I am keeping a L2TP service with AAISP so I get to keep use of both sets of ip's from them.

The speed is amazing, downloading games now feels so effortless.

Hmm, that sounds like we're going to have to wait some time for any upgrade.
Things are OK for now as you say, but who knows in 6 months time with VM.

Is CityFibre live in your area yet? We had all the groundworks here over the summer, but they still haven't installed the CBT's on all the poles, or even connected to the tubes at the base of the poles.

I see VM have a Black Friday deal for standalone broadband, hopefully not too many new customers on our area!

Cityfibre are live to about 30m from me, they went to the property next to me and then did a 180 over a year ago. .

I got an email from them saying they coming etc. about 6 months or so ago, a bunch of roadworks have been done, but I noticed they had stopped activating postcodes so started pushing them, I then pushed some more after my VDSL hit problems and eventually got a response they wont be doing any more activations for at least 9 months in the city, I was quoted specifically minimum 9-12 months, I then proceeded to order VM.

So I think I will be lucky to have CF availability by end of 2023.

I thought CF was available in your area since last year?

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 12-Nov-22 04:37:08)

In reply to a post by Philce:

I see VM have a Black Friday deal for standalone broadband, hopefully not too many new customers on our area!

Yeah more congestion, congestion, congestion!

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

Cityfibre are live to about 30m from me, they went to the property next to me and then did a 180 over a year ago. .

I got an email from them saying they coming etc. about 6 months or so ago, a bunch of roadworks have been done, but I noticed they had stopped activating postcodes so started pushing them, I then pushed some more after my VDSL hit problems and eventually got a response they wont be doing any more activations for at least 9 months in the city, I was quoted specifically minimum 9-12 months, I then proceeded to order VM.

So I think I will be lucky to have CF availability by end of 2023.

I thought CF was available in your area since last year?

No, only active up to the bridge on Fosse Road, I'm further along near Western Park.
Some markings on the pavements appeared this week, assuming blocked ducts that are holding things up? Nothing newly available on the coverage for quite a while now in the city.

The streets off Pool Road have had CityFibre round, and now Grain are there, nothing is live yet. I don't expect anything till neat year to be honest, they aren't in a rush!

Yep they got to the bridge then suddenly stopped, bridge at the park entrance. I didnt realise you was in that direction, I always thought you was blackbird road area, so yeah we both in the area where they been doing roadworks, the 9-12 months I got quoted probably applies to you as well.

I'm in Cardiff and have got 5 upstream channels, but it doesn't seem to break them out between 3.0 and 3.1 on the Hub5?

Seeing some peak time latency spikes which is the first I've noticed since I've had it for a couple months. Maybe football related,

I'm on Gig1. Is it likely there will be a 3.1 channel enabled and would that help with pings at peak times if they do?

Edit to add: Just doing some digging in the logs and it seems there is something going on with upstream channels, quite a few messages like this in the past few days:

US profile assignment change. US Chan ID: 12; Previous Profile: 12 13; New Profile: 11 13.;CM-MAC=xx;CMTS-MAC=xx;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;

I can't see an US Chan ID 12 (only 6-10 on the upstream list), but the Ver3.1 maybe suggests it is a 3.1 upstream channel?

Edited by mr_mojo (Mon 21-Nov-22 20:28:35)

@XGS_Is_on what do you think of this claim here?

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Speed/BQM-Check...

Poster claims upload boost is coming soon but will be limited to areas that have the bigger return paths, would this be a first for VM to have variable speeds based on location? He did get it right on the 50mhz return path 3.1 status as that matches what VM exec office told me.

Phil check your hub, despite what I was told, I now have the 3.1 US channel, and a 5th 3.0 channel.

Just speed tested and full speed uploading at 7.30PM.

Graph back to as good as it was before the speed uplift's as well.

My Broadband Ping

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 06-Mar-23 19:35:47)

Got the new channels same as you. According to Samknows we had a 55 minute outage at 12.30 on 01/03, perhaps something was done then?

Graph is still a bit messy tho!

My Broadband Ping

Uploads haven't really been impacted for us, but samknows monitoring is still below 950MB (which I suspect is the limitation of the LAN). If I do a test using the Virgin hub its always above 1100MB (conveniently!).

Our issues are normally slow loading and poor response from webpages etc.
Kids are happy and not moaning so I'm happy!

Cityfibre finally have installed the CBT's round here so looks like we will be going live sooner rather than later. Virgin contract ends in November.

Edited by Philce (Tue 07-Mar-23 11:50:15)