Anyone still awaiting to be upgraded with NTL?

realsubzero

Is anyone still waiting to be upgraded yet? i havent been! getting worried now since i read a lot of you guys have your 3mb lines!

crawler

realsubzero wrote:

Is anyone still waiting to be upgraded yet? i havent been! getting worried now since i read a lot of you guys have your 3mb lines!

Give em a ring and they will push the config file to you CM from the DHCP server....make sure you have account details etc to hand...

causal

realsubzero - how'd you get on?
What area are you in, and did they say what caused the delay?

causal

Stephen P

realsubzero wrote:

Is anyone still waiting to be upgraded yet? i havent been! getting worried now since i read a lot of you guys have your 3mb lines!

Sorry what's all this about? I have NTL BB, the last I heard I had 1MB BB. Are they/have they upgraded to 3MB?? If so how much?

Cheers!!

causal

^^^^^^^^ http://www.ntl.com/locales/ie/en/athome/internet_cable.html

causal

Stephen P

Will I have to give them a buzz for them to change me over or should it change automatically? I never noticed my speeds being really fast if it is 3MB. And how come the price has gone down? I was paying €50 per month for 1MB BB.

causal

Presumably you were paying €50 for 1.5Mbps/256kbps.
That's been automagically upgraded for free to 3.0Mbps/300kbps.

Check your speed here and post your results.

causal

Stephen P

These are the results:

Mon, 30 May 2005 19:03:20 UTC
1st 128K took 16 ms = 8192000 Bytes/sec = approx 68157 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec
4th 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec

These results appear to be rather fast: maybe this page was in the browser cache.


To repeat this test from the source server click here.

To repeat this test from a web proxy cache (if present):

- in Internet Explorer for Windows:
- click "Back"
- pull down "Tools" menu, select "Internet Options"
- click on button "Delete Files..."
- click OK, click OK
- click "Forward"

- in Netscape:
- click "Back"
- pull down "Edit" menu, select "Preferences"
- expand "Advanced"
- select "Cache"
- click on button "Clear Disk Cache"
- click OK
- click "Forward"

lensman

don't you have to power off/on the modem for the upgrade to take affect ?
I did this 2 weeks ago and got the upgrade there and then,..

causal

My cable modem was updated automatically with no power cycling - I have it on all the time for VoIP.

'stephen p' - you need to run the test again (from ther server) coz those values are based on your cache not your internet connection.
Click on the hyperlink on the test page at the end of the line where it says:
"To repeat this test from the source server click here."

causal

Stephen P

This is the second result:

Mon, 30 May 2005 20:11:05 UTC
1st 128K took 2125 ms = 61681 Bytes/sec = approx 513 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1875 ms = 69905 Bytes/sec = approx 582 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 2406 ms = 54477 Bytes/sec = approx 453 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 3265 ms = 40145 Bytes/sec = approx 334 kbits/sec


To repeat this test from the source server click here.

To repeat this test from a web proxy cache (if present):

- in Internet Explorer for Windows:
- click "Back"
- pull down "Tools" menu, select "Internet Options"
- click on button "Delete Files..."
- click OK, click OK
- click "Forward"

- in Netscape:
- click "Back"
- pull down "Edit" menu, select "Preferences"
- expand "Advanced"
- select "Cache"
- click on button "Clear Disk Cache"
- click OK
- click "Forward"

causal

Definitely give ntl a phonecall and get it sorted.

In the meantime, have a look at your modem config page
- type http://192.168.100.1/ into your browser,
- username/password is root/root, or admin/admin
- Click on the Operation/Configuration link on the left:
- Do you have values like:

Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 2048000 bps
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 200000 bps

Then, just to rule it out
- switch off and unplug your modem for 3 minutes
- switch it back on again

Then check your modem config page again, and rerun the speedtest again.

causal

Stephen P

causal wrote:

Definitely give ntl a phonecall and get it sorted.

In the meantime, have a look at your modem config page
- type http://192.168.100.1/ into your browser,
- username/password is root/root, or admin/admin
- Click on the Operation/Configuration link on the left:
- Do you have values like:

Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 2048000 bps
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 200000 bps

Then, just to rule it out
- switch off and unplug your modem for 3 minutes
- switch it back on again

Then check your modem config page again, and rerun the speedtest again.

causal

Cheers,
I did that and the result is:

Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 3072000 bps 
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 300000 bps 

Nietzschean

those are the right values anyway, you have the 3meg down/300k up..

Stephen P

Thanks lads! Appreciate the help!!

causal

No problem

Happy hi-speed surfing

causal

jimmycrackcorm

Is anyone getting the full whack of their 3mbps? My speed tests range from 1.7 mbps to 2.15 mbps - nowhere near the 3. The uploads are consitently at 280-290 kbps.

I'm thinking that the 2mbps package is better value than the three.

Nietzschean

jimmycrackcorm wrote:

I'm thinking that the 2mbps package is better value than the three.

I'm thinking that myself, such a small difference, and with the stability of throughput/latency since the upgrade being so bad i cba really keeping it on

kermit_ie

causal wrote:

^^^^^^^^ http://www.ntl.com/locales/ie/en/athome/internet_cable.html

causal

From that page :

There are some minimum system requirements you will need to access ntl's Broadband service, these are:

* 15 e-mail accounts
* 55MB of webspace
* Access to over 30,000 newsgroups
* The free use of a cable modem while you are on the service
* Access to your email wherever you are with our Webmail service

You have to laugh sometimes!!!

lensman

stephen p wrote:

Thanks lads! Appreciate the help!!

so as I suggested unpluging the modem works after all,..
happy netting..