Virgin Media Discussion Thread

Deluxe1 · 12 Apr 2018 at 13:06

Just went from 200 - 350 Vivid.

nwatson6 · 12 Apr 2018 at 14:12

Terrier_Jimlad said:
Managed to move on to the 350mb from 200mb tonight, chap did it on the phone, router went off for a few mins, came back on, downloaded the new FW, rebooted twice and all is good. New FW and sat at around 380mb

What firmware are you currently on?

Terrier_Jimlad · 12 Apr 2018 at 14:31

Now running

moogle · 12 Apr 2018 at 14:37

Not bad! However TBB's speedtest never fully maxes out the connection. After a bit of reading it seems that's because the speedtest.net server it picks is hosted by VM or within VM's network? So it's not really a good indicator of connection speed in the real world.

I have found that downloads from sites never hit the 40MB/s+ all the time. Torrents and FTP do though which is good.

Pyr0m@nI@]{ · 12 Apr 2018 at 14:46

Try fast.com by netflix
I tested earlier and got 340Mbps

or uswitch
https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedtest/
gives me 390.8Mb/21.2Mb

spoffle · 12 Apr 2018 at 14:47

moogle said:
Not bad! However TBB's speedtest never fully maxes out the connection. After a bit of reading it seems that's because the speedtest.net server it picks is hosted by VM or within VM's network? So it's not really a good indicator of connection speed in the real world.

I have found that downloads from sites never hit the 40MB/s+ all the time. Torrents and FTP do though which is good.

42Mb upload on Virgin? What is this black magic?

moogle · 12 Apr 2018 at 14:54

spoffle said:
42Mb upload on Virgin? What is this black magic?

It's the VIVID 350 + BT Infinity 2 FTTP load balanced

Was fun for a bit but it screws up sites not accepting a HTTPS connection handshake.

I'm still waiting on the landline port to complete so running two internets at the moment.

spoffle · 12 Apr 2018 at 15:03

moogle said:
It's the VIVID 350 + BT Infinity 2 FTTP load balanced

Was fun for a bit but it screws up sites not accepting a HTTPS connection handshake.

I'm still waiting on the landline port to complete so running two internets at the moment.

Ahh, you got me all excited for a minute then!

moogle · 12 Apr 2018 at 15:58

Yeah I'd love the extra upload. Although 20MBps isn't too bad and I don't upload a lot apart from photo backups.

Swifty55 · 12 Apr 2018 at 17:39

5:30pm and my speeds are normal right now.

Will check in an hour!

Ol!ver · 13 Apr 2018 at 19:51

So, VM installation all done on Vivid 200. Not got a screenshot handy but I'm pulling ~220Mbps down and 13Mbps up. To be honest I wasn't aware that the upload was only going to be 13Mbps - I was apparently getting Vivid 200 and Vivid 200 Gamer mixed up. I don't see Gamer on the website anymore though, has that been killed off?

Looks like I'll just need to wait for them to switch 350Mbps on to get my 20Mbps upload back.

In case anyone's wondering, have the Hub set up on modem mode with my existing Netgear D7000 doing the rest and DNS handled by PiHole because I'm weird.

Now I just need to either run some Cat6 to the office or get better HomePlugs. I'm maxing them out at around 150Mbps at the moment and that just won't do!

moogle · 13 Apr 2018 at 20:26

Yep VM killed gamer. I remember it being there when I was looking at alternative late last year.

brendy · 14 Apr 2018 at 09:30

Firmware 9.1.116v. I take it this is the older firmware?

chroniclard · 14 Apr 2018 at 09:33

brendy said:
Firmware 9.1.116v. I take it this is the older firmware?

Yeah. 9.1.116.603 is the trial/beta/latest

brendy · 14 Apr 2018 at 09:52

chroniclard said:
Yeah. 9.1.116.603 is the trial/beta/latest

Cheers. Hardwired getting over 355mbs and 21mbs up, so seems I did get an upgrade when signing up as originally paperwork said 200. Excellent!

Clairvoyant · 14 Apr 2018 at 14:58

Hi

I have a couple of questions about VM. Traffic management is it bad, and when would it kick in. Or does it not affect everyone. How would I find out how good/bad congestion is in my area.

TIA

Rainmaker · 14 Apr 2018 at 23:45

Still running A-OK here, though I wish they'd stop throttling OpenVPN to within an inch of its life from about 6pm until gone midnight. :mad:

Bare connection:

Over VPN (L2TP/IPSEC) on my FreeBSD router/firewall machine:

ETA: Here's an example of the VPN throttling they rarely admit to carrying out (though if you search their forum, you'll find it).

Code:

$ curl cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test > /dev/null

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

100  100M  100  100M    0     0  8865k      0  0:00:11  0:00:11 --:--:-- 1251k

Guaranteed, in half an hour that'll be back to 380Mbps.

brendy · 17 Apr 2018 at 23:27

On 5ghz wifi my new 350mbs seems to be going quite well, will test tomorrow with the pc connected via its cat6 lead.

Glanza · 18 Apr 2018 at 11:16

@Swifty55 Speeds aren't as bad as they were last week, this week so far I've been at nearly max speed in evening, VM have said there's high usage and have raised a fault against it.

Swifty55 · 18 Apr 2018 at 12:30

Glanza said:
@Swifty55 Speeds aren't as bad as they were last week, this week so far I've been at nearly max speed in evening, VM have said there's high usage and have raised a fault against it.

I’ve put a complaint in as this is the 2nd time so I want more than £10 a month knocking off my bill for what I am paying.

Although my speeds have been a lot better the last few days hopefully they react fast to the issue and not prolong it again.