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Bought a March 2016 MyGeekBox from there pastbox page £12! (overstock they sell after the subscription month ends) (this stuff is worth £48 if you buy elsewhere). I dont subscribe to any boxes as the stuff is very hit and miss, but I wanted the Tardis in this box! Its a die cast heavy thing!
Ordered on Sunday night arrived this morning
Sorry for potato pictures :(
Nice if you like figures :) the transformers and wow figure are blind bags and the tshirt is surprisingly soft.
For anyone who wants to get one of the past boxes here is link http://www.mygeekbox.co.uk/shop/offers/10-past-box-sale.list

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Malevolence said:
Ignore the errant USB cable, just picked The Raid 2 up for £4.

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the best action movie ever!!
sadly the idiots at MPAA got its 2 demanded cuts, it's just a matter of consequence that the sequel had to face a similar fate.

i have seen the full original cut in cinworld its 20mins longer, there are some wow scenes end up taken in the blue ray.

F all the MPAA
 
Yesterday I upgraded my internet from 152Mb to 200Mb for £8 less per month.

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YouTube (and only YouTube) still buffers during evening core hours (5PM-10PM) :rolleyes:

Can't wait for the switch to to DOCSIS 3.1.
 
Janesy B said:
If you've got that kind of speed and youtube plays up, DOCSIS 3.1 isn't going to help.
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It's due to localised over-subscription (well know issue with many areas with VM). DOCSIS 3.1 is supposed to bring about much more capacity to the network for them, at present they're increasing speeds, but not increasing capacity to accommodate for it. Even though the new Vivid service was supposed to be on its own capacity too, but clearly it isn't.

Newsgroups download at full speed during teh same time periods, for example, as do other streaming sites.
 
Tephnos said:
No buffering ever on my BT Fibre :p

Your problem is with Virgin and the obvious throttling they do at peak times.
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Yup, though you should have no throttling if you are a customer of the top packages, they still do it. Monitor it and ring em up and they will sort it out temporarily.

The industry standard of customer service is terrible
 
mrk said:
It's due to localised over-subscription (well know issue with many areas with VM). DOCSIS 3.1 is supposed to bring about much more capacity to the network for them, at present they're increasing speeds, but not increasing capacity to accommodate for it. Even though the new Vivid service was supposed to be on its own capacity too, but clearly it isn't.

Newsgroups download at full speed during teh same time periods, for example, as do other streaming sites.
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They won't be using DOCSIS for backhaul to their network - that's just the network access part, they oversell the local PoPs and then don't have enough capacity to get back to their core network.
 
mrk said:
Yesterday I upgraded my internet from 152Mb to 200Mb for £8 less per month.

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YouTube (and only YouTube) still buffers during evening core hours (5PM-10PM) :rolleyes:

Can't wait for the switch to to DOCSIS 3.1.
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3 years since I left virgin due to crap like that, I have not looked back since.
 
Problem is FTTC/H at any reasonable speed has yet to hit this area, which leaves only VM to choose from. Realistically the service is excellent and goes down maybe once a year if even that here.

The YouTube buffering only started around last month, it's been great flying through 2160P streams without a single hitch, now this area is oversubscribed :/

Outside of the 5-10PM timeframe youtube is fine though.

My main beef with VM is that they have laughable upload speeds. 200Mb down, yet 12-20Mb up? Please! I end up uploading videos using my phone as the upload speed is 30-40Mb for really large files.

But still, it's the fastest service available to me at a reasonable price, so it is what it is I guess.
 
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I can't even begin to imagine what 152Mbps is like let alone 200 or even 300 but I want it! Cannot get Virgin though, ever. :sadface: :equality
 
james.miller said:
buffering almost constantly on mine. hello <1mb/sec at peak times for me. But yeah sure, BT are perfect.



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I'm on a Infinity 2 connection and never drop below 64 even on peak times. It probably helps I'm in a tiny village though, you've probably got crosstalk all over the place on yours. :p
 
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