50MB Virgin Media

Psypher5 · 7 Aug 2010 at 19:46

Lord-Jaffa said:
I get a constant 6meg/sec 24h a day from newsgroups.

Moving soon though to a non cabled area, going to be sad times indeed

ive gone from 50meg steam downloads to 60k a second max. Fun times. Fun... (beacuse ive moved aswell)

MiNxYyY · 7 Aug 2010 at 20:02

I get 50mb 24hrs a day.

I get a solid 6.9mb's through Giganews all the time, and have an avaerage ping of 6-10 in all games

Jaysquirrel · 7 Aug 2010 at 20:45

For the past week and a half my internet has been atrocious, and I'm with VM 10Mb ADSL iirc. This is probably the first time in 4 years its been this bad.

Oh and no I haven't gone over any type of cap, the horrid speeds I've been getting make it physically impossible for me to reach any sort of cap

Last Sunday:

Also notice that was done during off-peak hours, not good.

madindehead · 7 Aug 2010 at 20:48

I will let you know what speeds I get on Wednesday once I get mine installed!

Ryan111 · 7 Aug 2010 at 20:49

If you are on ADSL that is your problem mate.

Jaysquirrel · 7 Aug 2010 at 20:54

Ryan111 said:
If you are on ADSL that is your problem mate.

I have the uuh, L package, up to 10Mb

oli356 · 7 Aug 2010 at 20:59

MiNxYyY said:
I get 50mb 24hrs a day.

I get a solid 6.9mb's through Giganews all the time, and have an avaerage ping of 6-10 in all games

6.9, how does that work out :S?

FreeStream · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:01

MiNxYyY said:
I get 50mb 24hrs a day.

I get a solid 6.9mb's through Giganews all the time, and have an avaerage ping of 6-10 in all games

The utter limit of 50Mb is 6.25 so I declare lies

10Mb VM BB is fine in Bristol atm.

Swifty55 · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:02

Jaysquirrel said:
I have the uuh, L package, up to 10Mb

You're not on ADSL then...

Swifty55 · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:04

Concorde Rules said:
The utter limit of 50Mb is 6.25 so I declare lies

10Mb VM BB is fine in Bristol atm.

Wish I had lower pings though!

MiNxYyY · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:34

Concorde Rules said:
The utter limit of 50Mb is 6.25 so I declare lies

10Mb VM BB is fine in Bristol atm.

Oh do you? Well i can assure you when i download through giganews, my connection speed is 6.89kbs, give or take a few kbs

FreeStream · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:45

MiNxYyY said:
Oh do you? Well i can assure you when i download through giganews, my connection speed is 6.89kbs, give or take a few kbs

Well I don't see how that is possible.

50M/bits / 8 = 6.25MB/sec - overhead = ~6.23MB/sec
10M/bits / 8 = 1.25MB/sec - overhead = ~1.23Mb/sec (Thats what I get from astraweb with 5 connections - IE the utter MAX my connection can have)

Home connection is synced at 8658Kbits which is 1082KB/sec, but I only get 900KB/sec max...

Your software is lying unless VM are being generous and giving you a 55Mbit connection!!!

MiNxYyY · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:47

Why do you only use 5 connections?

I use 20.

FreeStream · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:55

MiNxYyY said:
Why do you only use 5 connections?

I use 20.

Because 5 saturates my connection? Three saturates it but it's not that stable. I don't see the point in doing anymore, and besides, it reduces the chances of corrupt downloads as the Mac client is abit iffy on the shutdown if you do too much at once.

Rainmaker · 7 Aug 2010 at 21:58

Well actually if you check your modem's config file you're actually being sent 53Mbps. VM do this to ensure that a customer can still get the full 50Mbps after overheads and minor signal loss over coax.

That said, even if you got the full 53 - which is imposisble, due to overheads etc - you'd still only be pulling 6.63MB/sec (or 6.32MiB/sec). Receiving 6.9MB/sec is impossible, unless your modem config file says something higher than 53Mbps, which they don't.

However I noticed MiNxYyY quoted Kbps... a miscalculation maybe?

MiNxYyY · 7 Aug 2010 at 22:00

This is my astraweb connection.

20 connections

which is 6.36Mbps, which is still higher than the numbers your saying i can achieve.

Rainmaker · 7 Aug 2010 at 22:03

MiNxYyY said:
This is my astraweb connection.

20 connections

which is 6.36Mbps, which is still higher than the numbers your saying i can achieve.[/quote]

Erm, no. 6336.9KB/sec equates to 50.69Mbps, aka 6.34MB/sec. Well within the realms of the figures I posted above. ;) You said you were getting 6.9 MB/sec, a much higher figure. :p

FreeStream · 7 Aug 2010 at 22:04

MiNxYyY said:
This is my astraweb connection.

20 connections

snip

which is 6.36Mbps, which is still higher than the numbers your saying i can achieve.

What does your TaskManager say?

You might be one lucky person who gets more than the 50Mb!

Whatever you might say 6.25MB/sec is the utter transfer limit of a 50Mbit connection, unless my networking knowledge is completely out of date, but living with a Computer Science dude Im pretty sure im correct

MiNxYyY · 7 Aug 2010 at 22:06

Concorde Rules said:
Well I don't see how that is possible.

50M/bits / 8 = 6.25MB/sec - overhead = ~6.23MB/sec
10M/bits / 8 = 1.25MB/sec - overhead = ~1.23Mb/sec (Thats what I get from astraweb with 5 connections - IE the utter MAX my connection can have)

He has posted there i can only achieve a maximum of 6.23, but my SS clearly shows me achieving higher than that :/

Rainmaker · 7 Aug 2010 at 22:06

Concorde Rules said:
What does your TaskManager say?

You might be one lucky person who gets more than the 50Mb!

Whatever you might say 6.25MB/sec is the utter transfer limit of a 50Mbit connection, unless my networking knowledge is completely out of date, but living with a Computer Science dude Im pretty sure im correct

As I said above mate, he was wrong to say 6.9MB/sec but the figures he now (much more accurately) quotes are easily correct. Again as I said earlier, VM actually provide 53Mbps not 50Mbps (check your modem config file). I also get 6.32MB/sec downstream, which is almost 51Mbps. That, I can believe. 6.9 was just too high however.