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Offline JC

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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #20 on: 18 April 2012, 18:41 »
I sh!t you not....



another " reduced " service time test  :rolleyes:


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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #21 on: 18 April 2012, 18:50 »
They do throttle speeds Chuff but only the ports which are used for file sharing you won't notice the throttling as you don't use these ports

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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #22 on: 18 April 2012, 18:59 »
Take these speediest results with a pinch of salt

4 tests done within 5 mins of each other on 4 different severs









But yet Ive just connected to my usenet server and got 19.6 Mb/s download
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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #23 on: 18 April 2012, 19:02 »
geek  :nerd:



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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #24 on: 22 April 2012, 19:36 »


The entire world is a Money Pit, you just have to pick yours.

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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #25 on: 22 April 2012, 19:56 »
I think I have found the problem......




Yes that is correct, if in the evening you watch a couple of episodes of Top Gear or a film through netflix virgin will reduce your download speed by 75%+ for 5 hours!!!

Gonna have a word with my landlord about switching to BT  :smiley:
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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #26 on: 22 April 2012, 23:31 »
i see the solution..... XXL (which i have)  :grin:

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Re: FAO: Those on Virgin Media Broadband
« Reply #27 on: 23 April 2012, 00:19 »
i see the solution..... XXL (which i have)  :grin:


i see the solution..... XXL (which i cant get)   :angry:


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