This looks like a good point to jump in and try to make sense of what Now TV and Netvigator are telling me...
Moving in tomorrow to a flat in Pokfulam. I understand the wiring down the road has been replaced within the last year. Moving from Tai Tam where I was on Netvigator for internet and I-Cable for TV.
The people from Now sales have, for the longest time, not given me a diagram of their connections.
I assumed the modem would have two RJ-45s - one for Netvigator, and one for the NOW decoder.
As we have two phone lines, I thought putting the living room TV on one modem and the bedroom TV on another, one to each phone line, would give the TV and two internet connections.
But, no, the NOW sales guy says put one modem on Netvigator, and two modems on the TVs - and all on one phone line.
I'm a techie, but never have understood TV sales departments.
How would this work in the real world for best internet and good TV - sounds like the restriction might be in the street...
Thanks - Ron
Originally Posted by hk.com:
At least part of Netvigator that I get to use, on a 4M/4M symmetric on average maxes out at 1.6Mbit.
After getting tired of slow start times and cpu hogging of the Firefox Download Manager, I installed a plug-in "Get them Down" For the first time I saw the circuit do 3Mbit-4Mbit, whilst downloading Solaris 10 (7 CDs). I actually had come to believe that the circuit could not even do those throughputs or the DSL part of the network was congested. Also a first to see a single connection going above 200KB/s - Business Netvigator vDSL at its best!
My conclusion is that the each TCP connection is rate limited.