Virgin Media Discussion Thread

wam7 · 26 Jun 2017 at 18:40

Deep said:
I just renewed my Virgin Media, £30 for 150mb.
They've thrown in the Superhub 3, are the reports of it being appalling true?

I do game online a bit, so if it's better keeping my Superhub 2 then I'll do that instead

If you have time look through a few TBM graphs that proliferate this thread and you will see that you will be much better of keeping your SH2.

FreeStream · 26 Jun 2017 at 18:51

Deep said:
I just renewed my Virgin Media, £30 for 150mb.
They've thrown in the Superhub 3, are the reports of it being appalling true?

I do game online a bit, so if it's better keeping my Superhub 2 then I'll do that instead

Keep the SH2 IMO.

Gimpymoo · 26 Jun 2017 at 23:42

Just signed up for 300Mb/20Mb and I HAVE to use the SH3...

Not looking forward to that... but the 20Mb upload was too tempting

Is the SH3 any better in modem only mode?

faceman123 · 27 Jun 2017 at 01:38

virgin media have been shicking in my area

bremen1874 · 27 Jun 2017 at 01:42

faceman123 said:
shicking

I really hope that's a typo and not another word the 'youth' have invented...

iamthenugget · 27 Jun 2017 at 05:42

Gimpymoo said:
Just signed up for 300Mb/20Mb and I HAVE to use the SH3...

Not looking forward to that... but the 20Mb upload was too tempting

Is the SH3 any better in modem only mode?

from what i read there was/are a lot of latency problems with it in modem mode and they were awaiting a firmware update to fix it

FreeStream · 27 Jun 2017 at 10:12

Gimpymoo said:
Just signed up for 300Mb/20Mb and I HAVE to use the SH3...

Not looking forward to that... but the 20Mb upload was too tempting

Is the SH3 any better in modem only mode?

You can get 20MB upload with the 200MB packages...

Gimpymoo · 27 Jun 2017 at 10:32

FreeStream said:
You can get 20MB upload with the 200MB packages...

I know... but 300Mb...

I download Linux, a LOT.

(Actually, no I don't but always good to have MORE POWA).

xb8browney · 29 Jun 2017 at 09:37

I'm in the process of buying a house in a VM area, not been with them since 2011.

Anyway to get discount? Looking for broadband.

iamthenugget · 29 Jun 2017 at 09:38

xb8browney said:
I'm in the process of buying a house in a VM area, not been with them since 2011.

Anyway to get discount? Looking for broadband.

if you have facebook goto the local buy and sell pages there are normally VM reps on there canvassing. usually dish out some great deals for new customers

xb8browney · 29 Jun 2017 at 09:44

iamthenugget said:
if you have facebook goto the local buy and sell pages there are normally VM reps on there canvassing. usually dish out some great deals for new customers

That's a great idea thanks

iamthenugget · 29 Jun 2017 at 09:46

xb8browney said:
That's a great idea thanks

i see them advertising all the time.

just goto the marketplace and type in Virgin Media and bobs yer uncle

ChrisD. · 29 Jun 2017 at 10:40

Also search your postcode on their forums to make sure you're not in a congested area.

iamthenugget · 29 Jun 2017 at 10:42

ChrisD. said:
Also search your postcode on their forums to make sure you're not in a congested area.

thats a good idea. i have a friend in london and its amazing how much the VM quality can differ between areas

Valrak40k · 30 Jun 2017 at 08:42

I'm getting a business package with them, lets see how it goes.

iamthenugget · 30 Jun 2017 at 09:24

Valrak40k said:
I'm getting a business package with them, lets see how it goes.

i shall say it 1st, u will be fine

Valrak40k · 30 Jun 2017 at 10:42

iamthenugget said:
i shall say it 1st, u will be fine

If it fails, I'm blaming you

iamthenugget · 30 Jun 2017 at 10:48

Valrak40k said:
If it fails, I'm blaming you

aw thnx, mind u im used to getting the blame for anything that goes wrong

pumaz · 2 Jul 2017 at 02:28

I currently have the original Superhub 1 in modem mode connected to my
Asus RT-AC66U 802.11ac router which doesn't give me any problems. However VM have just upgraded me from 100mb to 150m + Superhub 3 and V6 box. I got the new equipment today but not plugged it in and after reading comments about the SH3 I wonder if I should! Should I stick with my current setup or use the new SH3?

r7slayer · 2 Jul 2017 at 03:18

pumaz said:
I currently have the original Superhub 1 in modem mode connected to my
Asus RT-AC66U 802.11ac router which doesn't give me any problems. However VM have just upgraded me from 100mb to 150m + Superhub 3 and V6 box. I got the new equipment today but not plugged it in and after reading comments about the SH3 I wonder if I should! Should I stick with my current setup or use the new SH3?

Lol your name

Anyway stick with your SH1 for now. If you can get 150Mbps on it just stick with it. SH3 causes increased latency. I mean the SH3 is fine for through put but increases latency so anything latency dependant will fall like gaming.