Any idea who routed the cable in the first place?
At our work the old odd-job/maintenance guy did most of the wiring, taking UTP cables right over mains cables at practically every oppourtunity. (fail)
I wonder if he did your flat too?
>>I've just cancelled with Sky and signed up with Virginmedia. they may be just as bad, but at least the broadband will be 10 times faster.
Don't count on it. Once you've downloaded a coupla gig or so they'll throttle your connection back. Can't remember the figures they quote, but say if you're on a 30Mb line they'll cut you back to 10Mb. Great, you think. 10Mb is still plenty. Except either because their network is so oversubscribed or they do more throttling than they admit to, you'll find your self dreaming about 56k modem days.
VM speeds are highly dependant on how many people you're sharing with, and whether they're your average home user or leeching students like Kos. I've never had any serious issues in about two years of service now, aside from slightly abnormal signal levels which they sent an engineer to correct (signal was too strong, would you believe it..). The caps are pretty generous too, and they don't kill you, they just throttle to a point where it still ends up faster than most people's ADSL anyway.
Edit: here ya go http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=2781&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1002&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable
No idea at all.
Still need to pop out the bathroom spots and check if I can actually see the telephone cable up there.
Is that speed test or actual real world result?
I always found that when websites etc. were slowing to a crawl, I'd still magically get 95% of my rated speed on speedtest.net.
What's a torrent? I've never heard of such a thing :C
(practically nothing, <1k/s.)
Virgin were on Watchdog this week.
Here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mg74/features/virgin-media-1
And here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zlk4z
mix of the 2, 105 is via speedtest.net and the lowest download speed ive had from various servers (microsoft, torrents, cnet)
i know there has been a lot of slowness with virgin and what i have seen on the net its a dns problem, so i use google dns (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)