Connection speed

Gareth · **Reply #180 on:** August 18, 2014, 12:22:41 PM

Quote from: Millhouse on June 29, 2014, 10:01:39 PM

Gareth, you should be due a speed upgrade soon. Virgin Media 30mb broadband users are being moved to 50mb.

Still not seen any difference. $:-\$

TBH I have no real problem with the download, I can watch movies etc without any real issues, it's the upload speed I'd love to see improved.

Millhouse · **Reply #181 on:** August 18, 2014, 05:09:15 PM

With the upgrade to 50, you will also see a increase in upload to 3.

You may want to log into your account on the virgin website. It should give you a rough indication when the upgrade will take place. A mate of mine received his about 6 weeks ago.

AlephZero · **Reply #182 on:** August 31, 2014, 05:50:45 PM

Slight downgrade after the move, but with 4G connection now it keeps going between 10 and 50Mbps dowload and 10 to 40Mbps upload speed

bmot · **Reply #183 on:** September 10, 2014, 02:14:24 PM

After moving, quite a bit better, I'd say

Millhouse · **Reply #184 on:** October 15, 2014, 11:59:57 PM

Got my upgrade a couple of months back, and a new phone last week on 4G.

Reinier · **Reply #185 on:** April 01, 2015, 12:31:33 PM

Pretty fast, but also ridiculously unreliable

My ISP sent me a new model and some cables which should arrive today. I'm working from home often and I'm tired of all those disconnects.

Pacu · **Reply #186 on:** April 11, 2015, 03:15:07 AM

not bad...

derekmac · **Reply #187 on:** April 11, 2015, 06:36:54 PM

dks · **Reply #188 on:** September 19, 2015, 03:10:14 PM

new connection

raistlin65 · **Reply #189 on:** September 19, 2015, 04:33:40 PM

I'm on a higher tier Comcast Internet service in the US:

Way more speed than my needs.

Smashie · **Reply #190 on:** September 19, 2015, 04:40:27 PM

I just got mine at home upgraded. A significant improvement over the last one. Tested on my phone because I will NOT install flash on my computers

Gerhard Gerber · **Reply #191 on:** September 21, 2015, 11:15:48 AM

I think some of you guys have more bandwidth than my ISP.........the lot of you together probably beats my country!

2Mb ADSL uncapped.

Chako · **Reply #192 on:** September 22, 2015, 02:27:10 AM

Here are my results.

powernoodle · **Reply #193 on:** September 22, 2015, 04:33:44 AM

Dang it, guys. I got 14 mb/s download and 1 upload. I hate Timewarnercable. Just learned that my city is on the short list for Google Fiber, which I will be all over like white on rice.

https://fiber.google.com/about/

Whoey · **Reply #194 on:** September 22, 2015, 12:13:23 PM

I'm still on my "100/10"

Been contemplating for some time dropping to 50/5 to save a few euros a month... maybe use the savings for netflix which is finally launching in Spain next month (I hope this time for sure).

dks · **Reply #195 on:** September 22, 2015, 12:28:25 PM

Most providers limit the upload speeds here... so you get up/down 50/5 or 20/2 and so on..
I assume that if you play games or upload a lot of videos this may be an issue, but most of the public mainly downloads stuff.

the difference between the 50/5 and 20/2 packages (with the same TV channels) was about 7Euro per month for me, so I went for the faster internet.

Now, what they DO NOT TELL YOU is that most of the mobile devices, especially the older ones, have lower wifi bandwidth limits..

So, my netbook can only download at 20M and my phone at 30M, through wifi...

to get 50M I need to connect a wire to the router...

powernoodle · **Reply #196 on:** September 22, 2015, 06:13:18 PM

Since yesterday I, and because of this thread, I "upgraded" from 10 mb/s service to 20 mb/s, and am now getting 24 download and 2 upload. That's adequate, but still slow compared to some of you cats who are getting 75. I could go up to 50 download, for another $20 per month, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.

raistlin65 · **Reply #197 on:** September 22, 2015, 07:15:26 PM

Quote from: powernoodle on September 22, 2015, 06:13:18 PM

Since yesterday I, and because of this thread, I "upgraded" from 10 mb/s service to 20 mb/s, and am now getting 24 download and 2 upload. That's adequate, but still slow compared to some of you cats who are getting 75. I could go up to 50 download, for another $20 per month, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.

You might not get any practical benefit from investing in more. Regular web surfing won't benefit from more speed, and Netflix says that 25 Mb/s is good for their Ultra HD quality: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306.