50 Mbps service launched

[Fop 1]

As I said earlier in the thread - I've never trusted these speed test things or taken notice of bit torrent readings - as far as I know the only thing that uses the full bandwidth is usenet downloads - and I certainly have always had the full speed from 4Mb then 10Mb and now 20Mb. I have no reason to doubt I'll get the full 50Mb.

 

Trusting A speed test as some definitive answer is daft.

 

 

However if many different ones at different times say your speeds are well below the amount you're supposed to be getting then guess what? They are below the speeds you are supposed to be getting.

 

ISP's wouldn't have been looked at and slapped on the wrist for advertising like they did it this weren't the general case (about 50% less on average when they were looked at in fact).

 

 

 

In some cases there's "reasonable" (sort of) explanations for this, but in the context of cable much less so.

 

 

 

 

 

In fairness with some of the changes Virgin are bringing in with their 50mb service you might get it initially, but it's whether it will last is another issue (like Fop said Virgin cable [although it wasn't that that] was brilliant in 1999 often giving more than the advertised speed, but that was when very few people had it and were using it).

 

Out of interest if you've never monitored your connection speed at all how on earth are you "certain" you are getting what you pay for?

[NJS 4447]

Out of interest if you've never monitored your connection speed at all how on earth are you "certain" you are getting what you pay for?

 

 

I'm certain because I know usenet downloads at 20Mb/s

 

Everything else is too subject to variables.

 

I'd also point out that the ISPs taken to task over advertising were all non-fibre services with the exchange factors.

[Fop 1]

Out of interest if you've never monitored your connection speed at all how on earth are you "certain" you are getting what you pay for?

 

 

I'm certain because I know usenet downloads at 20Mb/s

 

If that is true, then that effectively is a speed test so you don't trust it.

 

Everything else is too subject to variables.

 

I'd also point out that the ISPs taken to task over advertising were all non-fibre services with the exchange factors.

 

Virgin was too, although it's not exchange issues with cable, but usually number of user issues as the two systems work (and fail) in differing ways.

[luckyluke 2]

Get your gash in a flash tbh.

[ChezGiven 0]

Had 100mb for over 2 years.

[Fop 1]

Had 100mb for over 2 years.

 

France is pretty good with averages at ~50Mb isn't it? Where as the UK's is ~3.6Mb.

 

Really speaking 2Mb is good enough for most things, although the the issue, of course, is actually getting what you are supposedly paying for.

[Park Life 71]

Should be free.

[ChezGiven 0]

Had 100mb for over 2 years.

 

France is pretty good with averages at ~50Mb isn't it? Where as the UK's is ~3.6Mb.

 

Really speaking 2Mb is good enough for most things, although the the issue, of course, is actually getting what you are supposedly paying for.

 

It can be quite variable and its been slow at times but when its performing well, its lightning quick. I get ridiculous download speeds.

[ewerk 31600]

Should be free.

 

It should require a license, given some of the idiots we get on here.

[Fop 1]

Should be free.

 

It should require a license, given some of the idiots we get on here.

So should breeding, but what are you going to do?

[The Fish 11080]

Should be free.

 

It should require a license, given some of the idiots we get on here.

So should breeding, but what are you going to do?

 

Vote for the BNP apparently...

[Fop 1]

Should be free.

 

It should require a license, given some of the idiots we get on here.

So should breeding, but what are you going to do?

 

Vote for the BNP apparently...

 

Probably the Greens are the ones most likely to implement it.

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Currently paying £80 odd a month for my package with Virgin. Just checked their site and I can lose the sports and movies, plus the house phone which never gets used and get my bill down to £40 a month and thats keeping my V+ and extra box.

 

 

Fucking lying little indian on the phone tried to tell me I must keep my landline.

[Happy Face 29]

When I was on 20mb I was only getting about 14 tops, dropped to ten and thats what I get.

 

Did you run the speedbooster when you got moved up?

 

http://www.virginmedia.com/speedbooster/

[Jusoda Kid 1]

No, bit late now like but cheers anyway. I'm on a mac as well.

[NJS 4447]

Got the 50Mb today.

 

I didn't use the new router at first as I don't use wireless but was getting poor speed so isolated the router and found it was crippling it.

 

I installed the new free router and after some IP address pain I've finally now got it up to fiull whack.

 

680Mb file in under 2 minutes - porntastic.

 

It also doen't qualify for traffic shaping btw.

[Lazarus 0]

680Mb file in under 2 minutes - porntastic.

[Fop 1]

Got the 50Mb today.

 

I didn't use the new router at first as I don't use wireless but was getting poor speed so isolated the router and found it was crippling it.

 

I installed the new free router and after some IP address pain I've finally now got it up to fiull whack.

 

680Mb file in under 2 minutes - porntastic.

It also doen't qualify for traffic shaping btw.

 

 

It won't yet, and probably not for a while, but it will eventually.

[Inglez 0]

680Mb file in under 2 minutes - porntastic.

 

 

I have to do with 2MB from Tiscali.

 

Worst ISP ever. Their call centre is located somewhere in the middle east ffs.

[Fop 1]

No-one getting top broadband speeds

 

(UKPA) – 12 hours ago

 

No broadband customers are receiving the top download speeds advertised by internet service providers (ISPs), the communications watchdog has said.

 

More than half of broadband users are on packages that offer speeds of "up to" 8 megabits per second (Mbps), but research by Ofcom found in practice they received an average speed of 3.9 Mbps - less than half of the advertised maximum speed.

 

Ofcom said it was impossible for customers to receive the so-called "headline speed" of 8 Mbps, because some capacity is reserved for technical reasons.

 

The highest speed a customer on an 8 Mbps package could receive in practice is around 7.2 Mbps, Ofcom said, and this is only likely if they live extremely close to the telephone exchange through which their connection is routed.

 

Fewer than one in 10 customers on an 8 Mbps package received an average speed of more than 6 Mbps, and around one in five received an average speed of less than 2 Mbps.

 

The Government's Digital Britain report on the future of communications and media laid down 2 Mbps as the minimum speed that should be available to all homes in the UK by 2012.

 

Download speeds are affected by the technology used to deliver broadband and the capacity of the ISPs' networks, Ofcom said.

 

Customers who get their internet through a standard copper wire - known as a DSL connection - receive significantly slower speeds than those on cable broadband.

 

The report said customers on Virgin Media's "up to 10 Mbps" cable service enjoyed speeds over twice as high as "up to 8Mbps" DSL customers.

 

Virgin customers on this package received an average speed of between 8.1 and 8.7 Mbps, or 81-87% of the headline speed. This compares with customers on BT's "up to 8Mbps" package, who, Ofcom found, receive average speeds of between 3.8 and 4.2 Mbps, or 48 - 60% of the advertised maximum.