Tags for Forum Posts: broadband, consumer complaints, virgin media
Didnt read all of these posts, but yes it was definitely down for a day and a half over the weekend.
It seems to be ok now.
All this superfast broadband is all very well, but if the contention ratio is huge then real world performance tends to be patchy.
I Read something about a Japanese fiber company bidding for National contracts to upgrade Britain into the next decade, giving us the widest superfast broadband coverage in the world. It would cost several billion, which means of course that it will be done instead on the cheap by a man in a van.
I am sure the benefits of such an infrastructure would put us at the forefront of the digital evolution and pay for itself many times over though. Politicians with vision please!!
For test files to download http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html is useful.
In my experience slow access to sites is more likely to be the result of a problem with the computer (or, less likely with those you mention, the site). The BBC news front page is no more than around 600KB so even at the slowest broadband speed would not take more than a few seconds to download.
The first place to look is at any security (anti-virus, firewall etc) software. Some of these, depending on settings, can take an age to analyse every little bit while accessing a site.
Hope this helps.
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