STM affects everything, its a connection wide cap.

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I've seen a coincidence too.

Last week I received a SamKnows monitoing box which started out showing 40-50Mbps on my 60Mbps connection. Yesterday it started showing 60Mbps+. Today the connection has gone from 5 to 8 downstreams.

So have VM got wind of the SamKnows box and waved a magic wand over my connection? No of course not its just coincidence.

Capacity planning, and slightly late at that. Your connection shouldn't have dropped at all.

Still the conspiracy theory is far more exciting.

It was actually down for close to half an hour.

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I suppose that the channel increase happened earlier - it was only the outage that made me check the modem. Certainly there is no obvious change in the TBB chart and that 60Mbps I saw was only a 7:00 am hourly figure with daily averages of 44-54Mbps. I do know that with JDownloader I can get the full 60Mbps pretty much any time though.

This was the day of the outage after which I spotted it was on 8 channels - My Broadband Ping

Edited by kwikbreaks (Sat 23-Feb-13 14:51:25)

In reply to a post by kwikbreaks:

It was actually down for close to half an hour.

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I suppose that the channel increase happened earlier - it was only the outage that made me check the modem. Certainly there is no obvious change in the TBB chart and that 60Mbps I saw was only a 7:00 am hourly figure with daily averages of 44-54Mbps. I do know that with JDownloader I can get the full 60Mbps pretty much any time though.

This was the day of the outage after which I spotted it was on 8 channels - My Broadband Ping

I meant shouldn't have dropped in performance from maximum ideally. You didn't mention it going out of service at all so I wouldn't have known about that.

Your downstream group probably hit the KPIs for upgrade and the simplest upgrade was to deploy more channels, hardware was either available or easily put in place.

The outage may have been a VM field engineer lining up your local network to accommodate the new downstreams.

Thanks for the info.

In reply to a post by kwikbreaks:

Thanks for the info.

Don't flatter me it's speculation rather than information, I'm just going by the theory that the simplest explanation is the most likely one!

A guess maybe but more educated than I could make - I'd assumed it was the doubling which is scheduled April to June.

I'd be very interested to see what your guess is on http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/virgin_cable/f/4213... - I've never seen charts like those but I think the solution is to bale out for ADSL.....

In reply to a post by kwikbreaks:

A guess maybe but more educated than I could make - I'd assumed it was the doubling which is scheduled April to June.

I'd be very interested to see what your guess is on http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/virgin_cable/f/4213... - I've never seen charts like those but I think the solution is to bale out for ADSL.....

Broken Superhub. Replacement needed.

Except he says he's already had a replacement and several engineer visits.

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Except he says he's already had a replacement and several engineer visits.

Switch wireless off on Superhub. Unplug everything. See if the ping pattern persists.