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Stuart_ · 17-10-2009, 16:53

Hey there.

I live in a remote place called Harlosh in Scotland, and getting broadband here is pretty hard to come by, but I have Virgin Media Cable so at least its something.

The problem is, when we first got the broadband, I could play the PS3 online (CoD4) and I could watch YouTube videos without them taking ages to load. But now, its the complete opposite.

I phoned Virgin and they said the best connection I can get is 0.5mb/s and I appreciate what they are saying, but there has been a massive drop in my connection (whether it be bandwidth or something else) and I'm not sure what it is.

To give you a rough idea, here is an example:
Lets say a YouTube video is 3 minutes long; it would take about 7 minutes to buffer when before I could watch it and it would buffer just fast enough for me to watch all of it. (I know about how the bit-rate of the video, HD and everything effects the loading time, but I'm talking about the exact same crappy video taking way longer than usual)

Oh and if you're wondering, I have tried other video websites such as Dailymotion and Metacafe and the results are all the same; slow slow slow.

Speed Test results: - http://www.speedtest.net/
Download: 0.49 mb/s
Upload: 0.35 mb/s

Ping Test results: - http://www.pingtest.net/
Packets Lost: All.
Ping: 57 ms
Jitter: 2 ms

So I was just wondering if someone could help to get my connection back on track because I really want to play CoD4 again and for CoD6 coming out in November 10th (whoop whoop!). It may be my router, but I'm pretty sure there is no way to tell unless I got a new one, right?

Thanks for any help.

17-10-2009, 16:53	#1
Stuart_ Inactive Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 55	Small connection issue Hey there. I live in a remote place called Harlosh in Scotland, and getting broadband here is pretty hard to come by, but I have Virgin Media Cable so at least its something. The problem is, when we first got the broadband, I could play the PS3 online (CoD4) and I could watch YouTube videos without them taking ages to load. But now, its the complete opposite. I phoned Virgin and they said the best connection I can get is 0.5mb/s and I appreciate what they are saying, but there has been a massive drop in my connection (whether it be bandwidth or something else) and I'm not sure what it is. To give you a rough idea, here is an example: Lets say a YouTube video is 3 minutes long; it would take about 7 minutes to buffer when before I could watch it and it would buffer just fast enough for me to watch all of it. (I know about how the bit-rate of the video, HD and everything effects the loading time, but I'm talking about the exact same crappy video taking way longer than usual) Oh and if you're wondering, I have tried other video websites such as Dailymotion and Metacafe and the results are all the same; slow slow slow. Speed Test results: - http://www.speedtest.net/ Download: 0.49 mb/s Upload: 0.35 mb/s Ping Test results: - http://www.pingtest.net/ Packets Lost: All. Ping: 57 ms Jitter: 2 ms So I was just wondering if someone could help to get my connection back on track because I really want to play CoD4 again and for CoD6 coming out in November 10th (whoop whoop!). It may be my router, but I'm pretty sure there is no way to tell unless I got a new one, right? Thanks for any help.