10 meg broadband ??

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  • #16118
    XDCSprog
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    apparently i have been upgraded to 10 meg broadband having achieved v.i.p. status at virgin media/ntl/branson pickle on a white horse.

    question is………

    how the fuck should i know if i have ??

    what should i be lookin for in the way of improvements ??

    #48526
    Lammie
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    if you go here you will be able determine your true speed.

    http://www.speedtest.net/

    #48527
    XDCSprog
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    nice i like it….all snazzy dials and made for morons.

    still dont know what its tellin me though

    3925 kbs download

    330 kbs upload

    any good 😕

    #48528
    XDCSprog
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    will i be able to whizz one past max’s left foot on a good day with this new uber upgraded v.i.p package ??

    #48529
    PoD1st-BW
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    @=XDC=Sprog wrote:

    nice i like it….all snazzy dials and made for morons.

    still dont know what its tellin me though

    3925 kbs download

    330 kbs upload

    any good 😕

    (almost) 4 meg down and less than a half meg up, looks like the distance to your local exchange is a bit too far to utilise the enitre bw

    #48530
    xdc magicker
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    nah – he is on cable – distance does not matter

    the NTL “10 meg” is wank – you can only get 10 meg when everyone else has gone to bed between 4pm and 10pm 4 meg is normal

    #48531
    11thSignal
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    Basically like most contracts you have to read the small print. You’ll probably be on a 50-1 contention ratio which basically means you share your pipe connection with 50 other people. So the less people are on it the faster you go and the more people on it the slower you go ,bit like BF2142 really

    #48532
    Anonymous
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    I pay for 1mb and actually get 2mb… though since the virgin rebranding my conenction has barely worked =/

    #48533
    TurksMeister
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    Is this any good?!

    #48534
    XDC wild egg tamer
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    😯

    nice 1 turks, pity we can’t get that kinda speed at home yet 😕

    #48535
    Beer_Monster
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    I’m almost sure you’re still on the 4 Mb line with that sprog. To check your cable modem speed, type in http://192.168.100.1/logs.html in your browser and there should be an entry somewhere that is similar to “SW Download INIT – Via Config file cm-10240-384”, 10240 being the download speed and 384 being the upload, if you are still on the 4Mb ,it’ll likely say “SW Download INIT – Via Config file cm-4080-384”.

    Incidently, you’ll be glad to here that they are soon to be doubling download AND upload speeds soon.

    Don’t listen to the cable bashers, I love my cable and get the full speed 24/7. 😀

    #48536
    XDC_Wolf
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    Gotta say, for the year I was on Cable, never had a problem with it, think it cut out once for about 15 minutes, but I can put that down to acceptable maintenance disruption, got full speeds almost 24/7 as well. great stuff!

    #48537
    TurksMeister
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    Cable is sexy

    No doubt about it

    Except we havent got sky 1 anymore 🙁

    So have we all been upgraded then? as we are on blueyonder/telewest/ntl/virgin too… 4mb line

    #48538
    Beer_Monster
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    No news on the 2Mb/4Mb upgrades, just the 10Mb to 20Mb/386k to 728k upgrade has been announced so far.

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