I can't say I have noticed throttling on Virgin. They got rid of downstream STM years ago. 50 is going to 70 for free soon (area by area) so you will end up with a 70 connection without line rental for £30.25 a month. This is not bad when you consider even the likes of Plusnet are around the £35 mark for a phone line and 40/10 FTTC
You get 28 days to try them out and get your money back if you don't get on with Virgin.
I play games via wireless and I get pings of 18-20 wired it's usually around the 15 mark. My games aren't ping dependent but I have no problems.
This is my line over distance. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4814724851 I have 2 sky boxes, wifes laptop and phone and a British Gas Smart Meter running on that with no problems.
on UK servers I get 54 (ish) http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4814734490 so if on 70 profile we get 74 that's the max you can get with a 80/20 FTTC connection (I used to sync at 74/18 50M from my cabinet) and as Virgin like to complete with FTTC I am sure the overheads will allow it
But my Virgin line is just a residential /play line/backup
Hmm, that speedtest looked impressive. And yes I forget to say they stopped throttling downstream, it's just upload now, also they stated themselves they only throttle the upload when you are actually uploading, gaming doesn't require that much upload bandwidth so I am assuming they won't throttle it that much, plus, making it alright for me. So you're saying Virgin 50Mbps is a good bet over Sky 17Mbps?























