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Originally Posted by Harry56
Tonight (just now) I download an MP3 file and bearly got 1.3Mb!! To be honest paying £35 per month for 10Mb and getting a 1/10th of that speed when I use it the most is not worth the money so I'll be downgrading back to 4Mb tomorrow. I can't see how they [VM] can charge that much for a service they cannot guarantee. I know they say "up to" but surely there has to be a lower limit to make it fair on the customer. It's almost a license to print money!
H56
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i agree there as just upgraded myself today and after several checks both personally and with virgin via phone i am DL at terrible speeds
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:31:34 UTC
1st 512K took 961 ms = 532.8 KB/sec, approx 4390 Kbps, 4.29 Mbps
2nd 512K took 952 ms = 537.8 KB/sec, approx 4431 Kbps, 4.33 Mbps
3rd 512K took 951 ms = 538.4 KB/sec, approx 4436 Kbps, 4.33 Mbps
4th 512K took 871 ms = 587.8 KB/sec, approx 4843 Kbps, 4.73 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 4525 Kbps, 4.42 Mbps
this is the lastest test from here on this site have done others some say about same was down as far as 1.5mb this afternoon
also done route traces and found some are very slow responding if thats the right word ? [on the hops?]