50meg connection UK

Reefer86 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:05 PM

Just got 50 meg now time for some serious downloading

sorry just wanted to share my excitement with fellow tech heads.

Jan 4, 2010, 09:08 PM

what do you download?

regan1985 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:08 PM

nice is that is london?still not close to the speed Japan gets shame

mikek75 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:09 PM

Oh you lucky, lucky bastard! Whereabouts are you in the UK? Here in Chippenham the abolute best I can get is 3mb.... Makes me almost wish I was back living in the filth and squalour of our once great capital city....

KieranD · Jan 4, 2010, 09:18 PM

isnt that expensive is that through cable?

most i can afford is like 10meg lol but sky are offering new and existing customers 20meg for 6 months for free. right now i have terrible 2meg! but soon as i move house its getting uped to 10meg after the 6months free 20meg

sorry for the ramble... oh your jammy!

DanTheBanjoman · Jan 4, 2010, 09:28 PM

That upload must hurt. That ping isn't great either, I hope that's because your line is busy downloading pr0n.

Bo$$ · Jan 4, 2010, 09:34 PM

check sig, on a sky 20mb

mikek75 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:35 PM

18ms ain't that great? You're spoilt, his upload is also 4x faster than mine and my ping is 38ms

DanTheBanjoman · Jan 4, 2010, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikek75

18ms ain't that great? You're spoilt, his upload is also 4x faster than mine and my ping is 38ms

The average ADSL line here does better than 18ms.

Even when I select London I get lower latency. I'd check latency to his ISP, see even it's them or something else.

MoonPig · Jan 4, 2010, 09:43 PM

50Mb/s.... fs. 8Mb/s here.

Pity it has to be Virgin that supply it, you'll download for afew seconds then it's CAPPED. lol. Hate 'em.

How much is that setting you back?

Wrigleyvillain · Jan 4, 2010, 09:48 PM

Yep Japan FTW:

Reefer86 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:52 PM

Im in luton near london, i think you can get 50meg more or less everywhere u can get virgin media.

And i download erm...stuff

MKmods · Jan 4, 2010, 09:52 PM

Thats a cool chart. It wasent that long ago 3MB was so dam fast..

To bad the Japanese economy is so messed up, with 61mb service, the cool girls and the great food i would consider moving there just to be closer to all the anime..

mikek75 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

http://www.speedtest.net/result/671986417.png

The average ADSL line here does better than 18ms.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/671988233.png
Even when I select London I get lower latency. I'd check latency to his ISP, see even it's them or something else.

UK has crap infrastructure, my ADSL to London is

Result to the recommended server

Good god, its even worse today than usual....

Reefer86 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:53 PM

ping...... thats is the ping (distance) to the server you are pinging......has nothing to do with my connection.

DrPepper · Jan 4, 2010, 09:54 PM

I'm getting that 50mb package soon too

. Also virgin give crap upload speeds so we don't seed torrents

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reefer86

ping...... thats is the ping (distance) to the server you are pinging......has nothing to do with my connection.

Ping isn't a measure of distance. It's how many milliseconds it takes for data to reach the server and return to you. I has ALOT to do with the connection. If there is alot of traffic on the network you will have a higher ping.

Reefer86 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:55 PM

yeah they do give crap upload speeds, but hey we cant have it all, its the fastest consumer connection at the moment

DrPepper · Jan 4, 2010, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reefer86

yeah they do give crap upload speeds, but hey we cant have it all, its the fastest consumer connection at the moment

We should have it all though since your paying alot more than say the japanese but recieving hell of a lot less.

Reefer86 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:56 PM

The 50meg line from virgin is not capped and it is true unlimited, thats why i went to the 50 meg line @moonpig. Alot of companys say they are unlimited but infact they are not. I know sky's top package has a 40gig download limit and if you go over that they charge £1.50 per gig.

Reefer86 · Jan 4, 2010, 09:59 PM

the thing is in this country alot of people are happy to pay for the slower connections, so they charge us more overall. Virgin can supply 200mb lines but they dont because compared to the competition 50mb is god dam fast. Why have would they spend more money on upgrading servers and hubs to accommodate 200mb lines when they can flog us 50mb.

Reefer86 · Jan 4, 2010, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DreamSeller

what do you download?

Quote:

Originally Posted by regan1985

nice is that is london?still not close to the speed Japan gets shame

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrPepper

I'm getting that 50mb package soon too

. Also virgin give crap upload speeds so we don't seed torrents

Ping isn't a measure of distance. It's how many milliseconds it takes for data to reach the server and return to you. I has ALOT to do with the connection. If there is alot of traffic on the network you will have a higher ping.

i know thats what it means, but i ment to say that it also depends on the distance to and from the server that your a pining. Plus a ping of 18 is not bad for the UK.

KieranD · Jan 4, 2010, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reefer86

The 50meg line from virgin is not capped and it is true unlimited, thats why i went to the 50 meg line @moonpig. Alot of companys say they are unlimited but infact they are not. I know sky's top package has a 40gig download limit and if you go over that they charge £1.50 per gig.

Im on the lowest sky package and its not unlimited yet i have on occasion been over the limit and havnt been charged.
I was once warned on talktalk but never actually charged!

AOL is the single worst connection ive ever had. That was back on dial up days.

I go for cheap and cheerful with broadband, which isnt exactly a good idea lol but i was never the bill payer so i didnt have a choice.

EDIT: That broadband tax is meant to be solving everything, we will see if it does or not.

Sir_Real · Jan 5, 2010, 01:28 PM

Specs for all virgin media broadband packages.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html

The UK is so far behind

Them upload speeds are a joke! & thats about as good as its possible to get here in the UK

beyond_amusia · Jan 5, 2010, 01:31 PM

The fastest I can get here is 24 mbs DSL, T1, or T3, but since I'm not rich nor near the university I have to settle for my 10 mbs cable connection. =P

Triprift · Jan 5, 2010, 01:35 PM

I normally take speedtest with a pinch of salt sure it can look impressive but its quite inacurate.

best bet is to dl something from your isp to give you better idea of speeds.

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