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[Grey M@a]

also, grey M@a, i know this is off topic but..., i'm going to connect my wireless up soon, i've got a Ethernet hole in my VM set-up box and i could set-up my wireless that way. Because i'm sure that also acts like a modem. Would my internet be faster if i connected it through my modem or the set-up box (i also use the same coaxial cable for my t.v.)

No point through the TV, would have to be a wifi router from your pc.

[j1979]

oh, thnx, so does Virgin Media provide the fastest speed in the uk???

yep, virgin do 50megabits with 2.5 up , in parts of kent / london at the moment this will be rolled out late 2008 / 2009 to the rest of the country.

[Ksmgangsta]

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[Betty_Swallocks]

Which is the whole reason why I am dumping virgin cable soon and moving to BE as they are available round my way to

Hopefully you live nice and close to the exchange because if you're more than a few hundred yards away your chances of getting anything like the speed you get from Virgin are remote.

I live about a mile and a half away from the exchange as the crow flies and I've been told that the very most I can expect from any ADSL package is about 4 meg.

Really the throttling that Virgin do is hardly a major inconvenience. If I want to download something large it's not really a problem to set the download going before I go to bed, and if it's something I really must have right now I get the bulk of it at 20 meg and then mine seems to slow down to about 5 meg. It just takes a bit longer to download that's all. But the key is that even when vI'm being throttled I still get faster speeds than the very best that ADSL can give me.

Roll on competition in the cable market, but ADSL of any flavour is certainly not that competition for me at least.

[BigFatCat]

Is it just me who normally associates B with bytes and b with bits?

[directhex]

Is it just me who normally associates B with bytes and b with bits?

no, that's the correct abbreviation

[Grey M@a]

Grey M@a, i'm sure the set-up box acts like a modem.

look here -
http://help2.virginmedia.com/help/ge...wirelesslaptop

They say that but trust me the boxes are not setup for that what so ever. If that was the case then Virgin wouldn't be dishing out modems with routers. I have seen that page before and set about trying it out of curiosity and it bricked the v+ box :/

Hopefully you live nice and close to the exchange because if you're more than a few hundred yards away your chances of getting anything like the speed you get from Virgin are remote.

I live about a mile and a half away from the exchange as the crow flies and I've been told that the very most I can expect from any ADSL package is about 4 meg.

Really the throttling that Virgin do is hardly a major inconvenience. If I want to download something large it's not really a problem to set the download going before I go to bed, and if it's something I really must have right now I get the bulk of it at 20 meg and then mine seems to slow down to about 5 meg. It just takes a bit longer to download that's all. But the key is that even when vI'm being throttled I still get faster speeds than the very best that ADSL can give me.

Roll on competition in the cable market, but ADSL of any flavour is certainly not that competition for me at least.

The exchange is 5 doors down from me so I am canny close to it. As for the throttling, if it's just me on the network then the line barely throttles as I will be on mirc and general browsing but once the other three people hammer the line it throttles stupidly fast, always seems to be when I am in the middle of backing up the ftp server or uploading content to the webserver :/

[Ksmgangsta]

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[Grey M@a]

so do u suggest i use my V-box or my modem

The modem