Internet speeds

kwikbreaks

bingo_bango wrote: »

You're obviously on the same Virgin BB package as I am, so I don't see how iPlayer buffers. Mine runs perfectly (both on PC and through Tivo box). My other streaming services also work fine.

Cable broadband is very area specific right down to street level. If your optical node (big powered cabinet within a few hundred yards of your house) gets oversubscribed you can kiss that 50/150/200Mbps advertised speed goodbye and quite likely for several months as VM take their own sweet time to sort out such issues.

How would it become over subscribed you may ask - well with cable's Achilles heel is the upstream and to get a decent download speed the upstream path needs minimal contention and just a few running torrents flat out in your area 24x7 is going to kill that upstream stone dead.