Taking the Biscuit
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Not bad for a 8mb line.
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I am with Bethere on an 8meg service. My connection has been dire for the last week or so. Supposedly a Countrywide fault on their Network
Speed Test Results
Date21/11/10 20:51:01
Speed Down 632.51 Kbps ( 0.6 Mbps )
Speed Up 840.40 Kbps ( 0.8 Mbps )
How fast would a file download? I get a max of 8Mbps. When I'm downloading a file in google chrome, chrome tells me that I'm downloading at a speed of around 600kbs. Bear in mind this is when I am at my max of 8Mbps according to speedtest.net Is this normal?
I am having problems at the momement my speed was about 1.5mb for adsl with fast but now its about .8mb which for me that is a huge drop. Fast wont do anything about it as bt says thats acceptable for my line
Also I noticed my ping is high which for a gamer it is not good.
The saga continues...
Shortly after I created this thread I phoned up virgin and had a right ol' moan, they asked me to do the speed test again under safe mode which I did, to the same poor results (shocker) and they said if the problem continues in to next week to give them a shout.
After that I went on holiday for a month, but the house mates said the connection was ok, they even report seeing some virgin engineers doing some activity across the street. All was well.
But alas! Now the universities have started the internet has become terrible again. There are quite a few student houses on this street, and from the terrible speed drop, it would seem that they are all virgin media users. The system just cannot cope with the levels.
Tonight I have done several speed tests, the first coming out with a slow but manageable 7, the next 5, then 15, the one after... 1mb/s this one I took a screen shot of with the intention of showing this forum, but I gave up trying to upload it.
The current speed test highlights another problem with the virgin media connection. The test was going normally until the download bar was almost full, at this point the download seemed to just stop, and not finish. Originally the speed was 10.7x mb/s, it has been on a slow decline since then and currently the download still hasn't finished with the speed showing 10.26 mb/s
This complete drop of in connection has been observed by several other house mates while downloading, or worse streaming video - It just doesn't buffer any more.
By far the worse thing about the connection though is the upload speeds every time I've ran the test its been 0.07 mb/s
Now I'm not sure whether the 2mb upload upgrade has arrived where I am yet, but even if we are on the 768kb/s package, we are getting less than 1% of what we pay for.
Completely unacceptable.
I will phone virgin later on tonight, but you can be damned sure I won't be going with them next year.
Shortly after I created this thread I phoned up virgin and had a right ol' moan, they asked me to do the speed test again under safe mode which I did, to the same poor results (shocker) and they said if the problem continues in to next week to give them a shout.
After that I went on holiday for a month, but the house mates said the connection was ok, they even report seeing some virgin engineers doing some activity across the street. All was well.
But alas! Now the universities have started the internet has become terrible again. There are quite a few student houses on this street, and from the terrible speed drop, it would seem that they are all virgin media users. The system just cannot cope with the levels.
Tonight I have done several speed tests, the first coming out with a slow but manageable 7, the next 5, then 15, the one after... 1mb/s this one I took a screen shot of with the intention of showing this forum, but I gave up trying to upload it.
The current speed test highlights another problem with the virgin media connection. The test was going normally until the download bar was almost full, at this point the download seemed to just stop, and not finish. Originally the speed was 10.7x mb/s, it has been on a slow decline since then and currently the download still hasn't finished with the speed showing 10.26 mb/s
This complete drop of in connection has been observed by several other house mates while downloading, or worse streaming video - It just doesn't buffer any more.
By far the worse thing about the connection though is the upload speeds every time I've ran the test its been 0.07 mb/s
Now I'm not sure whether the 2mb upload upgrade has arrived where I am yet, but even if we are on the 768kb/s package, we are getting less than 1% of what we pay for.
Completely unacceptable.
I will phone virgin later on tonight, but you can be damned sure I won't be going with them next year.
For VM its 6 and 8 hours respectively last time i checked.
7.5GB during 10am-3pm - 6 Hours throttled
3.5GB between 4pm and 9pm - 8 hours throttled
Have heard of instances where people have been throttled for 12+ hours though
dont spread misinformation please its always 5hours throttled
http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html
even if traffic shaping ends 5minutes after you get throttled your still throttled for a full 5 hours
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You're lucky, I pay for 20Mb broadband with Virgin, and I struggle to get 1.6Mbps on a good day!
I'm sure if prices of broadband was scaled by the speed you get they would very quickly start investing in infrastructure to bring speeds up...
I'm sure if prices of broadband was scaled by the speed you get they would very quickly start investing in infrastructure to bring speeds up...
Am I reading that right? You've downloaded over 1TB in a month?
Correct, that was higher than usual though. Generally about 600gb a month, the steam sale didn't help!
