Shad0r
29-08-2007, 08:16
Hello all, long time reader, first time poster :)
Our house was upgraded to the 20mb service yesterday and the modem (the little blue NTL unit, 250 I think) reports the correct configuration information. Last night I just assumed we were being throttled as the best I could get was 4-5mbps, but this morning the best I can get is around 5.5mbps, checked using the forum speed test as well as various others.
The modem is hooked up to a Netgear Prosafe VPN router and working fine. Following advice from others, I switched it to 100mbps/full-duplex rather than auto, and did the same for the the network card on this PC (though our switch was already reporting a 1gbps link). This hasn't made any difference though.
So before calling Virgin I'm just wondering what kind of speeds other people in the Newbury/Reading area get from their 20mb package.
Cheers!
..Simon
Our house was upgraded to the 20mb service yesterday and the modem (the little blue NTL unit, 250 I think) reports the correct configuration information. Last night I just assumed we were being throttled as the best I could get was 4-5mbps, but this morning the best I can get is around 5.5mbps, checked using the forum speed test as well as various others.
The modem is hooked up to a Netgear Prosafe VPN router and working fine. Following advice from others, I switched it to 100mbps/full-duplex rather than auto, and did the same for the the network card on this PC (though our switch was already reporting a 1gbps link). This hasn't made any difference though.
So before calling Virgin I'm just wondering what kind of speeds other people in the Newbury/Reading area get from their 20mb package.
Cheers!
..Simon