a lot, drops to 15MB then back up to 40MB and seems to be all over the place.

I am going to order a 25m ethernet cable and run it outside and back into my room to hardwire the upstairs PC to the router. My question is; can I use a CAT6 cable? Will this work fine and be supported by the router/PC?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/30m-Gigabit-C...341726056?pt=UK_Computing_NetworkingCables_RL - looking at that cable. Will that work?
 
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Yep, cat6 will work just as well as cat5e. If anything it's supposed to be "better" (though in the real world there's basically nothing you'll need over 5e atm).
 
Does anyone elses PC start running slow when downloading @ max speed lol? Mine is at the moment downloading a few things from different hosting websites. Netmeter is reporting speeds of 6.4MB/s and JDownloader is reporting wacky speeds lol. Taking some time to do things :(
 
Umm weird.

Another Q related to downloading itself. I downloaded 20GB but somehow uploaded 564MB (was 120-150 KB/s) what the hell is uploading if im downloading :S
 
Are your downloads going to your C: drive? if so then that's why you have slow downs.
My NZB files download to one drive but the NZB temp files are on another drive=no slow downs :)
 
oli356 said:
Umm weird.

Another Q related to downloading itself. I downloaded 20GB but somehow uploaded 564MB (was 120-150 KB/s) what the hell is uploading if im downloading :S
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Slowdown will probably happen if you're downloading from usenet or wherever due to it downloading lots of small (300KB~) files, decoding them and joining them up, causing high hard drive activity.

Your PC uploads data when you download, this has to happen and accounts for the 564MB you're seeing.
 
Naa wasn't using newsgroup things, never really looked into them just heard there quite costly. So was using megaupload and netload at the time. Was doing it to my only hdd, but not the windows partition ( so storage one)
 
Hi guys,

I tried updating the firmware on my router from the VM firmware to DD-WRT and got it all working perfectly. I then realised that I had infact used an older firmware version for the DD-WRT, so I went into the console (192.168.1.1) and went to Administration>>Firmware Upgrade and tried updating the firmware..about halfway through the update I realised I needed the D version but I was infact uploading the E version!

Basically now, the router does not work for wired and wireless connections, I cannot access 192.168.1.1 with it connected to roll back the firmware, what the hell can I do?
 
Finally got my 50MB installed today. Have to say, it's awesome!

I do miss my Netgear router though which did **** up at times. Never used a D-Link system before so will take some getting used to!

4.4GB in about 10 minutes is awesome! I remember when it took that long for a 5MB file!! :p
 
chrisgt said:
Hi guys,

I tried updating the firmware on my router from the VM firmware to DD-WRT and got it all working perfectly. I then realised that I had infact used an older firmware version for the DD-WRT, so I went into the console (192.168.1.1) and went to Administration>>Firmware Upgrade and tried updating the firmware..about halfway through the update I realised I needed the D version but I was infact uploading the E version!

Basically now, the router does not work for wired and wireless connections, I cannot access 192.168.1.1 with it connected to roll back the firmware, what the hell can I do?
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Unplug the power lead, and hold in the small reset button (at the back of the unit) with a ballpoint pen or similar. Reinsert the power lead, keeping the reset button depressed, and wait 10 seconds. The light on the front of the unit will flash, and stay flashing.

Then navigate to 192.168.1.1 and you should hopefully find the "Emergency Room" is available, which will simply have a browse button to locate the proper firmware. Good luck.
 
Rainmaker said:
Unplug the power lead, and hold in the small reset button (at the back of the unit) with a ballpoint pen or similar. Reinsert the power lead, keeping the reset button depressed, and wait 10 seconds. The light on the front of the unit will flash, and stay flashing.

Then navigate to 192.168.1.1 and you should hopefully find the "Emergency Room" is available, which will simply have a browse button to locate the proper firmware. Good luck.
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Ah you legend! I've actually put the 4.11 D-Link driver back on and wow...the VM driver gave me crap wireless signal (1 out of 5 bars, the WRT gave me 2 out of 5 but this is giving me 4/5 bars! ) Got a 30m CAT6 cable on the way to wire my PC in anyway, but quite random!
 
chrisgt said:
Ah you legend! I've actually put the 4.11 D-Link driver back on and wow...the VM driver gave me crap wireless signal (1 out of 5 bars, the WRT gave me 2 out of 5 but this is giving me 4/5 bars! ) Got a 30m CAT6 cable on the way to wire my PC in anyway, but quite random!
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I'm glad you got it sorted. :)
 
After switching to a CAT6 cable I get the following pretty much constantly:

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