So if you're a business customer you can now get 300mbit via VM for the princely sum of £80 inc phone line/calls and priority QoS/SLA, bad news is the 100mbit, 200mbit and 300mbit business packages come with a 15mbit upload. No that's not a typo, fifteen megabit. Still it at least shows that the DOCSIS 3.0 spec has room to improve for residential customers before 3.1 is needed.
Virgin 300mbit .... £80/m but can you guess what the upload speed is?
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I wouldn't expect symmetrical broadband for £80 pm tbh.
Virgin Media offer symmetrical Broadband through their big red packages dedicate line service but at a cost.
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.u...dband-and-Internet-Services/Big-Red-Internet/
edit.. you're looking at business ultrbroadband which isn't Symmetrical and not dedicated.
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.u...and-and-Internet-Services/business-broadband/
Dedicated line
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.u...and-and-Internet-Services/business-broadband/
Personally, I'd like a symmetrical service for home, purely for faster off site backups.
Virgin Media offer symmetrical Broadband through their big red packages dedicate line service but at a cost.
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.u...dband-and-Internet-Services/Big-Red-Internet/
edit.. you're looking at business ultrbroadband which isn't Symmetrical and not dedicated.
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.u...and-and-Internet-Services/business-broadband/
Dedicated line
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.u...and-and-Internet-Services/business-broadband/
Personally, I'd like a symmetrical service for home, purely for faster off site backups.
I wasn't suggesting the product should be symmetrical, let alone for that money, but 300/15 doesn't bode well for residential configs rolling with a higher upload any time soon, even if they bump up the speed.
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Where I'm moving to, the tech is basically the same as what Virgin use and they're offering 500/50 without any issue.
I think 3.1 is good for in-excess of 1gbit down, not sure of up.
I'd rather sacrifice down for more up... I'd be happier with a 250/250 connection instead of 500/50... although I'm not complaining about 500/50
I think 3.1 is good for in-excess of 1gbit down, not sure of up.
I'd rather sacrifice down for more up... I'd be happier with a 250/250 connection instead of 500/50... although I'm not complaining about 500/50
Where I'm moving to, the tech is basically the same as what Virgin use and they're offering 500/50 without any issue.
I think 3.1 is good for in-excess of 1gbit down, not sure of up.
I'd rather sacrifice down for more up... I'd be happier with a 250/250 connection instead of 500/50... although I'm not complaining about 500/50
DOCSIS 3.0 is capable of 150mbit up in it's revised form and over 100mbit up in the initial draft, this suggests they are going to continue the policy of strangling the uplink speed for residential services until they launch 3.1 hardware, realistically I can see another round of speed upgrades before that happens and as soon as BT launch G.fast they offer 3.1 based plans, the hardware has been going into selected regions since late last year (white SH3 with VoIP ports).
Maybe they want to intentionally cripple these packages in upload so that businesses who need the extra bandwidth are forced to jump up to the dedicated lines instead and give them more money.
I would, but then I'm spoilt as Hyperoptic are in my building so 1Gb symmetric is £46 per month
I'd get your units of measurement right before haggling on price
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Fair point though, clearly Mbit rather than mbit.
15 is more than what I'd have guessed. I'd have thought it'd be 8 or 10mbit
Considering 200/12 (well 210/12 realistically) is the top residential config 300/18 or 300/20 would seem a logical option, 300/15 is tight.
I haven't been up to date on their speeds. I last remember a colleague telling me he had 150 or 100 down and 6 up so not bad guesswork from there
Their SLA is completely worthless.
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/PageFiles/4973/Business-Broadband-SLA.pdf
http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/PageFiles/4973/Business-Broadband-SLA.pdf
It doesn't cost any differently to download bandwidth really the problem is more that customers are more likely to unknowingly leave peer to peer or torrent clients running 24/7 absolutely hammering upload bandwidth whereas with downloads to an extent they get whatever they were after in short bursts and then stop.
Also large upload requirements can in most cases be tied to more business orientated needs which these residential services are not aimed at hence limit the residential services and force the customers that have a legitimate need to pay appropriately.