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Virgin Media launch 50Mbps broadband today [Updated]

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Postby yialousa1971 » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:52 am

paliometoxo wrote:
yialousa1971 wrote:50 meg is the speed to their network not to the Internet. Your be lucky to max out a 10 meg connection, most servers can't handle it unless your downloading from microsoft.


while in england for studies i was maxing out at 20mbit from the same isp when the maximum connection was 20mbit


Who were you downloading from?
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Postby Pambs » Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:29 pm

torrent will max the download for any kind of connection.
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Postby paliometoxo » Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:27 pm

yialousa1971 wrote:
paliometoxo wrote:
yialousa1971 wrote:50 meg is the speed to their network not to the Internet. Your be lucky to max out a 10 meg connection, most servers can't handle it unless your downloading from microsoft.


while in england for studies i was maxing out at 20mbit from the same isp when the maximum connection was 20mbit


Who were you downloading from?


mainly from mirc and itunes and microsoft website and a few sites i found with google, though they had traffic shapping when you download more then 3GB during certain times they drop you down to a 5mbit for 5 hours which sucks, but the 50mbit doesent have that
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