Virgin Media Discussion Thread

[1kiwi]

Well i'm thinking about switching to virgin but the speeds i get with Bethere and the service is just amazing. I get solid 20's in COD4 and 10-25 in CS so i would hate to switch and get a drop in service thats all.

 

[HEADRAT]

ended up being a ubr problem (after 4 tech visits)

Any idea what the problem was, did you have a ticket ref.

Thanks

HEADRAT

 

[[Death]]

no m8, they said somthin about the ubr and ip config ranges, and said basicly its screwed. got a phonecall next day sayin out of hours team didnt find nothin. wierd thing is, scince they looked its been fine, so they obviously did see somthin, and dont want to admit to it

 

[gareth170]

with my vm 50Mb connection i get 48-50Mb (6-6.21MB/s) on my main pc which im happy with....

 

[Barks]

i've got the 20mb connection shared with 6 other lads at uni and max download speed via multiple connections on newsleecher is about 2.3MB/s

It gets to a point where there's simply no point in paying more. 2.3MB/s is fast enough for me.

 

[HEADRAT]

My connection is hideous again at the moment

ping -t 86.21.0.1 (my gateway)

Pinging 86.21.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=248
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=248
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=248
Request timed out.
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Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
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Request timed out.
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=248
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=248
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
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Request timed out.
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Request timed out.
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=248
Request timed out.
Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=248
Request timed out.
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Reply from 86.21.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=248

Ping statistics for 86.21.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 49, Received = 19, Lost = 30 (61% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 8ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 10ms

The download speeds are all over the place and the packet loss means that surfing the web is slow/impossible

Yuk

HEADRAT

 

[gareth170]

does this look about right??

 

[HEADRAT]

Yep that looks fine

 

[gareth170]

Yep that looks fine

so 5.37MB = 50mbps/mbits?

i thought 6.27MB = 50mbps/mbits

 

[HEADRAT]

Well ones a maximum, the other is real world use, the picture you posted is real world use so it looked fine.

Hope this lasts, fear it won't!

HEADRAT

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

what are the upload speeds of 50mb/s?

 

[JimAroo]

what are the upload speeds of 50mb/s?

ATM advertised at 1.50mb, However the configs are 1.75 for the overheads.

 

[WatchTower]

All this clamping down on bittorrent usage kinda makes a 50mb kind of useless (over kill) that is unless your sharing you bandwidth with a lot of other computer users. I think it is really heavy usage of torrent software which makes 50mb worth the investment. So if this clamping down causes throttling then I can't really see any point of having a connection any better than say 10mb.

 

[HEADRAT]

It's still steaming along this morning, hopefully they've "fixed" something!

 

[Duke]

All this clamping down on bittorrent usage kinda makes a 50mb kind of useless (over kill) that is unless your sharing you bandwidth with a lot of other computer users. I think it is really heavy usage of torrent software which makes 50mb worth the investment. So if this clamping down causes throttling then I can't really see any point of having a connection any better than say 10mb.

Umm what clamping down? Not heard anything new?

 

[gareth170]

Umm what clamping down? Not heard anything new?

yep its true. it was on the news awhile ago...

All this clamping down on bittorrent usage kinda makes a 50mb kind of useless (over kill) that is unless your sharing you bandwidth with a lot of other computer users. I think it is really heavy usage of torrent software which makes 50mb worth the investment. So if this clamping down causes throttling then I can't really see any point of having a connection any better than say 10mb.

anyway 50Mb isn't only good for torrent. its good for downloading big files form sites e.g. demos, updates, ect... i know some sites limits the download speed but its easy to get around that. gamershell.com is a good site for 50Mb..

 

[4Qman]

I have 50mb in my area, ihave just joined so get it in a weeks time

Carnt wait as my 20mb was starting to drag haha

 

[Chris1712]

Is there any deal haggling available on this? Fancy upgrading from 20mb when I move house. Not sure I can stomach the monthly cost though . Unsure. Whats the news on caps? Thats the main thing drawing me to it tbh, not being able to download during the day sucks hard.

 

[HEADRAT]

Well my 50Mbps ending up costing me an extra £4 per month so cost wasn't really an issue, install and activation is now £50 which isn't too bad either, there are currently no caps on the 50Mbps service.

My 50Mbps now seems to be behaving itself, getting 50Mbps pretty much constantly now, don't know if Virgin fixed it or it fixed itself

HEADRAT

 

[Clown]

How much are you paying altogether though?