Virgin Media - 100mb

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Who else here has taken the plunge into getting 100mb virgin media broadband - had my installed over the weekend.

On speed test sites I get between 60 and 115 - no two results are the same.

On steam I get between 60 and 110mb - odd that it varies so much.

Tried my trusty user-net, seems I'm getting a solid 118mb connection 100% of the time - had to change my port to 443 during peak hours tho (as it seems they throttle the default port down by 95% of my downloading software (583 iirc).

So far very pleased, can download 1080p quality films in 5mins - nice.

I just wondered how everybody else's experience has been so far? - for one, im looking forward to the 120mb upgrade coming (at some point this year) - should be 130/40 if it increases by a similar amount :).
 
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you should have waited. virgin are rolling out upgrades for everyone very soon. my 50mb connection will be a 100mb connection in july for no extra cost :)
the 100mb package you have bought only gets a boost to 120mb though
 
It is complete subject to your locality. For every 5 people that tell you it is wonderful you will get 5 that cant even stream Youtube videos.

Hopefully after they spend the £110 million "everyone" will have a reliable and usable service all the time.
 
50MB is more than enough for everyone. I wish they'd spend money increasing capacity, especially for peak times, rather than headline speeds which not everyone can get.
 
I've been an NTL/Virgin customer since 2002 and I've always been on the middle package. 600k in 2002, 720k in 2003/4, then it shot up to 1.5m then 4m then 10m but it's been 10m for about 6 years now. Now I check Virgin's broadband page and see that 10m is actually their lowest service now. Apart from *use different word here* traffic shaping though, I'm pretty happy with the 10m. T1 (1.5m) has always been my benchmark speed as that was the connection I started out with in uni halls in 1999 before I realised how goddamn slow a 56k modem was back at home which was in the middle of nowhere!
 
I only just learned the difference between Mb and MB

1 megabit (Mb) = 0.125 megabytes (MB or mb)

0.125 (MB) x 100 (Mb) = 12.5MB so in theory you can download at 12 megabytes per second
 
Reaper 392 said:
you should have waited. virgin are rolling out upgrades for everyone very soon. my 50mb connection will be a 100mb connection in july for no extra cost :)
the 100mb package you have bought only gets a boost to 120mb though
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But the price is being reduced to 50mb rates.......
 
Skillmister said:
30Mb is more than enough for everyone too. If we had reliability i'd be completely happy.
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Agreed, I just picked 50MB as its been their headline speed for some time now. Rather than yet another speed increase, I wish they would work on capacity because their network cannot handle the demand. It is atrocious at peak times.
 
platypus said:
50MB is more than enough for everyone. I wish they'd spend money increasing capacity, especially for peak times, rather than headline speeds which not everyone can get.
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i can imagine some of the student houses round here benefitting from the 100Mb connection tbh. a few of them have 8+ people in, all of whom could be prolific downloaders
 
I'm on 30mb and not so fussed about being able to download at 3MB/sec. I'm more interested in the packet loss and about 80ms pings for UK servers. I remember when they were about 30ms. :(
 
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