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Virgin speed update
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kyoto49
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The only thing that would help is leaving talk talk. Voted the worse Internet provider every year with good reason.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Yes, assuming you live near a box as speed is determined by distance from the street box you connect to. My OH had similar but only 0.9mb upload, moved to virgin instead now.
They were very good to my OH during the atlas business services debacle, really couldn't fault their service.
kyoto49
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BT and Virgin own the infrastructure is my understanding....if that helps at all? After speaking with all the techies at work I went with Virgin. 50mb fibre for 16 quid a month. I do have TV with them. Pretty sure your road has cable as your just round the corner from me so fibre won't be an issue!
Oh no a Liverpool fan in the area, burn the heretic!
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Pretty much everyones fibre will be the same speed, you are just choosing between BT fibre and virgin cable like kyoto says. For most cable is more reliable, but not all. I use fibre as I upload a lot, virgin upload speeds are very poor but most people don't need them anyway.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
On fibre I get 76 down and 19 up, but only pay £24/m with phone line. At the time Virgin wanted double that for your package, and most of my downloads happen overnight so I didn't need 200 down. That said I'd happily move back to Virgin if they could do maybe 100/25 for a sensible price as I found them very reliable.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
The TIVO boxes have their own 10mb Internet connection, entirely separate to your main line. Didn't know that before.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
When our TiVo boxes were installed they weren't even connected to the internet.
I've had to buy Powerline adapters to plug them into the broadband.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Ah! Yeah, I did wonder about the ethernet port on the back. The TV is streamed over the internet, the tivo has its own internal modem for that, but it is not part of your home network. I guess thats where the ethernet comes in.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
My Superhub is located in the dining room as that was where I originally had dial-up internet installed - the iMac was on a desk in there - so when I had broadband installed it was the logical place to put it.
TiVo boxes are located in the front room and my son's bedroom so can't be physically attached to the Superhub without having Ethernet cables trailing everywhere so Powerline adaptors where the obvious solution.
TiVo boxes are located in the front room and my son's bedroom so can't be physically attached to the Superhub without having Ethernet cables trailing everywhere so Powerline adaptors where the obvious solution.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
As long as your wiring is in half decent shape they work great. Mine is not!
Might have to hide it in the cupboard!!