July 7th, 2007
I’ve reinstated the old Broadband Speed Test since NTL were rebranded Virgin Media, and put it back online at www.speedtest.d04.net www.updn.co.uk for you all to play with. This is seriously broadband only, and it’s really only good for Virgin Media Broadband users.
K and myself have definately been upgraded to the new 20MBit package. Upload speeds (using other broadband speed tests, since mine only does download) have topped out somewhere around 720Kbit and my downloads this morning look ike this:
Virgin Media Speed Test - Click to Enlarge
It may be that I am limited by my cable modem. Despite being good got approx 40MBit, the Motorola Surfboard SB4100 that us oldies (K, BB and myself) use is getting on a bit. At this time of the morning I can consistently download at 12MBit using IE, with FireFox being slightly slower.
23rd July ‘09:
I’ve added the list of current service tickets as well, so you can see if there’s a problem in your area that may affect your download speed.
Tags: Broadband, NTL, Speed, Virgin
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March 24th, 2007
Had a letter from Virgin Media this morning saying that by Virgin Broadband package will double in speed from 10Mb to 20Mb from May 1st, with a £2 increase in fees to help fund it the increase. I’ve read elsewhere that the Upload Speed would increase to 768Kb, which is getting very useful indeed. Virgin Broadbans Quoters have given all the usual useless comparisons of speed like ‘An MP3 file could be downloaded in just 2 seconds’.
Recently my Virgin Broadband (previously NTL) connection has been working extremely well – possibly to a realignment of a dodgy cable somewhere in the house – so a fully-maxxed 20Mb connection would certainly be interesting and some Broadband Speed Tests wil be required. I still have the original Motarola Surfboard modem that I got back in the days when it was Diamond Cable.
Tags: Broadband, NTL, Virgin
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