50mb Broadband

[Drift]

Well the price has dived and from the other week its available here, so it would be rude not to

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At the moment we have 20mb and that runs my desktop two laptops and the XBox Live thingy, kids and Mrs so it would be nice to have a bit more bandwidth for me again as Kieron is constantly downloading game demos.

[cheekychick]

Oh, would ya just SOD OFF!!!

I'm almost embarrased by my broadband speed, and you're not helping

and you can delete mine to if you want

[Krusher]

Ste
You are lucky, I used to work for Virgin as a network engineer and as a result got free BB at the max speed at that time.
As virgins BB service is not restricted by BT's network (home to exchange anyway) You are going to get faster speeds. I have noticed the drop in speed since I no longer live in a telewest/virgin franchise and have to use BT network.(copper )

[Drift]

Looks like they may bundle in a free netbook to, because of the kids we have a near top package deal as it is, with a slight retention deal on the go for life

[Krusher]

[Sir-Doris]

GIT!

[Adam]

50mb ................i'v only 2mb , but that fast enough for me

[Ruathar]

50meg is well worth it, not just for the extra bandwidth but for the fact that it runs on a seperae network to all their other packages and is not throttled at any point, is not monitored for download limits and as you don't share a total bandwidth with your neighbours doesn't get congested. Since we moved to it here everything has screamed along without a problem.

If you do get it make sure the engineer does a proper speed test with the newmodem connected direct to your PC, if you are getting less than 45meg then they need to rehit the modem to set the speed correctly, don't let him leave until you do get a speed of 45 meg or above. The installation support guys still have no idea what they are doing and keep hitting them with 20 or 30 meg signals

[Drift]

Cheers, Ive signed up to the Virgin speed monitoring scheme so I can keep an eye on the speeds and they see what the speed is to, so they cant argue