At long last!.

[Nigel Goodwin]

Well it's taken a very long time, but today at least I've now got fibre to the property, from Virgin Media

Unfortunately the router supplied is a bit 'crippled', and you can't set it to 'modem only mode', nor can you change the default IP address - which unfortunately is different to my existing router, so I'm having to alter various devices which were using fixed IP addresses (such as my VOIP phone adaptor).

I've ordered the M350 service, 350mbps down, and 35mbps up - which I slightly exceed on my phone in the room (downstairs) where the router is.

 

[Ian Rogers]

Fortunately, Virgin has been on our street for years. Just switched to a new company called GRAIN now I have similar issues.

Google assistant went south and a number of sites are hard to access. Even though we are on a 1g up and down. Watching a steaming service is touch and go... The sky box cannot get netflix, but the TV does Huh? Go figure.. Prime video and disney work great... I wish I knew networking, there is definately a change in some protocol or other.. It all worked seamlessly on Virgin but they went far too expensive.

 

[rjenkinsgb]

The sky box cannot get netflix, but the TV does Huh? Go figure..

Possibly a DNS problem, they have been cropping up regularly with many providers for a few years now.
It seemed to start about the time DNS encryption was being introduced...

Have a look at the network settings on a non-working device & see of you can see DNS? There should? be an option to set it manually; if so, put in 8.8.8.8 which is Google's public DNS. That seems far more reliable for most things.

If there is no way to change it, you would have to make changes on the router & I have no idea what equipment is likely to be in use.

 

[Tony Stewart]

I use Rogers who upgraded last summer with a 1Gbps repeater to the neighbourhood, which I hadn't tested till now. It's still on coax.

then to NYC

then some random city that looks like in Russia

a slow town in De

foinelee , woy dune unda

I get minor problems with my wife complaining our old MagicJack VOIP disconnects at random daily and in the past changing my modem and changing the VOIP to router module never fixed it, both pointing fingers at each other, so it seems this VOIP is more sensitive to uncorrectable errors that only show up on my modem and no other device or App.

These look to me like all excellent SNR signals > 30 dB. All past tests were error free, so I suspected buried power grid switching noise interference from network tap changing.

80 GB /day with free movies/TV video over IP.

Remember when we thought 56k was fast?

BTW I use as windoze app called Stremio (free) and "RealDebrid.com" for torrent server ~ $60/y for all TV/Movie (HBO/Netflix, etc) then HDMI to big screen TV at our feet with lazyboy comfy chairs.

 

[Tony Stewart]

Nigel Goodwin Once you address your modem, with the LAN gateway address , you should able to change it to the former address.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

The supplied router doesn't have the capability, and in any case I've changed the few devices that used fixed IP addresses now

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Well, while it's generally been pretty good - we lost internet last weekend for the entire weekend (went off midnight Friday, and was back 6:30 Monday morning). However, I was rather suspicious that it occurred after the water company had dug a big hole. So I took a walk down and had a look at the hole

Notice that at the top of the hole there's a strip of different tarmac across the road, that strip is the trench containing the fibre crossing the road (there's a manhole on the pavement both sides of the road), and the water company have dug right on the edge of it. I can't see any damage, or indeed see the pipe the fibre runs in, but it's somewhat of a coincidence.

Likewise, it's somewhat of a coincidence that there's a water mains leak directly where Virgin Media dug a trench less than a year ago. Makes me wonder if that didn't cause the leak?.

 

[Pommie]

You guys amaze me. You're on MB connections but seem to get worse times than me - on a (if I'm lucky) 20Mb connection. Guys I know in the UK boast of Giga byte (maybe bit) connections but they don't seem to be any faster than here! How does that work?

Fully appreciate, having the water board dig up your cables doesn't help.

Mike.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

You guys amaze me. You're on MB connections but seem to get worse times than me - on a (if I'm lucky) 20Mb connection. Guys I know in the UK boast of Giga byte (maybe bit) connections but they don't seem to be any faster than here! How does that work?

1Gb is freely available now (and even 2Gb some places), but that seemed greedy - I only ordered 350Mb down and 35Mb up, although (I didn't know at the time as it's pretty well a secret) for an extra £5 per month I could have 350/350Mb symmetrical, but there seems little point. My service is full fibre via XGS-PON, where the normal Virgin Media cable system uses coaxial cable for the final link to the customer - while this is capable of 1Gb, it's asymmetrical only, which is why VM default the XGX-PON service to symmetrical as well.

Speed wise (when it's not dug up) it's fine, lot's more than 20Mb (or the unreliable 13Mb or so I had previously) - bear in mind, that the speed often tends to be limited by the other end.

Previously if I downloaded a program (or an update etc.) it took a good while for the download to finish, then a shorter time for the download to install - now the download is a LOT faster, and the install time is a lot longer in comparison.

 

[Pommie]

Really, 350b down ( and maybe up)? it makes me wonder, we get (at best) 20Mb down and that's quicker than I can watch things, makes me think that's all I need. Why would I need faster?

BTW, my download is faster than install time but that could be just a sign of bloatware.
In reality, if you pay a lot of money for Windows X then it better take an hour or more to install or it's a con.

Mike.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Really, 350b down ( and maybe up)? it makes me wonder, we get (at best) 20Mb down and that's quicker than I can watch things, makes me think that's all I need. Why would I need faster?

It's not all about watching things

I was OK for watching streaming at 13Mb, but wouldn't have been for 4K - but I don't have a 4K TV anyway.

BTW, my download is faster than install time but that could be just a sign of bloatware.
In reality, if you pay a lot of money for Windows X then it better take an hour or more to install or it's a con.

Mike.

Don't ever buy an X-Box (or other console) then, games come with a BD inside, and then load multi-gigabyte updates when you install it - prior to my 13Mb FTTC I had a limited data wireless internet connection, and the monthly data was too little to install a game, so I used to take my x-box to work and leave it updating under a bench

 

[Pommie]

I used to write games and our biggest cartridge was 4 megabit (yes 0.5 MegaByte) with (if you were very lucky) 32kb of ram (4k by 8). Inside the machine was 2k of RAM. I now write stuff in JavaScript and it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's running on a multi Giga byte processor with Giga Bytes of RAM so it's gonna be incredibly fast anyway. Computers are now so huge and fast that you can write in any language. Probably why python is so popular. However, Interpreted languages is the way to go, why I love Java (script).

Mike.

 

[augustinetez]

They've just spent a month upgrading the NBN Wireless in our area, now we have 150Mbps down (and at no extra cost - so far). Upload is still stuck around the 12Mbps mark.