Cable Forum - View Single Post - Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February

12-07-2008, 18:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by wirecutter

Well it seems to tell it like it is on my bit of Cable as I get

switch from Google to virgin home page = 56 sec!
switch from virgin home page to virgin mail = 43 sec
switch from virgin mail to Cable forum = 106 sec
Download 1Meg file from bbc engineering = 53 sec
download 10Meg file from bbc engineering =718 sec with errors
download latest Microsoft package 6 attempts errors

and test my net says "Ouch, are you on dial-up or something? Your connection scored 0.5/5 stars..

Your connection is: 103 Kbps or 0.1 Mbps
You downloaded at: 13 kB/s
You are running: 2 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 78.77 second(s)
Member Ident:Username:wirecutter CompID:75308557191
Test Time:: 2008/07/12 - 5:02am
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
Test ID: C3WN9TUI7 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 3.44 % of your hosts average (ntl.com)
This was tested from a 97 kB file and took 7.734 seconds to complete

and this is from a ALL SINGING UPGRADE 10 MEG
my blackberry is faster it just costs a lot on virgin mobile!

If I use the standard Virgin speedtest below I get on average 2.6Mbps and you times that by 8 giving over 20Mb your test site gives me under 10Mb even http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/ gives better speeds and Gamefiles is from a dedicated Virgin server.

Have you tried going to this link to check your speeds http://gamefiles.virginmedia.com/

click on blueyondergames>demos>then click on at least 2 large files and run them wait a couple of minutes then write down the transfer rates on the files that are running> times them by 8 and you will get a truer download speed.