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200Mbps, peaking at 220Mbps, and yes, probably more than sufficient
Up until wednesday, I had nothing (for a month).
Now though, this is the latest test result. Upload fluctuates but is generally 80-110.
Definitely enough for me ;) BT FTTP 900 package.
https://i.imgur.com/VdNaeam.png
After some problems with Virgin they offered me the 1gig on offer , wired connections are around 947Mbps down and 50Mbps up / Wireless is 550Mbps down and 50Mbps up. Not found many things to max this but the additional bandwidth across other devices has been good.
I pay for Virgin 200Mbps and I get a smidge over (I remember reading they provision a little extra to account for Tivo boxes) so that seems about right.
Personally, apart from the rubbish customer services I've never had a problem with Virgin. In the 7 years I've been paying them money I've only had a couple days total downtime. I think I'm in the minority in that regard though.
I have 8Mbps down and <1Mbps up. This is the fastest available to me :rockon:
Fast, that's an interesting concept.
Terrible - 35 down if I am lucky and 4-5 up.
This country has a serious BB infrastructure issue.
Just got over my last post on this a week or so ago and you go and pose this question - cue blood curdling all over again...
I have 3 children all wanting bandwidth and wife and I WFH on VC most of the day. Arguments over bandwidth are quite frankly stellar. Looked for FTTP not one provider will quote and am less than a mile from my exchange which is market B.
We have fibre into this house. It comes via overhead cables which have been pulled down more than once by the local morons in their tractors. Anyway back to the point. When first installed (about 2.5yrs ago) we had up to 900mbps over the following two years that reduced to around 700mbps as more & more villages got connected. During the first couple of months of Covid it dropped to around 200mbps, it's currently running at around 500mbps. It's always more than enough, especially considering we only had 2mbps prior to fibre. My only concern is how low will it eventually go.
A whopping 0.7Mbps still.
Right outside my house there's a box from Gigaclear, with a coil of fibre hanging out of it, that's meant to be giving me 900Mbps or more, and outside my property there's a bit of trunking going to the cabinet 120m away across an empty grass verge... But after four years, they still haven't managed to connect that fibre coil to the magic little green box.
12Mbps down 0.9Mbps up, I live in the middle of nowhere so its to be expected, but I do only pay for "up to" 8Mbps.... no fibre in sight any time soon, funny enough 4G on my phone is faster, 41Mbps last time I checked.
74Mbps download and 17 upload with TalkTalk I been offered to get 900+Mbps for £25 with phone package when it get activated. Full fibre now installed in my street so just have to wait!
70Mbps/14 down. Enough for 2 people to watch netflix & iplayer in different rooms. Wifi in kitchen is about half that. It's BT and ok for a small village I think.
Paying VM for 350Mbps but get a consistent 380Mbps with something like 36 or 37 upload, it is fast enough and most of the time it is overkill, but being a 5 strong household full of gamers and 4k netflix streamers, the traffic is ever increasing and does get busy when everyone is on it doing their thing... although the speed is getting upped soon so I will probably be back to complete overkill in no time :D
Fast have become too slow for me to use as a test, i assume a lot more Dane have become Fletnix addicts.
https://www.speedtest.net/result/9703244357.png
not fast enough. *Mic drop* that is all anyone can say. It's like money, all we ever need is a little bit more.
Via my lovely OpenReach infrastructure? A Lovely 31.5 / 9.5 speed currently at the time of writing this. Via my 4G connection indoors? 34.
My mobile data speed has outstripped the rubbish infrastructure provided via FTTC and copper cabling for the last 500 yards. Honestly, I miss the Virgin Media connection in my old house which was 10x faster than the rubbish I have now. Stone Age Internet speeds.
I got fiber, it is currently set at 500/500mbit, but I can beef it up to 1gbit/1gbit or more if I like to.... not stuck on a crappy upload here ^^
Virgin 350mbs down, 35mbs up.
Has been a little unreliable at times. But most of the time is pretty damn good.
If you're fighting kids for bandwidth whilst working, get a second line. You can get VDSL from Vodafone etc for £22-23 all in, not exactly a lot of money. You can put it against your tax as well if it's exclusively for work.
I started running 2 VDSL lines about 5 years ago when I realised I could get Sky+Talk Talk for the same price as a single BT line.
I've moved since and now have VM 350Mb plus a 4G failover from Three (£16 a month inc the modem, unlimited use)
For those in rental properties where you might not be allowed a 2nd line - in my house they fed the 2 lines down the single multi-core wire and split in the wall socket.
