Virgin Media Broadband (50Mb)

[Jabbs]

200mb seems a little bit of overkill to me, I never thought I'd ever say something like this, but I'm not even sure at the moment 50mb or even 20mb is needed.

Unlimted download was a carrot and up speeds of 1.5Mb are also nice to have especially when you (if like me) you manage and edit a lot of websites.  When you download two or three websites a week and each happen to be several hundred Megabytes then perhaps you can start to see why it would be useful

[smilodon]

My point still stands that your internet connection is only as fast as the speed another site can feed you data. I might have a 200mb/sec connection but if the site I'm downloading a 4 gig file from is only supplying 5 mb/sec that's the speed I'll get the file at, regardless of whether I'm on a fifty meg or a 10 meg line. Unless I'm completely missing something about Internet connection speeds?

[Jabbs]

My point still stands that your internet connection is only as fast as the speed another site can feed you data. I might have a 200mb/sec connection but if the site I'm downloading a 4 gig file from is only supplying 5 mb/sec that's the speed I'll get the file at, regardless of whether I'm on a fifty meg or a 10 meg line. Unless I'm completely missing something about Internet connection speeds?

I agree, however there is the other important point (for me) of unlimited bandwidth.  The 50Mb service is supposed to be unrestricted with NO throttling etc and seeing as I am only paying Ã,£3 a month more for this services I felt it was a good idea.

Been learning a lot about cable modems and troubleshooting where the problems lie by reading modem information direct from modem (power levels and whatnot), using pathping to see where I get packet loss and so on...

I'll keep you all posted and give a full report of the problem once I have this one sorted (confidence eh?)

[RizZy]

Well I guess the unlimited side of it makes sense for you.

I was going from more of the same point of view as Smilo, on whatever connection I'm on here it's very rare I get the speeds I should - it's the rest of the net that needs speeding up not individuals connections.