BT Infinity, roughly 4km to the Dslam (green cabinet) and then 50m from the cab to the house. I did all the Fibre Optic splicing from the exchange to the cabinet to be double sure that's half decent!
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Internet speed thread.
- Thread starter seb
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BT Infinity, roughly 4km to the Dslam (green cabinet) and then 50m from the cab to the house. I did all the Fibre Optic splicing from the exchange to the cabinet to be double sure that's half decent!
Clio 182, Astra Sri
Does infinity throttle?
Throttle?
Clio 182, Astra Sri
Limiting download speeds after a certain amount has been downloaded during peak times
Not that ive encountered yet.
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BT Infinity, roughly 4km to the Dslam (green cabinet) and then 50m from the cab to the house. I did all the Fibre Optic splicing from the exchange to the cabinet to be double sure that's half decent!
Mechanical or fusion splicer?
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
They don't do that afaik.
Instead they throttle torrents constantly, despite what they say they throttle pretty much 24/7.
Fusion splicing chap.
What do you use out of interest??
Sumitomo machine, used to have a Fugicura I think it was which I preferred but was slower to use.
I have a Furukawa one. The S178A (Or Fitel)
http://www.3sae.com/products/fitel-s178-fusion-splicer.php
Those sumitomo ones look a bit overkill??
http://www.3sae.com/products/fitel-s178-fusion-splicer.php
Those sumitomo ones look a bit overkill??
Who do you work for Rich? That unit looks alright, looks good for business installs as it looks small/light/compactt hough the Sumitomo does the job having two heaters to make splicing quicker! When you've got up to 276 fibre to splice straight through in a day you need something up to it and pretty efficient!
Heez
ClioSport Club Member
Superleggera'd Bean
The upload sounds about right though. Might just be a slow spell for you. Will be reet in an hour probably.
Disappointing as it should be minimum of 90mb from virgins Fibre optic...
Evo 5 RS
what speeds do you get?
Something Not French
Not sure mate. Quite possibly. Although for me, this only happened after adding the new router. I suppose it could be a coincidence with the timing. I'm not sure why they would up the speed beyond what is advertised, but f**k it, I'm not complaining! Saw 80+mb yesterday.
Dodgy one
I thought my connection was w**k
Normally it rocks around the 15-16mb mark, But ive got itunes and a few downloads on the go.
Have just redone it to compare daytime results
A shiny black one.
Virgin media's internet packages are all getting doubled, 50meg goes to 100meg, and 100meg customers get 120meg.
http://doublespeed.virginmedia.com/
http://doublespeed.virginmedia.com/
CrippsCorner
ClioSport Club Member
Astra VXR
Why do people need such high speeds? Can't imagine ever needing higher than what I have atm. Mine's totally free anyway so happy
A shiny black one.
They are also bringing in an allowance
True, but they are quite large allowances, for example on the 100mb service you would have to download 20GB between 10am and 3pm before they throttle back the service.
http://help.virginmedia.com/system/...R_TYPE=Cable&CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=2781
Audi TT Stronic
The STM will become more aggressive over time.. when they rolled out the 50meg there was no STM to encourage people to buy.. now they have them hooked introduce the STM and cut their speed by up to 75%
What is the point in paying top money for a connection you aren't allowed to take advantage of ?
*Edit* they are still the best out of all residention ISP's though. lol
What is the point in paying top money for a connection you aren't allowed to take advantage of ?
*Edit* they are still the best out of all residention ISP's though. lol
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SC03OTT
ClioSport Club Member
Octavia vRS
Too it's knees seems a little extreme. IMO anyway. Depends what you're used to I suppose. I'm not fussed about STM. When I get bumped up to 60Mb, the lowest it will ever go is 30Mb with restrictions. That's still about 10x faster than what I can get down the phone line. Meh.
Tesla MP3 2021
Well a 50% reduction is extreme from them imo especially when your paying for a 100Mb service. They should have set the fair use amount on the 100Mb service to 50GB or maybe even higher, I mean people who use this service are typically downloading large amounts hence why they wanted it in the first place!
