ADSL24 - this is the life

[TobyLee]

So I migrated today after 12 days of shockingly poor speeds and service and the difference is amazing.

I can play online games again, pings are >20 instead of 220, I've been downloading the Unreal Tournament 3 demo at a steady 500kb/s, instead of the 10kb/s I was getting on Virgin at "peak times". Thats strange because I was told that all networks have the speed problems at peak times.

This time yesterday it was struggling to stream youtube videos, now today, I hvae no problems.

The problem clearly is with VM, so anyone sick of your crap service, do what I did and get out as soon as you can.






Sure you might say speed tests arent reliable but how is it most people on VM are getting the speeds like in the top picture?

But I'm happy with my service now, so seeya later!

[Mick Fisher]

Hi TobyLee
Glad to hear you are happy with your new provider.
The last time I dipped my toe into ADSL ( albeit with the infamous V21 ) I found my connection was fine for the first few days maybe even weeks (it was a while ago), there after getting slower and slower until grinding to an unusable status after a short while.
V21 were migrating all their customers from BT to Telefonica at the time but I was (supposed) to be on BT IPstream(?) so shouldn't have been affected.
Anyway please let us know how your new provider's connection is faring as time progresses say after a week or two.
If it's not too much trouble, and as a matter of interest, what sort of speeds are you getting with your new provider for single threaded downloads from sites in the US.

[Sirius]

Yes truly truly awful speeds for a Friday night.



But on a none sarcastic note glad your happy. If i leave VM i would go to Be unlimited.

Toby, I am pleased that you are happy with your provider.

So am I, on my 4Mb on a Friday night.

and me

[goldoni]

NOT ME A LITTLE HACKED OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Beat this for a 20Mbps connection

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

and me

So when are you leaving for adsl with speeds like that. I would be demanding compo as well

[scottyboydfc]

[slowcoach]

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:56:28 GMT

Test 1: 1024K took 450 ms = 2275.6 KB/sec, approx 18751 Kbps, 18.31 Mbps
Test 2: 1024K took 433 ms = 2364.9 KB/sec, approx 19487 Kbps, 19.03 Mbps
Test 3: 1024K took 425 ms = 2409.4 KB/sec, approx 19853 Kbps, 19.39 Mbps
Test 4: 2048K took 891 ms = 2298.5 KB/sec, approx 18940 Kbps, 18.5 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 19258 Kbps, 18.81 Mbps

Proves that everyone is down the pub.

Except us saddos........

[TobyLee]

I forgot to add this was Virgin Media ADSL not cable, unfortunately my area doesn't have cable yet so I had to go with ADSL.

Obviously it's ADSL that has more of the problems and not cable.

As for downloading speeds, I downloaded the UT3 demo at around 400-500kb/s, the Call Of Duty 4 demo 500-700kb/s and I've just finished downloading the Ratchet and Clank demo which I estimated it was downloading at round the same speeds.

[dragon]

Speedtest.net needs an update to detect VM rather than NTL

[bywater]

Well two weeks on since leaving Virgin still getting 4.5 Mb solid which is 1Mb faster than was my old cable account and for the same price unlimted telephone calls and a shiny new lap top thrown in and wireless router. I knew I Wasn't going get to the full 8Mb due to my distance from exchange but so far very happy. Its wonderful to be able to find pages that actually download quickly now. Will drop buy in a few months time and let you know how I am getting on.

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[ZebUK]

Originally Posted by goldoni

NOT ME A LITTLE HACKED OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Beat this for a 20Mbps connection

I CAN!!! :P

[dragon]

Originally Posted by goldoni

NOT ME A LITTLE HACKED OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Beat this for a 20Mbps connection

comparable to my 8Mbit BT then