If I am downloading from steam I get 4 Mps. from U-play I get 9.4 Mbps. from origin I get 10 Mbps. from other MMOs I get the full speed of 77.33 Mbps. AS for gaming I have no complains about VM zero lag and that is when I have two or three overlays and TeamSpeak running plus downloading in the back ground. When I signed up to VM I asked for the gaming package and has not dropped connection unless the router was updating and I love there costumer service.
Poll: What speed connection do you use?
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Must agree, I had it gone down once for about 30 mins but before I noticed it was back up and running without any issues.
I have been with Virgin for 10 years at my current address and even when I lived at home I was using virgin they where called NTL when i first signed up for their broadband packages lol. In all these years I have never had my internet go down except for the one point mentioned earlier so cant fault them.
My max speed using steam is 7mb never seen it go up higher than this and even using torrents i get this speed. My package is just a standard one as well. When we cancelled everything else i kept the BB due to reliability of it.
Soldato
Posting in 2017, but back in 2006 I remember NTL became Virgin Media and in that year they gave me a speed boost from 1.5Mbit to 4Mbit. So I would have ticked the 4Mbit < 8Mbit box.
I'm still on VM in 2017 and I get 75Mbit.
I'm still on VM in 2017 and I get 75Mbit.
Man of Honour
I remember speed boosts from Virgin Media WITHOUT price increases every other month.
Thems were good times.
Thems were good times.
Associate
My entry to the willy waving contest.
Real world, just downloaded a game on Battle.net, 95-105Mb
Real world, just downloaded a game on Battle.net, 95-105Mb
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I usually get 8-9MB/s at home (80/20 FTTC) on Steam except on a new big game release where it averages about 3 and can be anywhere from 1.8-4MB/s. On faster connections I've not got hugely more though.
That speed is the max I get on most things when I download stuff weather it's through steam, origin, uplay or just a file download from a site. Nothing goes over 7mb
I always had the fastest package available since 512k broadband came out in 2001 I think. From Telewest to Virgin Media 100Mb September 2013, loved that ISP!
Then I moved home where VM wasn’t available so I had to get BT 76Mb I used to get 65-75Mb.
Since April 2016 I’ve had 1Gb from Hyperoptic, it’s just so awesome. I’ve gotten easily over 500Mb from pretty much every website including EA origin, steam, amazon servers, Microsoft, google maps etc.
Then I moved home where VM wasn’t available so I had to get BT 76Mb I used to get 65-75Mb.
Since April 2016 I’ve had 1Gb from Hyperoptic, it’s just so awesome. I’ve gotten easily over 500Mb from pretty much every website including EA origin, steam, amazon servers, Microsoft, google maps etc.
Associate
Great isn't it. I needed to re-download a game after a fresh install last night. 6.5Gb done in about 90 seconds. Gigabit is just incredible.
Soldato
I use 'other'.
I tether my mobile to my laptop and am using that. Unlimited internet for the win. Downloads files at decent speeds just isn't as instant as I'd like but i'll take it.
I tether my mobile to my laptop and am using that. Unlimited internet for the win. Downloads files at decent speeds just isn't as instant as I'd like but i'll take it.
Soldato
On a 76/20 connection here with Pulse8.
It seems strange, to think that back in year 1999-2001? when we had 56k dial up, parts of the Netherlands had 128k ISDN.
Then a year or two later when 512k started rolling out here, Sweden had 10Mb which seemed like a Godly speed. Then In year 2004-5 I remember reading that somewhere like Japan and/or South Korea cities had 1Gb - when all we had was maybe 20Mb.
Now 10-12 years later only a handful of households have 1Gb. Yet its ironic that I read in the news today how ISP's are striving so hard to try deploy 1Gb FTTP to millions of homes. Yep - should've just invested into expensive FTTP back in the days of early xDSL tech instead of scrapping now-old ADSL broadband.
Listen to the workmen of what they feel they can do, and not what investors say - aka privatisation - making the workers poorer and upper management & investors richer.
Then a year or two later when 512k started rolling out here, Sweden had 10Mb which seemed like a Godly speed. Then In year 2004-5 I remember reading that somewhere like Japan and/or South Korea cities had 1Gb - when all we had was maybe 20Mb.
Now 10-12 years later only a handful of households have 1Gb. Yet its ironic that I read in the news today how ISP's are striving so hard to try deploy 1Gb FTTP to millions of homes. Yep - should've just invested into expensive FTTP back in the days of early xDSL tech instead of scrapping now-old ADSL broadband.
Listen to the workmen of what they feel they can do, and not what investors say - aka privatisation - making the workers poorer and upper management & investors richer.
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Soldato
Wow do you have unlimited tethering? Who is your contract with?
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I'm on sky broadband (not fibre) and get 15.5Mb/s.
For what I use the net for I see no reason to upgrade.
For what I use the net for I see no reason to upgrade.
Soldato
I voted more than 8Mbps when this was posted and I think at the time I had 3x bonded ADSL lines which gave me about 20Mbps down and 2Mbps up.
Now I have Verizon Fios 1Gbps FTTP.
Now I have Verizon Fios 1Gbps FTTP.