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chelseaman:
Having some fun. Had Virginmedia  50Mb broadband installed today. With a straight ethernet cable connection to this PC it ran at 49.5 to 51.7 Mb`s. But me being the perfect gentleman  hooked it into a dlink router (free from Virgin) to give the family wireless connections. BooHoo now I`m down to 42Mb`s. Upload speeds were not the greatest 1.7 to 1.8Mbps and my fingers cant quite catch up with the buttons.  Running this PC at 4.18GHz (stock 2.67GHz) The 2x 4890`s in crossfire also up.
All in all it is a nice experience for an older member. ;D
cheers

billyfridge:
Hmmmm...i got virgin B/B, but the 10MB, I'm on XL, but they wantd to charge me for a router, so i bought one locally a netgear wireless. now i can acsess my new HD TV from my PC. I wanted a new HD set top box, but they wanted £50 and a further 18 month contract, i told them to stick it :D

chelseaman:
 ;D They treat us better in N.I.  ;D

£35 to install,new modem,new router FREE.
Takes a little while to fire everything up, but it comes through in the end. and this is off the router. 12 month contract, but I can cancell up to 28 days.
cheers

Synbios:
in your original post when you said MB I thought you were referring to megabytes LOL, it should actually be Mb for megabits as your speedtest result shows.

That's too bad that your upload is so slow compared to that lovely download. Is paris the closest server for you? 550 miles is rather far and I'd imagine you could get better speeds elsewhere. Of course, speed test results are never perfect anyway.

TheHalf™:
Oh that's not to bad:



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