Who is everyone with and what do you think of the service?
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Who is everyone with and what do you think of the service?
Virgin Media. 20Mb/s
Is very good when it works. High and dry when it doesn't, but thats not very often.
Virgin Media 20/MB
£10/month for me because im special
Virgin Media 20/MB, same here. although i gotta pay full price at the moment. musnt be special enough
2007 - Present day.
what speed do you actually get?
theres been alot of discussion about advertised speeds and the speeds you receive.
Anything from 9mb to 18mb generally. but like all ISP's they only say UPTO 20mb... :<
2007 - Present day.
I envy you all at the minute
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.
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.
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:
Confusingly it thinks I work in washington. Oh well...
Virgin media not sure of speed its the Large internet package they advertise. Goes like shi* off a stick thoughdoes 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.
Originally Posted by alexnifty
How the hell did you get that upload speed i really want to know !!!!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:
Confusingly it thinks I work in washington. Oh well...
Virgin cap the upload speed to 700kb/sec
As I said: "Heres what I get from work".
Must be some crazy fast pipe they have here!
ohhhhhhh looks to me they are on DSL
this is what i'm getting at home
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