Virgin rumours???

Jayster · 26 Aug 2010 at 13:18

jaybee said:
That's what the future is for Virgin. I'm sure the TIVO boxes of the future are looking to be IP based over the net delivery....atleast I thought I read something like that before. All speculation though - a lot of that in this thread!

So to confirm, the newer "all in one" Virgin modem/routers have Gigabit LAN ports? What about the incoming WAN port? I take it that's gigabit given that they do want to push above and beyond 100mbit net over the next few years.

Incomming WAN port? Cable uses coax cable. And the 50mb modem/router will have gigabit and if the 10 and 20mb modem/router is docsis 3 Compliant then it will have gigabit also. Does anybody have a new modem/router and can check this?

MagicalTrevor · 26 Aug 2010 at 14:06

At the end of the day VM customers still get throttled... so one has to ask... what's the point?

sanaxe1 · 26 Aug 2010 at 14:09

MagicalTrevor said:
At the end of the day VM customers still get throttled... so one has to ask... what's the point?

50mb customers do not.

vectisitch · 26 Aug 2010 at 14:11

ooooohhhhhhhh.my 50meg going up to 100meg.very nice if it's true

Participant · 26 Aug 2010 at 14:27

jaybee said:
All speculation though - a lot of that in this thread!

Strange that, given that the thread title is 'Virgin rumours???'

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Dist · 26 Aug 2010 at 14:33

MagicalTrevor said:
At the end of the day VM customers still get throttled... so one has to ask... what's the point?

50Mb customers don't have any sort of STM, and even with STM a 20Mb customer can still download over 100GB a day. So just because STM is in place on some connections doesn't suddenly make them pointless.

Andr3w · 26 Aug 2010 at 14:56

How are they managing to get such a massive jump from 20mb to 50mb (If true)

or even 50mb to 100mb! Thats a 100% speed jump!

sithlord · 26 Aug 2010 at 15:16

Don't 50Mbit customers get "heavy usage" letters ? If so when do they send them out i.e. what's the limit ?

benftl · 26 Aug 2010 at 15:32

They are getting them and it seems the only criteria is 'heavy downloading' during peak hours i.e before 9pm. Just another ISP being vague with their limits.

benftl · 26 Aug 2010 at 15:34

I believe they'll up all 10mb users to 20mb (no change of equipment required, aside from older 120's maybe), 50mb and 100mb will be their own separate tiers (so anyone looking to make the jump from 10/20 to 50 will still require an engineer visit etc). So we'll still have three tiers as we've always had, four would be too much choice IMO.

Broken Hope · 26 Aug 2010 at 15:34

Cycrow said:
if it was a free upgrade, they could just say its "upto" 50mb, and u just get the max u can get on your current equipment, and u'll have to replace it yourself if you wanted the full amount

i guess we'll find out soon what they have planned thou

That's not possible since their 50Mb network is Docsis 2.0 and older modems can't use that network, only 1.1

Jayster · 26 Aug 2010 at 15:38

Broken Hope said:
That's not possible since their 50Mb network is Docsis 2.0 and older modems can't use that network, only 1.1

50Mb is docsis 3 and I believe that 10 and 20 are docsis 2

benftl · 26 Aug 2010 at 15:39

50mb is docsis 3, 10 and 20 are now docsis 2 (or should be).

A 10mb -> 20mb 'upgrade', plus keeping with 50mb and adding 100mb as a separate tier makes perfect sense IMO, far more sense than 20mb -> 50mb where they'd have to send engineers to upgrade every old ambit in the country.

I'd place money on a 20mb, 50mb and 100mb tier system.

Nemesis379 · 26 Aug 2010 at 15:51

if i get 10mb to 20mb THAT WILL ROCK!

apatia77 · 26 Aug 2010 at 16:18

sithlord said:
Don't 50Mbit customers get "heavy usage" letters ? If so when do they send them out i.e. what's the limit ?

Only when they live in some oversubscribed areas it seems. Some people download a lot and receive no letters at all 500+GB p/m, and some people download reasonable amount of 100-200GB p/m and received such email.

It's a lottery it seems.

Dist · 26 Aug 2010 at 17:01

what will happen to 20Mb customers if they won't get an upgrade? Price drop? and will the price of 50Mb drop at all if they are adding in 100Mb as the highest tier?

chronic86 · 26 Aug 2010 at 17:50

sounds good love my 50mb i download a lot of data and never once had a heavy usage letter.

mr griffin · 28 Aug 2010 at 16:29

Looking forward to the 100meg if this is true - tho even with 50 meg noting really takes that long to download. I wonder if they are going to charge us 50 meg customers more of will it be a free upgrade like in years past?. I am more interested and can't help wondering what the upload will be on 100meg as the 1.6meg upload on 50meg is still a bit pants to be honest, faster upload is needed.

Camalot · 28 Aug 2010 at 19:00

10-20 would be nice

k3vst3r · 28 Aug 2010 at 19:09

Looking forward to the 100mbps, btw the router they give for free netgear wnr2000 only supports 100mbps on ethernet, so at 100mbps speed router will be going flat out 100% on the ports