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millwall Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1897 se london Gender: Drives: the mrs up the wall 3.2 elite and tddi mondeo	50 mb broadband 03. Feb 2011 at 23:01 anyone got the 50 mb broadband on virgin im on the vip 20 package but getting vip 50 on the 16th will there be a lot of difference between 20 mb and 50 mb
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aaronjb Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3635 Bracknell, Berkshire Gender: Drives: '01 3.2 Elite (was '96 2.5TD CD), '02 MR2 Roadster (plus snail), '92 300ZX 3.0V6 TT	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #1 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:10 Depends what you're doing.. In terms of browsing the net? Nope, you probably won't notice any difference. Downloading files? Half the time you're speed-limited by the source server anyway so .. that depends what and how you're downloading.
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millwall Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1897 se london Gender: Drives: the mrs up the wall 3.2 elite and tddi mondeo	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #2 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:16 i only really download music only took it as bizarely it makes my package 3 pound cheaper a month
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Reply #3 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:16

I always get confused why the average/advanced home user pays a lot of money for an Uber fast Internet connection.

Even for streaming HD movies, a 20Mb/s connection is overkill.

Even massive corporations who use t'interweb to back up Gigabytes of data every hour/evening cant make use of a silly download speed.

What this country needs is a massive increase of Upload speed! That will make the Internet a proper network!

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millwall Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1897 se london Gender: Drives: the mrs up the wall 3.2 elite and tddi mondeo	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #4 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:18 theyve just upped the upload speed apparently not sure of the figures though
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Reply #5 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:25

millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:18:

theyve just upped the upload speed apparently not sure of the figures though

Just as an example, Romania has an AVERAGE upload speed 10x faster than the AVERAGE UK upload speed.

Their average download speed is less than 2.5x the average UK download speed.

I haven't chosen Romania as a comparison just because they are an exception, this is true for the majority of the world.

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aaronjb Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3635 Bracknell, Berkshire Gender: Drives: '01 3.2 Elite (was '96 2.5TD CD), '02 MR2 Roadster (plus snail), '92 300ZX 3.0V6 TT	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #6 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:26 Yep, 50Mbit now comes with 5Mbit upstream (although most speedtests tend to top out at about 3.8Mbit, it's hard to know if that's Virgin or the speedtest host). Though they monitor and rate shape/cap the upstream quite heavily and overuse will lead to your downstream being nobbled hard.
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millwall Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1897 se london Gender: Drives: the mrs up the wall 3.2 elite and tddi mondeo	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #7 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:28 just checked my upload speed will be 5mbps which means sod all to me
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Reply #8 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:31

millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:28:

just checked my upload speed will be 5mbps which means sod all to me

In all honesty, Fibre Optic is generally 'What you see is what you get', but I'll chew off my own left bollock if you get anywhere near 5Mb/s after 3 months of service!

Such a technologically advanced country the UK is, yet we reign 64th in the Internet Connection list. Premiership we are not!

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Reply #9 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:35

Broomies Mate wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:31:

millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:28:

just checked my upload speed will be 5mbps which means sod all to me

In all honesty, Fibre Optic is generally 'What you see is what you get', but I'll chew off my own left bollock if you get anywhere near 5Mb/s after 3 months of service!
Such a technologically advanced country the UK is, yet we reign 64th in the Internet Connection list. Premiership we are not!

i will chew off both my 'dangle berries' if it lasts a month Grin

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davethediver Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1323 Blackburn, Lancs. Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD Facelift (2001)	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #10 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:40 millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:28: just checked my upload speed will be 5mbps which means sod all to me Just did a speedtest on mine and my upload speed is 384kbps
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Re: 50 mb broadband
Reply #11 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:58

Broomies Mate wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:31:

millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:28:

just checked my upload speed will be 5mbps which means sod all to me

In all honesty, Fibre Optic is generally 'What you see is what you get', but I'll chew off my own left bollock if you get anywhere near 5Mb/s after 3 months of service!

Such a technologically advanced country the UK is, yet we reign 64th in the Internet Connection list. Premiership we are not!

I forget when they upgraded the upstream - must be at least two or three months ago now;

Anyway, upstream is really not an issue for probably 90% of users - then again, neither is 50Mbit downstream. How many people do you know who upload more than a few emails? (And no, torrents don't count)

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Broomies Mate Omega Knight Offline Champagne Coloured Cars Are Gay! Posts: 1448 Bristol, UK Gender: Drives: 97 BMW 535i V8	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #12 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:59 I get upto 8Mb connection free as part of the telephone package (I make a lot of international calls, so TalkTalk are the only company I will go with) Not too bad seeing as I'm a million miles from the exchange. They are running my connection on what I told them to and not what they 'thought' was best though.
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Reply #13 - 04. Feb 2011 at 00:09

aaronjb wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:58:

Broomies Mate wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:31:

millwall wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:28:

just checked my upload speed will be 5mbps which means sod all to me

In all honesty, Fibre Optic is generally 'What you see is what you get', but I'll chew off my own left bollock if you get anywhere near 5Mb/s after 3 months of service!

Such a technologically advanced country the UK is, yet we reign 64th in the Internet Connection list. Premiership we are not!

I forget when they upgraded the upstream - must be at least two or three months ago now;

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Anyway, upstream is really not an issue for probably 90% of users - then again, neither is 50Mbit downstream. How many people do you know who upload more than a few emails? (And no, torrents don't count)

A few years ago, I'd very much agree with you, but the Upstream Speed is now as important as Downstream Speed.

Take your Games Console as one example.
Video 'conferencing' to your relatives in the USA or Aus as another.

I am exceptionally pleased that Virgin have taken the first step to a 'decent' connection. BT are supposedly spending billions on converting all copper to Fibre Optic in the next decade. A step which has taken far too long to implement.

It's a real boggle when far poorer, less technologically developed countries can trounce on our 'technological brilliance'.

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Turk Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3364 Llanelli, Wales Gender: Drives: Two tractors...a chipped manual 2.5td CD (F/Lift '00) & a Hardly-Movinson XL1200	Re: 50 mb broadband Reply #14 - 04. Feb 2011 at 00:11 I was getting just under 7Mb until I changed my modem. Now it's:
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