Virgin Media Discussion Thread
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It means that your downstream power levels are too high and an engineer is coming to fix it...
He will put an attenuator on the cable between the wall and your Superhub to bring the power levels down.
Associate
Got upgraded to 100mb a few days ago. It actually costs less per month now by £1. For some reason my graph looks better but browsing is slow and my router just keep restarting and all the settings get reset. Really anoying as its happening a lot.
You have plenty of options. Which exchange?
Really? - I've been on 50Mb for over a year and HD YT vids nearly always stream at full 50Mb. Just tried it now with a 10min 720p video at it fully loaded in 20 seconds.
Lucky you!
There are widespread Youtube buffering problems which VM are more than aware of.
I'm still having issues with my VM, holding out till July for the double speed roll out but it'll probably "sort itself out" by then as all the students will be leaving soon.
Plusnet (2mbit down / 0.5mbit up)
Virgin (50mbit down / 5mbit up)
There are widespread Youtube buffering problems which VM are more than aware of.
I'm still having issues with my VM, holding out till July for the double speed roll out but it'll probably "sort itself out" by then as all the students will be leaving soon.
Plusnet (2mbit down / 0.5mbit up)
Virgin (50mbit down / 5mbit up)
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oh right, thanks. Hope it actually fixes the connection or improves it at least.
Associate
Just had 100MB installed, line is working great so far low latency and solid speeds. The speed is insane after sticking with 20MB for so long.
I think I'm on 120MB though?
I think I'm on 120MB though?
Man of Honour
15 for 120.
Associate
Ahh cool not that anyone will need that extra 2MB/s lol, time to wait till the evening and see how the speeds and pings hold up.
Get a http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/monitors.html monitor on the go.
How useful are these thinkbroadband graphs? I only ask because I set one up on my Virgin 30MB/60MB connection a couple of weeks back, and the results looked nearly identical to a lot of guys who complain they have problems, however I've never had a single issue with service in almost 7 years of living at this property.
Looking at the "Virgin (50mbit down / 5mbit up)" one a few posts up, mine was almost the same as that, perhaps slightly less of the yellow max. latency above 80.
Looking at the "Virgin (50mbit down / 5mbit up)" one a few posts up, mine was almost the same as that, perhaps slightly less of the yellow max. latency above 80.
Man of Honour
If you don't play multiplayer games online and you don't use voip you likely wouldn't notice even with quite bad latency spikes.
That virgin graph is one of the better ones which are due in part to the students beginning to leave the area, as such my VM is significantly better now than it has been over the last 9 months. However, go back to next Monday and you'll see the kind of graph that stops me from playing games or doing anything other than just browsing:
As FrenchTart stated, if you don't game/voip then you probably won't notice it.
what's wrong with that ? it's not too bad tbh..... it looks similar to what i had when i was on 50Mb. i never had issues with youtubeVirgin (50mbit down / 5mbit up)
Correct it's not too bad now, as I explained in my post this is one of the "better" graphs, it still has way too much jitter though but at least packet loss is now down to a minimum.
Considering my plusnet connection costs £10 a month and my Virgin costs £35 a month, I would expect the graphs to be the other way around, wouldn't you?
Considering my plusnet connection costs £10 a month and my Virgin costs £35 a month, I would expect the graphs to be the other way around, wouldn't you?
but your plusnet connection most likely won't have as many people on it as your virgin connection does
And what... that is supposed to be acceptable?
I pay for a premium service so I expect a premium service, the fact that they sell a product they cannot provide is their issue, not mine.
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