Virgin Media Speed Upgrades: FAQ

riddlermarc · 26 Jun 2007 at 23:06

Phemo said:
Basingstoke would now appear to be done too. My modem was reporting 10mbit about 10 minutes ago but after a manual reboot, it got the 20mbit config file.

I do all of my downloading overnight but I thought I'd see what speeds I get now and I was quite surprised to see 2300KB/sec - not bad for peak hours.

Woohoo, rebooted my modem and it now reports 20mbps too

What reliable speed test sites are there that I can try during the day? I want to try it out tomorrow, will RDP in from work to test it..

Gibbs · 27 Jun 2007 at 14:17

nice to see Belfast has changed from "to be confirmed" to June, only thing is, this is the 27th already

Loki · 27 Jun 2007 at 15:27

Has anyone in Manchester area gone 20mb yet ?

JonnyGLC · 27 Jun 2007 at 15:37

Loki said:
Has anyone in Manchester area gone 20mb yet ?

Nope.

HEADRAT · 27 Jun 2007 at 15:44

20Mbps in Cambridge now

Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 20480000
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 768000

Giganews maxxing out my connection, NIICE

HEADRAT

MG42Maniac · 27 Jun 2007 at 16:50

Got 20MB here in Southampton after a manual reboot. I have managed to get 2.22mb/sec on the dl and 92kb/sec on ul

Loki · 27 Jun 2007 at 18:51

Not all that sure if Manchester has gone live or is in the process of going live as we speak. However I just rebooted my Modem and off FTP I am easily getting 15-16Mb downstream and around 700K upstreaM

afraser2k · 27 Jun 2007 at 19:35

riddlermarc said:
Woohoo, rebooted my modem and it now reports 20mbps too

What reliable speed test sites are there that I can try during the day? I want to try it out tomorrow, will RDP in from work to test it..

I usually use a local Virgin Media link and a file from FilePlanet or other demo site.

http://gamefiles.virginmedia.com/

Diddyman · 28 Jun 2007 at 00:19

In Basildon, Essex area and just rebooted mobem and now getting up to 20mbps too.

Howver it does seems a bit eratic, where before my download would be a solid 1.2mb/sec they now vary quite a bit in speed between 500KB/Sec and 2mb/sec, so overall the increase....we llOK I spose

Diddy

Phemo · 28 Jun 2007 at 00:40

Diddyman said:
In Basildon, Essex area and just rebooted mobem and now getting up to 20mbps too.

Howver it does seems a bit eratic, where before my download would be a solid 1.2mb/sec they now vary quite a bit in speed between 500KB/Sec and 2mb/sec, so overall the increase....we llOK I spose

Diddy

Bizarrely enough mine was like that in the early hours of yesterday morning. It was fine the previous evening, just after I'd been upgraded, I was getting 2300KB/sec even in peak hours. When it hit midnight though and I kicked off some downloads, speeds were quite bizarre, all over the place - I was exactly the same as you - 1200KB/sec on 10mbit all the time but 20mbit was giving me anything from 2400KB/sec even as low as 500KB/sec.

However, tonight it's been great. Getting a solid 2400KB/sec.

HEADRAT · 28 Jun 2007 at 11:22

Been downloading this morning and I'm getting a solid 2400KB/sec, this rocks

Kol · 28 Jun 2007 at 11:28

Nottingham appears to be complete, also.

riddlermarc · 28 Jun 2007 at 11:51

afraser2k said:
I usually use a local Virgin Media link and a file from FilePlanet or other demo site.

http://gamefiles.virginmedia.com/

Thanks for that

I can't get much speed at all, around 350kbps is the average at the moment. This is trying the MS MSDN servers, the Fedora mirrors and the VM link above :confused:

I was getting much better speeds at 10Mb, hopefully it will iron itself out.

Wingz · 28 Jun 2007 at 12:31

20Meg in Cardiff

riddlermarc · 28 Jun 2007 at 12:43

Phemo, are you getting decent speeds still? I'm not getting anything above 3-4Mbps at best, just wondering if it is a local problem?

Dangerous · 28 Jun 2007 at 17:55

Cardiff seems to be done as well

Cable Modem Operation Configuration
Network Access : Allowed
Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 20480000
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 768000
Maximum Upstream Channel Burst : 1600
Maximum Number of CPEs : 1
Modem Capability : Concatenation Enabled, Fragametation Enabled, PHS Disabled

Deluxe1 · 28 Jun 2007 at 18:26

Newcastle area has just been done.

Gibbs · 28 Jun 2007 at 19:24

belfast came online today for me anyways

Phemo · 28 Jun 2007 at 19:31

riddlermarc said:
Phemo, are you getting decent speeds still? I'm not getting anything above 3-4Mbps at best, just wondering if it is a local problem?

I'm getting 1900KB/sec right now. Overnight my speeds are a bit weird - peaks at 2400KB/sec but does go down to 1600KB/sec sometimes. It seems to give me an average of 1800 to 2000KB/sec which isn't too shabby really. Speeds are definitely fluctuating more now and a few people I know in other areas who had 20mbit before me were fine but they're having large speed fluctuations now too. It seems the network is getting quite busy

riddlermarc · 28 Jun 2007 at 19:50

Testing right now and I'm getting 3mbps if I'm lucky.. something is definitely weird :/

I read on a different forum that sometimes your router can make a difference, think I will try plugging straight into the back of my modem without the router and see..