How fast is your BROADBAND ?

[Super Gus!]

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[Easy 10]

£20 a month I think, with free landline calls to other virgins or something.

I don't really do bills.

 

[skipper734]

BT £12.95. Despite being in the sticks, I am about a mile from the exchange. There is fibre to the cabinet, which is about 200 yards from the house.

 

[happypig]

router is synced up at
DownStream Connection Speed 8188 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 1274 kbps

Speed checker reports

I'm paying seven pounds fifty pee for o2 BB.

Speed depends on :
1. distance from exchange
2. shite wiring in your house
3. type of cable between exchange and premises (copper good, ali no so good)
4. contention ratio (how many other uses are sharing the DSLAM usage)

When I first went online I was getting 1200 baud down and 75 baud up with Prestel

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Broadband Speed Checker - THE UK's No.1 Broadband Speed Test


Mines SHIT.

I'm supposed to be getting 2mb, but have ran a couple of those online broadband speed test thingies (see above), and its coming back at about 500kbps for downloading. YouTube and BBC iPlayer won't stream AT ALL. I'm getting f***ed off with this.

Phonecall to Virgin Media coming up.

Same here, Easy. Virgin are a pile of dogwank.

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[Joe Gatting's Dad]

Broadband is rubbish unless you live in a major city. Paying for up to 8mb - but lucky to get 1mb these days, down from 3mb a couple of years ago.

Tried to download a programme I had missed on iTunes the other day - programme length 1 hour - download time 1 hour 43 minutes!

 

[Easy 10]

Same here, Easy. Virgin are a pile of dogwank.

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Well if I get any hassle with them snorting it out, I'm switching.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

At work:

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Maybe that's why it feels so terrible at home. Will have to compare, later...

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[Digweeds Trousers]

Easy - my home broadband is so quick it usually sends e-mails or internet posts before I've even finished writing them you sad pathetic c

 

[Icy Gull]

What a f***ing dull thread I refuse to divulge, my rather shit, speeds

 

[Dave the OAP]

8.3 down
505kb up

virgin media

 

[Mackenzie]

2432 down
323 up

 

[Brightonfan1983]

9088 and 710. On wireless too, I'm well-chuffed. With TalkTalk, a few tedious teething problems to start with but they're fast, man.

£20 with unlimited free landline calls from the 'phone.

 

[Herbie 53]

Ooohh,
Looks like I'm ok!!
9800 down
488 up.
On vigin media 10mps

 

[eastlondonseagull]

At work:

Download 42872 Kbps
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So does that mean I'm winning?

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[Brightonfan1983]

YouTube and BBC iPlayer won't stream AT ALL.

For the time being, you could download the iPlayer Downloader (http://po-ru.com/files/ipdl.exe) for Windows, or iPlayer Grabber (http://www.fader.co.uk/file.axd?file=2008%2f11%2fiPlayer+Grabber.zip) for Mac - connect your iPod or take them home on a memory stick for later?

 

[Mackenzie]

So does that mean I'm winning?

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Yes.

Well done

 

[Everest]

£10 pm on o2 (up to 20Mb)

Down 12256 Kbps
Up 1074 Kbps

Nowhere near the max download speed, but still better than I used to get on Virgin 10Mb at £25 pm!

 

[Easy 10]

For the time being, you could download the iPlayer Downloader (http://po-ru.com/files/ipdl.exe) for Windows, or iPlayer Grabber (http://www.fader.co.uk/file.axd?file=2008%2f11%2fiPlayer+Grabber.zip) for Mac - connect your iPod or take them home on a memory stick for later?

Thanks for the suggestion, but it was just a case last night of trying to watch Top Gear via the BBC iPlayer on my PS3. I've not got the facility at work to download onto memory sticks etc, but I shouldn't NEED to anyway if Virgin Media were providing the service they're SUPPOSED to.

 

[Laughing Gravy]

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