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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?
 
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

Yes I forget to say about they only restrict upload speeds now. So you're saying Virgin Media 50Mbps is a good bet over Sky 17Mbps?
 
lol no problem :)

Here are the limits (click on 50 to get the right ones)

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html

Would you upload 1GB in an hour gaming? I don't know. If you did then you would get throttled to 1.5MB upload but that should still be enough. People complain about it when they are streaming on twitch and get throttled. I've never seen anyone complain that the throttle affected their actual gaming.

I would suggest get 50 installed - run the 28 day trial and then if you like it then cancel Sky. If not then cancel VM and you won't be charged. Virgin (in my experience) don't bill for well over a month from when it's installed anyway (maybe for the 28 day reason)

Even when I compared 512K ADSL to 512K BlueYonder cable - cable still was better and I think always will be up to a point. so 50 will alway be better than ADSL

This is my friends 200 service right now http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4814784202 which is dire in the day but okay over night. where as 50 is solid all the time but it's area dependant. You can move 1/2 a mile down the road and suffer (as has happened to me in the past) it's so hit and miss on VM and areas.
 
lol no problem :)

Here are the limits (click on 50 to get the right ones)

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html

Would you upload 1GB in an hour gaming? I don't know. If you did then you would get throttled to 1.5MB upload but that should still be enough. People complain about it when they are streaming on twitch and get throttled. I've never seen anyone complain that the throttle affected their actual gaming.

I would suggest get 50 installed - run the 28 day trial and then if you like it then cancel Sky. If not then cancel VM and you won't be charged. Virgin (in my experience) don't bill for well over a month from when it's installed anyway (maybe for the 28 day reason)

Even when I compared 512K ADSL to 512K BlueYonder cable - cable still was better and I think always will be up to a point. so 50 will alway be better than ADSL

This is my friends 200 service right now http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4814784202 which is dire in the day but okay over night. where as 50 is solid all the time but it's area dependant. You can move 1/2 a mile down the road and suffer (as has happened to me in the past) it's so hit and miss on VM and areas.

Thanks, VM it is :).
 
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sky adsl connecting is rubbish, some of my clients are switched from bethere to sky and their speed dropped dramatically. it could be the area. I wouldn't recommend sky for ADSL connection
 
lol no problem :)

Here are the limits (click on 50 to get the right ones)

http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html

Would you upload 1GB in an hour gaming? I don't know. If you did then you would get throttled to 1.5MB upload but that should still be enough. People complain about it when they are streaming on twitch and get throttled. I've never seen anyone complain that the throttle affected their actual gaming.

I would suggest get 50 installed - run the 28 day trial and then if you like it then cancel Sky. If not then cancel VM and you won't be charged. Virgin (in my experience) don't bill for well over a month from when it's installed anyway (maybe for the 28 day reason)

Even when I compared 512K ADSL to 512K BlueYonder cable - cable still was better and I think always will be up to a point. so 50 will alway be better than ADSL

This is my friends 200 service right now http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4814784202 which is dire in the day but okay over night. where as 50 is solid all the time but it's area dependant. You can move 1/2 a mile down the road and suffer (as has happened to me in the past) it's so hit and miss on VM and areas.

Hmm, I am still deciding on VM or stick with my current Sky package, I kind of still want Sky since they have no traffic management policy, and VM have traffic management, also, Sky have the lowest peak time latency, jitter, packet loss on average over every ISP. I feel like I should stay with Sky.
 
That's your call but I really really can't find this traffic management you speak off on Virgin. it was dropped ages ago. They used to slow the speed down to like 60% if you downloaded too much but when FTTC started to threaten them they dropped it. It was when 120MB came out.
 
That's your call but I really really can't find this traffic management you speak off on Virgin. it was dropped ages ago. They used to slow the speed down to like 60% if you downloaded too much but when FTTC started to threaten them they dropped it. It was when 120MB came out.

Ok, I think I'll do it. If they're ping, jitter, packet loss etc. Is noticable though I will go back to Sky, and later on in 2016-2017 I will be able to afford Zen's 76Mbps fibre with the line rental.
 
Thanks Andy, I am well aware of the STM I thought the poster was talking about something else. I've lived through all the changes since the day VM took over claiming the network could not cope, despite it coping just fine for 10 years + before them.

The problem now is the speed. As I type this my 200mbps line it's so slow as it's the weekend that Plex is struggling to play from a server with a 10Gbps link. The speed on tests is under 20 and it's pants. I am having to type this (and use) my backup infinity business line.

The upload limits I had totally forgotten about as I do all my uploading on FTTC which, of course, is limitless. It ran all last week broadcasting CCTV and other stuff and 4 days solid uploading to the cloud.

VM would have fell over after an hour and cut me to something like 4mbps. Where as with the backup line(s) I can get 39 mbps 24/7
 
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