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l2es-mrix
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Joined: Jun 30, 2005
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:41 am |
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Hello peeps, I have noticed virgin appears to of increased their download speeds 
My broadband is for 50mb and up to last week the speed at best reached 48, 49 tops..
The last week my reading have been as below
anyone else have similar increases ?
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l2es-OmiMace
Joined: Aug 13, 2007
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Location: Birmingham
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:14 am |
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Hmmmm Infact over the last week I have been complaining on the phone to virgin as my 20meg connection at peek times has been dropping down to anywere between 0.5-2.0 meg. After several arguments which include a free router i dont need but hey its new and being put through to an external company that wanted to charge me £15 an hout to remotely connect to my computer - lmao I told them were they could stick that one. I finnaly got them to agree the problem was not at my end.
But now my average speed seems to have increased from 17.5 tp 19.5. I wonder have you been stealing my speed mrix lol. |
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l2es-mrix
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:04 am |
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Yes thinking about it the 20mb and below are known to be throttled in peak times 
Fortunately the 50mb has no cap or throttling but its expensive 
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l2es-brune
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Joined: Nov 17, 2007
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Location: Shooting Butts Road, North Island, New Zealand
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:32 pm |
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I see no impact on my 20mb connection - downloaded Crysis the other night at peak time (6gb) in about an hour or so, so not that bad. tbh In general If I have a large download I normally leave the computer on overnight or during the day while I'm at work so it's not a problem. |
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l2es-Chaos_King
Joined: Dec 02, 2008
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Location: In front of your current weapon of choice
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:48 pm |
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Hmmmm Infact over the last week I have been complaining on the phone to virgin as my 20meg connection at peek times has been dropping down to anywere between 0.5-2.0 meg. After several arguments which include a free router i dont need but hey its new and being put through to an external company that wanted to charge me £15 an hout to remotely connect to my computer - lmao I told them were they could stick that one. I finnaly got them to agree the problem was not at my end.
But now my average speed seems to have increased from 17.5 tp 19.5. I wonder have you been stealing my speed mrix lol. |
Don't phone them, they are shite. Use the forums, which I did when my speed dropped from the 9+ I could usually acheive from my 10mb connection, to 1 at the most. If you follow the post here:
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Fibre-optic-broadband-cable/Speed-Problems-Read-this-checklist-first/td-p/43763
and include the asked for info in your post one of the techie staff get back to you with potential solutions. In my case they could see my modem downstream SNR/RxMER was wrong and they gave me a choice of dates and times for an engineer to come out. I picked one (3 x 4 hour time slots on each day), he came, plugged in, and got me a new modem from his van. Yipee, 10mb again.
It's not an instant solution; it took a couple of days before the reply to my post appeared, but at least you dont spend ages on the phone, on hold, only to find you know more about networking than the idiot on the other end of the line (been there  ) |
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|2es-Cyrus_The_Virus
Joined: Jul 02, 2005
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Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:10 am |
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Mrix if that is your IP address at the bottom left i'd probably remove it  |
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l2es-mrix
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l2es-starskysdad
Joined: Nov 12, 2007
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Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:42 pm |
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piffle - yer all a bunch of willy wavers
What you need is a hardcore 1.5mb connection thats what sorts the men out from the boys (no Brune there are no boys available its just a saying)
50mb connections where you living bloody Taiwan
Feckin BT man I am like a technological ethiopian compared to you lot! |
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l2es-roguesamurai
Joined: May 12, 2007
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Location: Athlone, Ireland
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Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:06 pm |
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100 meg is on the way. should start being rolled out by end of yr. I have the 50 and its plenty. I get a steady 53Mb when downloading.
@ starsky, bloody hell mate, might be worth asking the postman to start carrying your packets for you! |
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