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Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by Coontang » November 8th, 2008, 1:12 am

Hello.

We have been on virgin (TV and internet) since it was telewest, and although paying for 8mb, we were only recieving about 4mbit/s (and about 300 ups)

Just downloaded a file at about 1mb per second - found it odd - also noticed my ip had changed recently. did a speedtest, apparently we now are up to 9xxx-10xxx kb/s and 400-500 upload.

I am thrilled that they have pulled the finger out and got something done! Finally we're getting the moneys worth! Dont know if anyone else has experienced this, but im happy.
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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by helium » November 8th, 2008, 1:30 am

rofl at ur sig btw jimbo, never seen it :P

in sweden they dont do much, at least not in small towns like where i live because they would have to upgrade a lot of stuff for us to get the speed we are paying for :<
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Post by Infinite » November 8th, 2008, 1:36 am

lol. I wonder which naab at that company came up with the name Virgin xD.
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Post by [SoE]_Zaitsev » November 8th, 2008, 1:52 am

:roll:

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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by JDogg » November 8th, 2008, 2:36 am

My internet sucks leprechaun testicles.
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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by Soviet » November 8th, 2008, 2:49 am

JDogg wrote:My internet sucks leprechaun testicles.
oooo, can I have your internet's phone number?

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Post by Infinite » November 8th, 2008, 3:11 am

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I'm downloading and uploading atm, but before i was doing that, i had about 1.7k kb/s down and 200 kb/s up.
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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by JDogg » November 8th, 2008, 6:36 am

Soviet wrote:
JDogg wrote:My internet sucks leprechaun testicles.
oooo, can I have your internet's phone number?
Sure, but you're gonna have to come to Australia to get the "premium" service, otherwise they send you a video.
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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by MickDee » November 8th, 2008, 1:41 pm

Not bad, a double in speed is always welcome :D

dunno what's wrong with virgin though....
we had 2mb on NTL: and they updated us to 4mb, then virgin came along and took over them and no joke for a week i had a download speed of about 26Mbp/s with 4Mb/s upload, then virgin started boasting about fibre optic broadband, and our 4mb connection got "upgraded" to 10mb, now my download sits about 6000 - 8000kbp/s with an up of about 500-800

thought i'd give my story :) and i'm not kidding and pres knows it, i downloaded the beta twice and installed it before him xD and he had a 30 minute head start :lol:

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Post by Pedsdude » November 8th, 2008, 3:58 pm

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I'm on Virgin Media too, although I've been living here a month so I can't compare it to the past as such.

It's nowhere near the speeds I was getting at halls of residence, but that's to be expected really.
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Post by Coontang » November 8th, 2008, 5:43 pm

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I'm on Virgin Media too, although I've been living here a month so I can't compare it to the past as such.

It's nowhere near the speeds I was getting at halls of residence, but that's to be expected really.
We were getting pretty much half what we should have been. It's very handy getting double the downlaod performance ;)
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Post by Drofder2004 » November 8th, 2008, 7:04 pm

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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by JDogg » November 9th, 2008, 1:25 am

Shit thats fast, takes me half an hour to download a tv show/movie. And 8 hours to get CoD:WaW, which I will be buying, then punching myself because CoDJumper doe's not condone piracy.
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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by helium » November 9th, 2008, 3:50 am

I'm using one of the worst connections in Sweden, but I get a pretty decent result:

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Re: Are virgin getting their act together?

Post by Coontang » November 9th, 2008, 3:52 pm

helium wrote:I'm using one of the worst connections in Sweden, but I get a pretty decent result:

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Mighty fine speed there helium ;)

I like the upload, ours is a little lower than I would desire but its good enough :D
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