20Mb connection has arrived!!!

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Yep as of early sunday morning, Virgin Media upgraded us to 20Mb...so I decided to test the download speed...and so far I have managed to get a top speed of 1.7MB/sec yowzers!!

I cant wait to get my own flat (this weekend) and its full on 20Mb connection all the way for me yippee-ki-ay!!!

 

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cool, I can only get a measly 2mb

 

I can get 10Mb here... but I can't see spending the additional monthly cost to go from 3Mb to 10Mb.

 

I can get 20 here also, but too much money. I get 5Mb which is perfect for me.

 

I think they (phone & cable companies) need to increase the quality of the lines so a decent line speed is available.

I consider anything below 8 meg crap, but they need to give decent subscription prices, and as I have said above I only get 2 which is s***

 

Decent line speeds are available... just not in your area, and/or not at your price range.

Why is anything below 8 meg crap? Torrent much?

 

i get a 24meg service from a company called BeBroadband, although i can only manage about 19meg due to distance but for £24 per month i can't complain

 

No I dont use Torrent but when I do download something I want it quickly, I dont want to wait for hours for some game patch, for example I downloaded a free trial of wow the other day 3.16gb in about 16 hours

 

that is very slow even if your on 2mb downstream, im on 2mb downstream, and its not that slow, whats your ratio 50:1?

 

I am not sure but, I was told that Blizzard isnt very good

 

How far are you out of interest?

Be told me im too far and the exchange is half a mile as the crow flys or about 10 min walk lol

Virgin are a ripoff, £38 a month, 20mb when you only get 5.5mb due to oversubscribed lol

 

If I am downloading i usually get 238kbs

 

That seems about right on a 2Mb line.

 

The strange usage policy where if you download too much your line speed is limited, still applies on the 20mb line right?

 

Agreed

 

unfortuneately yes but when it hits full speed, it hits full speed

 

I'm approximately 528 meters = 0.32808399 miles from the Ibrox exchange (straight line distance)

 

For the cost difference between a 2Mb and 8Mb+ line, you could buy WOW and not have to wait on it at all. ;)

 

Actually, if you've got a 2Mb line, you're probably getting 238 KBps... not 238 kbps. Remember that Big B is different from little b. B = Bytes... b = bits. There's 8 little-b bits in 1 Big-B Byte.

238 KBps x 8 = 1904 Kbps... approximately 1.9 Mbps.

 

Sorry BM a slight gramatical error, but you knew what I meant anyhow