Virgin National Ethernet and Ethernet Extention services are 100/Full forced for 100Mb, or auto/auto for 1Gb. They're always end to end tested before hand over an don't generally have speed issues, unless there are any neg mis-matches. That's for their L2 stuff though. Not really worked with their managed IP stuff. If having speed issues, probably best to give them a call and see if either they'll match what you want, or so you can match theirs.
Craig Craig Aspey Network Engineer Metronet (UK) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Paul Mansfield <paul+uk...@mansfield.co.uk> Sender: uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 18:55:14 To: <uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk> Subject: [uknof] virgin media delivered leased line fibre service - their CPE and us, and expected speeds. 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
