Virgin Media - 100mb

[Captain]

Had a letter from virgin yesterday saying we are getting the upgrade from 100mb to 120mb and are dropping the price down to the 50mb package.

In my house it hits about 92mb so hopefully with a 120mb package it will hit over 100mb.

 

[Rids]

Give me a stable 50 meg over a 100 meg cluster**** any day.

 

[Kazz]

So how is the fair usage policy on these high connections? I'm on a 10mb package and barely scrape 500 kb/s most of the time. Then once I've hit 1gb downloaded (which, lets be honest is **** all these days with digitally distributed games) it gets slashed by 3/4 .

 

[Freefaller]

It would be so much better if the spent the money on the infrastructure to minimise the need for traffic shaping, caps and other similar initiatives.

 

[uvarvu]

Agreed - but then again where we are we can't get cable anyway (despite living in the big smoke!).

I think the consensus is similar to that of the Pepsi bus advert in the film 'The Invention of Lying':

ADSL. For when there's no cable!

 

[PESolution]

given that 50mb users are getting a 100mb upgrade for free starting in feb, i would have just waited. 100mb goes to 120mb, and gets a cost reduction

 

[RobertN]

so will the capped speed double aswell ?

if they spent less on advertising and more on a stable uncapped product they would be much better

hope they uncap it as sky are now doing this and that is there main rival

 

[RomanNose]

How long until 5k resolution films are the norm?

A lcong time, 2k will be soon though.

 

[Glaucus]

It would be so much better if the spent the money on the infrastructure to minimise the need for traffic shaping, caps and other similar initiatives.

The caps are only for p2p(doesn't affect things like iTunes and other p2p legit software) and news groups on the top tarrif, which is understandable as people can download at full rate all day and mess it up for everyone. If you want that move to sky and rubbish adsl.

The upgrade is also meant to fix oversubscribed areas, but I doubt it.

Anyway I can't wait I'm in a good area 50-120 for free.

so will the capped speed double aswell ?

Yes of if you are on 20mb more than doubled.

 

[platypus]

A lcong time, 2k will be soon though.

Well, quite, kind of supports my point. We're a fair way off needing 100MB capacity, so putting the money into increasing capacity rather than speed would surely pay off in the log run, as well as yielding benefits now.

Put the leg work in now, and then see it being much easier in the future to tweak speed upwards, and actually be able to fulfill the demand for that speed.

 

[ZXSpectrum]

you should have waited. virgin are rolling out upgrades for everyone very soon. my 50mb connection will be a 100mb connection in july for no extra cost
the 100mb package you have bought only gets a boost to 120mb though

According to the website this is incorrect. If you have 50Mb you will be upgraded foc to 60Mb?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Everyone on 50Mb and 100Mb is going to get upgraded 120Mb.

They are initially upgrading 50Mb > 100Mb, but eventually everyone is going to 120Mb. The 100Mb customers will just get a cost reduction.

 

[Glaucus]

According to the website this is incorrect. If you have 50Mb you will be upgraded foc to 60Mb?

Existing 50 Mbps customers, will be upgraded to 120 Mbps, while continuing to pay the same price as they do now. The upgrade may take place in two stages, with an uplift to 100 Mbps initially, followed by an extra 20 Mbps when the fastest tier gets its upgrade to 120 Mbps.

Customers on the 100 Mbps product, will still be upgraded to 120 Mbps as planned, but will see a reduction in the price they pay to match the pricing of those who were originally on the 50 Meg tier when the aligning of tiers starts in April 2012.

 

[elmarko]

I'll wait to hear how people fare with the 100mb (when the 50's get doubled) - if they have no problems with management I'd knock myself down from the 120 to the 100.

Let's hope they make a real effort at improving the infrastructure - I do think they would be better off trying to get a good/stable 50mb connection before going above 100 - the doubling of speed is a bad idea (as they can't even handle what they offer currently).

 

[Vulcan]

A lcong time, 2k will be soon though.

Got a source on this? Because 2K is only slightly larger than 1920x1080.

The fact that HD has been around for a while, and TV broadcasts are only 720p at best, suggests that 1080p/720p will be around for a while yet.

 

[Spenty]

Slight difference in 40mb and 100mb

Yeah just over double the speed which would still be around 20 minutes at the minimum. Most 1080p films are around 10gb+

 

[Glaucus]

I'll wait to hear how people fare with the 100mb (when the 50's get doubled) - if they have no problems with management I'd knock myself down from the 120 to the 100.
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You can't the top package is 120mb, there is no 100mb service.

50 and 100mb services are being increased to 120mb. Combining the service. With current 100mb users getting a price reduction.

 

[Spenty]

Isn't some of virgins congested area's already really bad service? Can't help but feel all this added speed will make it even worse.

 

[Glaucus]

Isn't some of virgins congested area's already really bad service? Can't help but feel all this added speed will make it even worse.

Why would increasing throughput make it worse.
At the minimum you should get faster speeds but still not advertised.

 

[Spenty]

Surely when everyone is downloading at an increased speed it will put more pressure on the network?