Virgin rapped on broadband speeds

[Central]

I just moved over to O2 broadband and this is my speeds

And on a BT line and I dont live next door to a exchange

[Nicosia]

how far from the exchange are you?

[cimt]

Originally Posted by Be*

I just moved over to O2 broadband and this is my speeds

And on a BT line and I dont live next door to a exchange

Is there any difference between o2 and Be*? Or just the fact that o2 do customer deals?

[Nicosia]

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[Central]

Originally Posted by Nicosia

how far from the exchange are you?

750 metres or so

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Originally Posted by cimt

Is there any difference between o2 and Be*? Or just the fact that o2 do customer deals?

Not really. O2 only advertise upto 20mb where as Be do up to 24mb. Both do a option for Static ip addresses. Also O2 have free 0800 technical support and online help via webchat.

[Wrestlefreak]

Originally Posted by Be*

I just moved over to O2 broadband and this is my speeds

And on a BT line and I dont live next door to a exchange

Im confused, are you on O2 or BE?

as the graphic says BE

[Nicosia]

nice, is that on a 24mbit down and 1.5mbit up?

[Central]

Originally Posted by Wrestlefreak

Im confused, are you on O2 or BE?

as the graphic says BE

O2 own BE so uses the same network

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Originally Posted by Nicosia

nice, is that on a 24mbit down and 1.5mbit up?

My line is actually synced as Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 2,100 / 18,949

[Magilla]

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

Depends on your usage in that hour.

Or more rightly depends on the state of VM's network in that hour. Lets make it easy and add "at the advertised rate" to avoid any misunderstandings

Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

For the "majority" its not an issue

*IF* they've been missold their current plan, otherwise they most likely want to use the bandwidth as advertised at some point, which they cannot do for a large proportion of the day.

[Chrysalis]

Wow BT is one to talk, I dont see anywhere in their own advertising about throttled speeds and BT do their own throttling. I am aware VM do have STM and such but BT are equally as bad.

Incidently I noticed last week VM dont show their upload speeds on their website.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Wow BT is one to talk, I dont see anywhere in their own advertising about throttled speeds and BT do their own throttling. I am aware VM do have STM and such but BT are equally as bad.

Incidently I noticed last week VM dont show their upload speeds on their website.

BT do protocol based shaping though rather than having a set limit of data then protocol agnostic throttling. Unless BT start advertising their P2P speeds they are fine.

[Nicosia]

if VM just removed the cap they would be the best isp in England they can deliver full speeds and are very reliable, even though the tech support may be in india u never need to ring it so it doesent matter even if they where in mongolia it wouldent matter, VM are very trustworthy and reliable better then any adsl isp

[Central]

Originally Posted by Nicosia

if VM just removed the cap they would be the best isp in England they can deliver full speeds and are very reliable, even though the tech support may be in india u never need to ring it so it doesent matter even if they where in mongolia it wouldent matter, VM are very trustworthy and reliable better then any adsl isp

What about Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?

Is there better in them 3?

[Nicosia]

hell yes, the speed test they did in sctoland took 4 mins to dl 10meg file thats not good. even the other speed test took 10 seconds and i am dling 24mbytes in about 10 seconds on 20mbit, is there even one adsl customer who recieves full 24mbit? even 20?

[Central]

What?

Your post makes sense?