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Angelos_n

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sorry if this has been posted already but i just noticed this!!

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looks like were gona have to pay for the 100mb :(((

Angelos
 
Seen someone writing about this on DigitalSpy awhile ago, but never seen a picture of it.

Hopefully the 50Mb will be discounted when it comes out.
 
if the 50Mb gets STM thats increases the 20Mb STM in proportion to the speed increase, then it will be nothing to care about, anyone who does hit that much deserves to be slowed down.
 
Yeah, one of the VM employees on cable forums made a post confirming that 100Mb would be another tier. Ho hum.

20Mb is plenty for me at the moment. Gonna wait for the free upgrades unless there's a brutal price reduction on the 50.
 
Interesting, im currently paying for the 50mb upgrade (£8 a month) if its not much more for 100mb i may as well go for it, depending on what the 50mb gets changed to it. I enjoy unlimited downloads and full speed
 
XXXL!

LOL, how stupid does that look! Really it should be Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large, but they couldn't be doing with calling any of their tiers 'small' lol. They'd do better getting rid of 10mb and having 20, 50 and 100, otherwise it gets all too confusing tbh.
 
Why should it be a free upgrade? if anything it is you lot wanting everything handed to you for free that is greedy. If everyone got an upgrade for free it would cost VM a huge ammount of money to give all 20 Mb customers a new modem for the upgrade to 50Mb, new routers for all those customers too etc..

This is getting a bit silly, first people complain that their ISPs are not upgrading their network or becoming faster, then as soon as they actully do that people then complain they are not getting all of that for free after the ISP spends millions to implement it.
 
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Why should it be a free upgrade? if anything it is you lot wanting everything handed to you for free that is greedy. If everyone got an upgrade for free it would cost VM a huge ammount of money to give all 20 Mb customers a new modem for the upgrade to 50Mb, new routers for all those customers too etc..

This is getting a bit silly, first people complain that their ISPs are not upgrading their network or becoming faster, then as soon as they actully do that people then complain they are not getting all of that for free after the ISP spends millions to implement it.
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lol obviously 20mb shouldnt get a free upgrade, they are on a different network.

maybe they should upgrade 10mb to 12mb.

upgrade 20mb to 25mb (on the same network).

then upgrade 50mb to 100mb and create a new tier for 150/200mb.

this would have then pleased everyone and they wouldnt of lost any money by providing free modems.
 
I just don't get why people are so against paying money to go from 50Mb to 100Mb. Those sorts of speeds are a luxury IMO, and should be priced as such. 50Mb is realy fast, and for what it offers is fairly priced. If VM implements a new higher tier that only the hardcore people would need, then it should be priced as such.

I think free upgrades are needed only when the majority of users on one teir use their connection to the point that an upgrade would make a big difference. Just like few 20Mb customers actully need 50Mb currently, few 50Mb customers need 100Mb. That will change in time, but right now there just isn't a need for free upgrades (except at the sub 20Mb speeds), even BT can't compete with their FTTC yet.
 
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I just don't get why people are so against paying money to go from 50Mb to 100Mb. Those sorts of speeds are a luxury IMO, and should be priced as such. 50Mb is realy fast, and for what it offers is fairly priced. If VM implements a new higher tier that only the hardcore people would need, then it should be priced as such.

I think free upgrades are needed only when the majority of users on one teir use their connection to the point that an upgrade would make a big difference. Just like few 20Mb customers actully need 50Mb currently, few 50Mb customers need 100Mb. That will change in time, but right now there just isn't a need for free upgrades (except at the sub 20Mb speeds), even BT can't compete with their FTTC yet.
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i wouldnt complain if it wasnt for the poor upload speeds. i wouldnt mind staying on 50MB if they provided me 50MB download and 50MB upload.
 
So very few people need 50Mb upload though, so the very few people like you who do want 50Mb up can always get a business connection. And upload for 50Mb is going to be increased in the future anyway, but obviously to not excessive levels like 50Mb.
 
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So very few people need 50Mb upload though, so the very few people like you who do want 50Mb up can always get a business connection. And upload for 50Mb is going to be increased in the future anyway, but obviously to not excessive levels like 50Mb.
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It's a chicken and egg situation, If symmetric (or at least more favourably ratio'd) upload connections were commonplace, people would be used to taking advantage of them. We'd probably see far more people syncing stuff with cloud based services, backups, music, photos etc.
Once we eventually get it, I'm sure we will soon wonder what we ever did without it.
 
I was told on the phone by a virgin media sales person when I ordered my 50mb that the 100mb upgrade would be free so where does that leave them legally then ?

The real point I'd like to make though is if they cap and STM limit 50mb nobody will pay for it ?
I certainly will be downgrading immediately not upgrading if an stm gets added to 50mb.
 
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Broadband is certainly moving fast for us customers who live in urban areas. 100/50/20 for cable customers and 40 for BT Fibre. Soon enough ADSL will be a thing of the past.
 
C64 said:
I was told on the phone by a virgin media sales person when I ordered my 50mb that the 100mb upgrade would be free so where does that leave them legally then ?

The real point I'd like to make though is if they cap and STM limit 50mb nobody will pay for it ?
I certainly will be downgrading immediately not upgrading if an stm gets added to 50mb.
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This is what I was told by both the call center and the engineer when mine was installed.

I too will downgrade to 20Mb (maybe even 10Mb) if they add traffic shaping and/or limits to 50Mb.
 
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