50Mb Virgin Media
I've been with Virgin Media since Jan 2011, as who wouldnt want 50Mb in the home especially when Media in the cloud is your bread n butter! I we had a honeymoon period of 6 weeks where I'd marvel ar 5MB/s downloads, and enough speed to VPN & VNC into the office like I was sitting my desk at work. It was nice while it lasted...
However feb & march I started noticing pages were slow to load, and the problem got worse until I couldnt stream a 240p (the lowest quality setting) video from youtube. Speed test sites showed up & down performance but that's only half the story, the great info collected from Think Broadband showed the real picture. Their ping monitor keeps a record of the latency on your line to the router, so this is independent of the computer being on at home, and not susceptible to the issues with wifi.
Virgin Medias lines are all marketing hype, plastered over a substandard product with no support. You can chat to the nice guys at @virginmedia (dont bother with the call center) but in reality they can't get anything done, just token gesture partial refunds (can't get all your BB costs back). I'd be more than happy to go back to what I had with Sky, a solid 20Mb line that did what it was supposed to.
So I posted all of the above from my Three mobile 3G dongle, as it's more reliable and faster!
This is my first plot, main thing is max latency is wildly all over the place and a high level of jitter. However the connection was usable, but just slow.
By June this was the norm, however finally it was recognised that my line (and more importantly the edge network it's on) is grossly out of spec.
Check out that average latency, off the 140ms scale. Useless for anything TCP based.
Or it can be just plane dead (1 of 3 days in sep) with no warning or apology.
So as of today I have a bit of everything. Massive latency, packet loss, jitter.
My Twitter Feed
- @kakarotbpo tells ya, put the media in someone elses folder ;) 1 day ago
- @stef ditto here, along with blurred vision and sweats :( 1 day ago
- @Chairman_Duff ah the former 5 days ago
- @thesharmanator yea we worked together for a while, great guy n very funny. Many a pissed night at the green man. 6 days ago
- @metamediact I got stumped by the complimentary ones. 6 days ago