Im a Virgin again!!

[scott.parker]

Well OK








Im not...

Im just back online with them as my provider, i wouldn't of normally used them as there quite crap, but there the only ones who offer broadband without a phone line, so no line rental as it's through mega quick fiber optic cable :thumb:

No i may be on some more again, and might get some ****e sold etc. lol

Scott

[General Baxter]

im blasting along at 43.7mbps this morn, win win :)

[Pete]

54mbps here with virgin ;)

[Plug]

Christ i think im lucky to get 1mps lol

[mowgli]

Christ i think im lucky to get 1mps lol

get the bloke to tie a knot in the string & polish the tin can more often

[sparkie1401]

im still a virgin

[Lee]

I nearly hit 200kb/s just then. Awesome!

[Jack]

Whats the throughput and latency on the virgin fibre connections?

[mowgli]

Whats the throughput and latency on the virgin fibre connections?

in English please...........

[scott.parker]

Mine wireless is 54.5 mbps

Using an Ethernet cable it is 100.10mbps

[MK999]

Mine wireless is 54.5 mbps

Using an Ethernet cable it is 100.10mbps

Thats only the limit of what those 2 technologies can carry, not your actual interwebs speed, type in broadband speed test to google and run it :)

[scott.parker]

Humm download is 13760 kbps upload is 485 kbps

Is this good? lol

[MK999]

not bad at all on the download! upload seems rather slow in comparison.

edit: I found the service in terms of cutting out etc crappy when we had virgin at uni mind

[scott.parker]

Just looked on the site and they compare other providers and there all about 0.4, 0.5 then BT Say's 0.8

[Jack]

I thought mine was crap, on an 8mb line I manage 3.9mbps

[MK999]

sounds about right then :thumb: I know upload is always much slower, just seemed tiny in comparison... plenty quick connection although I've just realised why it seemed crazy fast to me, it's probably in kilo bits per second rather than bytes, as is common to do with isps to make it sound faster, mine comes out at 14940 download and 0.96 upload, equates to a max of about 1.4mb/s on an actual download in real terms :thumb:

[scott.parker]

Meh, it's faster then it was at my parent house, and it's cheaper so im not fussed..

[MK999]

Meh, it's faster then it was at my parent house, and it's cheaper so im not fussed..

If you find it too slow at ~1.4mb/s I suggest you download shorter porn movies, no one ever gets past the first 5 minutes anyway lol

[Pistol Pete]

Scott...are sat on top of the exchange??!! Thats fast! I switched to Virgin and i average around 8meg.

EDIT: you on the 50meg deal??!!

[scott.parker]

Err size L so what ever that is, in not sure, TBF the missis set ti up lol, were just paying for it from our joint bills account.

[MK999]

ere just paying for it from our joint bills account.

Hope you've hidden the card lol

[Jack]

sounds about right then :thumb: I know upload is always much slower, just seemed tiny in comparison... plenty quick connection although I've just realised why it seemed crazy fast to me, it's probably in kilo bits per second rather than bytes, as is common to do with isps to make it sound faster, mine comes out at 14940 download and 0.96 upload, equates to a max of about 1.4mb/s on an actual download in real terms :thumb:
Don't forget for actual throughput there are overheads etc.

Example:
I'm on an 8Mb (megabits) line
The max speed I can obtain is 8Mb, due to restrictions in the exchange.
My actual line speed is ~3.9Mb (megabits) = 0.488MB (megabytes) = 499KB (kilobytes)
This is my actual connection rate - the further you are from the exchange, the slower your connection rate. I'm around 6km wire length from my exchange.
My actual throughput speed is around the 2.8Mb (megabit) rate = 350KB (kilobyte).
Each packet of data sent contains a myriad of header and routing information, hence why only about 1/5th of the incoming traffic is actual data. This is the speed that places like speedtest.net report to you.

I just got 1.95Mb(its)ps = 0.244MB(ytes)ps up; 765Kb(its)ps up = 95KB(ytes)ps. Bit slow tonight, router has connected at 2467Kbps up and 955Kbps down. 19ms ping though :cool:

Whoever said computers were easy? lol

[scott.parker]

Jack you lost me on the end bit lol

[Nebbz]

6 something meg...........with virgin..wouldnt praise it too much imo lol my connection sucks ass