[Merged] Broadband's faster future BBC check on Virgin Media Trials

Jonathan90 · 06-06-2008, 08:07

lol at virginmedia bbc was talking about the future off broadband bt are going to do fibre to homes in kent i think it was then the guy went to dude home and tested there virginmedia internet connection which was supposedly 50mbits to compare around the uk it took 4 minutes on a internet connection in scotland although virginmedia did it in about 15 seconds it barely broke the 10mbit barrier about 1000 kB's lol

Impz2002 · 06-06-2008, 08:28

must have been a fairly small file , my 20meg never gets up to full speed unless the file is at least 40meg or so !

Impz

Robertus · 06-06-2008, 08:29

Do you have a link to this?

To be honest they aren't doing particularly good tests.

I tried the speed test on their site and got 2mbit speeds, went on to the newsgroups and got 20mbit speeds.

markknell · 06-06-2008, 09:21

Correction, it was not 15 seconds it was around 5 seconds but considering he done this early evening, basically rush hour, that wasn't too bad. The 10MB test file from the BBC does not stress the 50 Mbps connection and barely has enough time to ramp up the speed which is a shame because it doesn't show the 50 Mbps product for what it is.

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Originally Posted by Jonathan90

lol at virginmedia bbc was talking about the future off broadband bt are going to do fibre to homes in kent i think it was then the guy went to dude home and tested there virginmedia internet connection which was supposedly 50mbits to compare around the uk it took 4 minutes on a internet connection in scotland although virginmedia did it in about 15 seconds it barely broke the 10mbit barrier about 1000 kB's lol

Jonathan90 · 06-06-2008, 09:27

what? wan't it live this morning 8:20

markknell · 06-06-2008, 09:38

Ebbsfleet was live this morning but the 50 Mbps filming was done yesterday evening between 7-8:30pm

06-06-2008, 10:49

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7439642.stm

I was in hysterics (upload large files quickly! at the same time as downloading really fast!) lmao 1.5mbit is not "quick" for uploading large files.

Did anyone else notice the download was only going at 384KB/s and he seemed amazed that it finished in 5 seconds?

Horace · 06-06-2008, 11:09

The download speed was building as it does when downloading too small a file over a fast connection and hit 700KB/s at the cut. It was a 10meg file and if it finished in 5 seconds then he's getting at least 20Mbit.

06-06-2008, 11:10

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Originally Posted by Horace

The download speed was building as it does when downloading too small a file over a fast connection and hit 700KB/s at the cut. It was a 10meg file and if it finished in 5 seconds then he's getting at least 20Mbit.

With a 50mbit connection it shouldnt have taken anywhere near that long just to get upto 700KB/s.

BBC servers are not exactly slow...

Anyway i was more in hysterics about the **** poor upload which is apparently really quick for uploading large files.

Horace · 06-06-2008, 11:13

A better test would of been a much much larger file to exclude local network and system factors but I guess it wouldn't have been as media friendly to have him sat there for 10 minutes.

dev · 06-06-2008, 11:39

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Originally Posted by TraxData

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7439642.stm

I was in hysterics (upload large files quickly! at the same time as downloading really fast!) lmao 1.5mbit is not "quick" for uploading large files.

Did anyone else notice the download was only going at 384KB/s and he seemed amazed that it finished in 5 seconds?

seeing as 1.5mbit is probably faster than what i can get on adsl, yes it is quick

also, the bbc's speed test is useless, i got about 2mb on it, did a speed test from my server straight after and got 20mbit

mentalis · 06-06-2008, 11:50

I haven't watched the full thing, and without sound (am at work), but I noticed he was using a laptop at the beginning. If everything is wireless can his router handle 50Mb?

markknell · 06-06-2008, 11:54

The 10MB speed test was very popular. On the first day the BBC put this on their website I was downloading it in under 3 seconds but since then the download speeds have gone down hill drastically. The BBC said this is one of the most popular items on the BBC News website ever!

The filming was performed at a time of day the BBC's network would have been busy (7pm) so it's hardly a fair test and people need to realise the file is far too small to stress the 50 Mbps connection.

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The laptops were using cables.

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Originally Posted by mentalis

I haven't watched the full thing, and without sound (am at work), but I noticed he was using a laptop at the beginning. If everything is wireless can his router handle 50Mb?

Robertus · 06-06-2008, 12:43

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Originally Posted by TraxData

With a 50mbit connection it shouldnt have taken anywhere near that long just to get upto 700KB/s.

BBC servers are not exactly slow...

Anyway i was more in hysterics about the **** poor upload which is apparently really quick for uploading large files.

He was using wireless :/ why are you surprised?

Also using a 10mb file with a 50mbit connection - joke imo.

Edit: His laptop was using wireless in the kitchen.

06-06-2008, 12:46

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Originally Posted by dev

seeing as 1.5mbit is probably faster than what i can get on adsl, yes it is quick

also, the bbc's speed test is useless, i got about 2mb on it, did a speed test from my server straight after and got 20mbit

Most of us can get 2.5mbit already on ADSL+2

If you really believe 1.5mbit is quick with a 50mbit download speed your so mistaken.

Enjoy being ripped off anyway