hi guys, just wanted to say ether my PC has prob's or my internet is just running very slow, its been like it for days now, it takes it a long to reply to messages and posting things so, please bare with me ill get it sort ASAP :thumbs_up:

mines been the same mate........... :cursing: :cursing: :cursing:

what is yours internet provider ?

virgin media

thats typical in northampton area i got 20mb's from virgin and sometimes it slows up or even stops, my mates got same problems at same time so it is coused by virgin not us

I'm on 2meg BT broadband and mine always works fine. But I am running twin 2.8ghz processors and I'm sure that must help. My PC also acts as a servo to my girlfriends AppleMac and that still doesn't affect it. Even when I'm playing online games with over 60 players in a game!!! :thumbs_up:

yup mines virgin aswell,

Mine ok most the time but the last few days its been well slow.
Im sure it will get better soon, well it better,lol

m8 u can even got core quad extreme wich is 4x 3.0GHz and that will be no diffrence in internet speed, if the processor is single core 2.0 it is engouh to use whole boardband speed :) i also recommend FireFox internet browswer albout 20% faster than IE and much safer, also much stable

Cool. Didn't know that!!!! :thumbs_up:

If anyone got PC problems i can help you i know quite a lot about them, hardware, software, networking if somthing is wrong just ask :thumbs_up: also if you dont know how to download movies/games 4 free just pm me :)

cool, thanks mate, thats good to know :cheers: :thumbs_up:

my wifes pretty good aswell, but shes slow at getting round to doing things,lol cant blame her though shes a busy lady..

Cheers Kris!! :cheers:

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sometimes i wach movies that they not even in uk cinemas yet :lol:

The bucket list was good last wednesday ;)

Do a google hunt for broadband speed testing, there's a few websites out there so you can test your broadband. If you're consistently getting less speed than stated on your contract (IE what you're paying for) then you have a legitimate complaint.

Do a few speed runs at fixed times during the day. For example, early morning (should be quick, low congestion), midmorning (should be quick as well, most people should be at work), afternoon will be slower as kids are at home and doing homework (IE surfing smut), and of course evenings will be the slowest, as everyone is online then.

Do the runs for a week or so and log the results, building a case against your ISP.

Might be your contention ratio as well. Most residential providers have a 50:1 ratio, meaning that you and up to 49 neighbours can be surfing at the same time. Don't need to be a brain surgeon to figure out that with 50 people surfing at the same time, you'll be quicker off with a dialup modem. It's their way of saving money, as they assume that no more than 10 people will be using that flimsy little bit of copper between your area and the exchange at any one time. (you know, the little cable that the gardener just ripped to shreds with his weedwacker)

Also, how far are you from the exchange?

Check the small print in your contract. The lower the contention ratio, the higher your monthly contract charge will be.

HTH.

(as we're shamelessly plugging, give me a shout if you need networking/servers/ecxchange/routers/firewalls/cisco/etc advice or help, post in here instead of PM'ing. Share the love! No I won't charge consultancy.)

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ps: although you lot are talking about virgin, IE cable, the principles remain the same for cable or DSL.

hi guys while we are on subject of pc's i am hoping to upgrade mine soon, what board and cpu(s) do you recommend i get, i don't want to spend an awful lot, but i do a lot of music editing (have a pukka maudio sound card) and video editing sometimes as well. not really into pc's games as i have ps2 so yeah something that will be fairly quick

M8 speed tests neva givs you proper result, was testing my one 3 times on the same test and each result was betta diffrent

I need to know how much r u ganna spent on it and what stuff you aready got :)

still bloody slow replying and posting messages, was ok yesterday but all slow again now.

must be my internet provider, ntl are poo :lol: ,lol

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took 2 minutes to load this, mental......

i'm on tiscali, speed is always A1 customer service is terrible!

Yep, BT broadband has been fine all day!! :thumbs_up:

My one yesterday evening, do yours and put it there guys :)

I have no idea what this means, Kris; is it good or bad!!! :joker: :thumbs_up:

(although strictly speaking this is cheating, using the company's leased line...) ;)

Quite good m8 :)


obsidian you got blody fast upload m8 :drool: :drool:

back on 1meg this week while bt upgrade the exchange, normally i'm on 8meg and get 6.5-7ish

thats me :)

cool yeah i still got my upload speed but they have put us all on 1meg while they do the exchange not really much difference with browsing and i haven't downloaded much this week

Hehe yeah it's a 4Mb leased line, so that's same up and down.

Pricetag doesn't compare to consumer broadband either, unless you want to pay 13K pa for the privilege.. (but you do get dedicated 24/7 support that's not based in Bangalore)

Maidenhead server, latest test :thumbs_up:

London Server :thumbs_up:

Sittingbournes Server :thumbs_up:

Thats interesting! Just out of curiosity I though I'd try the test using the serveer in Auckland, New Zealand! Check out the results!!! Clearly, distance does have an impact!!! :joker:

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gd or not?

Your upload and ping speed look fine, your download speed could be better, but do you need it to be. Its whether or not you think your PC is slow. ;)

Mine runs multiple applications with two security programs running and at the same time it acts as a server for my other half's AppleMac, and I'm playing on-line games at the same time. It never crashes or runs slow, so I assume my figures are good. :joker:

I only need my PC to be good enough to cope with the work I do on it, it may be really slow compared to 'top-line' PC's (I wouldn't know) but it does what I need it to do so I'm not worried about the figures!! :clap:

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mines shite this evening...

hi marc,
im with virgin to Which is a complete and utter f***n wast of time we are supposed to be gettin 8 meg i tested it and its 0.04 which is 40 kbps slow as hell thats slower than the origional 56k modem. if you want to find out your speed type into google
broadband speed tester and scroll down it should only be a few links down to the ZDNET one its usually good just click start test and it will show yours against a bar graff and you can see all the speeds. hope thats been of some help

Well I pay for 1Mb up and 256 down, so thatll do I suppose
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hi ojay mate, sorry for the slow reply, thanks for your info :thumbs_up:

ill get the misses to check it out tommorw.

yeh virgin is a bit crap, must admit though it seems ok today.
i hope it stays ok too,lol

ill post my spec thingy,lol yup spec thingy, thats why im getting the misses to do it, pc's are not my thing,lol
As soon as shes had a look and sorted it :thumbs_up:

:cheers: :thumbs_up:

BT Broadband is runing fine for me, as usual!! :P

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