i have also spoke to virgin in the store and they have said they will have a 150mb service at the end of the year and 250mb sometime next year. these have already been tested on their networks and are ready. i think BT have some catching up to do
@cousinsuk Yes, as soon as the contract was over, I switched to AOL, and they gave me arround 7000 to 8000 kbps so I was happy with that. The song is Yesterday Went Too Soon by Feeder
yeah totally agree , im currently with bt on a 2mb deal but all im getting is 500 kb ( half a mb) so im gonna move to virgin and hopefully get a better speed
depending on your range and distance from the exchange box can effect your download but also what time did you do the speed test was it after 18:00 at night??? if it was it mean yiou have been throttled try it during the day then after 18:00 with not downloading any thing you will see the diffrence!! virgin has a download limit after 16:00 and if you go over that 300mb i think limit then you get throttled to min mb!
Because of my appalling Virgin Media speed, my internet was un useable, I was in a long contract with Virgin that I was unable to cancel, and as you say I cant have 2 ADSL connections on one line, I made a deal with my next door neighbour, that I could use his wifi connection if we both go halfs on the bill. I agreed and he told he his security key and all was well, I simply connected to my own wifi recorded a speed test with screen cam softwear, switched to his, and did the same.
I am on BT BB, up to 8mb line and I get 6.5 mb, usually 7 and even 7.5 sometimes. I checked google and we're not even half a mile from the exchange. We're switching to virgin next week, simply because BT are over-priced.
i upgraded my virgin broadband to 10 megabyte (Large) from what was a 2 megabyte connection (Medium) and i only get between 3 and 4 meg connection. I'm wondering if its because the connections inside my house are copperwire rather than optical (as it was set up years ago by NTLworld and if this is causing a bottleneck. Or rather if its that the modem that NTLworld provided me (prior to virgin taking over) is only capable of handling speeds up to 4 megabyte. Any ideas?
When you did your BT test you where connection from a different house? If this is the case, then maybe the previous house you where in had a shit quality phone line and you where far from the exchange?
i have 8mb but mine only goes up to 3mb to 4mb i wouldn't mind it going to 5mb or 6mb but i dont know how to make it do that any software that will help?
im getting Sky broadband 16MB unlimited bandwidth tomorrow (or in a few hours) and its going to be a huge improvement over my shitty carphone warehouse 8MB broadband which goes from 4000kbps in the morning to 3000kbps in the afternoon (19:00pm) which sucks because im usually gaming on my xbox around about that time, so ill get disconnected from xbox live randomly and when it connects back up its really slow and laggy.
@Gamerwillz so i would ring them up and ask them to turn upgrade my service to LLU ? and btw do you have msn or skype because i really like talking to someone thats interested in things like this aswell as me ;)
Right, I can actually confirm those results Virgin Media ADSL is using BT Wholesale Connect as where BT is obviously using it's own network. With Wholesale Connect, BT Prioritises their own traffic while slowing down Connect Customers. The only reason they do this is to allow BT Broadband users to experience a better connection than if you were taking broadband out with another company through their exchange. I've had Virgin Media ADSL and all I can say is that it was TERRIBLE. BT Business FTW
@Gamerwillz Yep the same here :D haha :P which level and btw i sent u a PM of these amazing settings i got earlier :O its so crazy and i dont have a clue how the hell i got them, PM Sent! :)
BT is better than Virgin. I've been around the Broadband Block as it were and BT Total Broadband is slow at times, and very unreliable with their new BT Home Hub 2.0 (B Series), I then made the switch to Virgin Media on their ASDL package, which was worse than BT, so I then made the move to BT Infinity, I used to get a 2Meg download speed, with 1Meg upload, now, with this fiber optic stuff, I'm getting 20Meg Download, and 7Meg Upload, that was on a Speed Tester! BT Infinity is worth the money!
@ExtremeBogom What makes you think Brandson has anything to do with Virgin Media? Virgin Mobile was his creation, not Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder etc. Moreover, there is clearly something wrong with the Virgin connection if that is the speed, at least 19Meg on my 20Meg and soo many other people will tell you the same.
well he said they were 2 minutes apart so i doubt it, also he is lucky, my BT broadband gets barely 1.5mb, 'apparently' it should be 8, i am within 1km of the exchange and my next door neighbour has 11mb on BE, for less money.
haha theres no chance on this earth that bt is 2mbps downstream! (unless you live next door to the distribution center) im with bt and my downstream says 3.5 mpbs, if im really lucky i can get 500kbp/s when downloading, upgrading to virgin 20 meg tomorow
7.15 is the ip profile. 7.15 is better than 7. everyone knows that :) also, its unfair comparing copper and cable as cable is designed for internet. not everyone can get cable, we don't all live in cities.
Been on virgin media since it was blueyonder and before that tele west and never had a problem till I got the new superhub on 30mb now I have problems with wireless but there bringing out updates which appear to be improving things you mist have stuck the Internet wire up your cats arse to get speeds that slow on a cable line ???? Even when I lived on another house in the middle of no where I still got better speeds ??
