tek-monkey
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Will check tonight, we're on the 50Mb and it seems OK but not exactly rapid at the min. They are currently sorting out the 100Mb link in Stafford I believe, may be causing problems while new equipment is installed?
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age'd parent
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Yes Virgin here to, 40d buffering and sticking again last night, I get funny speeds when I do a test, never too slow, always way over the speed I should be getting.
I'm resigned to waiting and hoping.
I'm resigned to waiting and hoping.
djwellis
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It really wouldn't surprise me if Virgin had put QoS on their equipment to decrease the bandwidth.
And I have heard in the past of speedtest.net and similar speed testing domains being prioritised to give good results whilst standard web browsing, streaming media, etc is de-prioritised.
Huge company - lots of customers - bandwidth is expensive, so make some nationwide changes to priority given to internet traffic and save a small fortune.
Sure they have the infrastructure to deliver a 50Mbps connection to your door, but there is probably some spew in the contracts saying they can implement "packet shaping", "QoS", "bandwidth limitations" - or some other similar wording.
So yeah - you have a 50Mbps connection, but you can't actually use it for anything handy except running speed tests.
OK - lots of cynicism there, but I have heard of it done so there will be bits of accuracy in what I say - and a load of paranoia from a crazy man :-D
And I have heard in the past of speedtest.net and similar speed testing domains being prioritised to give good results whilst standard web browsing, streaming media, etc is de-prioritised.
Huge company - lots of customers - bandwidth is expensive, so make some nationwide changes to priority given to internet traffic and save a small fortune.
Sure they have the infrastructure to deliver a 50Mbps connection to your door, but there is probably some spew in the contracts saying they can implement "packet shaping", "QoS", "bandwidth limitations" - or some other similar wording.
So yeah - you have a 50Mbps connection, but you can't actually use it for anything handy except running speed tests.
OK - lots of cynicism there, but I have heard of it done so there will be bits of accuracy in what I say - and a load of paranoia from a crazy man :-D
John Marwood
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Slow internet speed?
Simply change your business clients to ones in Australia and get up at 3 o'clock in the morning for a whizzo speed ( ish )
Logging on to the internet at peak times can mean speeds are up to 70 per cent
slower than their peak, new research suggests.
On average, web speeds at peak times were one third slower than the fastest
periods, comparison website uSwitch.com discovered after 2 million speed
tests.
The website said the fastest time to log-on was between 2am and 3am. Evesham,
Worcestershire, Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset and Wadebridge in Cornwall
were all singled out as having particularly poor speeds at peak times.
The fastest average download speed of 9.6Mb/s was only available between 2am
and 3am; between 7pm and 9pm, average download speeds fall by a third to
6.2Mb/s, making the busy evening hours the slowest time of the day, uSwitch
said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/8893167/Broadband-rush-hour-cuts-speeds-by-70pc.html
Simply change your business clients to ones in Australia and get up at 3 o'clock in the morning for a whizzo speed ( ish )
Logging on to the internet at peak times can mean speeds are up to 70 per cent
slower than their peak, new research suggests.
On average, web speeds at peak times were one third slower than the fastest
periods, comparison website uSwitch.com discovered after 2 million speed
tests.
The website said the fastest time to log-on was between 2am and 3am. Evesham,
Worcestershire, Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset and Wadebridge in Cornwall
were all singled out as having particularly poor speeds at peak times.
The fastest average download speed of 9.6Mb/s was only available between 2am
and 3am; between 7pm and 9pm, average download speeds fall by a third to
6.2Mb/s, making the busy evening hours the slowest time of the day, uSwitch
said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/8893167/Broadband-rush-hour-cuts-speeds-by-70pc.html