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[windblown]

Up and download speed are very important, but so is line quality. Who wants high latency and packet loss, especially if you are a game freak?

For those of you interested here is a line quality monitor I have started with Thinkbroadband. This is live so it will change over time.



I am pretty pleased with my line quality. Any spikes you see are due to my internet activity. The rest of the time all the graphs flat line.

[windblown]

Still no joy using the Euro speedtester.

[windblown]

Virgin Media have just sent the new modem config giving a max downstream of 110Mb. This gives customers a clear 100Mb after overheads.

[windblown]

Not been here for a while. I can't find the Euro test server option. Is that now defunct?

BTW My connection is going up to 120Mb soon. Virgin Media are upgrading all UK cusomers for free. Most will be double speed, but those already on 100Mb will only be raised to 120Mb.

[mudmanc4]

120Mb nice ! Whats the up said to possibly become ?

[windblown]

Virgin Media are keeping to a 10:1 ratio for now, so I guess 120Mb download will result in 12Mb upload.

Any news on the Euro test server?




BTW here is my current line quality monitor (Live) . Quality is almost as important as speed when it comes to video streaming and gaming.

[mudmanc4]

Thats actually fantastic, and very thought out of the ISP engineer.