@Stoked1994 i know ye m8 they are shit, when ur on the 8mb or 20mb option they cap your speed ! im switching to 20mb sky coz u get about 5mb/s all day no matter what time lol :P
@ExtremeBogom Its a bit stupid to tell people to go away when you've left a comment publicly on a popular website which allows people to reply at will. If you don't want people to reply to your old posts perhaps you should delete them? Have a nice day.
lol all my friends that are on bt always get crap speeds and want to move to virgin one of them on bt's 20mb service gets 1mb download and 0.7 upload im on virgins 20mb and get around 19mb download (always, may dip to 12 when my brother is also online) and 2mb upload :D
@mattfox14 I know, I was referring to the 8MB and 2MB ADSL. It's actually 8Mb and 2Mb. 8MB would actually be very fast. Very very fast.
i have also spoke to virgin in the store and they have said they will have a 150mb service at the end of the year and 250mb sometime next year.
these have already been tested on their networks and are ready.
i think BT have some catching up to do
@FestMonster This was a ADSL line, and in the few years since I put this video up I moved to AOL and now get arround 8meg so i'm happy with that.
@cousinsuk Yes, as soon as the contract was over, I switched to AOL, and they gave me arround 7000 to 8000 kbps so I was happy with that. The song is Yesterday Went Too Soon by Feeder
Something odd has happend since making this video, my virgin 8mb is now getting 5mb down, but for how long?
Just a note to the creator of the video. MB is megabyte, Mb is megabit. Two very different measurements.
yeah totally agree , im currently with bt on a 2mb deal but all im getting is 500 kb ( half a mb) so im gonna move to virgin and hopefully get a better speed
depending on your range and distance from the exchange box can effect your download but also what time did you do the speed test was it after 18:00 at night??? if it was it mean yiou have been throttled try it during the day then after 18:00 with not downloading any thing you will see the diffrence!! virgin has a download limit after 16:00 and if you go over that 300mb i think limit then you get throttled to min mb!
@Gamerwillz It really depens on your area and how close you are to your local exchange
why not go cable on VirginMedia? Its a lot better then using sometimes unreliable ADSL through a phone line and a lot higher speeds.
I'm not sure what being far away from the exchange means in terms of distance. I'm 0.7 miles from mine.
Because of my appalling Virgin Media speed, my internet was un useable, I was in a long contract with Virgin that I was unable to cancel, and as you say I cant have 2 ADSL connections on one line, I made a deal with my next door neighbour, that I could use his wifi connection if we both go halfs on the bill. I agreed and he told he his security key and all was well, I simply connected to my own wifi recorded a speed test with screen cam softwear, switched to his, and did the same.
@ExtremeBogom Glad to hear it. Comment may be old but its still there, thought your words were strong that's all.
I am on BT BB, up to 8mb line and I get 6.5 mb, usually 7 and even 7.5 sometimes. I checked google and we're not even half a mile from the exchange. We're switching to virgin next week, simply because BT are over-priced.
@Gamerwillz Yes. my exchange supports LLU services so thats good ?
@TNTechHD how do you check how far away you are from your exchange ??
i upgraded my virgin broadband to 10 megabyte (Large) from what was a 2 megabyte connection (Medium) and i only get between 3 and 4 meg connection.
I'm wondering if its because the connections inside my house are copperwire rather than optical (as it was set up years ago by NTLworld and if this is causing a bottleneck.
Or rather if its that the modem that NTLworld provided me (prior to virgin taking over) is only capable of handling speeds up to 4 megabyte.
Any ideas?
When you did your BT test you where connection from a different house? If this is the case, then maybe the previous house you where in had a shit quality phone line and you where far from the exchange?
i have 8mb but mine only goes up to 3mb to 4mb i wouldn't mind it going to 5mb or 6mb but i dont know how to make it do that any software that will help?
im getting Sky broadband 16MB unlimited bandwidth tomorrow (or in a few hours) and its going to be a huge improvement over my shitty carphone warehouse 8MB broadband which goes from 4000kbps in the morning to 3000kbps in the afternoon (19:00pm) which sucks because im usually gaming on my xbox around about that time, so ill get disconnected from xbox live randomly and when it connects back up its really slow and laggy.
@Gamerwillz so i would ring them up and ask them to turn upgrade my service to LLU ? and btw do you have msn or skype because i really like talking to someone thats interested in things like this aswell as me ;)
@smileyb10
Virgin media have had 50mb for a few years now with (currently) no bandwidth throttling on that plan.
I join you in the righteous 2 fingers!
Right, I can actually confirm those results
Virgin Media ADSL is using BT Wholesale Connect as where BT is obviously using it's own network.
With Wholesale Connect, BT Prioritises their own traffic while slowing down Connect Customers. The only reason they do this is to allow BT Broadband users to experience a better connection than if you were taking broadband out with another company through their exchange.
I've had Virgin Media ADSL and all I can say is that it was TERRIBLE. BT Business FTW
same intentions. well as long as I can recieve the fibre optic cable in my area im fine.
so bt is better than virgin?
