Best ISP for online streaming?

custardy

usignuolo wrote: »

Well I phoned up to complain about my bandwidth a while back and was told I could only expect 8mb locally. But I am beginning to wonder. I have been on cable forever. Maybe they have me down as an ADSL user for some reason or just assumed I was an ADSL user.

I need to phone up and explain I am on cable and then see what they say about an XXL connection.


I think I will need to check that out. a

well run a speedtest and see what you have (uncapped)

usignuolo

Well uncapped it is around 8-9mbs I know that and at present is around 9mbps. The issue is whether it can be upgraded to a faster line.

I think I may be getting to the bottom of it though. Found this on the Virgin forum. I am on Croydon switch - area 03

"Croydon is late for this (ie upgrade) because Virgin Media are having to rebuild some of the network and swap out 27 year old hardware that Telewest couldn't afford to and oversubscribed and overdrove instead.

I'm fairly close and connected to the same area, the same poor networks cover Mortlake and New Malden as well as Croydon, I've made a lot of enquiries but have no timescales beyond that VM are rebuilding area 03 right now."

Original completion date was April 2011 then Septmeber 2011 now apparently it is April 2012. Another thread suggested customers being moved around while the work takes place and "crowded" onto existing cards as these are swapped around.

The fastest speed offered on Virgin site I can upgrade to is XL which is both 20 and 30mbs according to the traffic management table. not sure if this is before or after the Croydon upgrade is completed. Double capacity upgrade is scheduled for July.

So even if I put in for XL and it turns out to be 30mbs and it gets doubled, I would still not be able to subscribe to the XXXL service and so continue to get traffic managed downloads.

visidigi

but traffic managed downloads are not the issue, its about you being able to stream HD content - this doesn't require unlimited bandwidth, it just requires enough bandwidth.

Guess its a completely local issue from what you've advised above.