Assuming you are not on cable, Virgin have some problems today with ADSL speed. I had to ring them earlier as i have only been getting ~500k on an 8mb line.
How far is the exchange from your house? if it is too far then switching ISPs would do much good but if you are relatively close switch to O2 if your exchange is LLU enabled
wow i have never seen anything that bad from virgin are u on the national thing they do , if u dont have cable? if you do switch isp i recomend o2
how do you find that out if its LLU
Clitheroe is on the above list so are you saying that O2 could offer improvements?
I have been with Virgin for many years now but feel sure I should be getting better broadband performance. We don't have cable in Clitheroe and as things stand it will probably never be installed because it's not economical apparently. It's all old copper cabling as well with no fibre optic connections to the main hubs so obviously speed is going to suffer but a consistent speed of 3 or 4Mbs would be most welcome. I'd hate to swap ISP and find there was little difference.
Edit: Just tried another speed test to the same Manchester server (Approx. 30 miles away) and got 1.01Mbs so things have improved from my previous 0.44Mbs but still you'd expect more wouldn't you on a "up to" 8Mbs service?
Cheers
Paul
That is a low speed!
to find out how far you are from the exchange use http://www.samknows.com/broadband/mapping/mapping.php
im like 1 mile away from my exchange but i guess thats why i get full speeds 10mb :O but for some reason my neighbour dnt get full speeds 20mb but he gets 14mb
all I can think of is the quality of the cables from cabinet to the house are in better conditon for your neighbour, Im 250 metres away and I sync @16.5Mbps but get 14Mbps on speedtest and downloads,
also depending on where in the street your neighbour is they may be served by a different cabinet changing the distance to the exchange (cable travel not as the crow flys), I served by 1 exchange but the bottom half of my street is served by another
@ paulktreg
I'm in the clitheroe area too with O2 Broadband... Our exchange is LLU equiped and I get 14Mbs with them...
I even run a couple of gaming servers so hence the speed in that test above is a little bellow what I would normally get... I would seriously recommend you change to O2 mate cos from your speed test you are being massively short-changed.
Just for your reference our excahnge is near the train station, so if you are geographically close to there you should be sorted(I know im only 500m away... jammy get
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Also depending on what Virgin package you are on I would guess that O2 might even be cheaper for you, but that depends... anyway hope that helps
Ironically I stumbled upon this thread trying to see whether or not we had Virgin Media out here but I think I'll give it a miss now
From the looks of things they are doing some weird routing of your connection giving your crap pings and speeds, that is just guessing as I'm told <50miles to manchester and you get ~100miles... anyways hope you get it sorted (CHANGE YOUR ISP!!)
Last edited by Goldfish92; 17-03-2010 at 05:16 PM.
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