Hi Paul, We have a LOT of VM national Ethernet and I can confirm that the norm is to have to fix each end on 100 Full, not sure on MIA though where they provide a managed router!
Regards... Ben Sent from my iPhone On 2 Aug 2013, at 18:55, Paul Mansfield <[email protected]> wrote: > So we've just had a VM 100Mb/s fibre service activated. I was worried > that with all the talk about them and their contractor Kelly likely to > be problematic, but it's actually gone fairly smoothly, and apart from > the ADSL backup not working yet, was actually delivered ahead of > schedule. The Kelly contractors, a pair who laid the fibre, and a > subcontractor who did the splicing turned up in the expected time > frame and did their jobs effectively. > > I did a speed test and the performance was a tad disappointing, it > should be 50M symmetric but the best I could get was 34M down and 14M > up with a ping time of 7ms, both from a netbook using web browser, and > android phone using speedtest app. > > I wondered whether our side of the Cisco they installed shouldn't be > on auto-negotiate but instead be fixed at 100M full duplex; this > initially sped things up but it reverted back. > > > So my questions are: > * do VirginMedia generally set the customer side of their CPE to fixed > speed/duplex or leave it on auto? > * should we expect upload and download speeds with VM to run at the > maximum contracted speed all the time? > > > thanks very much > Paul >
