Virgin media is pure awesomeness !!!
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ive just upgraded to the 10meg service from the 2meg service and its great. as with the 2meg one I always get full speed (about 1200k) until the STM kicks in, but if I ever want to download I usually schedule it to start at about midnight to avoid the capping, leaving my connection fast throughout the day.
Even if i do get capped, the capped speed is still about 60k faster than 2meg's full speed was anyway lol (~230k vs ~290k) so its still technically a win for me
Oh yeah!
That's the fastest I've had in a long time...
(on 20meg)
Suffice to say their service sucks big time!
I wouldn't put up with it tbh, if my service at home wasn't 20meg 99.9% of the time i would leave and go on adsl, guess am lucky to live in a area where its not oversubscribed so i get 2.33mbs day or night apart from stm.
ive just upgraded to the 10meg service from the 2meg service and its great. as with the 2meg one I always get full speed (about 1200k) until the STM kicks in, but if I ever want to download I usually schedule it to start at about midnight to avoid the capping, leaving my connection fast throughout the day.
Even if i do get capped, the capped speed is still about 60k faster than 2meg's full speed was anyway lol (~230k vs ~290k) so its still technically a win for me
Why do you not get closer to 10mb downloads?
He does he said" ive just upgraded to the 10meg service from the 2meg service and its great. as with the 2meg one I always get full speed (about 1200k) until the STM kicks in" then he said even when capped on 10 meg he still gets faster speeds than his full 2mb line.
Remember that on ADSL you'll be extremely luck to get anything close to 20mb, I know if I went on Be/O2 I would be getting around 5mb due to how far I am from the exchange. So even if you had 20mb but was only seeing 10/15 chances are you still would be better of with cable.
But it's the luck of the draw at the end of the day.
it doesnt quite round up like that. on 2meg i got 230k, 10meg gets me about 1200k (btw, i'm going by figures I get on SABnzbd, bit torrent etc when downloading at full speed, they are usually measured in KB/s and not Kb/s)
this is what I actually get on speedtest.net
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Its better for long homes that dont live near exchanges yes... but then again most of the country doesnt have a fibre network provided by a cable company where as pretty much everywhere has a phone line!
That coupled with the fact that Virgin arent exactly the best ISP out there... Its a tough decision! Ive unfortunately had to go from BE to Virgin because I moved further away from the exchange
If I was close to the exchange I would have definitely stuck with BE Its better for long homes that dont live near exchanges yes... but then again most of the country doesnt have a fibre network provided by a cable company where as pretty much everywhere has a phone line!
That coupled with the fact that Virgin arent exactly the best ISP out there... Its a tough decision! Ive unfortunately had to go from BE to Virgin because I moved further away from the exchange
What we be nice is an alternative to VM, A company that uses the same network but they install their own UBR's and manage them accordingly.
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I'd be off like a shot if I got 3.5Mb at nearly 2am on a 20Mb service.
This is the worst Speedtest.net result I've had since I joined:
They unbundled phoneline with LLU, why not cable?
This is the worst Speedtest.net result I've had since I joined:
They unbundled phoneline with LLU, why not cable?
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speedtest.net sucks for me recently so i prefer to just use an ftp program and ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
UPLOAD
[19:03:14] Transferred 1 file totaling 675 KB in 10.38 seconds (89.5 KB/s)
DOWNLOAD
[19:06:35] Transferred 1 file totaling 5.16 MB in 3.13 seconds (2,226.5 KB/s)
acording to speedtest.net i was barely getting over 10mbit speeds
UPLOAD
[19:03:14] Transferred 1 file totaling 675 KB in 10.38 seconds (89.5 KB/s)
DOWNLOAD
[19:06:35] Transferred 1 file totaling 5.16 MB in 3.13 seconds (2,226.5 KB/s)
acording to speedtest.net i was barely getting over 10mbit speeds
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Not bad for a 20 MB connection. =/
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I moved to Virgin Media after disconnects and ADSL getting slower and slower.
I found Virgin's service great setting the account up, installation was sooner than they said and engineers were excellent (even hid cables under my carpet).
Had no problems in a year so can't comment on after sales I guess and I am lucky to have cable available. Anyway I have never had a speedtest download below 19000 Kb/s since joining Virgin.
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I found Virgin's service great setting the account up, installation was sooner than they said and engineers were excellent (even hid cables under my carpet).
Had no problems in a year so can't comment on after sales I guess and I am lucky to have cable available. Anyway I have never had a speedtest download below 19000 Kb/s since joining Virgin.
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