Virgin Media Broadband - XL - Up to 20Mb - Saxperience

Simo^p · 14th January 2008, 00:26

Anyone tried it?

Since moving into this house, I've been on the L - Upto 4Mb connection, and its been pretty awful of late!

Finally lost my rag before when the connection speed was down at 0.1Mb/s, so I decided to upgrade online to the top package. (dont tell Suie

)

Theres still definately a problem with the cable installation in my house, but the speeds are a bit more usable now...

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Speed Test Results
Date 14/01/08 00:23:52
Speed Down 14088.94 Kbps ( 13.8 Mbps )
Speed Up 718.14 Kbps ( 0.7 Mbps )

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

Baz · 14th January 2008, 00:31

looks better

internet connection at mine is balls! between 5-8pm it will almost definatly go off and not let me back on due to it being busy for people connecting to the net.

My dads work office is across from where the signal or whatever is sent from and his never disconnects yet i live about 2-4 miles away from it and i get kicked off almost every night.! grrrr

EliteCarDetailing · 14th January 2008, 00:32

Virgin Media are a waste of time in my opinion.

Louise is having same problem at her house, should upto 2mb but nothing ever loads up. She is on the M package, but by the sounds of it they all seem the same.

Mitchell · 14th January 2008, 00:36

virging saying "up to" means you'll get 8mb max on a good day in the early morning and that even depends on where you live.

ive never heard of anybody in the UK having anywhere near 20mb speeds.

Simo^p · 14th January 2008, 00:38

TO be fair, the connection very very rarely goes off, but sometimnes it gets slow and you end up pulling wires out all over the place trying to fix something you cant

Im happy with the service... but was gutted when they moved the call centre and made yo upay for broadband issues over the phone!

Im currently on half price tariff too, as I complained over a bill. lol

From all of the things Ive heard about sky, BT, etc... I think I'll stay with Virgin.

Simo^p · 14th January 2008, 00:38

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Originally Posted by Mitchell

virging saying "up to" means you'll get 8mb max on a good day in the early morning and that even depends on where you live.

ive never heard of anybody in the UK having anywhere near 20mb speeds.

I just tested and got 13.8 (as above) - will check it out a little later

Simo^p · 14th January 2008, 00:42

Re-test at 14Mb/s too... via wireless. COuld get more if connected via a cable maybe?

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

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Date 14/01/08 00:41:37
Speed Down 14304.81 Kbps ( 14 Mbps )
Speed Up 718.06 Kbps ( 0.7 Mbps )

Barry123 · 14th January 2008, 00:42

I've got VM at my uni house and we're on the 4mb package.

'shite' is the word that springs to mind. I dont think I can recall a speed above 200kbps at any time when I've been downloading porn.

AOL (at real home) is no better mind

Mitchell · 14th January 2008, 00:42

lol i'll shut up then.

http://www.speedtest.net/ is a good one.

Mystic^p · 14th January 2008, 00:46

All broadband providers use the words "up to" to cover their asses

Your lucky its cable you have Simo, had you been on aDSL and upgraded to a better package chances are you could have been left with no connectivity atall! (unless it was just people whoring the line)

I've been with Bulldog for yonks now, had their 2mb service back when that was all broadband providers would give. It was bulldog who kickstarted the higher figures race. They upped us to 4mb to test their new service, after i sent a form back to them about it they upped us onto 8mb within the month to test that out (which unfornatly was a nightmare for several months - all sorted now though

)

~~What website did you try that speedtest with?~~ I'll do one from here and see what i get.

Baz · 14th January 2008, 00:47

Date 14/01/08 00:46:23
Speed Down 1783.64 Kbps ( 1.7 Mbps )
Speed Up 236.13 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )

Though its connect at 2.1 MB rather than 3MB for some reason lol

Simo^p · 14th January 2008, 00:50

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Originally Posted by Mitchell

lol i'll shut up then.

http://www.speedtest.net/ is a good one.

Never used that site before.. looks fancy, but not sure the results are accurate.

Mystic^p · 14th January 2008, 00:55

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Date 14/01/08 00:52:37
Speed Down 6392.45 Kbps ( 6.2 Mbps )
Speed Up 480.74 Kbps ( 0.5 Mbps )

Well, that mine atm. A little less than i would have hoped but theres alot of flickering lights coming from my bro & sisters ports on the switch

Baz · 14th January 2008, 00:56

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Originally Posted by Mystic

Well, that mine atm. A little less than i would have hoped but theres alot of flickering lights coming from my bro & sisters ports on the switch

unplug them and try again

Mystic^p · 14th January 2008, 01:07

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Originally Posted by Baz

unplug them and try again

It might provoke extra bodies in my room moaning about tinternet, if i remember in the morning i'll try again while there asleep.

6.2mb out of 8 at 1am i would file under "dissapointing" though, although it might just be the nature of the test to under read it, downloading big files i consistantly get over 800kbps so im happy with it for the time being.

I was considering swapping to Sky for a while but the prospect of all the aggrovating fonecalls to help bud bud supportings puts me off.