Cable Forum - View Single Post - Virgin Media announces 50mb lines from next year.

Haighy · 14-09-2008, 15:39

To join in one half of this discussion :-)
If you try speednet for different servers you can kind of see the problem of lag and latency.
If I click on Maidenhead I get a 17 ms ping but only 8 meg download.
Clicking on London gives me a 39 sec ping, slower, but I get a 19 meg download. Speed and volume are not always closely linked.
Clicking on American servers gives me pings of over 100, on the few I tried.
AS has been said elsewhere the width of your pipe doesn't make much difference unless you fill it, or someone else does :-)

14-09-2008, 15:39	#220
Haighy Inactive Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 71	Re: Virgin Media announces 50mb lines from next year. To join in one half of this discussion :-) If you try speednet for different servers you can kind of see the problem of lag and latency. If I click on Maidenhead I get a 17 ms ping but only 8 meg download. Clicking on London gives me a 39 sec ping, slower, but I get a 19 meg download. Speed and volume are not always closely linked. Clicking on American servers gives me pings of over 100, on the few I tried. AS has been said elsewhere the width of your pipe doesn't make much difference unless you fill it, or someone else does :-)