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Offline Evilgoat

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Bye Bye Virgin :)
« on: March 01, 2008, 19:40:49 »
Sky broadband just came on :)


Virgin, Capped at 4Gb. just did a speed test on it, 1.9Mb down, 120Kb up (thats amazingly poor!)
Then on Sky...

11Mb down, 700K up

No Cap

YAY

Need to turn the Virgin kit off... and burn it.
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2008, 20:28:13 »
i thought you had just popped your cherry !!  :shocked: :shocked: :dance:
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2008, 20:34:47 »
i thought he'd popped someone elses cherry  :cool:
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2008, 21:05:20 »
I've been with Sky broadband for a while now
Very pleased with the service
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2008, 22:46:30 »
Quote from: Evilgoat on March 01, 2008, 19:40:49
Sky broadband just came on :)


Virgin, Capped at 4Gb. just did a speed test on it, 1.9Mb down, 120Kb up (thats amazingly poor!)
Then on Sky...

11Mb down, 700K up

No Cap

YAY

Need to turn the Virgin kit off... and burn it.

Kinda depends on which Virgin package you are on, although I have to say their real life download speeds are regularly only about half of what I'm paying for (8Mb) and their upload speeds are abysmal compared to other ISP's. But, on the up-side, I don't have a BT phone line  :lol:
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2008, 23:07:29 »
i dont see any point paying for satalite Tv if you dont get sky 1.
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2008, 23:20:34 »
Free Satellite TV is far more fun (free as in buying a dish and box and wiring them up). We get all BBC stuff, unfortunately not Channel 4 or five but the weird German stuff you can pick up with the right dish is well worth it. They have a whole channel devoted to their railway system which makes for very restful viewing and beats "reality" TV easily.

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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2008, 00:36:52 »
Still happy with my Telewest cable. 3982 kbs down and 326 kbs up on a 4m line. No cab. Torrent all the time without any complaining. Recently had an email letting me know that they are increasing us to 10mb. Works for me!

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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2008, 09:54:43 »
Spare a thought for those less fortunate than your selfs.



Not bad considering were still on 512 kb/s
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2008, 13:26:32 »
From what I remember of NTL cable when I was in Manchester, your speeds depended very much on how many others in your area were using the broadband service. What I did like about NTL was when we phoned them to get it setup, gave them the box serial number, they simply asked "Do you have a network card in your PC?", "Yup." "Ok, do you have a network cable?" "Yup." "Right, turn your set top box and PC off, connect them with the cable, turn the box on, then turn your PC on, and you'll be online.". Much better than waiting for stuff to arrive in the post and waiting for BT to enable your line.

On BT here we're getting just under 1mbps on the 1mb service. Need to get broadband sorted at home, thinking of going with Sky.
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2008, 13:34:39 »
Just tested mine



Will keep an eye on this and re-test in the early morning, see what the results are then, time of day does make a difference with these
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2008, 18:18:01 »
wow thats quick
 mines just under 4mb download and 400up
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2008, 18:29:50 »
Woo Hoo! Best I've had for quite a while:

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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2008, 18:51:50 »
Like this speed test result malarky
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2008, 18:34:22 »
this is mine

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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2008, 20:01:45 »
Virgin:
Sky:
« Last Edit: March 03, 2008, 20:05:00 by Evilgoat »
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2008, 22:09:04 »

Virgin Media 10mbs conection
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2008, 09:16:12 »
Wow, i started something there didn't i?!  :D
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2008, 09:27:41 »
Quote from: UKJeeper on March 04, 2008, 09:16:12
Wow, i started something there didn't i?!  :D

Yeah, it's called speed evny  :twisted:  ;)
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2008, 13:31:52 »
Heres mine:



Haven't a clue what it means, but looks crap to me.
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin :)
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2008, 13:39:01 »
You think yours is bad, mine is download 583 and upload 243.
talktalk is a pain in the bum and megga slow.
if we get sky internet, is that then through satelite connection, or is it crappy phone line still.
because we are remote the lines are overland and keep breaking in the wind so internet connection is bad at best, id do anything to get a decent conection.
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