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 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.
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).
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.