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[misty]

Who is everyone with and what do you think of the service?

[alexnifty]

Virgin Media. 20Mb/s

Is very good when it works. High and dry when it doesn't, but thats not very often.

[Micky007]

Virgin Media 20/MB :p

£10/month for me because im special :lol:

[tystar]

Virgin Media 20/MB, same here. although i gotta pay full price at the moment. musnt be special enough :(

[misty]

what speed do you actually get?

theres been alot of discussion about advertised speeds and the speeds you receive.

[tystar]

Anything from 9mb to 18mb generally. but like all ISP's they only say UPTO 20mb... :<

[misty]

I envy you all at the minute :(

[alexnifty]

If I download during an offpeak period, using a download manager to download from a site I KNOW is fast, I can get 2MByte/s which is the full 20Mbit/s.

In the peak usage times, like evening, it can go down to 10Mb/s though. I heard a RUMOUR that Virgin will half your speed if you go over a certain download amount during peak periods. This may be what I'm experiencing although I dont download heavily all the time.

[Micky007]

with Virgin because your on Cable you do actually get 20MB !

But say your download a file from a site and your onlying getting like 5MB a sec speed thats because of the speed of the server your downloading from. If you go to Speedtest.net and press the LONDON one, dont bother with any others as there crap, and you will see you wont even be able to reach the 20MB as the file is downloaded already.

But you do get 20MB as i use a program called flashget and i download like 5 files at a time from Rapidshare and i get my full 20MB download.

The only places where you dont get what you pay for is ADSL which honestly i think is a pile of crap.

[alexnifty]

As far as Speedtest goes, I get MUCH faster speeds using the Maidenhead server. I am in Cambridge.

Speedtest tells me I get about 18Mb/s which is very close to the truth.


Heres what I get from work:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/193541556.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Confusingly it thinks I work in washington. Oh well...

[coiler]

Virgin media not sure of speed its the Large internet package they advertise. Goes like shi* off a stick though :) does go down once in a while - usually when ive turned the modem off at the wall overnight (same plug as pc) and it takes a while to fire up again.

[Micky007]

As far as Speedtest goes, I get MUCH faster speeds using the Maidenhead server. I am in Cambridge.

Speedtest tells me I get about 18Mb/s which is very close to the truth.


Heres what I get from work:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/193541556.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Confusingly it thinks I work in washington. Oh well...

How the hell did you get that upload speed i really want to know !!!!

Virgin cap the upload speed to 700kb/sec

[alexnifty]

As I said: "Heres what I get from work".

Must be some crazy fast pipe they have here!

[Micky007]

ohhhhhhh looks to me they are on DSL

[misty]

this is what i'm getting at home :(

http://www.speedtest.net/result/193561193.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[alexnifty]

this is what i'm getting at home :(

http://www.speedtest.net/result/193561193.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

:lol::lol:

I mean aww.

[tystar]

this is what i'm getting at home :(

http://www.speedtest.net/result/193561193.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

are you still on Dial up? :eek:

[misty]

:(

[coiler]

ill try mine tonight

ps. is that choosing london server thingy?

[misty]

thats using the Maidenhead server and I'm on ADSL MAX

[tystar]

I'll post mine tonight too

[Micky007]

no point in me posting mine as mine doesnt show my true speed :-(

[M4T VW]

Im on Virgin 4mb

http://www.speedtest.net/result/193633712.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

How did you get 20mb for £10 Micky!? Did you have a go at them?

[Micky007]

yea Virgin are good for true broadband, only problem i have with them is there premium rate number you have to ring if you need support.

which is a rip off seeing how much 20MB people have to pay anyway.

[M4T VW]

I have virgin phone too so i just dial 191 i think and it will connect me for free8)

[Micky007]

I have virgin phone too so i just dial 191 i think and it will connect me for free8)
yea for the time being but there doing it so it isnt free soon. Also im with BT so i have to dial the premium rate number :'(

[tystar]

OK here's mine as of 2mins ago...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/193787576.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[coiler]

Thats quick !

[Micky007]

yep, Virgin Media 20MB is awsome !

Download a film in like 10mins

[Firerat]

Virgin media, but they have gone downhill in the last couple of weeks.

So I thought I would check the status page and on my way I found this

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

Grrrr

So will be hunting around for a new deal, so I will be interested in this thread

[misty]

Broadband is this country is absolutely pants when you compare it to places on the continent. For alot of people the network is just not capable of supporting high speed.

[tystar]

Thats an old release. they've been saying that for months although i think they only put in place in certain areas.

[Micky007]

Virgin media, but they have gone downhill in the last couple of weeks.

So I thought I would check the status page and on my way I found this

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

Grrrr

So will be hunting around for a new deal, so I will be interested in this thread

thats been in place for around 3 months now and i think its just stupid and i agree they have gone down hill ever since Telewest & NTL merged to form Virgin Media :-(

They wasnt prepared at all and the only reason they did this was to stop BT getting the award for the best amount of boardband customers.