Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Nice ping :D

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Thought I'd look back in here after two months away from cable. I see it's still the same old friendly place I remember with plenty of jocular banter between the mods and posters.

Anyhow here's my TBB chart

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...19-02-2014.png

My SamKnows charts are pretty boring too these days with variations in speed of a few percent instead of the regular tens of percent I had with cable although in the last few days I was on cable it did look like VM might have tried to sort that out - I guess I'll never know.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Anyone get a lovely....whatever the hell this was at 7am?

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...22-02-2014.png

Seems too much of a coincidence that it started at almost exactly 7 and lasted almost exactly an hour.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Me - evil Telford Cable using your connection one off this morning

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

See you lied again you said you would never come back. :)

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I mean the broadband (virgin media) not the forum.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Backpedaling, the fastest way to go nowhere.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

:tu:

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I have 2 connections load balanced. People on VM's new 152Mb obviously are faster than me on downloads but I have pretty sweet upload speeds, depending on how the application takes to being balanced, which Speedtest doesn't, and whether on WiFi or cabled.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/03/54.png https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/03/55.png

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

What connections do you have and what is doing the load balancing?

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

When it's in a good mood it does this (WiFi)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3352895504

Plusnet Fibre Unlimited and Infinity 2.

TP-Link TL-ER5120 v1.0

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

I don't get how the upload speed teams? I thought speedtest.net was a single thread speed test, so how's it increasing upload speed?

I downloaded off usenet at 222Mbps but that's with 30-40 odd connections going out across two connections.

The good thing about having cable and fttc is that you get a gold level of resilience. The coax comes in from a different area of the house than copper, it's on two completely separate networks. So it's highly unlikely you will be without both connections outside of natural disaster or a wide power outage.

Businesses pay a lot for that and us home users get it for cheap!

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Quick test wired:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/03/52.png

Speedtest.net servers have a few different configurations, one of them being amount of threads upstream and downstream.

EDIT: I would have loved to have availed myself of both fibre and cable but it wasn't an option. No cable here and never going to be.

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

Ah, didn't know that. Great upload!

Re: (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb
 

It's kinda a blessing that I don't have 152Mb cable as well, using PPPoE as I have to the router maxes out at not much more than I'm pushing through it with the 2 x FTTC lines ;)