Thread: Virgin Media 70, 150 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Old 20-07-2016, 16:20   #956
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Originally Posted by japitts View Post
I recently fell foul of the exact same problem - I always used to get 75Mb/s consistently wirelessly on the "upto" 70Mb tier. Moved to 100Mb/s and would not exceed ~85Mb/s for want of trying. I just didn't even contemplate WiFi being the hold-up, expecting to max-out at 90-95Mb/s.

Sure enough though, WiFi and 100Mb ports on my (now old) router were the hold-ups. Lesson learned for me, router kit might only be capable of 90% of what it claims via wireless, in the real world...
In my case I have 2 laptops. One has an I5 processor and the other has an I7 processor.

Despite the fact that I have the 150Mbps service the I5 can just scrape over 100Mbps but the I7 which I just tested now can do over 150Mbps.

I suppose the moral of the story is that updating your internet speed also means upgrading your hardware too!! LOL!!
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