My internet is faster than it was.
Apr. 25th, 2012 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerVirgin finally upgraded my upload speed, to a theoretical 20MBit/2MBit.
Except that the upload speed didn't go up. So I left a message on the forums asking whether my modem was up to spec for the new upload speeds, and three days later a box arrived. Luckily I was lying in bed feeling shaky so I could stagger to the door and get it.
The results are pretty good, especially considering my desktop is connected to the router via the electrical circuit, which I'm sure isn't as high quality as it could be:
Next up will be when Virgin upgrades everyone's download speeds, (somewhere between October and the middle of next year), at which point I should have a 60MBit connection.
As I was discussing withdalglir earlier, things have really moved on with technology. Not only are disks staggeringly bigger, but I remember when I had a modem running at 14.4k, being charged by the minute. I remember setting up a 10Base2 network in one of the earliest offices I worked in, and dealing with the whole network going down if one connector came loose. And now my internet connection is an order of magnitude faster than that. I'm sure I'll still get bored of waiting for things though - just give me five minutes to get over my future shock.
Except that the upload speed didn't go up. So I left a message on the forums asking whether my modem was up to spec for the new upload speeds, and three days later a box arrived. Luckily I was lying in bed feeling shaky so I could stagger to the door and get it.
The results are pretty good, especially considering my desktop is connected to the router via the electrical circuit, which I'm sure isn't as high quality as it could be:
Next up will be when Virgin upgrades everyone's download speeds, (somewhere between October and the middle of next year), at which point I should have a 60MBit connection.
As I was discussing with
dalglir earlier, things have really moved on with technology. Not only are disks staggeringly bigger, but I remember when I had a modem running at 14.4k, being charged by the minute. I remember setting up a 10Base2 network in one of the earliest offices I worked in, and dealing with the whole network going down if one connector came loose. And now my internet connection is an order of magnitude faster than that. I'm sure I'll still get bored of waiting for things though - just give me five minutes to get over my future shock.
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Date: 2012-04-25 03:55 pm (UTC)I can't see anything about them limiting torrents and the like. But they may well do. They're not a company I've encountered before.
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Date: 2012-04-25 01:01 pm (UTC)Both Rome Girl and I are currently connected to the Internet and both of us have multiple windows up and three IM programs running at the same time.
The result I get from the site you used is a download speed of 12.27, an upload speed of .87 and a ping of 47.
Yet, I feel like our connection is super fast. It takes about five minutes to download a television show so I'm wondering if having lots of stuff going on while I'm running that test effects the test.
(Or if my connection is super slow and I'm just not noticing that.)
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Date: 2012-04-26 08:16 am (UTC)It still takes me back when I hear the modem dialup on (old) films, and I can still tell what speed they're running at by the noises.
[Edit: I'm pleased I never had to mess about with acoustic couplers though.]
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Date: 2012-04-26 11:49 am (UTC)Hopefully I will get a new one sent to me too.
Did you have to request one?
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Date: 2012-04-26 04:11 pm (UTC)http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Fibre-optic-broadband-cable/WebSTAR-EPC2100R2-my-upload-speeds-don-t-seem-to-have-gone-up/m-p/1161311
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Date: 2012-04-26 03:53 pm (UTC)oh, the lols
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