Virgin 50mp. Minimum Speed

magicroundabout · 7 Jul 2010 at 11:43

cheers for this rainmaker.

yeah wasn't going to swap out Kaspersky but that has given me a better understanding of why it happens.

going to get virgin back out again though to sort my upstream power levels which should hopefully bring my speeds back to 50mbps as last night it was testing at 30>35mbps

magicroundabout · 10 Jul 2010 at 11:31

principle Tech has just left and has adjusted the power levels.

tjhis is what i get on the 50mb speed test their engineers use

File size transferred : 500.0 MB (524288000 bytes)
Total time taken : 83.3 seconds (83304 milliseconds)
Throughput : 6293.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 6.29 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 50344.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 50.34 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]

also this was with Kaspersky dissabled as with it enabled it reduces down to 44mbps.

Speedtest.net is reporting downloads of 34mb but i'm starting to not believe it as files have downloaded at 6mbps +

Swifty55 · 10 Jul 2010 at 11:51

Uninstall Kaspersky and get Microsoft Security Essentials.

Ignore the speedtest sites.

magicroundabout · 10 Jul 2010 at 18:29

is this better than Kaspersky?

Jayster · 10 Jul 2010 at 18:40

Swifty55 said:
Uninstall Kaspersky and get Microsoft Security Essentials.

Ignore the speedtest sites.

MSE sucks

Swifty55 · 10 Jul 2010 at 23:34

Jayster said:
MSE sucks

Better than Kaspersky!

magicroundabout · 10 Jul 2010 at 23:37

Swifty55 said:
Better than Kaspersky!

Really?!!!

Jayster · 10 Jul 2010 at 23:48

magicroundabout said:
Really?!!!

No there is a reason MSE if free and +1 on NOD32 or smart security

Swifty55 · 10 Jul 2010 at 23:50

magicroundabout said:
Really?!!!

Yes.

Rainmaker · 11 Jul 2010 at 00:01

No. MSE is terrible at detection and removal. I've had it miss several very well known, "old" (i.e. not 0day) trojans, and MS just said tough - I should have paid for their enterprise version if I wanted decent protection. lolmicrosoft

I never found Kaspersky 2010 to interfere with 50 meg speeds at all, once I'd told it to (1) concede resources to other applications and (2) not scan NNTP traffic directly. However, if you really want to switch, Avira Free Edition and Avast Free Edition are both much better than MSE at detection and removal, and very light on resources indeed.