10-03-2009, 13:35
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#466
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Inactive
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Lincoln
Age: 45
Services: 1gb, Full TV
Posts: 100
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Re: 50Mb areas
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
They aren't though. XL Broadband with a phoneline is £31 - XXL with a phoneline is £46
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The website says £35 for XXL with a phoneline but either way i dont mind, was just wondering thats all
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10-03-2009, 14:07
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#467
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Inactive
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Manchester
Services: 360 x2, Maxit TV, Sky Sports and Sky Cinema. Gig1
Posts: 17,929
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Re: 50Mb areas
Yes
BB XXL is £35 after discounts + £11 phoneline = £46
BB XL is £20 after discounts + £11 phoneline = £31
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10-03-2009, 14:12
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#468
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Burnley, Lancashire
Services: VM XXL (50MB)
Posts: 120
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Re: 50Mb areas
Yeah i need to know when it will be available in burnley also.
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10-03-2009, 14:22
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#469
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Inactive
Join Date: Sep 2004
Services: XXL Broadband, Phone
Posts: 604
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Re: 50Mb areas
I wish I was getting XL+phone line for £31. I'll probably worry about it more when I can upgrade to 50Mbit though.
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10-03-2009, 22:56
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#470
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Age: 47
Posts: 13,995
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Re: 50Mb areas
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Originally Posted by idontpirate
Yeah i need to know when it will be available in burnley also.
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Not much use for it if you don't pirate, but as has been mentioned upwards of 10 times in this thread the people who might know aren't going to talk so rather pointless asking.
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10-03-2009, 23:01
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#471
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Burnley, Lancashire
Services: VM XXL (50MB)
Posts: 120
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Re: 50Mb areas
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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
Not much use for it if you don't pirate, but as has been mentioned upwards of 10 times in this thread the people who might know aren't going to talk so rather pointless asking.
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Lol, anyone who says they dont pirate are lieing.
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11-03-2009, 12:20
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#472
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: denton manchester
Services: vip package
100 meg broadband
Posts: 56
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Re: 50Mb areas
come on virgin media
stop teezing me by sending 50 meg leeflets threw my door
and hurry up and enable my area ffs lol
m34 postcode is waiting rofl
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11-03-2009, 17:26
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#473
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Coventry
Services: Fusion Fibre 900
Posts: 1,791
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Re: 50Mb areas
Had my 50 mb installed since Saturday. Consistently getting speeds, through Ethernet, of 45 to 55 mb.
Wireless speeds vary because I got 2 crappy old laptops. Even after I tweaked TCP and updated the wireless adaptor firmware, at the virgin update page, I don't get more than 15 mb. However my wife's new lappy gets 35 mb on low signal elsewhere in the house.
How are others managing with the wireless connection?
By the way I am paying £10 extra a month for the upgrade, because I was already VIP. I was also charged £30 for the router. My bill shows no installation charge. 
I spoke to VM when they rang me to see how the installation went. I told them that the installer was useless. Fortunately I had installed the router myself, but he hadn't a clue how to configure it for the new modem. I also had to tell him the best sites for testing speed! The call centre explained that VM are having trouble training enough people to get the 50 mb roll out moving. Often an area has been converted but they haven't let the area go 50 mb because they haven't enough installers to do the work.
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11-03-2009, 17:34
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#474
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 38
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Re: 50Mb areas
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Originally Posted by roughbeast
Had my 50 mb installed since Saturday. Consistently getting speeds, through Ethernet, of 45 to 55 mb.
Wireless speeds vary because I got 2 crappy old laptops. Even after I tweaked TCP and updated the wireless adaptor firmware, at the virgin update page, I don't get more than 15 mb. However my wife's new lappy gets 35 mb on low signal elsewhere in the house.
How are others managing with the wireless connection?
By the way I am paying £10 extra a month for the upgrade, because I was already VIP. I was also charged £30 for the router. My bill shows no installation charge.
I spoke to VM when they rang me to see how the installation went. I told them that the installer was useless. Fortunately I had installed the router myself, but he hadn't a clue how to configure it for the new modem. I also had to tell him the best sites for testing speed! The call centre explained that VM are having trouble training enough people to get the 50 mb roll out moving. Often an area has been converted but they haven't let the area go 50 mb because they haven't enough installer to do the work. |
wow the ping is awful on that Connection.
106ms on a less than 50 miles server?
Im moving to 50Mb tommorow but im with Be* now and on a server thats 3,350 miles away i get a ping of 90-99 ms....
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11-03-2009, 17:59
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#475
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Coventry
Services: Fusion Fibre 900
Posts: 1,791
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Re: 50Mb areas
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Originally Posted by shiwayb
wow the ping is awful on that Connection.
106ms on a less than 50 miles server?
Im moving to 50Mb tommorow but im with Be* now and on a server thats 3,350 miles away i get a ping of 90-99 ms....
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Lowest ping I had was 23. It is mostly around 50 on that server. Damn!! I just got 202 on the London server and 150 on Maidenhead. 
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11-03-2009, 18:07
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#476
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 38
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Re: 50Mb areas
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Originally Posted by roughbeast
Lowest ping I had was 23. It is mostly around 50 on that server. Damn!! I just got 202 on the London server and 150 on Maidenhead. |
Well my friend who is down the road gets around 52 ms to the Longer server and we are around 250 miles away.
Hopefully ill get similar results.
Can you do a ping to bbc.co.uk and tell me what kind of ping you get?
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11-03-2009, 20:03
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#477
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Coventry
Services: Fusion Fibre 900
Posts: 1,791
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Re: 50Mb areas
Quote:
Originally Posted by shiwayb
Well my friend who is down the road gets around 52 ms to the Longer server and we are around 250 miles away.
Hopefully ill get similar results.
Can you do a ping to bbc.co.uk and tell me what kind of ping you get?
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I get an average ping of 9 ms for the BBC.
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11-03-2009, 20:13
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#478
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 38
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Re: 50Mb areas
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Originally Posted by roughbeast
I get an average ping of 9 ms for the BBC.
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oh ok thats pretty good
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11-03-2009, 23:14
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#479
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Coventry
Services: Fusion Fibre 900
Posts: 1,791
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Re: 50Mb areas
I tweaked the TCP a bit on my main PC. This is my best result so far!
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11-03-2009, 23:31
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#480
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Permanently Banned
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Wales UK
Age: 44
Services: 50mb Cable, L TV and Phone XL.
Posts: 3,480
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Re: 50Mb areas
i thought my ping was high on 20 mb being at around 70ms
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