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I struggle to get 10Mb/s on the Island.

 

Virgin have just upgraded me free of charge at my house in Cheshire.

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/5466833679.png

 

Is it correct that Virgin , then C&W , paid a huge amount of money to run cable through the Island to Ireland ?

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Bit surprised about the slow upload the OP posted, should be faster IMO.

 

From deepest, darkest SW England to London:

 

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ETA: All due to EU funding.

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I am grateful to the OP, and I'll share this in case other people have the same issue. On checking my speed, I discovered that I was receiving download speeds of just over 10 mbps, around a quarter of what is claimed by Wimanx for their VDSL offering, which I have. Checked my account details on Wimanx, and found that I have two user names 'nnnnn-1@wimanx.com' and 'nnnnn-1.vdsl@wimanx.com'. Wimanx configured my VDSL router for me, but left the account name in my router set to 'nnnnn-1l@wimanx.com'. I changed it to nnnnn-1.vdsl@wimanx.com and bingo - four times the download speed!

 

Check which account you are using if you have Wimanx!

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All three of those tests are at times when isp's are at minimum strain, give us a 6pm for a real idea what its like.

 

Mine is consistently hovering at ~40 at all times of the day/night with a +/- of no more than 2.

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All three of those tests are at times when isp's are at minimum strain, give us a 6pm for a real idea what its like.

 

In my case only the upload drops to ~ 13 MB/s, download is rarely below 50 MB/s. We're not far away from a multi-terrabit backbone, maybe that's why?

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Bit surprised about the slow upload the OP posted, should be faster IMO.

 

From deepest, darkest SW England to London:

 

5467363671.png

 

ETA: All due to EU funding.

 

I gotta say I am jealous. In Douglas I am lucky these days to get 10Mb/s download and rarely break 1.0Mb/s upload. But I did change from MT for a better deal cost wise, although it was little better speedwise then.

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Bit surprised about the slow upload the OP posted, should be faster IMO.

 

From deepest, darkest SW England to London:

 

5467363671.png

 

ETA: All due to EU funding.

 

I gotta say I am jealous. In Douglas I am lucky these days to get 10Mb/s download and rarely break 1.0Mb/s upload. But I did change from MT for a better deal cost wise, although it was little better speedwise then.

 

 

Yes, it's good. I run my own mail server using MailEnable and have a backup web server here in case my main cluster in the US goes offline - for example when a major node fails.

 

Sadly I'm not on the 300MB/s roll-out, with Brexit I will probably never be.

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My son just sent this from a very rural bit of the Peak District just for comparison. I asked him to test a busy time so he chose the lunch hour. At quieter times it's 45 ish down and 30 up.

 

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No phone line rental either. Wish we had this on the rock.

 

 

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