100MB line in yesterday :)

KIA · 24 Sep 2011 at 15:04

Shaped 100Mb/s ain't nothing special.

mrk · 24 Sep 2011 at 15:14

Shaped?

Tikkabhuna · 24 Sep 2011 at 15:53

This new flat I just moved in to I'm supposed to get 2Mbps. At the start of the week I couldn't even open my uni email, since yesterday I get between 5-20Mbps. I was worried I wouldn't be able to play BF3.

Al Vallario · 24 Sep 2011 at 16:22

Rozzy85 · 24 Sep 2011 at 16:24

Epic speeds from an epic ISP.

Didn't think it would be that bad.

I'd be better of having what I had 5 years ago on this line (512kb from a local ISP, now defunct) than this from oversubscribed TalkTalk. Connection was stable and speeds always maxed out. I did reach the max 300KBps once like 8 months ago during a blue moon.

DJMK4 · 24 Sep 2011 at 16:40

I am still pleased with my unthrottled 19.5mb connection at the moment with BE

for £12 a month

I downloaded a single download the other week of 65gb in 9ish hours I think, not bad.

Camarilla · 24 Sep 2011 at 16:41

My ping makes me

MOOGLEYS · 24 Sep 2011 at 16:51

Al Vallario said:
The only traffic shaping on Virgin Media 100Mbps connections is P2P and Newsgroups during peak hours.

The latter can be bypassed by using port 443 (HTTPS) which is not shaped, and what kind of idiot uses P2P on a home connection?

They throttled mine down after downloading my 160gb steam folder during the day. :mad:

5punk3monk3y · 24 Sep 2011 at 17:18

Mine is not too bad on Tiscali

Smokey Deza · 24 Sep 2011 at 17:22

Sucks. I pay nearly £60 a month for 12Mbps yet people opposite side of my street all have access to 100Mbps and probably pay half what I pay.

Wynthorpe · 24 Sep 2011 at 18:32

You know i cant beleive companys like VM dont put fibre into new housing estates, The estate we live on gets 3mb down the copper and thats it, its terrible! Yet half a mile away they are enjoying VM with all their great services like TV and fibre internet etc... We arent even due to get BT fibre in Blackburn, it really grinds my gears.

RomanNose · 24 Sep 2011 at 18:34

Wynthorpe said:
You know i cant beleive companys like VM dont put fibre into new housing estates, The estate we live on gets 3mb down the copper and thats it, its terrible! Yet half a mile away they are enjoying VM with all their great services like TV and fibre internet etc... We arent even due to get BT fibre in Blackburn, it really grinds my gears.

Vm is in massive dept, I think it's about £150 million.

Fuzz · 24 Sep 2011 at 20:33

Brian8bit said:
So long as my streaming porn doesn't buffer, I really don't care what my line speed is.

Nothing worse than having to pause mid fap whilst the page loads!!

MillsyOC · 24 Sep 2011 at 20:34

Wynthorpe said:
You know i cant beleive companys like VM dont put fibre into new housing estates...

They can't. I'm not too sure of the specifics, but basically there is some kind of BT contract in place which prevents VM (or any ISP not using BT lines) from laying new cable for 5 years iirc.

KIA · 25 Sep 2011 at 12:52

Al Vallario said:
what kind of idiot uses P2P on a home connection?

An idiot with a decent ISP.

Al Vallario · 25 Sep 2011 at 13:08

Bwaaa · 25 Sep 2011 at 13:23

Right that's it, i'm calling VM tomorrow and getting myself an upgrade! Watching downloads crawl along at 100KB/s gone on far too long.

Tikkabhuna · 25 Sep 2011 at 13:31

MillsyOC said:
They can't. I'm not too sure of the specifics, but basically there is some kind of BT contract in place which prevents VM (or any ISP not using BT lines) from laying new cable for 5 years iirc.

/sigh

My mate is living in an area that was newly built and has the same issue. I would love to see the figures for how much it costs to lay fibre when they lay the road and how much when they do it after.

matthewwhitton · 25 Sep 2011 at 21:19

Supposed to be getting this....http://www.nextgenus.co.uk/ the wireless option,I live out in the sticks near Penrith Cumbria. Hoping for 50 meg plus, with the same upload

KIA · 26 Sep 2011 at 00:37

Al Vallario said:
Well, all UK ISPs as far as I'm aware retain data on your Internet usage in accordance with the Home Office's voluntary code of practice, so assuming you are referring to illegal P2P usage, there is no 'decent' ISP on which to engage in such activity.

Ergo, you have to be a bit of an idiot to do it on a home connection

Decent as in one without traffic shaping.