Virgin Broadband 50Mb anyone ?

[hindle8907]

I hate virgin, but me and the other half have moved into her parents house while we save a deposit to buy our own house.

I used to be with BE for my broadband ADSL 24Mb and was getting around 1.9 -2.2 MBps/down load speed and it was unlimited and was very happy with that.

her parents have got 7 months left on there virgin contract, but they are only on a 10Mb connection and you get throttled like Mad if you download more than 1GB in a day.
Its stupid as I normally download anything from 50GB to 300GB a week.

With the 50Mb connection its unlimited downloads (At the moment) so i have asked them to upgrade it to 50Mb.

So anyone else on the 50Mb Package and what do you think of it ?

i just went with 20mb in the end,

i used to be with tiscal max speed 4 meg, so if i over download with virgin now i get throttled to 5meg ( they throttle you 75%) same as i was befor, and if your downloading by Bittorrent you wont geet 50 meg through a torrent, but youll most likly see 1.0-1.5,

couldnt see a massive advantage of going to 50 meg to be fair over 20,

[hindle8907]

i done use bit torrent, Torrents are for armature downloaders

i get what ever speed my connection can give.

EG: One Blu ray Movie is 5-25GB so if you download that then for the rest of the day/night your on 5Mb ...

thats not good enough for me lol i would be pulling my hair out.

[timwilky]

I am on the 50Mb package, it works as it should

I too hate virgin, but have no choice. I cannot get ADSL despite only being about 4 miles from the local exchange. BT have 3 times visited me and gone, oooohhh sorry and gone away.

There is no throttling on the 50Mb package, I never suffered when I was on the 20Mb. To be honest the real reason for upgrading was to get better upload, it is still pathetic at 1.5Mb.

I am also a tester for the Ofcom/SamsKnow performance measurement project and have one of their boxes installed off my router. I would hope virgin would know who is in the program and prioritise their traffic. But I guess that would be naughty.

[Kalessin]

Originally Posted by hindle8907

i done use bit torrent, Torrents are for armature downloaders

Usenet?

[timwilky]

With SSL encryption so Virgin cannot sniff content

[hindle8907]

Originally Posted by Kalessin

Usenet?

yea

Originally Posted by timwilky

With SSL encryption so Virgin cannot sniff content

SSL WTF

[hindle8907]

What are the Dlink N routers like Tim ? Did you get one of these with yours ?

[timwilky]

No I got nothing, just a new Docsis 3 cable modem.

TBH I begrudged having to pay the man to turn out and swap the modem over, I don't know why it cannot be self install as in the past for swapouts.

Still it did not work properly and took a while to sync as it should. You get the usual VM crap of wanting to connect your PC direct to the modem to test. But as I have only bastion firewalls and not PC based I was somewhat reluctant. He was even more confused when the box that was eventually connected simply gave him a bash shell and no gui interface.

[hindle8907]

Yeah iv had to pay 55 quid for someone to come out on Saturday ?!?

I said why isnt it self install if its only a modem and she said they have to do something out side too but couldn't give me any more information on it.
Buggers.