[quote]Who care's about the speed anyway.. 200kbs ish is fine for me.. ill just go watch some "tv" ;) or make myself a brew..[/quote]That's fine if that's all your line or cable connection is capable of doing, if your able to recieve 8Mb or even 20Mb and your not getting anywhere near that then they have every right to care.

Who care's about the speed anyway.. 200kbs ish is fine for me.. ill just go watch some "tv" ;) or make myself a brew..

[quote]To give a serious answer to the OP: Virgin's "blazing fast" service applies to the 'last mile' of the INTERNET connection. Their local data centres cache popular web content (such as player videos, the you tube top 100, the 100,000 most popular web pages and so forth) and genuinely do deliver that very quickly.If you're looking for something more niche or on a secure server, like say, content from a games download service, then it won't be cached at the data centres and you're back with the rest of us apes on the regular INTERNET, copper wires and all.What's more, Virgin (like every ISP) uses traffic shaping to limit its costs and provide an adequate service for the 'average user'. In their case, they'll favour traffic for popular content that's been cached and not for that which hasn't. I'd assume that downloads from metaboli *cannot* be cached by ISPs because it's on a secure connection. It not being http traffic probably further reduces its importance in their traffic schedule.[/quote]I dont think traffic shaping is a issue here as Virgin is the only one( if there are others please tell me ) that has issues with Metaboli, all other ISP's dont seem to have any problems routing their traffic to metaboli even if there is shaping, many here like myself that are not with Virgin can download on or close to their top rate, if shaping was a issue we would all have the problem yet we dont, I think it's more about Virgin themselves with them not able or willing to route traffic to metaboli effectively even when metaboli has tried to help them do this.

To give a serious answer to the OP: Virgin's "blazing fast" service applies to the 'last mile' of the internet connection. Their local data centres cache popular web content (such as iplayer videos, the youtube top 100, the 100,000 most popular web pages and so forth) and genuinely do deliver that very quickly.If you're looking for something more niche or on a secure server, like say, content from a games download service, then it won't be cached at the data centres and you're back with the rest of us apes on the regular internet, copper wires and all.What's more, Virgin (like every ISP) uses traffic shaping to limit its costs and provide an adequate service for the 'average user'. In their case, they'll favour traffic for popular content that's been cached and not for that which hasn't. I'd assume that downloads from metaboli *cannot* be cached by ISPs because it's on a secure connection. It not being http traffic probably further reduces its importance in their traffic schedule.

I love the title of this thread.... Slow virgin. I don't know why virgins would be slower than any other women or men? [:D]MetaOff!

Frank? [;)]

[quote]the con is adsl cliaming to be able to supply 20 meg if you live more than 2 miles from the exchange you will be lucky to get 8 mb. light is the fastest thing known to man it will beat electricity all the time its physics 101[/quote]Throw me a pie and i'm the fastest thing known to man!

COD 4 might try it sounds like my kind of game.The trouble is my downloads take so long i spend my time in the forum i have to find something to do [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D] [:D]

lmfao.Metaboli has only just recently been advertised via virgin and yes i personally think virgin are a bit crafty advertising it. But as a subscriber to both virgin and metaboli i feel the fault lies purely with virgin. The traceroute i have run have always indicated a problem with Virgin, thanks for all wildrides help in translating by the way.The problem is virgin have just banged it on the website, half the engineers have not heard of metaboli.I can't change isp as i'm renting and want digital telly aswell so sky not an option. Try getting your TV phone and broadband via virgin, this way you get all three XL size and if you pay by direct debit it costs you as little as £53. That just over £17 per service, as i have said it's better than the standalone price of £37.99 for the 20mb line

Have you played Call Of Duty 4 Online yet?I think you'll be really good at it. Just put your weapon down and press the "T" for talk button. Then you can bore everyone to death. Your a winner!!