Virgin media is pure awesomeness !!!

January I downloaded 176Gb up 114Gb


I thought I had a full month's record for December but somehow its not complete. Most d/l in a day was 22Gb. I d/l 76Gb u/l 29Gb in the week begining 12/1/09.

Just torrents and direct downloads, no newsgroups.

Gaming is good and stable ping can even play without problems on US servers. I played project reality a mod for battlefield 2 which is a fps.



 
Werewolf said:
Contact VM, it sounds like the signal is too weak for the number of devices or the splitter isn't working properly/is damaged (it's possible it was set up and was fine originally, but a change in the levels at the street box are causing problems).
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Seems you are right. The tech popped up to the box at the top of the road. I had a new wire installed not too long ago, and he said they have plugged it into the wrong one :o I'm the furthest away from the box so needed to be plugged into another slot, or something!.

Soon as he did it, my service has shot back online and stayed online! (It was all offline when he come)


^^ 10MB Broadband

See how it goes in the next week. I have the area managers number if it doesn't work as it should ;)
 
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My 20MB:

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virgin on my pc just went down, gives me connextion issue white page, im connected up to virgin atm via my phone and its fine. Any ideas?

edit - also seems like 192.168.1.1 no longer connects to router?!?
 
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Does Virgin actually lay cable anymore? As in places that dont have fibre optic, is there any chance of them ever getting it soon?

Can't get it where i am. Fastest i can get is 5mb on ADSL2+.
 
Camalot said:
virgin on my pc just went down, gives me connextion issue white page, im connected up to virgin atm via my phone and its fine. Any ideas?

edit - also seems like 192.168.1.1 no longer connects to router?!?
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Maybe you need to reset your router or try to connect without the router as a test.
 
Nymins said:
Does Virgin actually lay cable anymore? As in places that dont have fibre optic, is there any chance of them ever getting it soon?

Can't get it where i am. Fastest i can get is 5mb on ADSL2+.
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I think I saw something about registering interest in a service which might influence them to lay cable, could be making this up though.
 
does anyone know what Virgins explansion plans are for the 50MB service in what areas they are installing it next and how soon and so on?
 
megatron said:
I think I saw something about registering interest in a service which might influence them to lay cable, could be making this up though.
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£4bn of debt, struggling to refinance it, credit crunch and recession. It's unlikely anything would come of it.
 
Camalot said:
tried, wont connect via 192.168.100.1 either. Reinstalled network drivers which also didnt work. Im stuck! never had this before.
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Be more specific about what you tried. The service might be down but your router should never be down, its a million to one that your router and service are down at the same time. You have to try and eliminate possible problems of why your tinternet in't workin' m8.
 
megatron said:
Be more specific about what you tried. The service might be down but your router should never be down, its a million to one that your router and service are down at the same time. You have to try and eliminate possible problems of why your tinternet in't workin' m8.
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Well. The service and router are working. I know this because i can use my phone to connect to the router and use my virgin service, also the laptop works fine, which is how im posting now.

I was simply chatting on MSN when it signed out, and all connectivity seemed to die. No webpage would load etc.

I couldn't connect to the router via the normal 192.168.1.1, which suggested the pc and router wasn't talking to each other. So i connected the modem to the pc directly. This didn't seem to work either. I tried to connect to the modem via the usual 192.168.100.1 way. This wouldn't connect.

I've tried numuros reboots of both router and modem. I've tried different cables. Reinstall the network drivers. I'm totally stumped. All i was doing was listening to a song on youtube and chatting to a mate on MSN.

I need an excuse to format anyway, need to get rid of Win7.
 
taken from the VM 50meg speed tester:

File size transferred : 1.0 MB (1048576 bytes)
Total time taken : 21.34 seconds (21338 milliseconds)
Throughput : 49.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 0.05 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 392.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 0.39 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]

yay 20meg speeds!11
 
Psypher5 said:
taken from the VM 50meg speed tester:

File size transferred : 1.0 MB (1048576 bytes)
Total time taken : 21.34 seconds (21338 milliseconds)
Throughput : 49.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 0.05 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 392.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 0.39 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]

yay 20meg speeds!11
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lol, try downloading a bigger file than 1mb.
 
it takes too long... i cant even load web pages properly


today:

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:20:35 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 11268 ms = 90.9 KB/sec, approx 749 Kbps, 0.73 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 11561 ms = 88.6 KB/sec, approx 730 Kbps, 0.71 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 7592 ms = 134.9 KB/sec, approx 1112 Kbps, 1.09 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 14725 ms = 139.1 KB/sec, approx 1146 Kbps, 1.12 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 934 Kbps, 0.91 Mbps


To repeat this test from the source server click here.

sigh.
 
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Is it possible to find out what areas are planned to have fibre optic broadband installed by Virgin? The area I live in has not been upgraded and I would like to know if there are any plans for it to be.
 
Scarfacé said:
Is it possible to find out what areas are planned to have fibre optic broadband installed by Virgin? The area I live in has not been upgraded and I would like to know if there are any plans for it to be.
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It's not fiber optic broadband as such, VM's services make use of the same hybrid fiber-coax cable network we've had since the 1990's. If you live in a cable area not a lot has changed really, and if you don't live in a cable area it's unlikely to become one because VM are so heavily in debt.
 
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File size transferred : 1.0 MB (1048576 bytes)
Total time taken : 3.63 seconds (3631 milliseconds)
Throughput : 288.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 0.29 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 2304.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 2.3 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]


well blow me. Update my arse xD
 
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