What's your Internet Speed?

[maxie]

Have to wait and see Steve .. They told me mine would be going up to 50 from 30 .. I am happy enough with the 30 but if it is Free sure will not refuse it ..

 

[Sergeant Steve]

Well according to the Virgin media account I currently get "up to 60Mb" and I will be upgraded to "up to 100Mb" between May and July 2014 at "no extra monthly cost". Whether the upload will increase time will tell. One hopes it will increase to 5Mb/s from 3Mb/s.

 

[maxie]

That is the down side to Virgin there Upload speeds .. Apart from that can not complain been a very good Service

 

[Sergeant Steve]

Yea it's a bit unfortunate that the extra £5 a month only upgraded the download speed, but hey, as long as they upgrade the upload speed when they put everyone's speeds up this summer I'll be happy. The majority of the times I've tested my speed I've gotten over 60Mb/s download speed and just under 3Mb/s upload, so I can't really complain that I'm not getting the speed we're paying for.

 

[maxie]

True they threw in a Tivo Box for me Free .. Have never used it though . I see they are giving away Netflix free for six months too

 

[Nomad8459]

Always had good speeds and good service on Virgin Media but not available in my area, totally happy again now though with the PlusNet FTTC service 73M down and 17M up on a 80/20 service at £35 a month including phone

 

[Sergeant Steve]

Yea we signed up for their starter package so we got free Tivo as well. We've not used it either, but that is mainly because we don't have room on the TV stand to put the box. So until we reshuffle the living room so the TV is on the wall and the hifi unit is underneath we won't be using it.

My only bug with Virgin TV is that you can't pick and choose the channels you want like you can with Sky, you have to upgrade your whole package to get more channels, and only the top one has all the HD channels :/.


Nomad, it's quite interesting that you can get FTTC but you can't get Virgin. Virgin is only FTTC and they run Copper Cable to the premises and into the Superhub and Tivo box. AFAIK BT are the only people who can do FTTP, but I suspect that some commercial companies may be able to do it as well.

 

[Nomad8459]

Yes you are right, I think virgin do tend to use their own network but could be wrong, I had a virgin spotter tell me that I could have their broadband but after checking their website which says it isn't possible and after contacting them about four times only to be told someone would call me back, got a bit fed up of it and opted instead for plusnet. Similar price, similar service, its routed through a BT modem and into a plusnet router...

 

[Nomad8459]

Here is the page showing all my results from various tests on my plusnet, it shows how stable my line speed is over time...

Speedtest.net by Ookla - Results

And the line quality....not bad for FTTC



Regularly achieving 73M down and 17M up...

 

[techtitan100]

this was taken at Arsenal Technical High School

 

[Britton30]

At home with wireless.

 

[techtitan100]

I just did it again on my laptop at home and we have been put through a lot with Comcast over billing my last post was a desktop at school running XP

 

[Nomad8459]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3337819345.png. Taken on my android phone on a 73m download line, anyone know what's limiting the speed?? The router is capable of 130m over wireless, signal strength is full, I'd the phone limited in some way???

 

[Britton30]

I would suspect it is the phone. It may use an older protocol like 802.11b, which is slower than 802.11n. The phone provider may not have a good network up too.

 

[Nomad8459]

Aye, am sure its the phone, its a HTC desire HD, was wondering of there was a setting I am missing somewhere cause the speed on network mobile internet is the same as my home WIFI, its not exactly slow at loading at these speeds but definitely not rapid...

 

[Britton30]

I have to ask my son about phone settings.

 

[andrew129260]

That phone has wireless N.

So something else is the matter.

HTC Desire HD - Full phone specifications

Keep in mind though, the performance of your gadget does effect the speed of your internet. If the phones processor isnt fast enough to handle all that data coming in, it could be slower. Most small devices like cell phones can not pull in very fast high speeds of data. I have a galaxy s2, and when I use wifi on it I get about 25Mb/s or 30Mb/s down. But when I use a laptop with wireless, I get 35Mb/s or 40Mb/s down. Directly wired I get 50Mb/s or 60Mb/s.

Also, phones and laptops slow down the wifi chip so it doesn't drain the battery. There are multiple reasons as to why wifi can be slower on portable devices.

 

[Nomad8459]

Different speed tester here in the UK, So happy with my PlusNet FTTC service, cant rate highly enough

 

[Britton30]

Thought I'd give the UK test a try.




From SepeedTest.net. Ping is a bit high today, it's usually 10ms.

 

[Nomad8459]

Are you in the states?? Not bad uploads across the pond...(Atlantic ocean)