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[RUKI2909]

this is the best i had last year

[Big_G123]

2mb connection?!?! Are you sure lol

-No1Stoney

yeah suppose to only be a 2meg line as when with bt they said that all i could have moved over to sky and have been getting between 4.5meg and 5.5meg since been with them.

[Matty.N]

this is the best i had last year

do you live on top of the telephone exchange or something?

or next to the box that sends the broadband to houses?

i eman, i live round the corner from telephone exchange & on a 20mb package i get 15mb maybe 16mb tops

[RUKI2909]

lol i dont no im in urmston the exchange is baguley about 5 miles away my next door neighbour gets rubbish speed aswell and she on virgin

[Matty.N]

lol i dont no im in urmston the exchange is baguley about 5 miles away my next door neighbour gets rubbish speed aswell and she on virgin

i wonder why then :S

maybe they've got you listed as someone who pays for the 50mb so you get fast broadband

it is possible

but wouldnt explain 75mb =/

[RUKI2909]

been like this for the last 18 months since i joined virgin crazy but im not complaining i checked on there site and they say 50 meg aint avalible here yet till summer so there is defo somthin not right

[RUKI2909]

nope this is my forth modem tho in 6 months due to them packing in

[fruitcrazy]

WTF, im on 10meg, im going to try it after the capping period, probs about 2 in the morning. see what i get then.

done today after capping

[mazooma]

God bless AOL and there up to 8meg speed. Should get about 6.6 with my connection and local phone lines. (I think they're made of lead or wood or something.) Thank f**k I'm switching on Friday. Unfortuately I'm not in a cable area. Going with BTinternet. They can't be any worse that AOL.

Well I think BT have upgraded the wiring to copper.

[Zoltar]

Here's my connection.

I have a 8mb connection. But I was getting about 4mb upto 30 minutes ago. I was getting frequent disconnections so I bought a 10mtr patch lead (£9.99 B&Q), stuck the Netgear 834GTEX into the master socket, ripped out all the phones and stuck one on the master jack, and now I have the reading below without nasty disconnects.

My ADSL is from Karoo 8mb on a standard copper telephone wire.

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[Matty.N]

3 months on :3
upgraded to a 20mb package

[ady]

ouch rob.....is using wi-fi at the 99p shop buddy?

[kriss]

OUTCH!

[Matty.N]

Well not to bad to start with, he said it will speed up in a while. He typed into my browser so speed test site that virgin use to test there speed. I saw the password if anyone knows the address lol. its something like 103.28 blagh blagh, come up as a virgin speed test page. hmm tried paris and got a better result. he did say that speedtest.net is a bit missleading as there are so many people testing that you do not get a true speed result

If you ask me, the companies own test sites are misleading

my mate (on BT) uses speedtest & gets about 6mb yet he uses bts own & it says hges getting the full 16mb

i (on o2) use speedtest it says 15 - 20mb, but if i use BT then it says about 4mb & reccomends me to switch toBT,

bit fishy if you ask me

[piesthecat]

my 3g dongle
seating at the best signal place i could find

Edited by piesthecat, 14 May 2009 - 02:36 PM.

[ady]

my 3g dongle
seating at the best signal place i could find

How do you manage to post so much at that speed pies?

Thats dial-up speed...