virgin media gaming

[emerson]

Hi guys is the virgin media 50meg service any good for gaming.

[ackers87]

you orded yet emo

[emerson]

not yet mate been at howards gonna do it in the morn.Just checked it now and latency is in the hundreds. so much for o2 llu.spoke to them again they made my snr higher did not make a difference.Dont think they want to admit the have congestion problems.this is no good for gaming roll on virgin media cant be any worse.

[izools]

The 50Meg has lower latency than the other packages.

Reports show 8ms ~ 12ms ping times to Jolt. So yeah, good for gaming!!!

[emerson]

Thanks for the response izools was a bit worried because i have been told that it was not very good but i think these guys were on the 20 meg package.

[ackers87]

mine at 89 ping 4 meg down and i can bet soon as 11 comes bang 28 ping and 8 down o2 have gone crap now wel i hadat least 2 years trouble free

[emerson]

just spoke to them again might as well talk to my dog.all the guy did was suprise suprise was up my snr to 8 what a complete waste of time.not gonna bother ringing again i thought this was award winning broadband,It might be everywhere else but certainly aint here.It has to be congestion related but if mathew is on the be network and his is fine it dont make sense.

[ukhardy07]

You not on virgin cable product? Using ADSL?

Virgins cable product is pretty decent for me anyway. 15 ms pings and super quick. If your on ADSL I feel sorry for you though.

[ipuk]

Im on 50mb and get very good latency and download rates

[ukhardy07]

Yeh the users talking of an SNR of 8... On virgins cable products the cab is so close to the property the SNR is alot higher.

My SNR is 50 db!! So 8 db suggests they're using virgin via BT's network and not via virgins fibre network. Hence the issues.