* Posts by JJ

2 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jul 2007

Virgin Media calls foul on web speed testers

JJ
IT Angle

Utter rubbish

I had the VMedia 20mbit connection and nothing they could do would get it above 4.5mbit download speed and I was testing by pulling a 1gb file from Microsoft in the US who have a 400mbit connection at their end.

Going down to a 10mbit connection all I could get was 2.5mbit, not the 4.xmbit I had before. The engineer at VMedia I spoke with said that was typical for the 10mbit connection speed.

I’d have the 50mbit connection from them, but going on their track record I wont get more than 8-9mbit from it. Also don’t forget that despite the hype of the connection speeds all accounts get throttled at peak hours so half your connection always goes.

All the usual victory of marketing and spin over substance that I have come to accept as normal from Virgin.

Netgear Storage Central Turbo SC101T network storage box

JJ

Linux

No Linux driver and no promise of one either. The Vista driver has been promised since early 2007 and its release date has constently slipped through out this year.