Excellent speeds. Well done Virgin!

[jcardiff]

I was on 10 meg and getting quarter of a meg and half meg maximum for three months, get sky next week as sick of virgins incompetence and lies

You really all need to stop trusting these speedtest sites as gospel. I just used the Maidenhead one as per the above results and got around 2Mb on my 4Mb connection but broadbandmax showed the connection as 3.7Mb immediately after.

There are many factors which affect the speed these tests show, one of which is the ability of the speedtest server to keep up with your connection. I suggest this Maidenhead one is not up to the job.

Try this one:
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

or this one:
http://www.tenmeg.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

and see what you get.

[LiamTG]

Just so you guys know. I am on 10meg and I have performed speedtests with the same site that you have and the results have also come back as shoite. I then turn on my Newsleecher and DL something from newsgroups and always get 9meg and above.

Therefore that speedtest site isn't the most reliable.

Just a thought!



Liam

[Richy99]

speedtest.net and also the VM speedtest was showing my connection at about 3meg from 10meg yet newsgroups were downloading at close to 9meg i wonder which one im going to take as more accurate

speeds tests are not always a reliable guide

didnt really read the above post lol but near enough identical

[jerryl]

try to talk to the manager on the phone and hurl a load of problems that has occured to you >_<

[jcardiff]

well i don't use speed tests, my connection has been bad without trying speedtests. I know my connection has been crap due to downloading from various sites like microsoft or various others as its far more reliable then speed tests

[Richy99]

best off trying a news server as you are pretty much guaranteed full speed

[lardboy]

Don't use maidenhead the server is pish.

If you must use speedtest.net use London.

Better still use this utility to get a better idea of the true performance.

[jcardiff]

best off trying a news server as you are pretty much guaranteed full speed

unless you already know you're connection is buggered because it takes a minute to open pages like mine.

how can you be guaranteed full speed if you're internet runs on a par with dial up?

[Richy99]

it bypasses the proxies which are used for opening web pages, if the proxy is having issues then so will web pages

newsgroups allow more than 1 single connection which is what a browser would use for downloading a file

[bigdavep]

this was at 5.00pm here in Bolton on 10mb

[astra_lestat]

Originally Posted by fizgog

I'm on the 4Mb package

3830 on 4M?? wow....

OK next.
17.28

[Richy99]

here you go then :

1st 512K took 2855 ms = 179.3 KB/sec, approx 1477 Kbps, 1.44 Mbps
2nd 512K took 871 ms = 587.8 KB/sec, approx 4843 Kbps, 4.73 Mbps3rd 512K took 1001 ms = 511.5 KB/sec, approx 4215 Kbps, 4.12 Mbps
4th 512K took 2153 ms = 237.8 KB/sec, approx 1959 Kbps, 1.91 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 3124 Kbps, 3.05 Mbps

speedtest.net shows 4meg

giganews shows 8.7meg from 10meg connection

all tests done just now

Originally Posted by astra_lestat

ufitm
What are you saying?

do not know what happened to the text i put in my post and the link to
a speedtest i did .

Originally Posted by Richy99

here you go then :

1st 512K took 2855 ms = 179.3 KB/sec, approx 1477 Kbps, 1.44 Mbps
2nd 512K took 871 ms = 587.8 KB/sec, approx 4843 Kbps, 4.73 Mbps3rd 512K took 1001 ms = 511.5 KB/sec, approx 4215 Kbps, 4.12 Mbps
4th 512K took 2153 ms = 237.8 KB/sec, approx 1959 Kbps, 1.91 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 3124 Kbps, 3.05 Mbps

speedtest.net shows 4meg

giganews shows 8.7meg from 10meg connection

all tests done just now

you are going to spoil it for all the people who use their broadband purely for downloading speedtest results & complaining they aren't 'getting what they pay for'...