How fast is your Broadband?

[keithmac]

It's a Super Hub 2 apparently.
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The Super hub 1 suffered from some form of memory overrun which slowed it down but our SH2 has been very reliable with no outages.

Must have a problem at the cabinet if you keep getting dropped connections?.

 

[smokeysmoo]

The Super hub 1 suffered from some form of memory overrun which slowed it down but our SH2 has been very reliable with no outages.

Must have a problem at the cabinet if you keep getting dropped connections?.

The guy I spoke to yesterday said after he'd downloaded the new thingymajig/wotsitsname onto my hub he'd monitor it over the next few days then go from there, so I'll have to wait and see for now.

 

[keithmac]

Worth signing up to the Virgin Media forums, all the staff are UK based and you don't have to go through the usual "reboot your computer" type script.

I got my SH2 foc, if I'd rang VM they would have charged me an upgrade fee..

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Just got our speedy fibre Broadband - after years of 1.6mbps our new 43mbps service is wonderful. 9mbps upstream is fine too.

Happy.

 

[Alan Frame]

Ours is allegedly 23 mbps, but downloads at 2.3 max and uploads at a claimed 4.74 mbps.
The truth probably lies somewhere.

 

[Rezillo]

After years of 2 to 2.5 Mbs, our village has gone FTTC and I now have......7.9Mbs. Despite a brand new cabinet 600 yards from me, our house and over half the village just yards from the cabinet are connected to another new cabinet 1.5miles away. The reason being that the village cabinet is only taking lines upstream of it. Everyone downstream gets no new line to go back to the cabinet, they just go 1.5miles to the next one they are upstream of.

 

[Elybazza61]

Currently 76.93 Mb/s with Virgin .

 

[SpokeyDokey]

After years of 2 to 2.5 Mbs, our village has gone FTTC and I now have......7.9Mbs. Despite a brand new cabinet 600 yards from me, our house and over half the village just yards from the cabinet are connected to another new cabinet 1.5miles away. The reason being that the village cabinet is only taking lines upstream of it. Everyone downstream gets no new line to go back to the cabinet, they just go 1.5miles to the next one they are upstream of.

That's bonkers!

 

[Rezillo]

That's bonkers!

Yes, especially as they dug up the road every 100m or so to break into the ducting to pull the fibre optic cable through (which runs right by our house). It would have cost peanuts to take some copper up to the new cabinet with the fibre but no - all reinstated. Several people have tried to get a service and been refused because their max speed is less than the company is committed to providing. Zen would only give me a service when I pointed out that I would be happier with 8Mbs than 2Mbs but it has been noted on my customer contract details

 

[John the Monkey]

Ours is Infinity 2 - bit pricey at £54 a month, but we get a reliable 76mb as the road cabinet is about 100 yards away.

We did struggle on 20mb with iplayer, especially when the kids were on line. No such problems now, we can stream in HD, the kids can game or upload files, with no problems. There is at least 12 devices connected, 2 SMART TV's, PS4, 2 laptops, 3 desktops, 4 phones, and other 'stuff'.

You'll suffer with 3-8mb streaming in HD

Possibly worth giving them a bell. I started doing that each year after getting naffed off by the deals they offer new customers, when we were paying £50 for a knackered old hub 2 and the same service without the free "Smarthub" the new folk were getting for £20 less! We generally save £10 - £15 on our monthly cost. I've investigated moving to other suppliers, but BT's product is pretty good -v. reliable, and no intrusive traffic shaping.

 

[roadrash]

download 79.9 mbs, upload 4.95mbs with virgin media according to the test

 

[classic33]

After years of 2 to 2.5 Mbs, our village has gone FTTC and I now have......7.9Mbs. Despite a brand new cabinet 600 yards from me, our house and over half the village just yards from the cabinet are connected to another new cabinet 1.5miles away. The reason being that the village cabinet is only taking lines upstream of it. Everyone downstream gets no new line to go back to the cabinet, they just go 1.5miles to the next one they are upstream of.

That's bonkers!

Pole carrying fibre broadband is directly over the road, fed from the main road. I'm on the wrong side of the road, with the phoneline coming from another pole.

Only one side of the street has/can get fibre.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Our 50max generally delivers around 35-ish although sometimes it still feels like dial-up.

 

[Jody]

Previously we were getting around 0.8mb/s and it was awful. One person watching low res Youtube at a time or it was constant buffering.

We have now have fibre in the area and are up to about 35mb/s which is an absolute joy.

[QUOTE 4794310, member: 9609"]I dream of 2.5[/QUOTE]

I feel your pain

 

[MacB]

Well I'm typing this on my new broadband and it is so much faster than anything else out there, it makes Virgin look like a snail with gout. Unfortunately I can't tell you any details as I'm typing this next year, the signal is so fast it has done some sort of Superman thing and spun the Earth/time backwards.

Still it's nice to know that I'm still as grumpy, and full of it, a year from now.