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[Ksmgangsta]

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[SiM]

That is full speed.... you have a 2 megabits per second connection... divide by 8 gives you about 250 kilobytes per second

[GoNz0]

yeh u cant grumble at that, and you also did well pulling those speeds from the speedtest site as its usually overloaded.

[s_kinton]

As above, you are getting the exact speed you are paying for. Its just represented in different units.

[Ksmgangsta]

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[Grey M@a]

In theory 20,000 kb/s

I am on the 20mb and must say the connection tops out at 2.2mb/s constantly so I get what I pay for

Thing is you sign up to the broadband and 99% of the people fall for the MB on the end thinking its megabytes when in fact its megabits.

[Ksmgangsta]

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[Grey M@a]

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

Cable wise yes, ADSL possibly as you can get virgin 24mb adsl, but so do BE, BT etc etc at the end of the day with ISP's now throttling lines you will download a gig or two in demo's and your line speed is cut anyway. I can't wait till virgin release the 50mb line and then the 100mb lines as they will be pointless, you would hit your quota in seconds and be limited to a slow line again.

[Ksmgangsta]

can u explain that again?

[Grey M@a]

can u explain that again?

Explain what? The throttling?

Its simple really depending on line speed you have a limit of what you can download. Once you go ver the limit they throttle the line down to a slower speed to apparently stop you hammering their network.

For example I am on 20mb cable. My limit is 3GB in a certain time period. I go over the 3gb limit my 20mb line is cut to a 5mb line for several hours. Virgin do this on all their packages.

[directhex]

internet connection speeds are measured in "bits" - ones and zeros's. a "2 Mb" internet connection is 2 million bits per second. file sizes (and download rates) are measured in bytes - where a byte is 8 bits. so because you need 8 bits to make a byte, a 2 Mb internet connection (2 million bits) can download at a rate of an eighth of that - 250 thousand bytes per second. that's where the gap in your numbers comes from.

so to convert from quoted speed to download rate, divide by 8

as for fast connections, virgin's 20 Mb cable is fast. several providers' 24 Mb ADSL is faster on paper, but ADSL speed decreases significantly the further you are from your phone exchange (so in my case i get 12-16 Mb on a 24 Mb connection)

what Grey M@a is getting at is that many (perhaps most these days) ISPs have a monthly limit on how much you can use your connection, before killing it down to dial-up speeds. the faster your connection, the faster you can hit your limit. some providers (e.g. Be ADSL) don't have limits on use.

[Grey M@a]

internet connection speeds are measured in "bits" - ones and zeros's. a "2 Mb" internet connection is 2 million bits per second. file sizes (and download rates) are measured in bytes - where a byte is 8 bits. so because you need 8 bits to make a byte, a 2 Mb internet connection (2 million bits) can download at a rate of an eighth of that - 250 thousand bytes per second. that's where the gap in your numbers comes from.

so to convert from quoted speed to download rate, divide by 8

as for fast connections, virgin's 20 Mb cable is fast. several providers' 24 Mb ADSL is faster on paper, but ADSL speed decreases significantly the further you are from your phone exchange (so in my case i get 12-16 Mb on a 24 Mb connection)

what Grey M@a is getting at is that many (perhaps most these days) ISPs have a monthly limit on how much you can use your connection, before killing it down to dial-up speeds. the faster your connection, the faster you can hit your limit. some providers (e.g. Be ADSL) don't have limits on use.

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

[pauldarkside]

See this for an example of how Virgin manage bandwidth usage: Virgin Media cable service traffic management

[Ksmgangsta]

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[Grey M@a]

Yours is the M package I do believe so 900mb limit during the daytime hours 450mb during the peak hours after that your line will be cut down to 1mb speeds

[Ksmgangsta]

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