Virgin Media 220 down 20 up, fine for us.
80/20 fibre.
In all honesty it's more than enough download for me but I do wish they'd give me an option to have more upload speed. Having said that I'm lucky in that I can this because it is literally the fastest speed you can get where I live.
350/35, more than fast enough for the two of us. £47 per month with Virgin Media. No phone, TV or anything else included.
Virgin 110Mbps here. Pretty pleased it with overall, but I wish they'd increase the upload from 10Mbps.
66Mbit down, 12Mbit up
It's fine for everyday use but new game installs are tedious and my initial cloud backup upload took weeks. My kids complain a lot about "slow wifi" but I think that's the fact my router is old. My PCs are all connected via ethernet cables and I don't see any of the problems they report.
So if anyone has any recommendations for a good WiFi unit, preferably one that can act as a NordVPN (or similar) client I'd appreciate suggestions.
Been with Virgin for years. The internet is great but customer service is a bit rubbish, but you rarely need it. We were with Cable Tel and NTL before it became Virgin and in all that time it really has not been down more than a couple of times for maybe 1/2 a day. As to speeds I get around 150mbs with my ExpressVPN turned on and 380mbs with the VPN turned off. I have tried other VPN's and they only manage 50mbs which is a turn off. Now the kids have left home we don't really need the speed, but hey it's nice to have. If Virgin offer us the 500 or 1gig I might upgrade just for the willy waving.
380 Mbps
I won't say what I pay but VM seem to think I still work there
Been hammered recently with covid-19 but was 535 down and 37 up (you tight asses Virgin)
Now is around 365 down and 37 up ;)
80meg fibre, but I have NordVPN just so I can occasionally experience the equivalent of 14.4kbps dial-up again.
1000/40
62/18 fine for me
42/13 for me, through Origin Broadband using FTTC. No chance of ever get FTTP, even though all the new builds right next to me have it.
Will be moving on from OB soon though, their service is not that reliable and their customer support is mostly terrible when I need them to fix their issues. They read me the same script, I complain, all of a sudden my line goes back to full speed without me changing a thing
At £16 a month it's an option. At £22 a month and for a 24 month contract not so attractive....Quote:
Originally Posted by gagaga
http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devi...0&colour=White
Get a (free) pay as you go sim from them - they knock a fiver a month off for existing customers, you just enter the number at the time you buy. Price varies seemingly ramdomly between about £15 and £20 with the discount.Quote:
Originally Posted by 3dcandy
EDIT: £17 currently, http://www.three.co.uk/existing-cust...20and%20Dongle you won't get out of the 2 year contract, the modems cost ~ £150 standalone. Good thing is if you move (or go on holiday) you can just unplug it and take it with you.
I need to wait till we start doing gigs again as it will be used to livestream (or is the plan)Quote:
Originally Posted by gagaga
Stuck on an ADSL2+ connection 5km from the exchange. So only 10 Mbps down and 0.9 Mbps up. Can't see them anytime soon running fibre up this road for what would be at best 5/6 properties. One of the penalties that you pay for living in a rural area.
I am living in Bangkok. My home internet is 50/20, but my phone can do 630/70 on 5G...Go figure.
Rural Andalucía here, we used to have terrible dial up and adsl , fiber (FTTH) is much better now, symmetrical and they upgraded me from 100Mb to 300Mb for free, so all in all not bad at all.
290-300Mb down -- 290-300Mb up (all speed tests differ)
heres fast
https://img.techpowerup.org/200704/a...-04-152534.jpg
Slow and spiky sometimes, not worth the money I pay for it
6 mbps
35 down 10 up, but if I look out of my window I can see a fibre connection... "Bringing faster fibre to rural commuties", thats great if the ISP's connect the flippin thing!
pvtbanner ... 6 mbps
And I thought that mine was bad at 10Mbps:eek:
Yeah its pretty painful, we have a Community Fibre Partnership with Openreach, that shoulld sort it....eventually, and after they've raided everyones piggybank :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeo
I'm with Virgin on their 350 package.
I get
377.10 Mbps Down
37.09 Mbps Up
Definitely fast enough for what we use it for - kids= lots of Youtube and games, some downloads but not many.
1000/1000mbit. Can't remember how many years we had it. But i've not complained since we got 300mbit. They just upgraded me, so they didn't have to refund me for a slower connection :)
It's hard to imagine, that it's only 10years ago, we had to suffer with a 100mbit.
About 60/18Mb. I'd like fttp but not going to happen anytime soon.
Out of interest what are the routers like given to people with gigabit firbre, satisfactory?
