Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer - Page 67

ianripping · 26-06-2008, 21:08

Yay - Leeds are upgrade in July - about time!

chrisjones · 27-06-2008, 16:05

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Originally Posted by ianripping

Yay - Leeds are upgrade in July - about time!

Whats betting its done on Thurs 31st lol.

Im in Harrogate, were done the same time as you.

Ray.uk · 27-06-2008, 16:19

Depends what area of Manchester you are in

chrisjones · 28-06-2008, 08:07

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Originally Posted by Ray.uk

Depends what area of Manchester you are in

Think I'll stick with Harrogate thanks very muchly

garak112 · 28-06-2008, 11:42

Can't believe we are still TBC, but I suppose someone has to be last.

My modem was going absolutely haywire the other day, connection stopped syncing and on the modem status page the speed was going up and down (from 1mb to 40mb) without syncing. I assumed that this was because they were up to something, but alas it looks like they aren't.

Angua · 28-06-2008, 14:24

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Originally Posted by garak112

Can't believe we are still TBC, but I suppose someone has to be last.

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Wonder if it will be thee or me

hilfiger · 30-06-2008, 12:59

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Originally Posted by tay77

Hayes in West London

thx

brk · 30-06-2008, 17:12

Don't hold your breath when you do get the upgrade ,I had a better stable speed when I was still on 4 mb service ,occasionally you do get a good speed but most of the time I'm lucky if I get much more than 5 mb some upgrade this has been ,the only + side is the upload speed has gone from 44k up to 60 k ,marketing ploy for bad service "Free upgrade from 4 mb to 10 mb " don't make me laugh Virgin

Graham M · 30-06-2008, 17:23

It depends where youre based and how subscribed it is, I'm getting 10meg solid until I get STMd

brundles · 30-06-2008, 17:44

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Originally Posted by brk

Don't hold your breath when you do get the upgrade ,I had a better stable speed when I was still on 4 mb service ,occasionally you do get a good speed but most of the time I'm lucky if I get much more than 5 mb some upgrade this has been ,the only + side is the upload speed has gone from 44k up to 60 k ,marketing ploy for bad service "Free upgrade from 4 mb to 10 mb " don't make me laugh Virgin

Must admit I'll be interested to see how that falls out here where we are - that's the thing I was always a bit worried about given the number of people complaining about a stable 10 meg connection being turned into an awful 20 meg connection.

I'm optimistic though as I've never heard of any utilisation problems off of Hayes (ha! famous last words!).

brk · 30-06-2008, 18:04

Well I just tried a variety of speed tests and the best it came up with was 3984 kbs ,exactly the same as I got on 4 mb service ,I'm not being STM 'd or anythinf and my new upload speed is correct , lucky you live somewhere else .

dave6x · 01-07-2008, 00:47

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Originally Posted by brk

Don't hold your breath when you do get the upgrade ,I had a better stable speed when I was still on 4 mb service ,occasionally you do get a good speed but most of the time I'm lucky if I get much more than 5 mb some upgrade this has been ,the only + side is the upload speed has gone from 44k up to 60 k ,marketing ploy for bad service "Free upgrade from 4 mb to 10 mb " don't make me laugh Virgin

I'd have to agree with you there!
I've been with VM/NTL for years had excellent service, and until recently was happy to recommend them to anybody. But for several months now the service seems to be deteriorating in this area. Until a few months ago the connection would max out and I got rock-solid download of 480KB/s from newsgroups or other good sources on my 4Mb/s, and 18 mths ago when I was on 10Mb/s it was very unusual not to get rock-solid download of 1.2MB/s from newsgroups or other good sources.

Not anymore! I haven't seen a download max out the connection properly for at least 4-5mths. On 4Mb/s on a good day it hovered around 300-450KB/s, now with the "upgrade" to 10Mb/s I am mostly seeing a very variable 250-800KB/s with occasional peaks to 1MB/s. Even on a multi-thread download I've just completed at 1:30am it didn't go above 800KB/s.

Seems to me I'm seeing evidence that the infrastructure in this area is crumbling under the strain!!!

wirecutter · 01-07-2008, 01:04

I've been "UPgraided"?? This time last year I was on 4meg's and had a viewable tv/film download and had a reasonable chance of down loading a whole up-grad from Microsoft in one hit but now it takes 3 or 4 attempts and I cant down load a radio show from the BBC or look at "Utube" http://www.speedtest.net/ gives me a down speed of 9,265Kbs and up of 423Kbs but it feels as slow as Smoke signals But this site
http://mvsord.visualware.com/myspeed/db/report?id=873592 Shows much more to the story and to day is a good day, look at http://mvsord.visualware.com/myspeed/db/report?id=871423 for a bad day 7 out of 10 Try the site http://mvsord.visualware.com/myspeed/speedonly.html for your selves

chrisjones · 01-07-2008, 10:08

???

ceedee · 01-07-2008, 11:02

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Originally Posted by wirecutter

Try the site http://mvsord.visualware.com/myspeed/speedonly.html for your selves

Just finished a 7GB newsgroup download (with 10 connections) at roughly 3.8Mb/s and that speed test informs me that my connection can do 1.71Mb/s.