10 mb to 20 mb upgrade?

[ruddock08]

Hi guys,

was just wondering on your opinion, is to worth for £4 extra a month to upgrade to 20 mb?

we have 4 computers: all do surfing and emails
two do light music downloading
one does online gaming (5 hours a week?)
video downloading (10 gb a month)

would you reccommend it ? and would you say i would notice the difference?

[Jonathan90]

if u don't noticeably eny slowdowns in your house then don't change

[cablestrider]

wow it's only an extra 4 pound. Hmm might enquire about this myself as I do lots of downloading and uploading too. Wonder what the upload speed will be..

Ah just had a thought, what about my router? ((netgear WGT624)). It's a wireless one and i think it's max air speed is around 10mb too just like my VM cable. So I'd have to connect wired to enjoy the speed or buy a new router and i've only just got this! lol

[sstainer]

upload is about 700 kbps roughly
just ran a quick test
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1213729820&v=4486182

Date of Speed Test: 2008-06-17 20:10:20
Download Speed: 13232 kbps (1654 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 705 kbps (88.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

so not too bad, and i am on 20mb tier

[cablestrider]

thanks for that. Is there any chance i can ask you to do the test again in the morning or during the day time. I'm just wondering if it'll be faster at anytime other than an evening you see..

Thanks again :-)

[AbyssUnderground]

thanks for that. Is there any chance i can ask you to do the test again in the morning or during the day time. I'm just wondering if it'll be faster at anytime other than an evening you see..

Thanks again :-)

Max upload is 768Kbps. It will never go higher than that.

[sstainer]

thanks for that. Is there any chance i can ask you to do the test again in the morning or during the day time. I'm just wondering if it'll be faster at anytime other than an evening you see..

Thanks again :-)

sure if i remember to do one lol
but going on previous tests i have done during the day it seems to be similar morning sometimes during evening can slow down a tad but again after 12am can be fast again , overal does vary

two tests just done
Download Speed: 11565 kbps (1445.6 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 532 kbps (66.5 KB/sec )
Download Speed: 13438 kbps (1679.8 KB/sec ) Upload Speed: 515 kbps (64.4 KB/sec )

[Nicosia]

Download Speed: 18104 kbps (2263 KB/sec )
Upload Speed: 705 kbps (88.1 KB/sec )

thats while downloading 3 files over mirc already, vm are good but the smt is not good u end up on a 5meg connection most the time even though they deliver the full 20megs

[cablestrider]

cheers sstainer. I'm always interested in how to get better uploads as i do so much you see. Thanks :-)

[i-Set]

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/06/32.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

heres mine just upgraded to 20mb, pefect id say, always has been even with 2mb, 4mb,10mb. Only downside is the upload is too slow compared to other providers. Otherwise I love Virgin Media.

[cablestrider]

plz don't misunderstand me as i've always been with telewest/vm and their service is top notch. NEVER had troubles and always been happy. Though i'd love better upload speeds of course.. I'm on 10mb and this is 0.5mb upload - so i'm always curious about other providers offering better upstream technologies :-)
Strider

[i-Set]

yh i know, I was on 10mb until yesterday, i purely upgraded to 20mb just for that extra bit of upload bandwidth. For 10mb upload should be 1mb, for 20mb upload should be 2.5, but hey ho. When I see other people from around europe posting their speed results with their upload, it makes me cringe. this one guy from holland had 25mb download and 50mb upload...jeez, if the dutch can do it, why cant the british, lousy stinking :mad: