120M (Advice) Thinking of leaving Virgin Media 120mb for BT Infinity up to 76mb - Page 14

Synthetic · 15-02-2014, 22:38

Nice ping

kwikbreaks · 19-02-2014, 11:14

Thought I'd look back in here after two months away from cable. I see it's still the same old friendly place I remember with plenty of jocular banter between the mods and posters.

Anyhow here's my TBB chart

My SamKnows charts are pretty boring too these days with variations in speed of a few percent instead of the regular tens of percent I had with cable although in the last few days I was on cable it did look like VM might have tried to sort that out - I guess I'll never know.

Kushan · 22-02-2014, 23:13

Anyone get a lovely....whatever the hell this was at 7am?

Seems too much of a coincidence that it started at almost exactly 7 and lasted almost exactly an hour.

telfordcable · 22-02-2014, 23:40

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Originally Posted by Kushan

Anyone get a lovely....whatever the hell this was at 7am?

Me - evil Telford Cable using your connection one off this morning

Sirius · 23-02-2014, 00:03

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

Me - evil Telford Cable using your connection one off this morning

See you lied again you said you would never come back.

telfordcable · 23-02-2014, 00:30

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Originally Posted by Sirius

See you lied again you said you would never come back.

I mean the broadband (virgin media) not the forum.

Kabaal · 23-02-2014, 09:06

Backpedaling, the fastest way to go nowhere.

Sirius · 23-02-2014, 10:56

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Originally Posted by Kabaal

Backpedaling, the fastest way to go nowhere.

Ignitionnet · 06-03-2014, 18:12

I have 2 connections load balanced. People on VM's new 152Mb obviously are faster than me on downloads but I have pretty sweet upload speeds, depending on how the application takes to being balanced, which Speedtest doesn't, and whether on WiFi or cabled.

Dush · 06-03-2014, 18:48

What connections do you have and what is doing the load balancing?

Ignitionnet · 06-03-2014, 19:16

When it's in a good mood it does this (WiFi)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3352895504

Plusnet Fibre Unlimited and Infinity 2.

TP-Link TL-ER5120 v1.0

Dush · 06-03-2014, 19:38

I don't get how the upload speed teams? I thought speedtest.net was a single thread speed test, so how's it increasing upload speed?

I downloaded off usenet at 222Mbps but that's with 30-40 odd connections going out across two connections.

The good thing about having cable and fttc is that you get a gold level of resilience. The coax comes in from a different area of the house than copper, it's on two completely separate networks. So it's highly unlikely you will be without both connections outside of natural disaster or a wide power outage.

Businesses pay a lot for that and us home users get it for cheap!

Ignitionnet · 06-03-2014, 19:47

Quick test wired:

Speedtest.net servers have a few different configurations, one of them being amount of threads upstream and downstream.

EDIT: I would have loved to have availed myself of both fibre and cable but it wasn't an option. No cable here and never going to be.

Dush · 06-03-2014, 20:00

Ah, didn't know that. Great upload!

Ignitionnet · 06-03-2014, 20:10

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Originally Posted by Dush

Ah, didn't know that. Great upload!

It's kinda a blessing that I don't have 152Mb cable as well, using PPPoE as I have to the router maxes out at not much more than I'm pushing through it with the 2 x FTTC lines