Twonky Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Hmmm, everything was fine whilst gaming last night, maybe Wimanx have been doing a bit of tweaking behind the scenes? Also managed to download a 4.5GB file and it maxed out my connection like it used to in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrFunk Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Ours was much better last night as well. Our upgraded account seems to be maxing out at about 38-40Mbps again, even off-peak, which is how it was before (even though we are still syncing higher) and the ping is way more reliable, always mid 20's. Watched a couple of Netflix movies with no problems. Hopefully they've got it sorted and it wasn't just all the nighbours buggering off for the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Traffic throttling? Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentience Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 4G speedtest....V happy. Last Result:Download Speed: 25346 kbps (3168.3 KB/sec transfer rate)Upload Speed: 13086 kbps (1635.8 KB/sec transfer rate)Latency: 15 msJitter: 5 msPacket Loss: -1%18/02/2015 11:21:41 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Ours was much better last night as well. Our upgraded account seems to be maxing out at about 38-40Mbps again, even off-peak, which is how it was before (even though we are still syncing higher) and the ping is way more reliable, always mid 20's. Watched a couple of Netflix movies with no problems. Hopefully they've got it sorted and it wasn't just all the nighbours buggering off for the weekend. Mine's been pretty good last couple of days too. Download speed isn't the bump I was expecting but it's now slightly above my old speed consistently (and so, technically an upgrade) but the upload is great and the latency is very stable. Overall I'm pretty happy now and I'm sure Wimanx will carry on tweaking here and there to make things better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 Just tested my server remotely Download speed 47.18Mbps down and 10mbps up. I'm connected at 62mb though so not sure where 15mb is going. Shouldn't be much contention at this time of day I noticed my router disconnected 3 times last night too aorund 04:30 am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilbo Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Can any Sure customers comment yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 Speedtest right now, 8mbps Plenty more work to be done by WiManx. They need to purchase more bandwidth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrFunk Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 If the connections are contended as a whole at MT then it doesn't matter what Wi-Manx do. It's all about the 49 other people you are sharing your bandwidth with, doesn't matter if they're Wi-Manx, Sure or MT customers. I know a couple of MT customers who are experiencing the same issue. It's been over sold, plain and simple. But the same as ans I'm happy with the extra upload speeds and a reliable ping, the download seems to be the sacrificial lamb even during the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twonky Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Yeah as long as they can keep latency stable I'm happy enough, downloads are like a piss, they always finish in the end, so it doesn't really matter how fast they go. Headshots in Battlefield though, they can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) What strikes me as odd though, is that it was always superb on VDSL, whatever time of day Has there really been a massive surge in new customers / existing customers downloading more? Anything i download has to be scheduled to start from 1am, as its just not worth starting any sooner Edited February 18, 2015 by somewhatdamaged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrFunk Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) I look at it as a pie. With VDSL everybody was capped at 40 maximum and there was enough pie to go around, even with everybody digging in at the same time. Now with super duper VDSL+ or whatever they call it some people will no doubt be getting a full 80, others 70, some of us about 45..cough. But I don't think the total pie size has changed, just the size of the forks some people have. This is made worse by different ISPs having different rules as to how people can use their fork. At the end of the day you and 49 others are sharing that pie. Before dishing out bigger forks to people they really should have looked at the total pie size. When I say they I mean MT and their core infrastructure, because that's where the contention/sharing is dished out. By doubling up they've really found the upper limit of what they can dish out at the moment, again in some locations. Others seem to be fine. Some of my friends in and around the centre of Douglas are getting amazing speeds. I'm in the same boat as you somewhatdamaged and imagine you are living on a fairly new build private estate with plenty of families with kids about? Once you get in to the land of multiple HD streams, modern game downloads and a couple of tech savvy teenagers it's not too hard to see people using up their extra speed and the impact it has on everybody else. The contention issue has always been there it's just generally we've had enough total to not make it too noticable. Edit - Forgot to add. I my opinion it was another ISP that started this race to the bottom. But atleast they realised eventually and started to cap the number of people who could use thier service in each area. They didn't have enough pie. Edited February 19, 2015 by MrFunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Agree with the above, only comment/question is that I thought contention pools were dynamic and non-geographic these days. So there's a load balancing done in the core that makes sure he heavy users are evenly spread so everyone suffers the pain, rather than the poor sod who lives in a road with 48 NNTP leeches and can't even get to this email. Not 100% on that though so happy to be corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MrFunk Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 That's what I thought too, but I know the people "around here" are getting similar performance to me across the various ISPs. My mates in the centre of town seem to have far more performance at peak times even with broadly similar sync speeds. Or maybe they've just got lucky for now? Either way I think we're at about the limit that the domestic infrastructure over here is going to support and as more and more people take an upgrade to VDSL it isn't going to get any better. On the plus side 4G is brilliant, I'm considering switching my router over to using that for its primary connection, no good for gaming but great for everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooahhdoo Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Just been upgraded on Sure to VDSL+ First test to Bluewave:- Second test to Manx Telecom:- Final test to Namesco in London:- Bit disappointed in this really as its the same download give or take but only the upload has increased. This is Sync'd at 82339kb DOWN AND 10999kb up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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