Thread: Terrible speeds, Virgin won't do anything about it. Any suggestions?
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Old 23-10-2009, 16:20   #38
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Re: Terrible speeds, Virgin won't do anything about it. Any suggestions?
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
You mention syncing at > 10 Mbps on O2/Be (through a BT line all the way to the ISP Gateway). Syncing is one thing, download is another. Your 50 Mbps VM circuit will sync at the nominal speed. But downloads are subject to contention at nodes and hubs at least.
My point is on O2/Be I (and everyone else I know) sync at 10 megs+ and get 10 megs+ download. As my graph earlier shows, at 16.5 meg sync I'm getting 15 meg actual download. That's about as good as it gets - and thats during the height of the peak period. Most of the dips are actually due to the server, not my ISP. Their contention is low enough that even the fast(er) lines can get full speed, pretty much all the time.

Virgin Media will 'sync' at 2/10/20/50 meg. And you'll get 1.5 meg download speed. On a good day. Not even the slowest lines will get full speed at peak times; sure it's fine at 6am though... But that's not when I need to use it.

O2/Be have kept capacity and contention well under control, without needing any traffic management. Virgin Media have failed miserably - in this area at least.
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