Virgin M500 pack for Gaming

Been diamond cable and Virgin user for the the past 20 years @ 2 different addresses.

Never had an issue, apart from the odd outage that was generally resolved in a a couple of hrs, the router did pack up once and I had a new one a day later without any questions.
 
Here's my Virgin TBB graph over the last 24 hours, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary but as you can see the spikes are definitely there. In comparison, my EE graph is completely flat.

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Been with VM for years - 20mb, 30mb, 70mb and currently 100mb. It's been down all of about 3-4 times to my knowledge in my area and I've never had an issue with latency. Really hard to fault it. Even the latest hub patched up seems fine. The only time you see any slight fuss seems to be when a new hub is released. This then gets addressed with updates over the course of a few months.
 
Low ping im sure 50MB is fine for gaming. I had an NTL connection at uni in 2004 that was something like 15-20MBps but the ping was always really low (20-30) so perfect for gaming (MOHAA & SOF2)
Download wise though, it helps with the huge updates and patches
 
On virgin 500 here, hard wired, no issues at all gaming, even if the wife is streaming on catchup and daughters in their iPads. Been rock solid for years
 
Im on the 100Mb package and started to get high latency and packet loss issues at the start of the year. I'm almost certain this is caused by more people WFH and VM over subscribing their connections causing congestion. It depends on where you live really - If you're in a heavy VM customer area, chances are you're going to get the high latency spikes.

Check out VMs gaming forum and you'll get a feel for whats going on.
 
Virgin Media did have issues with speeds and pings in my area a while ago, mainly due to overloading the local network with too many new subscribers (many of whom were students who were torrenting 24/7). However over the last few years their service for me has been rock solid and also they've upgraded my connection numerous times. I'm now on 200mbit, and I get that speed reliably with low pings.
 
Tombstone said:
The 500 is for work related reasons, speed is fine its more about ping spikes and latency that I was interested in when it comes to gaming wirh it. Good to hear from the two posts that it seems to be fine, thanks for the replies.
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Your latency won't change going from any of VM packages to 500. I've had VM since the early days when it was 150-600K cable and latency remains unchanged to this very day at 350Mb.
 
mrk said:
Your latency won't change going from any of VM packages to 500. I've had VM since the early days when it was 150-600K cable and latency remains unchanged to this very day at 350Mb.
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Good to know, the 500mb is due to be setup for me on the 19th, so I'll find out then what its like for intensive online gaming in regards of connection quality
 
Ive had virgin 200 at my old address, no problems what so ever. After a gap of just over a year (partner having AWFUL talktalk 32mb broadband) im finally getting my beloved virgin back @ 500mb YAYYYY!!!!
Oh how ive missed you! Nothing like virgin (right back to NTL) for online gaming. Always been solid. And yes you will have to restart the router now and then, sure others have found that. Sometimes my internet used to ‘die’ around 12-1am, no idea why. Did that for around a month or two. Other times just needed turning on and off to reboot. Probably 3 or 4 times in a year. But every online game, cod battlefield diablo dota you name them, solid. BT broadband blah blah should be banned as far as im concerned

Be good to hear how you get on Tombstone with your 500......
 
Hillary Briss said:
Ive had virgin 200 at my old address, no problems what so ever. After a gap of just over a year (partner having AWFUL talktalk 32mb broadband) im finally getting my beloved virgin back @ 500mb YAYYYY!!!!
Oh how ive missed you! Nothing like virgin (right back to NTL) for online gaming. Always been solid. And yes you will have to restart the router now and then, sure others have found that. Sometimes my internet used to ‘die’ around 12-1am, no idea why. Did that for around a month or two. Other times just needed turning on and off to reboot. Probably 3 or 4 times in a year. But every online game, cod battlefield diablo dota you name them, solid. BT broadband blah blah should be banned as far as im concerned

Be good to hear how you get on Tombstone with your 500......
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I'll try a bevvy of ping spike sensitive FPS titles in the first week of having it and then give my feedback on how I've found it to be
 
Ive had no issues with my 100mb connection but I did find the home hub was crap so I use it as a modem only and have a netgear nighthawk router.
 
Gimpymoo said:
If your hoping to run the Router in "Modem mode", be prepared for a **** show, mileage may vary.

It can be very random.
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Nope, got no plans to use modem mode.

Early days yet as I've only had it for a couple of days but so far its been awesome. Insane download speeds and my fears of ping spikes etc in games havent come to fruition. Wi-fi around the house has also been very good. Fingers crossed that continues for the remainder of my initial weeks testing.
 
I'm on 360, and if you excluded what appears to be there maintenance slot sometimes during the day in the week, our internet link has been really good.
 
Considering most online games don't generally use more than around 128 - 256Kbps worth of bandwidth, you're never going to have a problem with bandwidth, unless you want to do lot of downloading whilst playing, in which case you're going to run into interpolation issues, buffers and other issues, which may be helped by having more bandwidth, maybe QoS in limited circumstances, but not much.

The biggest factor with cable is the line quality, if you have good CATV and well terminated cabling - it should be rock solid, however if you have problems with the cable itself, (bad signal, bad power, loss of sync, etc) it can be 100x harder to fix than DSL, as CATV (cable) is much, much more complex than regular telephone lines.

If you're on VM and it's good, it's probably going to remain good indefinitely.
 
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