Two things to 'WooHoo' about...

[Nova_Tek]

... first one is that this arrived this morning

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4695/1002768n.jpg

Forza 4 collectors edition with a metal case for the game discs and a booklet with specs and info etc on cars and what-not + extra car packs.

Secondly is me moving from an 'upto 8Mb' ADSL line which gave me an abismal speed of 600kbps - 880kbps to this badboy:

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/41/gawddamn.jpg

And just so I wasn't seeing things I did another test :d

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6158/gawddamn2.jpg

20ms is the slowest ping I've had so far, fastest being 9ms. It got connected last night but at a lower rate till my account was verified then BLAM full speed. BT engineer come round set things up and got a direct line test showing 39998Kbps (max rate being 40000Kbps).

Couple the two things together meant that I was able to download Forza 4 updates and packs (extra packs I got with the collectors eddition) in f*cking seconds - 300+meg update in circa 30 seconds lol

Love it! Ich bin happy!

[wwmnw]

You should get out more lol

[brainsnova]

Serious gamer lol

[Nova_Tek]

lol I get out loads lads but when I'm at home I need things to do. Serious gamer or not, the speed increase and moving my line from ADSL to Fibreoptic only costs £7 more per month and includes evening/weekend calls for free. So I'd have to be a right dumbass not to lol

[mowgli]

You should get more lol

editted

[pikey1986]

no more buffering when watching porn............. BIG WIN lol

[Nova_Tek]

editted

I used to get plenty and now being married means I consistently still get it lol

[mowgli]

I used to get plenty and now being married means I consistantly still get it lol

yeah... right.... i'm married.. i have been for a very long time... i know just how much a married man gets

[Mike]

That slow lol wait till 450mb becomes UK wide ;)

[wwmnw]

That slow lol wait till 450mb becomes UK wide ;)
Who has that kind of speed on tap?

[Mike]

Who has that kind of speed on tap?

Virgin. Already been tried & tested & was very sucessful.

[Nova_Tek]

yeah... right.... i'm married.. i have been for a very long time... i know just how much a married man gets

I must be a very lucky man then!


That slow lol wait till 450mb becomes UK wide ;)

Yeah heard about that... there's 100Mb in my area but the price you pay etc really isn't worth it currently. In the future maybe but for now 40Mb is cool lol

[wwmnw]

Virgin. Already been tried & tested & was very sucessful.
So some Virgin media users have 450MB connections or is it just businesses so far?

[Benn]

Funk me that's a down load speed...

[Jeff16v]

Quicker dying on call of duty and such, lol

[mowgli]

anyone else think that the broadband networks have been sandbagging a bit on their speed, so they can sell an upgrade every so often????

at work, we are on a really pants phone line broadband, it got 'upgraded' last month & it is rocket fast compared to the old setup

[Nova_Tek]

^ Probably... My last connection which I've had for many years started off over 1Mb/s... ok it's not lightning but that same connection seemed to have dropped to below 800kb/s. I'm with a different provider but who's to say they haven't wound down the dial to reduce speed? Maybe it's a coincidence that my line just got worse.

We too are getting 100Mb at work and about time too as it really does delay us.

[Mike]

So some Virgin media users have 450MB connections or is it just businesses so far?

On private "in house" networks. Nearly every internet enabled device avaliable to public at present doesnt have the shiz to cope with this kinda stuff as yet.

[General Baxter]

slowest of the day lol

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/baxters83/speedcheck.jpg

[Nova_Tek]

^Nice... what service you with?

[General Baxter]

virgin 50mb connection, was on 100mb trial, but it made no differance to games lol

[Nova_Tek]

Would've gone for Virgin but for that service I'd have paid more, worked out expensive