VirgiN Media Upload speeds
25 January 2011, 10:13 AM
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VirgiN Media Upload speeds
Just got a text from VM. My upload has just increased to 5Mbit. That's on the 50MBit service. Better than the old 1.75MBit.
What are the rest of you like for upload speed.
What are the rest of you like for upload speed.
25 January 2011, 10:20 AM
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Virgin Media - They wind me up!! I'm supposed to get 20mb but am lucky to get 1mb most of the time! I cant even get google sometimes its that slow! Apparently there is a "fault in my local area"!! Its been like that for a year now and they think it will be fixed by the end of march. Needless to say I have written a letter to them and am at the moment awaiting a response.
25 January 2011, 11:02 AM
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i have to say my 50 meg has been faultless in the year i have had it. sure i have had to reset the modem and router a few times, but who hasnt. i do feel for those that continually get crap speeds contrary to advertised speeds in their area. same problems for my g/f with tiscali. up to 8Mbit my ar$e, she is lucky if she gets 0.5Mbit at any time. All sorts of diagnostics done, she is still getting craps speeds 2 years later. i have told her to jump ship back to BT but after the, what i can only describe as a major clusterfcuk, by BT switching to Tiscali she is loathe to do anything.
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25 January 2011, 12:08 PM
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I'm with Be. I get about 1.2Mbit upload which is alot better than the normal 0.5Mbit upload on ADSL.
It makes copying files between my house and my dads house much easier. As well as remote backups.
But 5Mbit would be fantastic. I think you need that kind of bandwidth to take advantage of the online backup services. These websites which charge you about £50 a year for unlimited data storage. Install the software on your PCs or server and configure it to backup constantly to the "cloud". That way you always have an offsite backup.
It makes copying files between my house and my dads house much easier. As well as remote backups.
But 5Mbit would be fantastic. I think you need that kind of bandwidth to take advantage of the online backup services. These websites which charge you about £50 a year for unlimited data storage. Install the software on your PCs or server and configure it to backup constantly to the "cloud". That way you always have an offsite backup.
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25 January 2011, 03:48 PM
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How throttled are the BT FTTC connections? I know from experience with BT that in the evenings the speeds would drop dramatically on the basic ADSL connections. Whether that was through throttling or high contention I don't know. But even speedtest.net results would report 1Mbit odd in the evenings. During the day it was 4Mbit.
That was the main reason I moved away from BT. Surely if it was the high contention causing the problems then just changing the last few kilometres of copper to fibre won't have helped much.
That was the main reason I moved away from BT. Surely if it was the high contention causing the problems then just changing the last few kilometres of copper to fibre won't have helped much.
25 January 2011, 09:30 PM
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I'm only on the 20mb set up, but upload isn't too bad as far as I'm concerned...
Ping test seems to be fine as well.......
So the question for me is..... is it actually worth me upgrading to the 50mb set up and I'm not sure TBH...
Ping test seems to be fine as well.......
So the question for me is..... is it actually worth me upgrading to the 50mb set up and I'm not sure TBH...
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26 January 2011, 09:19 AM
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How throttled are the BT FTTC connections? I know from experience with BT that in the evenings the speeds would drop dramatically on the basic ADSL connections. Whether that was through throttling or high contention I don't know. But even speedtest.net results would report 1Mbit odd in the evenings. During the day it was 4Mbit.
That was the main reason I moved away from BT. Surely if it was the high contention causing the problems then just changing the last few kilometres of copper to fibre won't have helped much.
That was the main reason I moved away from BT. Surely if it was the high contention causing the problems then just changing the last few kilometres of copper to fibre won't have helped much.
With Sky you could look in the router settings to see your connection, with BT Home Hub you can't.
For me upload / Ping is more important (for online gaming) and haven't found this drops significantly so far.
26 January 2011, 03:13 PM
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26 January 2011, 03:15 PM
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26 January 2011, 03:18 PM
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it depends on whether VM have moved your 20meg connection over to the new DOCSIS 3 technology. It also depends on what your doing. I am a downloader so 50Meg suits me as i am not too fussed about upload speeds.
27 January 2011, 07:23 AM
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28 January 2011, 10:45 AM
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they have a 100Mbit rollout schedule on their site
http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/...lout-30111.pdf
East Belfast not being rolled out until September
http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/...lout-30111.pdf
East Belfast not being rolled out until September
