Virgin Media 10Mb broadband wot speed should i be getting?

[mrwolves]

i have 10mb boardband with VM, my download speed goes up too 1.1mb per second max no higher, is this the right speed for a 10mb?

[nibblitz]

Yep, its the old megabits and megabytes conversion..
Run a test at ww.speedtest.net .. If you get around about a 9500 kbps result , thats a 10MB connection ..

[rawsy]

the online tests arnt that great your best bet would be downloading somthing from virmins news server you usually get a true reflection of speed through that.

[ashbuster]

just make sure your realy on 10 meg and not 4 like i was
they are ****ers and they say you get 10 thenthey make fukt upexcuses about not having the lines sorted and then they dont give you a date when there sorted

[mrwolves]

so 1.1mb download speed is right thought it would of been faster? also done speed test
and came up with.

13270 kbps

480 kbps

[ashbuster]

sounds about right
when i was supost to be on 10 meg but was only realy on 4 meg i was geting around 4000 - 5000
so seems as you are geting your full amount mate

[rawsy]

Originally Posted by mrwolves

so 1.1mb download speed is right thought it would of been faster? also done speed test
and came up with.

13270 kbps

480 kbps

Originally Posted by ashbuster

sounds about right
when i was supost to be on 10 meg but was only realy on 4 meg i was geting around 4000 - 5000
so seems as you are geting your full amount mate

i agree looks about right if not faster than right

[f4had.]

Many people get confused over how Virgin and other Internet service providers actually sell broadband packages and the speed
So, I will explain to everyone, the cons in Internet, especially with Virgin Media

First of all, they make the numbers look so big, 2Mb might not sound like a lot, but 10Mb, woooow, and 20Mb
They try to make them sound so big, but how they should really do it is, 20Mb = 2MB, 10Mb=10MB, 2Mb=2MB
Notice the difference?
Mb=Megabits
MB=Megabytes

There is 8 bits in a byte
So 2Mb (2 million bits), is the equivalent to 0.25MB (0.25 million bytes)

Now if they were to sell you a package which contained 0.25MBps, would you go ahead with it?
NO
Because it seems so little
So they just rename it to 2Mb

So dont be confused, 2Mb actually refers to you being able to download at 0.25MBps (250Kbps)

But, 2Mb averages out to about 0.9Mb because of Virgin Media traffic shaping

How does it work?

Once you download 350MB with the 2Mb package, they limit your speed to 1Mb, then if you download a further 350MB, they limit you to 0.5Mb
A quarter of what you are paying for?

Did you know this?

For more details, read this:

allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html



Do you know what 10Mb averages out at?
4Mb

And 20Mb?
10Mb

It is all a con

[ashbuster]

virgin are a con full stop
they say its unlimited then you get throttled for goig over daily alllowence
they are **** and i hate them

[masoud teush]

Hi

Maybe instead of just my posts but I need tips Gift am

I need to know which satellite Internet account can I obtain 10 MB

I'm living in Iran

Whether the satellite's speed Internet and Iran have to cover?

I am waiting for your response

Thanks.