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Twitchy




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PostPosted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 18:10    Post subject:
DeMoN064 wrote:

Hmm, I have no problems with my connection (apart from capping) and i'm in the same area as you... What UBR are you on? And what modem are you using?


I'm on ubr 12, using a surfboard sb5100, it's nothing to do with my modem though. Are you on the 20mb?

Between 3pm - 11pm the internet crawls and is unstable as hell (not due to capping). Late into the night and early morning i'm flying along at 2.3MB/s, but as soon as more people are obviously on the net it goes to shit Sad.

Hopefully with the 50mb coming they will need to put in some major new kit, which will hopefully take the strain off the overloaded ubr's, well... mine at least Razz .
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DeMoN064




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PostPosted: Tue, 27th Nov 2007 19:27    Post subject:
I don't get those problems here, Then again. I'm not on your UBR so that would explain it.

As far as I know they are upgrading the network, However its only because they know there is a flaw in the STM system and non-legit users are taking advantage of it. Rolling Eyes

Will this improve the speed of the network? I doubt it.
Would removing the cap and going back to 10Mbit? Yes.
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dominae
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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 01:16    Post subject:
You're happy about 50mb? o.O

We've had 100 for like 4 years now... I'm wanting the gigabit here... Razz (Yes, Sweden is better than you)

I also think fisk should be unbanned.
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Reg67




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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 07:27    Post subject:
They need to sort out the appaling '20 meg' (Ha Ha fucking Ha) before they even attempt anything else. Its just a gimmick to attract more customers, as of course they are leaving in thier droves due to the terrible speeds/customer service and total lack of tech support..
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Jenni
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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 07:32    Post subject:
Like I said, I get 2.35mb/sec all the time from giganews unless I'm occasionally capped during the period. Which in my mind is fine.
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Twitchy




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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 12:47    Post subject:
Reg67 wrote:
They need to sort out the appaling '20 meg' (Ha Ha fucking Ha) before they even attempt anything else. Its just a gimmick to attract more customers, as of course they are leaving in thier droves due to the terrible speeds/customer service and total lack of tech support..


Couldn't have said it better myself, it's basically a dick waving contest because customers get turned on by big numbers Rolling Eyes . It reminds me of places like PC World where customers see a shitty computer other than "3.8GHZ OF SPEED!" and snap it up like candy Razz .

Though since first posting in this thread my internet has been pretty good and consistent... I think they're watching me Question .
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Under




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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 14:57    Post subject:
KaiKo wrote:
ADSL2+ ftw currently

constant 15mbit down at all times, constant 1.5mbit up at all times.

unlimited too. no throttling.

be* ftw


it's a shame that they service is not avail in Scotland yet :/



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KrAzY-KaMeL




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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 20:25    Post subject:
My brain couldn't comprehend having a 50mb line, it's like whoa!

I guess I'm perfectly happy with my 10/1 - just requires a tiny bit of patience.
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TiHKAL




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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 21:43    Post subject:
KrAzY-KaMeL wrote:
My brain couldn't comprehend having a 50mb line, it's like whoa!

I guess I'm perfectly happy with my 10/1 - just requires a tiny bit of patience.


Same here -- pretty happy at 10/1, the upload is finally decent enough to host a teamspeak server, or host a game for me and a friend to play in.

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tobycoaster
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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 22:16    Post subject:
lol u wanna try living in the sticks and only getting at max 1mbps but mostly 512k,

i would be happy with 2mbps but have to live with sub par 1mbps Sad
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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 22:37    Post subject:
youch. I hate villages.

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[sYn]
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PostPosted: Sat, 30th Jul 2011 22:39    Post subject:
HOLY OLD THREAD BATMAN!

So it seems Virgin have now started to limit newsgroup download speeds (only noticed it a few days ago).. If you have the same issue move to using 443 rather than 563.
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GeordieRacer




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PostPosted: Sat, 30th Jul 2011 22:42    Post subject:
I'm with Sky, I hate Virgin Media.
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PostPosted: Sat, 30th Jul 2011 22:44    Post subject:
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GeordieRacer




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PostPosted: Sat, 30th Jul 2011 22:48    Post subject:
I always found they throttled speeds right down after a certain amount of downloading.
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Newty182




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PostPosted: Sat, 30th Jul 2011 23:07    Post subject:
GeordieRacer wrote:
I always found they throttled speeds right down after a certain amount of downloading.


http://shop.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy.html

Edit: I like VM, no other company would be able to provide me with 30Mb download speeds. 50Mb has no download/upload amount restrictions.

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[sYn]
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PostPosted: Sat, 30th Jul 2011 23:15    Post subject:
I wonder when newsgroups got added to the list of shaped protocols, I've never had any issues prior to this :\
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Newty182




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PostPosted: Sat, 30th Jul 2011 23:22    Post subject:
I used usenet on a Virgin Media National (ADSL) line before moving to where I am now a few months ago. National always had slow download speeds unless I used port 443, and then when I got VM cable my speeds were less than 700KB even with using SSL, without SSL speeds were ridiculously slow. I have started using torrents again.. 3.6MB download speeds.

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arw




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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 03:48    Post subject:
[sYn] wrote:
I wonder when newsgroups got added to the list of shaped protocols, I've never had any issues prior to this :\


You've been lucky m8 its been shaped down here for over a year infact its probably cracking on 2yrs now.. Shocked
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Mchart




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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 04:06    Post subject:
I've never experianced throttling on my Virgin 50Mbps. I do know that on anyting less then the 100/50mbps packages they do throttle though. No other company provides 100mbps service right now either. The most you can get through anyone else typically is BT Infinity 44Mbps.
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Oddmaker
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 16:50    Post subject:
Im on BT Infinity 40mb down, 10mb up and totally unlimited, speed isnt throttled on anything.

Speed should be increasing next year on this fiber optic so I hope it reaches 100mb.

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Horrordee
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PostPosted: Sun, 31st Jul 2011 19:23    Post subject:
Well I am on BT Infinity, and worked for BT up until 6 months ago. We / they do / did throttle, once you hit a certain amount of traffic they'd limit your line somewhat.

For example, unthrottled, I get 40meg down on my BT line. Between 4-8pm, if i've been downloading heavily recently, i'll get 4meg

I dont care though, I just leave it queued and let it download fast overnight.

I too am thinking about jumping to VM... just because the whole package is cheaper (providing I want sports inc. espn...)

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Oddmaker
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Aug 2011 14:08    Post subject:
Horrordee since April they aren't doing that anymore, traffic isn't monitored.

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Mantis2K9




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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Aug 2011 15:36    Post subject:
Reg67 wrote:
They need to sort out the appaling '20 meg' (Ha Ha fucking Ha) before they even attempt anything else. Its just a gimmick to attract more customers, as of course they are leaving in thier droves due to the terrible speeds/customer service and total lack of tech support..


Yeah I am with Virgin and the 20MB has always been crap, when they offered me 30MB for £30 one off fee, I told them " how about you sort out the 20MB first ".
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Theescapist




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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Aug 2011 16:47    Post subject:
I'm more then happy with 10mbs.

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