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Ooh! Thank you Virgin!

The StargliderThe Starglider
edited July 2011 in Chit chat
I just realised that my upload speed on my current XL broadband package (20Mb) has been upped from 768Kbps to 2Mb. That's nice of them!
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2011
    I still find it amusing that my broadband connection insists it's 100mbps, even though it so blatantly is not :lol:
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited July 2011
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I still find it amusing that my broadband connection insists it's 100mbps, even though it so blatantly is not :lol:

    I used to get that years ago on an old hardware setup. Something to do with the ethernet drivers I was using IIRC. Nothing to do with the broadband itself.
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited July 2011
    Check your prices against the website. We just found out we were paying more for 20MB than it costs for 50 :o

    Thanks to prices and bundles changing but Virgin not automatically changing ours. ******s.

    But now we're getting a new router from them on 2nd august and upped to 50MB so that'll be a fun day :D
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  • ADJBADJB
    edited July 2011
    The Starglider wrote: »
    I just realised that my upload speed on my current XL broadband package (20Mb) has been upped from 768Kbps to 2Mb. That's nice of them!

    I assume with Virgin the 20Mb is the limit you can upload before throttling?.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/virgin_asa/
  • rwaprwap
    edited July 2011
    The Starglider wrote: »
    I just realised that my upload speed on my current XL broadband package (20Mb) has been upped from 768Kbps to 2Mb. That's nice of them!

    I just wish I could get 2Mbps download via ADSL !....
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  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited July 2011
    Heh, thanks for this thread. Because it made me check my broadband account - I have been using 6 MBit/s for a couple of years now and somehow forgot to check for updates. Turns out I can upgrade to 18 MBit/s and it stays at exactly the same price.
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited July 2011
    ADJB wrote: »
    I assume with Virgin the 20Mb is the limit you can upload before throttling?.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/virgin_asa/
    I've been on their 20 meg service since it appeared as the second tier. Never noticed any throttling going on. And that's with downloading ~100 gig a month on average.
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    Heh, thanks for this thread. Because it made me check my broadband account - I have been using 6 MBit/s for a couple of years now and somehow forgot to check for updates. Turns out I can upgrade to 18 MBit/s and it stays at exactly the same price.
    Same here, but with 20 meg instead of 6 :lol:
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    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2011
    This thread made me also think hang on? I hardly download anything at all any more. I've probably downloaded less than 500MB worth of stuff in the last 6 months :o

    At one time none of the computers I've ever used could cope with my leaching :lol:
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  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited July 2011
    That's probably also because you do most of your gaming on consoles if I'm not mistaken, boozey. If you play PC games using Steam then you'll get quite some downloading going, especially during times when a lot of discounts are offered. I've probably downloaded about 30-40 GB in about a week from my various purchases ...
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2011
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    That's probably also because you do most of your gaming on consoles if I'm not mistaken, boozey. If you play PC games using Steam then you'll get quite some downloading going, especially during times when a lot of discounts are offered. I've probably downloaded about 30-40 GB in about a week from my various purchases ...

    Yep the last PC Game I downloaded was Thorgal about 2 years ago, and I haven't even installed it yet.

    I saw this game and I'd read some Thorgal comics when I was about 12 years old and I thought "Oooh that looks interesting, I remember Thorgal". It obviously wasn't that interesting though.

    I think I gave up on PC games as all the ones I've tried to play over the last few years have been too old for this PC to run properly, and too new for DOSbox to handle them. Or this PC has been too crap to run the newer ones I've had any interest in.

    PC gaming is so fickle I find :D
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited July 2011
    ADJB wrote: »
    I assume with Virgin the 20Mb is the limit you can upload before throttling?.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/virgin_asa/

    Erm, no.

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  • ADJBADJB
    edited July 2011
    Better than it was when I left them but still pathetically low.

    When I left Virgin I couldn't do a full update of a fresh XP install without the limit kicking in, now I could, just, but if I got 2 games from Steam I would still be stuffed unless I had the XXL package at the cost of a second mortgage.
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited July 2011
    iSPs limiting your speed? I don't get it. You pay for the speed you want but you can't use it all the time? Sounds unfair to me.
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited July 2011
    Hmm. I'm on the XXL package and was thinking of reducing it. Don't think I'll bother now with all those limits. My monthly downloads can range from 1Gb to 100+! It's especially gonna be hit now with loads of new seasons starting of my TV proggies :-)
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited July 2011
    zxbruno wrote: »
    iSPs limiting your speed? I don't get it. You pay for the speed you want but you can't use it all the time? Sounds unfair to me.
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  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited July 2011
    zxbruno wrote: »
    iSPs limiting your speed? I don't get it. You pay for the speed you want but you can't use it all the time? Sounds unfair to me.
    You don't pay for the speed, you pay for the speed you can get from the local exchange that's closest to the tier. Some BT customers (my mum included) only got 5.5 meg on a 10 meg connection.

    But there wasn't a tier near the 5.5 meg so she was kinda stuffed.
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    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited July 2011
    I have to admit that I'm a fair regular downloader, and I have only hit the throttling thing erm... once? And even then in the grand scheme of things it didn't impact on my web browsing or anything else for those 5 hours.
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