Wednesday marks World IPv6 Launch Day, when many major websites such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft turn on IPv6 on their homepages. On 6th June 2011, we saw a 24-hour trial of IPv6 on the main website addresses of these sites to test for any problems, but this year IPv6 will stay enabled for good...
As this now out think lot would like to no when we are to get this service..
As thought this was long way off and it not any more..
The 60Mb broadband is £20 a month (vs £19 for the 50Mb). We are planning to upgrade existing customers to 60Mb at the slightly higher price in either August or September - still tbc.
We are still expecting 100Mb to launch November this year, once our core network upgrade is completed.
I've been looking at this thread for a while. I'm based in Carlisle and my speeds are pretty much spot on for the most part, no complaints there.
Jetstorm72 the speedtest you upload from "speedtest.net" is testing from a server from Aberdeen
I was advised my the guys on tech support to test from the Morecambe server, 80.255.220.2 or 84.19.126.16, which most of the time comes back with my speed or there abouts.
What sort of speeds do you get from that server instead of Aberdeen? I did a test from the Aberdeen and got around half my speed http://www.speedtest.net/result/1967333732.png Testing from Morecambe i get between 45 and 50
Last week new price was £20 for 60 and now it £22.
Thought you new prices where to match virgin
witch they charge 18.50 for 60mb line...
Hi
We had to re-look at the pricing with some extra investment we need to make, and realised that we needed to increase it by more than £1 to reflect the extra capacity that would be required. We had tried to give an early indication of price (the price doesn't kick in until August 1st) and underestimated what we needed to charge I'm afraid.
VM do charge a little less on this, but they also throttle bandwidth and use traffic management - we do neither.
With the service out age on Monday for carlisle.
And your call centre getting over loaded with calls.
Why not have a option when dial in, to here an update network status, witch will help cut down call times, and also be very informational to every one..
plus calisle has vanished from your network status.
how are the speeds on smallworld in irvine these days?
considering two 60M feeds and bonding them with a L2TP tunnel to a colo- give me 120M down (and 200M+ downstream once 100M comes online!) and some nice static IP's :-)
..drool.
Quite surprised at the use of Linux/vyetta routers - having said that, we deployed our own OpenBSD routers at work (using CARP for HA!) and are pushing 300Mbit+/s through them without breaking a sweat.
Also a C&W leased line customer here - not been too bad for us in the middle of nowhere - but again - account management a nightmare!
Nice to see smallworld have a "real" network these days - a far-cry from the "old" demon/thus leased line..
Havent updated here in a while. Speeds have been rock solid since work carried out months ago and with the introduction of 60mbps.
Unbeatable service. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2110084136.png
Web sluggish today. Cannot get speedtest to work - says 100% loaded, but no test showing or working on OSX 10.4.11. Managed to get it working on OSX 10.5.8 and speeds down (supposed to be 60 ...) reported of 18.07, 28.96, 17.96!
Must be a balrog somewhere in the dustbin.
Double-checked with direct connection to computer (not via router). Still cannot get speedtest to load properly and start on OSX 10.4.11 whether I use Firefox, Safari or Omniweb.
I'm having the same issues. I have just upgraded to 30mb (everything was working fine with my previous 10mb connection) but since the change I have been getting nothing above 6.5mbps on the speed tests and web pages are taking forever to load (if they load at all). I contacted Smallworld who assured me that they can not see any issues at all from their end. They tried to say it was my system and maybe a virus but its a fresh install as I just bought a new hard drive and its the same using my tablet. Now and again it does jump up to about 15-20 meg but lasts only for a few moments before its back down again.
In fact for the past hour it's been the worst it has been. Websites just refusing to load, takes about 4 hits of the refresh button for it to work and speed test coming in at 2mb !
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We could, though our existing infrastructure will support 400Mb down, so that should be enough for some while yet.
Thanks
David
As this now out think lot would like to no when we are to get this service..
As thought this was long way off and it not any more..
http://www.smallworldcable.com/Fibre-Optic-Broadband/60Mb
Hi Andrew
The 60Mb broadband is £20 a month (vs £19 for the 50Mb). We are planning to upgrade existing customers to 60Mb at the slightly higher price in either August or September - still tbc.
We are still expecting 100Mb to launch November this year, once our core network upgrade is completed.
Thanks
David
www.smallworldcable.com
Jetstorm72 the speedtest you upload from "speedtest.net" is testing from a server from Aberdeen
I was advised my the guys on tech support to test from the Morecambe server, 80.255.220.2 or 84.19.126.16, which most of the time comes back with my speed or there abouts.
What sort of speeds do you get from that server instead of Aberdeen? I did a test from the Aberdeen and got around half my speed http://www.speedtest.net/result/1967333732.png Testing from Morecambe i get between 45 and 50
John
Last week new price was £20 for 60 and now it £22.
Thought you new prices where to match virgin
witch they charge 18.50 for 60mb line...
Hi
We had to re-look at the pricing with some extra investment we need to make, and realised that we needed to increase it by more than £1 to reflect the extra capacity that would be required. We had tried to give an early indication of price (the price doesn't kick in until August 1st) and underestimated what we needed to charge I'm afraid.
VM do charge a little less on this, but they also throttle bandwidth and use traffic management - we do neither.
Thanks
David
www.smallworldcable.com
Just ider as well.
With the service out age on Monday for carlisle.
And your call centre getting over loaded with calls.
Why not have a option when dial in, to here an update network status, witch will help cut down call times, and also be very informational to every one..
plus calisle has vanished from your network status.
Thanks
considering two 60M feeds and bonding them with a L2TP tunnel to a colo- give me 120M down (and 200M+ downstream once 100M comes online!) and some nice static IP's :-)
..drool.
Quite surprised at the use of Linux/vyetta routers - having said that, we deployed our own OpenBSD routers at work (using CARP for HA!) and are pushing 300Mbit+/s through them without breaking a sweat.
Also a C&W leased line customer here - not been too bad for us in the middle of nowhere - but again - account management a nightmare!
Nice to see smallworld have a "real" network these days - a far-cry from the "old" demon/thus leased line..
Yes, though you will need to reboot your modem.
The average speeds may take a bit of hit this week though since the whole world seems to be streaming iPlayer as we all go Olympics crazy....
Kind regards
David
www.smallworldcable.com
Unbeatable service.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2110084136.png
Down (last 3) 59.45, 59.74, 59.89
Up: 5.61, 5.58, 5.72
So the 60 is working fine.
NB, if I go via the router (which I need for peripherals), the speed drops to about 43 down, but is 5.6 up.
Must be a balrog somewhere in the dustbin.
Download ... 16!
Speeds tonight: 6.4 down, 4.86 up; then 24, 5.09 and then 25,56, 5.16
(Via Morecambe). Erratic ...