Anyone else on Virgin internet?

manic111

manic111

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This is killing me! On my 8mbps connection I am currently downloading CoH:OF from steam at 12kbps. Its absolutely ridiculous. Anyone else having problems with Virgin?

I know it isnt Steam, or my router, as it is the same speed on all the PCs in the house, and on other websites as well.
 
Could be steam, my 20mb line never maxes out through steam, only get about 500k/s sometimes. Sometimes i get less, sometimes more.
 
I have just reduced my 20 to 4 & have noticed No difference whilst gaming :cool:
I've always had a rock solid connection & I've been with them for years. Virgin/NTL/Telewest i think it really depends on where you are in the country rather than who is running it.

Through Steam i Always get around a Meg/s About the one place that actually trys to stress your connection.
 
Fair enough-its just a real pain, I was getting upwards of 300kbps the other day from Steam, and over 700kbps from GamersHell when I downloaded the PES demo-just typical that when I spend $40 on a game it wont work for me! Ah well, guess I will just try again tonight!!!
 
I think it's a problem with steam to be fair. I was talking to a friend who is on some random DSL provider, and his steam downloads were painfully slow, but did speed up eventually.

Steam has always been poor for me as well, I'm on virgin cable, I'm on the 4mb package and speeds can be anywhere from 50K/s to 440K/s on steam. I have absolutely no problems downloaded files from anywhere else though.

I don't want to say steam is rubbish, because its not now, and I like the platform . . . but. . . steam's bandwidth is obviously rubbish :P.
 
usefull info, i got the 'orange' pack yesterday, took many hours to DL TF2, 20mb line =/

newsgroups are fine though.
 
Also bare in mind that Virgin Inernet now throttle connections, if you download more than xxx ammount (3Gb for me) between the hours of 4pm and midnight your connection gets capped.

In my case as im on 20Mb if download 3Gb or more after 4pm (more than possible in just an hour) then the rest of the night i will be capped at 5Mb resulting in horrible download speeds.

For your 8Mb connection I think the limit is 1Gb and you get capped at 2Mb.

Also this does affect your upload speed also which could result in horrible speeds over all.
 
MadMossy said:
Also bare in mind that Virgin Inernet now throttle connections.
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Yes noticed this in the small print the other day. Sneaky little gits. Never had this problem with blueyonder or telewest :mad:

By the sounds of it though you have definetly had your service capped due to high downloads.
 
I've had 2 things being downloaded today. 1 has continued at it's original speed, My CoH:OF download speed has dropped to a crawl.
 
I'm in the same boat, at least I'm getting 100kb/s but it's still going to take at least a day to d/l and I only bought it because I had a day off. :mad:
 
I'm about to write to them and complain about my connection. I pay for a 4Mb line but on average see about 1Mb which I think is terrible - it's cable so i would have thought it would be a stable connection.

I've done all the usual things, made sure no software is downloading anything and run the bare minimum in windows to no avail.

These are the connection speeds i've been getting:-

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with cable your meant to get the full speed...not the upto speed.

it was only the last 2 years i was with ntl that i didnt get the full speed ...the other 8 years it was always what they said it would be.
 
That would make sense; I downloaded the Pro Evo demo and CoH demo earlier. That is exceptionally cheeky, and I am not overly happy-grrr!

Incidentally, does that mean that after 12pm my DL speed will be back to normal?
 
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memory said:
with cable your meant to get the full speed...not the upto speed.

it was only the last 2 years i was with ntl that i didnt get the full speed ...the other 8 years it was always what they said it would be.
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On the VM site it says "upto", the same as ADSL. No-one can guarantee a speed as there are too many factors involved that could slow it down.
 
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