Virgin media... and so it begins. restrictions started.

Server load :p MH = faster than London test - no point doing a test off a server that's loaded.
 
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Showing :)

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That's my machine, discounting the 2 lan machines online too.
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That doesn't give us an accurate time window though, could've accumulated that before 4 or after 9 ;)

Or if not, why would you not receive the cap?
 
Sometimes I get capped to 5MB sometimes I don't. More don't than do though I find.
 
The one time i tried it i got capped to 5 meg but whats the fuss its only 5 hours now the capping period 4-9 and still that connection is better than most get on adsl max anway.
 
There's a web app here that converts kbps into Mbps:

http://www.numion.com/Calculators/Units.html

though it just seems to be dividing by 1000, which means that if that speed test I've just taken is right I'm only getting 2 Mbps on what is supposed to be a 4 Mb line (Virgin Media call it 'Up to 4 Mb') and no I've not been downloading loads of stuff, I just like having the speed.
 
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Dont rely on speed test sites to test your connection. They are rarely right in my finding. Try an actual download.
 
Rich said:
Dont rely on speed test sites to test your connection. They are rarely right in my finding. Try an actual download.
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Well I just d/l ed the Duke Nukem trailer from one of GamersHell UK servers and I was getting between 130 and 200 KBps when I should have been getting 500 KBps, so in my case the speedtest seems to be about right.
 
VM are really irritating me. This is what's going on with my internet connection right now:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping www.yahoo.co.uk

Pinging www.euro.yahoo-eu1.akadns.net [217.12.3.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=1029ms TTL=243
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=916ms TTL=241
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=928ms TTL=243
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=897ms TTL=241

Ping statistics for 217.12.3.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 897ms, Maximum = 1029ms, Average = 942ms

Not downloading anything, and i'm quite savvy about networks. Traceroute is as follows:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert www.yahoo.co.uk

Tracing route to www.euro.yahoo-eu1.akadns.net [217.12.3.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms XBOX.mshome.net [192.168.0.1]
2 1003 ms 1050 ms * glfd-bam-1.inet.ntl.com [194.145.148.4]
3 1017 ms 1012 ms 1036 ms glfd-t2core-a-ge-wan71.inet.ntl.com [195.182.179
.157]
4 1049 ms 1098 ms 1093 ms gfd-bb-a-so-730-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.153]

5 1108 ms 1006 ms 1047 ms gfd-bb-b-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.6]
6 987 ms 997 ms 903 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.78]
7 945 ms 985 ms 1006 ms 83.245.126.13
8 934 ms 936 ms * ge-1-1-0.msr1.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.0.229]
9 916 ms 930 ms 986 ms ge-4-1.bas-a2.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.2.206]
10 1015 ms 1011 ms 1059 ms alteon1.34.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.6.6]
11 * 895 ms 910 ms www2.vip.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.3.11]

Trace complete.

What a disgrace.
 
I seem to be capped @ 580kb/s ish at the moment on my 20mb.

Never been capped before ever and been with BY for years :/

Myabe im just having a bad day :D
 
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