Virgin Media - 100mb

I currently use 20mb from Virgin Media, it's choppy during the evenings which is a nightmare, but it may be my 8-10 or so year old router causing the problems.

If it wasn't choppy, 20mb at our current speed would be more than enough for my household.
 
Nothing but good things to say about my experiences on 100mb with them. It's worlds away from when I was on a 20mb package and being capped constantly.

I don't think I could go without it now. :o
 
Heard the same about Virgin, if your in a student area then its a no no, but if you get lucky with under subscribed area its great. Plus they have 18 month contracts which is crazy IMO
 
platypus said:
50MB is more than enough for everyone. I wish they'd spend money increasing capacity, especially for peak times, rather than headline speeds which not everyone can get.
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Fingers crossed - I'd be happy with 50mb if it was at 100% of the time.
 
orderoftheflame said:
Nothing but good things to say about my experiences on 100mb with them. It's worlds away from when I was on a 20mb package and being capped constantly.

I don't think I could go without it now. :o
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I was in the same boat as you, was on the 20mb (got about 1mb most of the time) - increased my evening download speed by about 120 times lol.
 
divaboy said:
Heard the same about Virgin, if your in a student area then its a no no, but if you get lucky with under subscribed area its great. Plus they have 18 month contracts which is crazy IMO
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Yeah, I'm lucky in that most of the people in my area are 50+ home-owners - virtually no students at all.

I don't really "need" 100mb to be fair, but I didn't want to suffer any form of traffic management, as I never get to use the internet outside of management times anything below 100mb isn't worth the upgrade.

Definitely learned not the trust the online speed tester websites, they are a waste of space.

Annoyingly, now I've got the holy grail of the internet I can't think of anything to download lol... if you had asked me last week I'd have listed 50 steam games + films I've wanted to download (but didn't want to kill the connection for the g/f).
 
platypus said:
50MB is more than enough for everyone. I wish they'd spend money increasing capacity, especially for peak times, rather than headline speeds which not everyone can get.
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Until 5k resolutions come along. In my area I can run 50mbit 24/7, very high capacity. I just want decent upload now. I will be getting doubled to 100mb in june :o.
 
Do you mean a 1080p trailer in 5 mins? Because I am on BT Infinity 40mb and a full 1080p film takes at least 45 minutes depending on size.
 
My concern is that unless they are doing major capacity upgrades on the backbone and local UBRs giving pretty much everyone headline speeds of >50mb is going to result in carnage in terms of latency, pack loss etc...
 
ay, I get closer to 120mb (not sure why I'ts faster than the 100mb but can't complain), short film - so perhaps 10mins would be a better estimate for a longer one ;).
 
platypus said:
50MB is more than enough for everyone. I wish they'd spend money increasing capacity, especially for peak times, rather than headline speeds which not everyone can get.
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Agreed - but then again where we are we can't get cable anyway (despite living in the big smoke!).
 
Athanor said:
My concern is that unless they are doing major capacity upgrades on the backbone and local UBRs giving pretty much everyone headline speeds of >50mb is going to result in carnage in terms of latency, pack loss etc...
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The speed upgrades are more than just tweaking a few settings, they are spending £100m+ to allow for these upgrades.
 
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