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Just spoken to them - they couldn't do a full troubleshooting session as I'm not at home; speaking to them when I get back this evening. But he did tell me that in our area we should be able to get download speeds of up to 13mbps, and he can see that my line is currently 1.4mbps

I just did a test of my speed with Virgin and got 47mbps. When I see some of you with 13 and 10 I think that must be really slow. Makes me wonder if I'm overrating my speed in that maybe I could be just as happy with a slower speed and better off paying less with Sky.


They phoned me the other day as I was a TV customer, but changed to Virgin as they offered an increased broadband speed if you took their tele too. When I said I wouldn't mind at all changing back to Sky tele if only they sorted out their broadband, I was surprised that the response I got was not one of defence of their product but like an understanding that they couldn't compete.

That's a lot of bandwidth to use :)


True speed would also include the latency of the network. I think Virgin and Fibre networks come good here too.



Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I just did a test of my speed with Virgin and got

> 47mbps. When I see some of you with 13 and 10 I

> think that must be really slow. Makes me wonder if

> I'm overrating my speed in that maybe I could be

> just as happy with a slower speed and better off

> paying less with Sky.

>

> They phoned me the other day as I was a TV

> customer, but changed to Virgin as they offered an

> increased broadband speed if you took their tele

> too. When I said I wouldn't mind at all changing

> back to Sky tele if only they sorted out their

> broadband, I was surprised that the response I got

> was not one of defence of their product but like

> an understanding that they couldn't compete.

I though it was speed,though my gaming son has educated me about ping and recently introduced another concept to me which restricts his gaming enjoyment. As he isn't here at the moment I can't ask him to remind me but what sticks in my mind is the word 'wobbles'. Is there a technical term that sounds like that?

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