just thought i would gloat. perfect 20meg service for nearly 2 year. hope 50 meg lives up to the hype.

 

It should be twice as good

 

Your maths is pish

 

Eat it, ok 2.5 times better

 

Still do the old speed checker to see what your getting, really doubt it will be anywhere near 50mb though

Tony

 

soon see won't we. will give you all some results and some comments on friday or saturday.

 

See my thread 44mb wireless upstairs 49mb downstairs. So close enough

Welcome to 50mb I had it installed 3weeks ago been perfect !

 

what cost is it????

 

Two words, Contention ratio

Leased lines ftw..

 

Contention ratio does not apply to 50mb

 

Actually it will it still has shared bandwidth on the card, which means that you wont always get 50mb (no one will actually get 50mb), you could get much lower during peak traffic hours, but near the numbers you want during the quiet periods

Tony

 

What i am worring about here is not traffic management at peak hours. 50 meg service with VM is advertised as not throttled. i have read on cable forum that there might be application throttling i.e bittorrent or newsgroup application that use certain ports on your computer. I have asked on the cable forum but no one seems to have an answer. some say that 50 meg is not throttled in anyway, while other are seeing ropey speed when using newsreaders to download stuff from newsgroups. as Tony say the lines will be contended when the 20 meg members get moved over to the new DOCSIS3equipment . lucky for me it is not that many on my UBR.

Roll on Friday.

 

VM are charging me £51 per month plus £30 setup and £20 initialisation

 

I pay £46 with phone and £20 installation.

I use usenext I downloaded 7gig in 35 mins. But I've found smaller files by the time it's built speed up d/l one rar file it's finished and starts all over again on the next rar file. Through usenext I average 42-44mb d/l speed

 

good job. most of the 700mb avi files are in 14mb chunks. the HD stuff tends to be in 100mb chunks. i use giganews (newsbin pro) with the wee accelerator which seem to keep a constant 2.2MB. i assume maxed out the 50meg will be 5.5 meg/sec or there abouts

 

What's gigs news like? How much is it? I use usenext because of just how simple it is

 

Also I now find alot I host loads of games on cod on xbox.which is a downside as when I leave midgame is finishes the game

 

Giganews is one of the better news servers. they have their own newsreader called newsbin pro. pretty simple to use. they also have a giganews accelerator which speeds up the download of the headers. having said that you can get a lot cheaper out there. $30 a month for 20 connections which can be SSL or not. unlimited download limits as well. last month downloaded about 200GB worth, yet this month so far only about 60gb, average is probably about 100gb a month

 

100gb a month?!

there's an outside world people

 

bigsinky, dare i ask what you download? or is that a silly question

 

ron it's mostly movies in HD (blu-ray releases), tv series in hd. the vast majority of US tv series are now transmitted in HD with Dolby Digital sound. just one episode in a .mkv format can be 1.4 - 1.6GB (24 episodes in a series) you do the maths and xbox 360 images (7 - 8 GB), some **** in there too

currently about 11 - 12 TB of the stuff on my network and i am running out of space. some new 1TB drives coming to replace the 500GB drives that i have. i just stick the 500gb drives in caddies and use them as portable USB drives. had to buy a couple of 4 port usb cards for inside my rig.

 

where? i am too busy wanking myself to death.................erm........... did i say that out aloud

 

Cool I pay for a amount £25 or around that for a 250gb

 

When you say you host on COD is that a public or private session because you can't tell who the host is when playing a public session.

 

public, i can because when i've been leaving games it also ends the game saying host has ended game

 

When i moved from BT to Be* my upload speed jumped from 400kbs, to 1.3mb and i find that i get picked to host Gears of War 2 pretty much all of the time when uk people are playing, the difference in my kills/scores was crazy to be honest

I dont play COD to much so can not really comment on that, but you can tell when you are host on gears, mainly because you can beast the full entire team with just a pistol, and you also can not mele anything after the round is over (if you are not dead)

 

Ahhhh makes sence now bud

 

i'm giving giga news a go now bigsinky , took me a while to work round it though not as simple as usenext but cheaper and faster

 

enjoy mate. don't forget the accelerator for the headers