Virgin M500 pack for Gaming

Virgin M200 here, been with them since the start as BlueYonder. Was the 13th install in the southeast. Ping between 7-13ms. Rock solid. Use the SH3 in modem mode without issue.
 
Screeeech said:
Considering most online games don't generally use more than around 128 - 256Kbps worth of bandwidth, you're never going to have a problem with bandwidth, unless you want to do lot of downloading whilst playing, in which case you're going to run into interpolation issues, buffers and other issues, which may be helped by having more bandwidth, maybe QoS in limited circumstances, but not much.

The biggest factor with cable is the line quality, if you have good CATV and well terminated cabling - it should be rock solid, however if you have problems with the cable itself, (bad signal, bad power, loss of sync, etc) it can be 100x harder to fix than DSL, as CATV (cable) is much, much more complex than regular telephone lines.

If you're on VM and it's good, it's probably going to remain good indefinitely.
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Yeah my main concern was with ping spikes having read some reports on certain gaming forums of common ping spikes with the faster Virgin services. So far though its been fine. Cabling is fine, my whole house is cabled with CAT7
 
On Virgin 350 at home, tbh it’s way overkill for gaming, I can game on my rig with a mate on my second PC on the same server whilst my other PC is downloading torrents or whatever with no ping issues whatsoever.

As an aside, it’s currently regularly giving me a regular 420+ Mbps on speed test which is nice!
 
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