I can't really complain about speeds either. No idea how busy the network is locally but when I moved in there wasn't any BT fibre, only about 4mbps ADSL so Virgin was the only reasonable option. If only the upload was better.

Getting the option of 1gbps synchronous soon :D

Cost? No chance of that near me. And I only bought the house because Virgin available. Some people thought I was stupid for not viewing houses with shit Internet, I refused to have any bathroom type issues!

Aye, I've been similarly benefitted by Virgin, internet access has always been reliable and fast. We downgraded to 50mb (from 100mb) a few months ago, the only thing I ever max out our connection with is Steam downloads and they're few and far between nowadays, but when I do I get the full download speed. We don't stream anything (yet), so the service is fine for what we use it for.

I've been looking into the Virgin V6 boxes which purports to do what Sky have been crowing about recently, recording on that device and stream to another (which will let me watch recorded shows on my PC). It does come with some caveats though:
 

My contract is up with virgin this month, considering ditching the telly entirely - but suspect that will cost more because of stupid pricing.

Also need to ring them about my other account (at mum's house, was easier to leave it in my name then change it!), currently paying 35 a month for 20mb broadband only. Their minimum package now is 34 quid for 50mb :@

Not sure yet, not cheap I'd guess.

It's these guys laying fibre, might be coming near you?

https://www.cityfibre.com/network/

I'm supposed to be getting a V6 box this afternoon - not convinced the engineer will turn up though as the ordering and delivery system is a bit fucked up at present. I ordered online last week and got an appointment for Monday with an email about the prices etc. Engineer never arrived and when I phoned to ask why, I was told there was no record of my ever placing an order. 

That's why I was looking at network speeds for the telly. They were prattling on about having the cable modem next to the V6 box, but since all my cables are tucked away under floors with hardwood on top, and my modem is in a different room with a couple of servers, it's not exactly easy to move around. Apparently all they need is a decent network link and I was able to thread an additional ethernet cable though and stick a gigabit switch on it - and so on and so on...

wtf?

Yup. I hate modern console games for that.

Got a new controller at Xmas, connected it up and the xbox immediate says "your controller needs an update...". Wtf! It's a Fucking controller! What are they doing with the update, adding more buttons?

Can they not do deltas?

Was the first time launching the game, so likely that it was actually downloading most of the game - not sure of the reasoning but when you install a game it normally doesn't install the game data until you launch the game itself. Like its Fucking surprised that you paid for a game and then wanted to play it.

Disvlaimer: I bought/installed the game for my birthday, last January. Got round to playing it in December

Ah, yeah that's plausible.

Curiously, the calendar app on my phone has a note of your birthday, but not my g/f of 35 years.

Do you need my address to post the present?

Actually, what date does it have? Can probably work out which service it was scraped from by the fake date.

1/1

That's been scraped from my Google account somehow then.

What a coincidence! That's my internet birthday too.

Well, a very happy internet birthday to both of you for 19 days ago.

In other news, I did eventually contact LG.

Scott, whoever he is, confirmed that there is not a utility or built in way to accurately determine the network speed at an LG TV. He also stated that the network hardware is "not advanced as PC hardware and this does bottleneck speeds to the TV". 

He had a peculiar idea that domestic network speeds are unlikely to reach the 155 mbps that my laptop reported. Fair enough, I don't know where he works. Maybe wherever he is, that sounds implausible. He also answered my query as though I was talking about wireless connections, which, as I talked throughout about connecting with a patch cable, didn't fill me with confidence in his attention to detail.

What annoyed me most was "TVs are designed for non commercial use and also are designed to be TVs". It's obviously (patronisingly) true, but this particular set is marketed as being up to handling a network stream reliably for 4K resolution video. What's more, since it came with an eye-watering price tag that hoovered up a big chunk of my pension pot, I expect it to deliver on that marketing.

I was so annoyed by this that I pressed the "not satisfied with reply" button which pulled up a text box to respond. But fittingly this feature refused to send after I had typed a reply.

Incidentally, Mr G, the V6 is a vast improvement on the previous Tivo box. It's much, much quicker. Whereas I used to set aside a good 3 to 5 minutes to get a film playing in Netflix, or catch up on iPlayer, it's pretty much instantaneous now. It also records up to 6 channels simultaneously if you're an insane telly watcher. 4K output is standard to a 4K telly.

What really lets it down is the streaming. This is clumsy, restricted and plagued with software errors. It's a struggle to get it running on more than one device. And don't expect this device to keep streaming when you want it either. Virgin know about these problems but the company line appears to that since TV Anywhere is free (????) fixes are low priority.

Oh yes, and you CAN'T stream recordings from the V6 to a PC. You can only stream the recordings to a phone or similar device.