Looking @ Virgin Broadband

[Azazel]

Hi Guys,

Im currently on Idnet ADSL Max Premium and am looking at moving to virgin broadband but I currently use the broadband for internet gaming (hence the premium higher priority lower contention), I am currently located in the Harrow area in north west london, anyone else already on the service in that area that has any advice or experience.

Primarily I play World of warcraft, I have looked at the forums in relation to this and notice that ALOT of people have issues with world of warcraft (disconnects and lag spikes etc) and i dont really want to risk moving onto virgin and be stuck with a 12 month contract without a little bit of feed back already.

So anyone that has some advice please feel free to share!

Thanks in Advance.

[virginmedia]

Do you live in a cable area?

I personnaly love my Virgin Broadband.

John

[dcclanuk]

Originally Posted by Azazel

Hi Guys,

Im currently on Idnet ADSL Max Premium and am looking at moving to virgin broadband but I currently use the broadband for internet gaming (hence the premium higher priority lower contention), I am currently located in the Harrow area in north west london, anyone else already on the service in that area that has any advice or experience.

I am in wembley, HA0... so very close to u i suppose!

When I first got NTL, around 15 months ago, pings to US servers on QUAKE 3 ARENA were about 130......now [Virgin Media], the pings to the US servers are 180-220, constantly going up and down. Its virtually impossible to play!

When my cuzin hosts a server [I think he has UKONLINE, and lives 2 streets away from me (200 metres?)], the ping is about 50-60, which i think is quite bad since his other mate gets about 40-50 also living nearby him.

So i dont think virginmedia bband is for gaming, but i do get my 2mb speeds anytime day/night! [10mb was not the same, hence i downgraded to 2mb, but it was improving].

I dont want to lie and say its amazing, since u will have to stop gaming

[virginmedia]

My cable is great for gaming, I have a Xbox 360.

[dcclanuk]

Originally Posted by virginmedia

My cable is great for gaming, I have a Xbox 360.

is there anyway i can lower my ping???

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.131] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=117

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 24ms, Average = 19ms

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 44ms, Average = 31ms

[Azazel]

yeah i have got the V+ service already installed, just want to get rid of the BT line and the ADSL cos its costing me a fortune, i can save about £75 a month by changing all the services to virgin (mobile TV BB and Phone)

[dcclanuk]

Originally Posted by Azazel

yeah i have got the V+ service already installed, just want to get rid of the BT line and the ADSL cos its costing me a fortune, i can save about £75 a month by changing all the services to virgin (mobile TV BB and Phone)

ping bbc.co.uk and jolt.co.uk and compare it to my results?

[virginmedia]

I dont think you are able to lower your ping.

[Azazel]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

ping bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.131] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 33ms, Average = 32ms



Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

ping jolt.co.uk

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 30ms, Maximum = 33ms, Average = 31ms

Current stats (running internet radio msn and a couple of downloads at the same time)

[janipewter]

Even though my broadband is ****slow, I get some outstanding pings. For example, to a Battlefield 2 server I play on regularly, I normally always have the lowest ping (between 15 and 20).

[DarkGashX]

Cable seems to have a lower ping and fewer hops the ADSL.

[chickendippers]

I get similar ping results, but I'm just wondering how you guys managed to copy+paste yours. The DOS window in which my results appear - disappears straight after it's shown them?

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by chickendippers

I get similar ping results, but I'm just wondering how you guys managed to copy+paste yours. The DOS window in which my results appear - disappears straight after it's shown them?

Windows?

Start / run
Type in cmd
click OK
ping your address in the DOS box - DOS box will stay on screen
Click on the the box in the top left (c:\) for the menu
Edit / mark
highlight the results and then
edit / copy

then feel free to paste away!

[chickendippers]

Yey thanks

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.131] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=118
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=118

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 16ms

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms

[Azazel]

So anyone else have any feedback for the service in the London/Harrow area, still looking at this service i would really like to get setup on this one.

Cheers!