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tc4332 2nd March 2019 12:03 PM

Broadband Speed
 
I have been with Virgin Cable for a few years now and have been usually very happy. Of course nothing is always perfect so there have been a few hiccups but Virgin have on the whole been very good and have given me free months when I lost connection for a day or two.


Had a "To The Householder" circular from Virgin yesterday morning mentioning Speed of 350Mbps. Didn't believe it but phoned anyway. They said that I was now only on their second best broadband but I could go up if I wanted. They said I could go up to 250Mbps but already being at what they had always referred to as 200Mbps I was a bit bit wary. Tongue in cheek I asked about cost, they reported extra £5 per month but before I could say anything they said "You have been with us for a very long time so to you an extra £1 per month".

Wow!. I thought pretty good, worth a punt, so OK'd it.

At midnight last night I lost Broadband, restarted the router and went to bed.

I've just run Speedtest and here are the figures.

01/03/2019 (prior to change)

Ping 10ms Download 220.89Mbps Upload 11.79Mbps (had this for a few years now)


02/03/2019 (after change)

Ping 10ms Download 384.38Mbps Upload 20.53Mbps



Ping 9ms Download 387.09Mbps Upload 20.46Mbps

RESULT. Good value at £1 per month.

What do you think? If you want to move in here you will have to wait until the others move out in August.

moltuae 2nd March 2019 02:16 PM

I'm jealous!

Best I can get here presently is about 80Mbps down and 20Mbps up. Virgin's cabling infrastructure (or rather NYNEX's as it was at the time) doesn't quite reach my house. About 250 yards down the road you can see where Virgin availability starts by the appearance of NYNEX manhole covers.

Fortunately we're in BT trial area here though. We were one of the first areas in the country to get FTTC/VDSL back in the day. And (I'm told) BT should soon be offering FTTP to homes in the area.

homer simpson 2nd March 2019 04:29 PM

I have always been on their top-tier and had great results

https://i158.photobucket.com/albums/...psw215nsad.png

tc4332 2nd March 2019 05:53 PM

Mark,
I could visit you and bring a plastic bucket full of speed just for you :love:

Adrian E 2nd March 2019 06:27 PM

Never been able to fathom why VM throttle their upload speeds so much - we were with them for years at our old house, but they can't supply where we live now.

We have to put up with this.....

https://www.speedtest.net/result/8082459538.png

So at least my upload speed isn't much different lol

ainarssems 2nd March 2019 06:50 PM

Virgin seems to fastest for local raw speed but a bit poor for foreign sites with some not accessible at all and others with poor speed. I have not had Virgin/NTL for a very long time but a lot of my foreign friends are complaining about sites not accessible or lot of buffering for foreign streaming sites when they have 100Mbps plan and using a stream that only needs ~2Mbps. All those sites work fine for me on up to 78Mbps Vodafone plan, in reality 55-60Mbps @ £21.60/month including line rental.

tonupkid 2nd March 2019 08:59 PM

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Oh well. I win the prize for the most laid back broadband, unless someone can do better ..... worse

Architex_mA8tey 2nd March 2019 09:15 PM

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I think my mother's traditional ye olde fashioned home WiFi can better that Nick! :(

HPsauce 2nd March 2019 09:28 PM

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Your mother wins, Neil, but only just, this is mine (which is fine for all we do):

MikkiJayne 2nd March 2019 10:27 PM

I only just upgraded from 6Mb/s.

Now I have a whopping 14 with 4GEE :rolleyes:


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