Virgin Media Discussion Thread

TJM · 20 Jan 2013 at 16:01

Does anyone know if VM care about how heavily you use the service overnight (midnight-8am)?

pimper · 20 Jan 2013 at 19:02

AFAIK from midnight to 8am they dont really care, if you are downloading like mad, as everybody is usually in bed at those times.

Vulcan · 20 Jan 2013 at 20:34

Youtube is so poor on VM right now.

awinchurch · 20 Jan 2013 at 21:00

I cant wait for DOCSIS 3.1

Duke · 20 Jan 2013 at 21:37

DeeDay said:
Just been upgraded to Virgin 100MB but my netgear router will only do 70MB download speeds over wireless.

Been recommended that the Asus 56U will do well over 100MB on the wireless but wanted some opinions from you guys.

Wireless is always going to be iffy with speed - I would go for wired if you really want the best speed.

rah^ · 20 Jan 2013 at 21:42

Seems the 120 upgrade went fine here

mattyg · 21 Jan 2013 at 00:26

I'm happy with the "upto 100meg"

chief barker · 21 Jan 2013 at 04:12

I've got a supposedly 60MB connection and i'm only getting 25MB this morning, assuming no one else in my area is on the internet at this moment (4am). Web pages are sometimes slow to load and BF3 is impossible to play at any time of the day.

1 year of nothing but trouble with Virgin and i've been with them for god knows how long (not that it makes any difference).

Time to move on I think.

DeeDay · 21 Jan 2013 at 09:44

Duke said:
Wireless is always going to be iffy with speed - I would go for wired if you really want the best speed.

I haven't got a problem wired but its just not possible to wire up my PC even with home plugs.

Looking for the best router for a decent 100MB wireless connection.

ChrisD. · 21 Jan 2013 at 10:23

Asus RT-N56U.

Sp00n · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:02

Had a terrible day yesterday, first time in about 6 months I couldn't game as the connection was ****ing me off:

Hoping it's just a blip of serious congestion due to the snow rather than indication that things haven't changed a damn bit.

chippy08 · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:07

Whats the best setting for Vmdg280 guys.

peige · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:28

My connection, if I was at home I would be on the phone to them right now. :rolleyes:

Sp00n · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:30

So there is something wrong with your line me thinks.

peige · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:40

Its apparently and SNR fault in my area, oh and they are doing upgrades ready for speed doubling, and contention issues. I really didn't pick a good time to join.

chippy08 · 21 Jan 2013 at 15:04

peige said:
Its apparently and SNR fault in my area, oh and they are doing upgrades ready for speed doubling, and contention issues. I really didn't pick a good time to join.

What area is that im in Derby and the upgrade was finished end of December but still no double speed.

peige · 21 Jan 2013 at 15:06

chippy08 said:
What area is that im in Derby and the upgrade was finished end of December but still no double speed.

Lancing, BN15, speed double is coming in March. Don't care about the speed, just want reliability.

KIA · 21 Jan 2013 at 16:41

peige said:
Its apparently and SNR fault in my area, oh and they are doing upgrades ready for speed doubling, and contention issues. I really didn't pick a good time to join.

Isn't there a cooling off period?

chief barker · 21 Jan 2013 at 17:30

chief barker said:
I've got a supposedly 60MB connection and i'm only getting 25MB this morning, assuming no one else in my area is on the internet at this moment (4am). Web pages are sometimes slow to load and BF3 is impossible to play at any time of the day.

1 year of nothing but trouble with Virgin and i've been with them for god knows how long (not that it makes any difference).

Time to move on I think.

Well i've just finished a 50 minute conversation with VM and i'm back up to 60mb.

Online gaming is still awful. Pinging the BBC brings some mixed results-anything from 20ms to 300ms.

Not sure where to go from now.

Any ideas fellas?

Macro · 21 Jan 2013 at 17:40

Longbow said:
Youtube is so poor on VM right now.

Has been for some time - something to do with their peering I think.

Part of the problem with VM is it's no good me having 100mb connection if it chokes when you try to stream video etc. Never quite sure if they manage down certain traffic, or despite their headline connection speeds their connections to the outside world just aren't up to it?