@Gamerwillz Yep the same here :D haha :P which level and btw i sent u a PM of these amazing settings i got earlier :O its so crazy and i dont have a clue how the hell i got them, PM Sent! :)
Ask them for 30meg SDSL it's £4000 for a line installation and then £39,99 after that
I think what TERMINATOR2452 is saying is that he is on the a upto 10mb contract
no one gets 8mbs. 7.15mbps max and varies via distance from exchange.
BT is better than Virgin. I've been around the Broadband Block as it were and BT Total Broadband is slow at times, and very unreliable with their new BT Home Hub 2.0 (B Series), I then made the switch to Virgin Media on their ASDL package, which was worse than BT, so I then made the move to BT Infinity, I used to get a 2Meg download speed, with 1Meg upload, now, with this fiber optic stuff, I'm getting 20Meg Download, and 7Meg Upload, that was on a Speed Tester! BT Infinity is worth the money!
my bt doesnt get half of that and im on the 8mb plan :(
right, some how i dont think they would know what i was talking about
whats the song?
i think that you got ADSL and cable mixed up.
@ExtremeBogom What makes you think Brandson has anything to do with Virgin Media? Virgin Mobile was his creation, not Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder etc. Moreover, there is clearly something wrong with the Virgin connection if that is the speed, at least 19Meg on my 20Meg and soo many other people will tell you the same.
cost of laying fibre in an country like this is £30bn.
well he said they were 2 minutes apart so i doubt it, also he is lucky, my BT broadband gets barely 1.5mb, 'apparently' it should be 8, i am within 1km of the exchange and my next door neighbour has 11mb on BE, for less money.
I have bt, urgh its terrible.
had a peroid of where the net would be down every 5 minutes for several days at a time. couldnt do anything!
i have 8mb BT BROADBAND and i am 690 meters away from my local exchange and i download at a max rate of 840kb/s
Mine wont as its only upto 2mb.
No at the mo in my area Virgin media is the fastest the download speed is 150mbps but upload speed is 11mbps
@unrealeck Oh right I see, I did mean 8Mb
I used to have AOL, now I switched to sky. Only switched to sky as they were cheaper.
Since many complaints to Virgin the speed of my connections has gone upto arround 7900kbps, So I say good move
@Stoked1994 yeh i do a test wen i get it and i will give u results :)
i've got 20mb, and ive neva had a probelm.....yet
i think vm is great try the 50mb package its too quick
haha theres no chance on this earth that bt is 2mbps downstream! (unless you live next door to the distribution center) im with bt and my downstream says 3.5 mpbs, if im really lucky i can get 500kbp/s when downloading, upgrading to virgin 20 meg tomorow
True, the speeds are absolute crap in this contry
7.15 is the ip profile. 7.15 is better than 7. everyone knows that :) also, its unfair comparing copper and cable as cable is designed for internet. not everyone can get cable, we don't all live in cities.
@MitchAndSammyDriftz ah your lucky, im not aloud to change :/ sounds good hope it goes well lol :)
Been on virgin media since it was blueyonder and before that tele west and never had a problem till I got the new superhub on 30mb now I have problems with wireless but there bringing out updates which appear to be improving things you mist have stuck the Internet wire up your cats arse to get speeds that slow on a cable line ???? Even when I lived on another house in the middle of no where I still got better speeds ??
@Gamerwillz with SKY aswell
I hate bt. the home hub keeps disconnecting randomly and the speed is slow. Im gunna move to virgin next chance I get.
@Stoked1994 i know ye m8 they are shit, when ur on the 8mb or 20mb option they cap your speed ! im switching to 20mb sky coz u get about 5mb/s all day no matter what time lol :P
Dont do it. I promise you'll regret it if you do anything more than check your emails.
02 internet rules!@!@!@!
wooooo
WTF????? The Virgin went slow??? That sucks!!!!
@ExtremeBogom Its a bit stupid to tell people to go away when you've left a comment publicly on a popular website which allows people to reply at will.
If you don't want people to reply to your old posts perhaps you should delete them?
Have a nice day.
Then I guess this makes you the guy I see in the mirror
VIRGIN INTERNET IS RUBBISH.
RESONS: BREAKS DOWN OFTEN
WHEN YOU CONTACT THEM, GOOD LUCK, IF YOU GET THROUGH.
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY ADVERTS.
@Gamerwillz its my study day today :)
lol all my friends that are on bt always get crap speeds and want to move to virgin
one of them on bt's 20mb service gets 1mb download and 0.7 upload
im on virgins 20mb and get around 19mb download (always, may dip to 12 when my brother is also online) and 2mb upload :D
My BT line goes 30mbps
I use bt its good
230 up wow i would eat that alive 600 can hold me lol
@unrealeck I show both results in kbps
@Paulph04 A useful tip when posting comments is to ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT LOL
@Stoked1994 i am on 8meg BT and we get 3.90MB/s lol
V media broadband is an absolute crap.the signal keeps getting lost almost most of the time.don even bother to install v media especially broadband.
@same9871 Yesterday Went Too Soon by Feeder
Thats a negative
Wtf?!! Virgin is such a rip off!
@Paulph04 400mbps up. LOLOLOLOL. You have no clue what your talking about.
it's what I did
BT is horrible.
@MitchAndSammyDriftz i get 1.3MB/s :@
BT sucks