Virgin Media, testing new speeds?

[HaGG]

I just ran a couple of speed test's and the result's are amazing, I know they were gonna upgrade to 50mb in the near future, I was wondering if they are testing because it's never been like this, I've had 17mb's top's.

I did a couple of different location's to make sure.

 

[james.miller]

lol i know they are doing something, because my internets been all over the place today lol 5mb wOOT

 

[Delboy]

well it must be sapping all my bandwidth cus mine sucks at the moment

 

[Marky]

Whoa that is pretty darn fast

 

[james.miller]

ok im actually dropping my connection about 5 times a minute now lol.

 

[HaGG]

yeah it's definitely odd, still being freakishly fast here, probably back to normal tomorrow though.

 

[Duke]

Share it around

 

[Mad_Jay]

My connection has been playing up abit today, perhaps this could be the reason.

 

[BloodyL]

The fact that:
a)you managed to reach 75Mbit
b)the upload has not been affected
Tells me that your local UBR has gone belly up and is not managing the connections properly.

 

[bledd]

woah, pings are all over the shop too

(although speedtest.net pings are alwyas higher than game server ones)

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Looks a bit odd,

Was told to expect around 3meg up on the 50Mb.
Apparantly all new equip installed at exchange just for 50mb EUs, the current network will be used for all others according tot eh engineer thta was here last week, how much they know I dont really know, might not be accurate info

 

[TomL]

Mine's been upgraded from 4MB to 10MB, as they said they would...

Just downloaded a 350MB file at a constant 1,200 kB/sec

 

[Matteysan]

ok im actually dropping my connection about 5 times a minute now lol.

Mines been doing this for about 3 months now it gets worse after 3pm with no fail. Correct me if i'm wrong but the cappings are ment to sort out problems like this? It was better before the caps even came about :/

 

[HaGG]

Still being odd, this even possible?

 

[Duke]

Have you actually tried to download something?

e.g. from ftp://ftp.virginmedia.com

 

[HaGG]

Actually no, I figured it was just some odd results that would go in the morning, The virgin site just get's a 2.3mbps constant download, does it have a cap?

 

[Robert]

I can get 30mb from speedtest, it's there site/servers

 

[HaGG]

Yeah it could be, the 117mb result is pretty stupid I do think Virgin were up to something though last night as I got 40 odd mb from http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk too. Hopefully that's a good sign that when they upgrade ill get a nice connection here

 

[Gavin]

the only way i get true speed tests is on newgroups and was getting 27mb 30mb speeds when im a 20mb customer.....


Havnt found one speed test site that works on my connection i always get rated at below 2mb lol

 

[FeFiDoh]

Mine has been all over the shop last 2 days so maybe they are upto something