NTL/Virgin Broadband speeds at the moment?

[PJ S]

Am I the only one finding their speed to be laughable at the moment?
I'm on 4 MB and the internet and email has been as slow as running through treacle!
Just done a few speed tests - 400 kbps down and 370 up!
Been like this for quite a while now, and I'm getting ever more pissed off with it.
I'd love to know what the feck they're doing as part of on-going maintenance since bloody 20 odd of January!


*spiking mellstake*

Edited by PJ S on Wednesday 28th February 03:03

[tdo]

yes mate same here, sometimes i'm sure it's slower than dial-up!

[Zad]

It can't be worse than my Orange/Wanapoo/Freeserve service. From fri 6pm - tues 6am, my adsl was off for nearly 40 hrs in total. "Tech support" in Bangalore was useless. Nearly impossible to understand (and I used to work in deepest Bradford, so I'm generally used to the sub-continental accent) and for 2 out of the 5 times I called, they couldn't do anything as their system was down. On the plus side, after only 4 calls and 2 days I have a MAC code on the way so I can go elsewhere.

[Mikey G]

Same issues here, good one day bad the next. My neighbour and a fellow PHer is having the same issues with the 10meg service.

Been tempted to go down the BT or Sky route but judging by some other peoples feelings NThell seems to be the best of a bad bunch at the moment

I think demand for broadband is outstripping how fast they can upgrade the networks.

[roadsweeper]

I always get a great speed with NTL. I'd rather be on their network than ADSL facing all the contention issues and dependency on distance from the exchange, etc.

[Philbes]

I'm with BT - and updated from 2Mb to nominal 8Mb in mid-2006. The BT line test stated I would achieve 6.2Mb. Since the upgrade the line speed has varied from 0.9Mb to 5.8Mb. Over the past few weeks it has been between 2.2Mb and 5.2Mb.