Virgin Media kicks your ISP's ass!

[~HeavenSent~]

UK Broadband Speeds 2011

Published by OFCOM 3rd March

Average broadband speeds over 24 hours

Broadband provider

Up to speed

Average speed

Orange Up to 8Mb 3.3 to 4.3Mb
Plusnet Up to 8Mb 3.4 to 4.4Mb
BT Up to 8Mb 4.1 to 4.8Mb
BT Up to 20Mb 6.9 to 8.7Mb
Sky Up to 20Mb 7.4 to 8.8Mb
TalkTalk Up to 24Mb 7.7 to 9.3Mb
Virgin Media Up to 10Mb 9.5 to 9.7Mb
O2/Be Up to 20Mb/24Mb 9.9 to 11.6Mb (lol more than 10mb less then you pay for)
Virgin Media Up to 20Mb 17.4 to 18.6Mb
BT Up to 40Mb 30.5 to 33.1Mb
Virgin Media Up to 50Mb 43.9 to 47.2Mb


For home BB & they are now rolling out 100mb lines for only £35 :lol

 

[Shady]

wow who cares , i wouldnt pay for that.

my sky gets 1.4 mb a sec so thats 14mb bb for 7.50 a month.

 

[JealY]

You won't be saying that when they start sniffing your packets for P2P illegal file sharing & close your connection.

Privacy ftw?

 

[~HeavenSent~]

Im very happy with my VM :P

 

[MentaL]

o2 here.

 

[steve]

Im very happy with my VM :P

no one cares

 

[Shady]

You won't be saying that when they start sniffing your packets for P2P illegal file sharing & close your connection.

Privacy ftw?

always got be a smart ass jealy and wheres the info on this?? also if sky do it , iam sure theres a reason and why wouldnt vm do the same.

edit : show me in most circumstances (sp?) where you actualy get 4.6mb/s , forspinki has got vm 50mb and iam pretty sure most sites dont let him download at full speed even with a download proggie.

 

[~HeavenSent~]

Steve i cant see what you post because your on my ignore list lol so no point posting back

p.s dont try be smart buy posting me a pm or on my msg board because i cant see your post's on there as well

 

[steve]

always got be a smart ass jealy and wheres the info on this?? also if sky do it , iam sure theres a reason and why wouldnt vm do the same.

edit : show me in most circumstances (sp?) where you actualy get 4.6mb/s , forspinki has got vm 50mb and iam pretty sure most sites dont let him download at full speed even with a download proggie.

i get about 1.9mb/s from microsoft and big sites on 20mb line thats on virgin btw!

 

[Skyline]

I get around 2mb/s from most places, and MEgaupload (With premium account)

Some will be as low as 100kb - It all depends where you download from.

When using Newsbin I get around 4.5mb/s

 

[JealY]

always got be a smart ass jealy and wheres the info on this?? also if sky do it , iam sure theres a reason and why wouldnt vm do the same.

edit : show me in most circumstances (sp?) where you actualy get 4.6mb/s , forspinki has got vm 50mb and iam pretty sure most sites dont let him download at full speed even with a download proggie.

My post was aimed at the OP.

 

[Shady]

i get about 1.9mb/s from microsoft and big sites on 20mb line thats on virgin btw!

i was downloading at nearly 1.6mb/s yday from wow downloader , i aint slagging virgin off at all but 2 me its a waste of cash( aimed at 50mb bb not 20). iam very happy with my sky bb for 7.50 a month and for a landline its awsome

edit : my bad jealy.

 

[Tashohnie]

100mb for me in September.
£40 is nothing for 50mb, I love downloading at 7.2mb per sec and on a bad day 5mb +.