O2 Joggler Forum

Virgin upgraded my broadband from "up to" 60meg to "up to" 100meg.
I had to make a few tweaks on my Superhub because I was only getting around 40.

Here are my latest results:

That was nice of them They are very generous in the way they increase our speed for free, and add new tv channels to our package, and then hike up the price a month later!

I think I got a 10% increase the other week

I actually downgraded to "up to 100", so I lost my 12mbit stream for 6, but it wasn't worth it for the price difference. Who cares about 150/120 vs 100. Now if they were to over a package with really nice upstream speed I might get persuaded.

102 on up to 100 can't be bad Geggs ,looking good .
Better than the days of up to 8 and getting 1 not so long ago .

Very sneaky and underhand by the sounds of it Pete , I have heard bad stories from others in the States about the monopoly position causing high prices .
Over here we are heavily regulated and although there are issues , OFCOM tends to keep things right , the regulator even made BT sell off Cellnet (O2) the mobile division as the company was too big for competition to thrive ; now many years later , the competition is good over here and some excellent deals can be had and BT is even in the process of buying a mobile phone company again !!
Over here Openreach owns the copper cables and also is in the process of putting in the fibre infrastructure at the moment ( also with European and Government grants )

Yup; less and less competition here and big money stick paying off the regulators (with complete disregard in a willy nilly fashion) makes for bad business for the paying consumers (majority) but good business fo the monopolistic companies and those consumers that get the services for free.

Built a new router for our studios and changed the daft network path it was previously forced through.

It's actually running a little slower than usual; we're usually somewhere in the 900s, but it is lunchtime.

Bloody Hell that's the best UK speed I've seen

My broadband speed is currently 0 - another massive fail for Orange. A month ago it took them 2 weeks to fix despite my telling them on day 1 that the fault was at the local exchange. Went through utter nonsense of resetting router, etc. etc. umpteen times. Tech came to house and confirmed fault was at exchange ... still took 7 days to actually get somebody to sort it out. Utterly useless.

6 weeks on - the same problem .... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

OK, so I've only had standard Sky Fibre for 2 weeks, but I wish I'd had it when I was uploading PnP bits on a 0.4MB, then 0.8MB, then 1MB upload!

VM are doing some 200mbit trials or something? Seems as though the settings on my modem have changed anyway.



Going to need more upstream to go with that please VM!

Wow !! Fastest I've seen UK anyway

Secret 200mbit trial over.. back on 100mbit. Not that I really noticed, apart from the better upstream.