Virgin Media 100Mb Service

Orcish-Horde said:
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I think am on a (edit out 20) 10 Mbps line, no point me going for a 100Mbps and its been lagging badly this last few months.:(
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Isn't 20/50/100Mb on DOCSIS 3 and 10 is on DOCSIS 2?

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bulldog147 said:
1) keep 50Mb modem but already had N wireless router and not in use and they will only charge you activation fee and no need for techicial man to come out to you.

2) keep 50Mb modem but already had N wireless router and will be in use then you will need a brand new superhub to support 100Mb wireless and will be activation fee only.

So, if you are 50Mb customers who had 50Mb modem but never use N wireless router and you can upgrade to 100Mb with just a one off fee of activation fee and it all done at their end without any tech guy coming out and will not be in a renewal 12 months contract. (only for 50Mb customers)
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What does it matter whether I've used my Wireless-N router or not?
 
Ive read a post on another forum by a virginmedia employee the only way to get 100mb is to get the superhub and pay a installation and activation charge.
 
Clown said:
What does it matter whether I've used my Wireless-N router or not?
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My guess would be is that virgin media know that the router they provide with 50Mb is not capable of 100Mb, so you would need a superhub. Where as if you are on 50Mb and don't use their router, then its up to you to get a 100Mb capable router unless you also want the superhub.
 
simon22 said:
10 mb will be rolled out to 20mb, with the upload speed 2mb, so that's 20mb, 50mb & 100mb in their packages, would make sense.
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But what would happen to 20 Mb users? If 10 Mb users get a free upgrade it would mean either discounting current 20Mb users to the same monthly fee as what 10Mb users will be paying, or give 20 Mb users a free upgrade too, but that would mean giving out the DOCSIS 3 modems to a ton of customers, which isn't going to happen. So a free upgrade would cost VM a lot of money.
 
Dist said:
My guess would be is that virgin media know that the router they provide with 50Mb is not capable of 100Mb, so you would need a superhub. Where as if you are on 50Mb and don't use their router, then its up to you to get a 100Mb capable router unless you also want the superhub.
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The dlink dir 615 supports around 150mbit wan to lan so my guess is just future proofing for 100. Also as far as I know they are keeping all current packages and then adding 100.
 
Deffo getting this :)
Edit: Actually i ordered 50mb today upgrading from 10mbit so i'll give them a call tomoz and make sure they give me the newer modem so i can get 100mb from day 1.
 
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We have 50Mbps at the moment which is blisteringly quick and was well worth the upgrade from 10Mbps.

Doubt I'll be seeing 100Mbps anytime soon though. Moving out of here (shared house) in April and won't really be able to afford comforts such as every channel on Sky and super fast broadband.

Cheapest ADSL service for me I think :(
 
I was going to get BT infinity when it is enabled in my area on the 31st December but if VM are bringing 100mb before then out I may go with them. I used with be with VM when I had 20mb but I had a few routing problems with it, but I would be willing to give them another try I suppose ;)

I just hope they don't charge the installation charge as my house is already wired up!
 
I really don't think it will take off as they might expect, 50mb is enough for anyone really very very few things are going to take advantage of 100mb.
And I didn't think that when 50mb came out.

I could afford to go from 50 to 100 but what's the point 6100 Kbps downloads are more than enough not like there's that much stuff actually worth downloading.

Better upload speeds are long long overdue will help gaming a lot.

I also wouldn't be surprised if they end up making everyone's connection slower and less reliable by increasing uploads.

I hate them though as they always make the next tier just a few quid over the current top tier just small enough to tempt you.
 
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that is indeed good news, its a decent price too. i'll wait for virgin to upgrade me to 50mbit for free :D
 
C64 said:
I really don't think it will take off as they might expect, 50mb is enough for anyone really very very few things are going to take advantage of 100mb.
And I didn't think that when 50mb came out.

I could afford to go from 50 to 100 but what's the point 6100 Kbps downloads are more than enough not like there's that much stuff actually worth downloading.

Better upload speeds are long long overdue will help gaming a lot.

I also wouldn't be surprised if they end up making everyone's connection slower and less reliable by increasing uploads.

I hate them though as they always make the next tier just a few quid over the current top tier just small enough to tempt you.
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Tell that to the rest of the world... :rolleyes:
 
simon22 said:
10 mb will be rolled out to 20mb, with the upload speed 2mb, so that's 20mb, 50mb & 100mb in their packages, would make sense.
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Dist said:
But what would happen to 20 Mb users? If 10 Mb users get a free upgrade it would mean either discounting current 20Mb users to the same monthly fee as what 10Mb users will be paying, or give 20 Mb users a free upgrade too, but that would mean giving out the DOCSIS 3 modems to a ton of customers, which isn't going to happen. So a free upgrade would cost VM a lot of money.
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I've read on cable forums that 10Mb will remain so the structure will be:

- M 10Mb
- L 20Mb
- XL 50Mb
- XXL 100Mb

Whether or not they will adjust the prices of the other services I don't know (I doubt it).
 
yayayayayayayyayayayayayayayayayyayay!!!!!!!!!! Signed up to be notified the second it is avaliable! 100down and 10 up? for a few extra quid!? YES!!!!!!
 
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