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[soms]

Its all well and good when your in the half of the population who can receive cable 

[Broadband1]

Thanks 

By the way is it possible to have cable broadband and ADSL in the same house ?

[soms]

By the way is it possible to have cable broadband and ADSL in the same house ?

Indeed it certainly is.

ADSL requires a BT phone line and cable broadband requires a cable connection, both of which are supplied completely seperately.

I know little about cable since I don't know anyone who has it, but i believe is uses a hybrid coax/copper pairs cable to supply services into the customer premises.

The coax supplies the cable TV and broadband and the copper pair is used to provide a phone line.

All of that then connects onto some kind of a fibre network in the street somewhere. The cable network is fibre to curb, not sure if it is fibre to the premises yet? You mentioned an engineer coming to install fibre?

[Broadband1]

Yup an engineer is coming round maybe Virgin might gimme good speeds but I always wandered how Cable works as I understand how ADSL1/2/2+ works but not Cable I understand how Sattelite works expensive its expensive and has high latency.

[kitz]

Yep different technology and possible to have both - hence me saying make sure you cancel rather than using a MAC key (which you cant anyhow).. or you could find yourself landed with 2 bills.

As soms says cable is where you connect to the cable network, rather than it having to go over your telephone wires.. therefore doesnt suffer the kind of problems associated with the copper pair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem_termination_system

Unfortunately though cable services isnt something thats available to a large proportion of the UK, and since cable telecoms mostly  stopped laying new cable in or around 2001ish then its meant that for an awful lot of people they dont have this choice.
I won't bore you with a lecture on that and how once upon a time there used to be quite a few cable cos..  and now how theres only really Virgin (or Smallworld if you're in Scotland) 

[Broadband1]

Well as a final report on Vigin Media Cable out of 20Mb I can proudly say I'm recieving approximately 12.3Mb which is aprroximately 25x faster than what i recieved on BT's ADSL which I still use oh and i saw a pretty sharp improvement in speeds on ADSL in 2or 3days speeds shot from 500k to 5500k

[kitz]

>> I can proudly say I'm recieving approximately 12.3Mb

Thats good news

With cable though because of the different technology you should perhaps be able to get a bit more than that?
Have you tried doing a speed test during a "quieter part of the day".
I believe VMs speeds can vary depending on time of day and other peoples usage.

However since this is a vast improvement from what you were previously getting I should imagine you are happy

[Broadband1]

Of course im happy I did a test this morning It showed as 15.8Mbps so thats a speed boost and a bit more thanks guys and on the ADSL side i decided to keep BT on as the speed is now at 6.9Mbps which isn't too bad compared to Cable (what am i saying !!)

[oldfogy]

Of course im happy I did a test this morning It showed as 15.8Mbps so thats a speed boost and a bit more thanks guys and on the ADSL side i decided to keep BT on as the speed is now at 6.9Mbps which isn't too bad compared to Cable (what am i saying !!)

Meh I seen faster, I get almost 17Megs on Virgin Media upto 20Meg Cable Fibre

?

[Broadband1]

Maybe an over exaggeration there Sorry matey 

[Broadband1]

By the way do these line stats look good:

Uptime:   0 days, 0:09:03
Modulation:   G.992.1 Annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:   448 / 8,096
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [KB/MB]:   439.00 / 2.23
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:   12.0 / 19.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:   13.0 / 26.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:   21.0 / 12.0
Vendor ID (Local/Remote):   TMMB / TSTC
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):   0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):   96 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):   0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote):   0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):   660 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down):   0 / 480
CRC Errors (Up/Down):   0 / 2
HEC Errors (Up/Down):   0 / 2

[roseway]

Yes, they look good.

[Broadband1]

My line is getting FEC and CRC errors for fun now

And is it normal for my SNR to go down after a sync speed increase ?

And do I need to wait 3days for my IP Profile to catch up to my new Sync Speed.

[mr_chris]

> And is it normal for my SNR to go down after a sync speed increase ?

Yes

> And do I need to wait 3days for my IP Profile to catch up to my new Sync Speed.

Yes, anything up to 5 days

[Jameseh]

This might border on being a cunning plan, but I don't think there would be any harm in getting BT to place a modify order on your line to move you to a fixed rate 512Kbps service and then to move you back to the IPStream Max service.

A good ISP would be more than happy to do that for you.