Broadband Speed...

20 Jul 2008 16:38:00

Terry Willis

We've just moved to VirginMedia and now connect to the Internet through their fibre optic network at 20Mbps. We're lucky as they installed the cable infrastructure in our road some years ago when the network was owned by NTL.

We made the move as our existing contract with Vodafoneathome had expired, but also due to our line speed on the ADSL connection dropping over the past year, possibly due to changes being made in the local infrastructure, to less than 1 Mbps at times. In the past it had reached 2.5 Mbps, although it was claimed we should get 4Mbps!

The latest line speed of 20Mbps is great. Downloads are spectacularly fast, web browsing is definitely speedy but at times not noticeably faster than before.

What speeds do others connect at?

Re: Broadband Speed...

20 Jul 2008 17:15:06

Mick Burrell

I don't think Virgin can spell Abbotts Ann - they can't even get their mobile phone network to reach there so what chance do I stand!!!

Re: Broadband Speed...

23 Jul 2008 21:43:40

Lionel Ogden

I get 2.8 Mbps and on a good day when everyone else is at the beach 3.0 Mbps. I don't think any cable company is ever likely to get out to Tolpuddle but BT is reputed to be laying fibre optic cables through the villages which should improve the losses and SNR figures but nothing like the speed you can get on cable.

Re: Broadband Speed...

25 Jul 2008 01:03:07

Stuart Affleck

Right now, Bulldog (or whoever it is now, Pipex I think) ADSL2+ is synched at 14813kpbs. Peak I've seen after tweaking the router's signal to noise ratio settings is 1.95MB/sec, so a touch under 18Mbps. Don't know what VM's network's like round here, not worth the bother to switch for 10% improvement. 50Mbps, if they actually achieve it...now that would be worth it.