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Old 15-10-2008, 10:30 AM   #1
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Virgin Media has said that broadband speed tests are unable to accurate measure its super-fast service.
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Old 15-10-2008, 11:30 AM   #2
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
www.speedtest.net seems to work well at 50+mbps
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Old 15-10-2008, 1:36 PM   #3
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
No problems here either.
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Old 16-10-2008, 6:19 PM   #4
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
What is Virgins 50mb plan at the moment, I have the 20mb service ion North Lodnon and have not heard any news on upgrades.

Re the speed test issue while max speed are good measure a company that was in it just to gouge their customer woudl make gaurantees about minimum speeds.

I can get rock solid 20mb at 2am on a weekday but from 7 -12pm can be anyones guess often around 4-7.
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Old 18-10-2008, 11:18 PM   #5
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
in my experience Virgin media have ripped off eveyone , total rip off.I down graded to the 2 meg pakage from 20 meg because i was constanly getting about 1.5 meg on a good day. No utorrents or such like
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Old 18-10-2008, 11:23 PM   #6
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Old 18-10-2008, 11:25 PM   #7
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
thats the best iv'e had for ages
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Old 18-10-2008, 11:33 PM   #8
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Old 18-10-2008, 11:34 PM   #9
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
explain that that then,
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Old 20-10-2008, 2:17 PM   #10
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
May I also direct members to the relevant discussion section on your broadband provider

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) - AVForums.com

Many things can affect speed. Distance from exchange, caps, number of machines on a home network, traffic shaping
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Old 26-11-2008, 9:45 AM   #11
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Virgin Media has said that broadband speed tests are unable to accurate measure its super-fast service.
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hey dude

we can check out the ISP provider speed also ..
Last edited by Steven; 19-06-2009 at 9:36 PM.
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Old 19-06-2009, 9:26 PM   #12
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
It looks like the London server can support pretty good speeds :D
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Old 27-06-2009, 8:29 AM   #13
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
Myspeed is the best speed tester I have come accross by quite a long way. Gives you a lot more detail regarding ping, delays, QOS etc and seems to have plenty of bandwidth to test fast connections.



MySpeed Speed Test, test your connection speed
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Old 27-06-2009, 10:59 AM   #14
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Re: Broadband speed tests questioned
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Myspeed is the best speed tester I have come accross by quite a long way. Gives you a lot more detail regarding ping, delays, QOS etc and seems to have plenty of bandwidth to test fast connections.



MySpeed Speed Test, test your connection speed


Just had a play with that..looks good
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