It varies between the providers from what I can see - I wasn't happy with the BT Smart Hub 2 they gave me, so I swapped it out for a TP-Link Wifi6 alternative which has been great, albeit expensive. It offers double the ports, wifi 6 vs 5 on the BT hub, much more customisation and approximately double the WiFi range on all bands. I've also noticed a lower ping over wired when there is a lot going on - but then it was already crazy low to begin with.Quote:
Originally Posted by chj
Generally speaking they will all work - as FTTP is mostly rolled out with a separate ONT that then feeds a router, you don't need a special router as such to work with fibre....anything that can make a PPPOE connection will do, you can even plug your PC in directly and forgo the router entirely :) So you will find many providers just give you the same router as they do for FTTC etc.
Only 48Mbps down and 8Mbps up here. Kind of pathetic.
35Mbps down, 9.1Mbps up according to the router.
It started out at 40/10 a few years ago (original guess of the BT ADSL checker site thing was that the address could handle 47-53 if I recall correctly, but it obviously wasn't enough for me to opt for 80/20 over the 40/10 if I wouldn't be able to actually get much more than the 40), but it seems to have got lower over the past year.
20/6 :censored:
Use to get 30 when we first moved in as cabinet was FTTC enabled about a week after we moved in 7 odd years ago. Since then crosstalk has just killed it. According to openreach I can still get up to 36 - I'd like to know where Openreach pull that figure from (I suspect somewhere the sun doesn't shine). You can what rubbish it is when BT would only promise me 14 on a new contract. I'd be less bothered if I lived in the middle of nowhere but I don't - its a small town (of 10000+) a couple of miles from Southampton. 4g is crap due to living in the shadow of a hill (8!). I also don't think Openreach will hurry to fit fibre as its a large 500 property 70s estate with ducted lines which I've heard are the worst because they've all collapsed.
Edit: Forgot to mention two adults working from home + 2 kids who need internet for tele (Aerial signal is abismal).
Around 500-550Mbs down, and 39Mbs up over a wired connection on VM, the WiFi is slower (using a Synology Router with a couple of mesh satellites). Had a lot more drop outs with VM in the last 12 months than in the previous 12 years though, hopefully not a sign of things to come. Ping usually around 7.
Have you tried the new Wireguard protocol in the NordVPN app? That REALLY flies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spreadie
The Virgin infrastructure is a mess from what came before. Apparently it's not well documented (!) so there's filters etc scattered around that need to be removed so they can better balance the up/down bandwidth. A lot of the issues are related to them doing this area by area and breaking things as they go along.Quote:
Originally Posted by daddacool
Good news is at the end of it they'll be able to do the proper DOCSIS3.1 (if they choose to..) that would mean symmetric gigabit. Problem we have is the same as BT - they don't want businesses taking cheap domestic lines when they are currently paying 2 grand a month for symmetric gigabit FTTP so we're likely to stay with unbalanced down/up speeds.
I get about 3 down and 1 up. There is no fibre to cabinet in our area let alone to premises. Openreach says it's coming soon, but they've been saying that for years. And I am in a major city not the middle of nowhere.
Ouch, that sounds rough.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonah
My speed seems too restrictive for my liking, but it's still manageable. I'd hate the type of restriction your speed would give though, it was uncomfortable enough in the early 2000s.
I wish you the best of luck on them actually following through and rolling things out at some point.
HAHA, classic crappy BT - 950 download with 86Mbs upload. Hyperoptic ftw https://imgur.com/QxNyI6IQuote:
Originally Posted by Spud1
Well, apart from the fact that most people can't get Hyperoptic, I have no need for any faster upload. In fact, I do't need 80-110 that I get at the moment. I only really need around 10 upload to cover my needs, anything above that is a nice bonus/contingency. I don't even need 910 down really, but seems daft to not pay the extra £60 a year to have it for those rare occasions when it's really useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by konfliqt
That is the case for the vast majority of users.
215 down, 20 up on Virgin.
The connection has been generally very solid with low pings. BUT, it's crazy expensive and 20 MBit upload is absolutely pathetic.
Virgin need to be shamed by their upload speeds (as does every other company offering such paltry ratios). We as consumers should be demanding better en masse.
i have been getting 140down and about 10up for a couple of years. just got a promotion to get 500down and 35up but this requires another modem. i only have an older docsis 3 with 8/4 channels . to get up to 600 or so i need 24/8 channels. i opt not to rent at $12/month and purchased for $75 a compatible modem .i pay $89 a month for just internet