Virgin Media 70, 150 & 200 Mb Upgrades

[toytown]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

As subsequently reported, these upload speeds have turned out to be false. The 100Mbps details have not been confirmed but the other figures are 200/12 and 300/20.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7...-products.html

Any news on if they are going to be traffic managed like the existing ones?

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Why is that a bad thing? Terminology aside I thought anything above 30Mbps was classed as "next-gen", "superfast" or "ultrafast" be damned.

As far as I know, "superfast" is indeed anything above 30Mbit (or possibly anything above 24Mbit), the definition seems to shift a bit depending on who you ask.

However, I don't think there's any consensus on what "ultrafast" is, it may as well be a made-up term but it sounds better than "superfast", hence you could argue that it's misleading. However, I think you and I agree, the terms themselves are more or less meaningless, even if there's a consensus on what "superfast" is.

Originally Posted by toytown

Any news on if they are going to be traffic managed like the existing ones?

Only upload is currently traffic managed but if I had to guess, I'd say that STM will still be in place for the upgrade. Hopefully they'll up the limits a bit to compensate.

[roughbeast]

I had a brief outage last night. Looking at my SH2 config today I see that I have been dropped from three to two upstream channels. Given a background of network upgrades I have to say I wasn't expecting that!

US-1 US-2 US-3 US-4
Channel Type 2.0 2.0 N/A N/A
Channel ID 1 2 N/A N/A
Frequency (Hz) 46200000 39400000 N/A N/A
Ranging Status Success Success Other Other
Modulation 16QAM 16QAM N/A N/A
Symbol Rate 5120000 5120000 N/A N/A
Mini-Slot Size 4 4 N/A N/A
Power Level 42.75 40.75 N/A N/A

[Skie]

I regularly bounce from 1 to 3 upstreams.

[General Maximus]

I had that dude when they did some maintenance a few weekends ago, as soon as I noticed the drop to two channels (a few days later) I rebooted the shub and came back on 3.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I had that dude when they did some maintenance a few weekends ago, as soon as I noticed the drop to two channels (a few days later) I rebooted the shub and came back on 3.

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Originally Posted by Skie

I regularly bounce from 1 to 3 upstreams.

Why would VM do That?

Originally Posted by roughbeast

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Why would VM do That?

Because the network is sorely lacking in capacity and they are attempting to dynamically load balance?

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by OhReally

Because the network is sorely lacking in capacity and they are attempting to dynamically load balance?

Dynamic load balancing doesn't involve bouncing.

[Kushan]

I had 3 upstream channels a few weeks ago, for a few days, then dropped back down to 2 and have sat at 2 ever since.

[General Maximus]

have you tried a reboot?

Edit: Arse, I have just looked at mine again out of curiosity and I am back down to 2, I have lost my qam64 channels. Maybe they have taken the extra channels away while they do some work for the speed increase next month.

[Ignitionnet]

The 3 upstream channel profile was part of the WiFi project. Some room for confusion was put in as the odd area has been moved to 4 upstreams as part of capacity upgrades.

Again as said many times if there's no congestion on 2 channels being on 3 or not makes no difference. When it's necessary they'll be reintroduced.

Likely the change to 2 upstreams was the result of a move back to a 'standard' profile from a WiFi one.

[Kushan]

Yeah I wasn't arsed about loosing the extra upstream because it was all working just fine and I have no upstream congestion issues. If anything I'm glad to know there's extra capacity there if it's ever needed.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Yeah I wasn't arsed about loosing the extra upstream because it was all working just fine and I have no upstream congestion issues. If anything I'm glad to know there's extra capacity there if it's ever needed.

Oh those have been there for a while. Most, if not all, areas have 3 or 4 channels, albeit not bonded.

[Kushan]

Is there a reason they're not bonded? I thought that bonding channels was better than trying to load balance them?

[muppetman11]

Oh great going off my parents current peak speeds of 10% of the advertised speed they should be able to enjoy 20mbps soon.

If they keep upgrading each year one day they may actually get their current advertised speed (100mbps) at peak times , should be around the time their tier hits 1gbps.