I’m on 2mb which when downloading at peak speeds is fantastic for me. But most of the time (especially in the evenings) I am downloading MAX 50kb/s as opposed to 200kb/s. Any way of speeding this up?
Just done a speed test, down to 0.8 meg at the moment 
I must have being going mad but I am sure I read that the 50mb service used a new type of broadband technology that wouldn’t suffer from congestion?
However, in Media Guardian it says:
“Virgin Media’s new technology has increased the capacity of this pipe from 80Mb/s to 288Mb/s but if 60 households in the same area sign up for the 50Mb/s service and all go online at the peak evening period the network will slow down.
Virgin Media’s chief technical officer, Howard Watson, said: “It’s like a ring main – if everybody in the street turned on their cold water tap at the same moment you would have a similar problem with water pressure.”
So exactly the same as their 20mb service which I dropped as I was paying £37 a month for a 20mb service at 4am and a 6 to 7mb service during peak periods.
And they want £51 a month for that?
I am, as I type, on hold with one of our customer care friends of the former Colonies because since I began a months trial to upgrade to 10Meg, the speed is rubbish. I was quite happy with 2Meg to be honest but since this trial, speeds are all over the place. Anyone else had similar problems??
Any ideas on this?
I am downloading this 3GB file from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d…displaylang=en
I have two connections, one with BT, one with Virgin.
I just tested my BT connection and it shows
Speed Down 2344.53 Kbps ( 2.3 Mbps )
Speed Up 374.08 Kbps ( 0.4 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk
and my Virgin connection:
Date 07/11/08 11:56:09
Speed Down 9565.08 Kbps ( 9.3 Mbps )
Speed Up 479.69 Kbps ( 0.5 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest1.adslguide.org.uk
Yet, downloading from Microsoft (file above) I am getting 289Kb/s from BT (i.e. it is delivering the tested speed), but only 65kb/s (the actual download speed is only 5% of what it is rated at by various speed tests) from Virgin.
When I tried last night Virgin was even worse, getting only around 36kb/s.
I have also noticed that Youtube is slow every evening (videos don’t stream real-time, long waits for buffering), and had put this down to problems with Youtube, but I guess Virgin are actually to blame.
Any suggestions as to what is going on?
For me video clips on BBC News site are really slow or just don’t play at all.
Speed tests show I get 5-6 Mbps.
Also if I use the iPlayer in standard mode it is the same problem, but interestingly if I try the new beta Play High Quality it works fine!
I am on Virgin ADSL.
Restarting router/reconnecting makes no difference.
I have tried uninstalling Flash and reinstalling but that doesn’t help and in fact it’s a consistent problem on all PCs and a Mac in my house.
YouTube videos play OK.
Any ideas?
Recently I am expierencing slow download speeds amd slow upload speeds. I am on the L package at 10-MEG and it only goes slow on the night time but didn’t use too. I shoud also get 0.5-MEG upload. I have put the results of a speedtest below which I made about 2 minutes ago.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/348642308.png
Can anyone help me?
I have just started some VM binaries and am getting 1mbps
a speed test shows I am getting 20mbps, internet browsing is fine, i have not had my pc on today so no cap (when I am capped it is to 5mbps) and i have no wireless router so it is no external factor.
anyone else having issues?
has this already been posted and I missed it?
Since wed 8th Oct my 20 meg broadband has been painfully slow, having had numerous conversations with conflicting information and even managing to have 3 engineer visits at home , I am still having problems.
Here is my tests (here is best of the 3 tests I performed every hour) and the speed seemed to have resolved its self but now is back to slow.
I have not been downloading anything this week due to the problems, virgin tell me modem is ok (and has been replaced once) and a few tweaks have been made to the ‘CAB’ outside.
I am pretty tired of ringing india and pretty cheesed at paying for up to 20 and getting a really poor service-
All tests below direct ethernet connection with 2 different mac laptops , I have also tested other macs on wireless & wired.
I’m in the Winchester area. any suggestions as to what I should do now
Thursday 16th onwards
6:30pm
3680
7:30pm
7249
8:30pm
2041
9:30pm
1576
10:30pm
2637
11:30pm
1863
12:30am
7278
7:30am
7701
9:00am
7031
6:30pm
6015
9:30pm
5896
10:30pm
5561
11:30pm
3844
12:30am
5361
2:00am
18508
9:30am
19321
11:30am
19505
6:30pm
6523
Saturday
average 4000
Today
5:00pm
7521
I have a 2mb Virgin Broadband connection that runs into a Scientific Atlanta 2100 cable modem.
From there the internet gets sent to a Linksys BEFSR41 v4.2 router.
I have an old Dell Demention 4700 (windows xp sp2) on the network that i use to download torrents via Azureus (Vuze). Its not got a screen, mouse or keyboard – i connect to it via VNC Enterprise if i need to admin it. Otherwise it runs Windows Media Connect 3.0 and shares the media on it with the Xbox 360 in the lounge. The Dell deosn’t run all the time, but on the occasions it is downloading, the following options are set in the bittorrent client:
max upload speed: 25
max download speed: 300
Max upload slots: 3
Max connection per torrent: 80
Max connections globally: 134
I have 2 problems with my setup that im hoping someone can help me understand / overcome.
1) when the bittorrent client is running, internet access from other computers or games consoles around the house is very slow, or doesnt work at all.
2) When bittorrenting has been running all day and i turn it off to use xbox live, the connection is very bad and i invariably get thrown off the game. Also, the internet is very slow if ive been bittorrenting for a long period of time.
A sppedtest on my internet connection when its working properly shows an average download spped of 3000kbps download, and 300kbps upload. I thought that considering my Azureus options were so low in comparisson that it would be ok.
Do i need to turn down the settings to get bittorrent to stop killing my broadband connection?
If so, what settings should i have them at?
Also my main query: why when i turn the torrent system off alltogether does my connection remain terrible for many hours?
I can understand Xbox Live not working alongside bittorrent on my 2mb connection, but why after ive switched bittorrent off does it still run so slowly for serveral hours?
Hope someone can help with this as i know technically Virgin dont want their users running bittorrent anyway!