£40/£50 I think and I wont be paying for that again.
Virgin Media 100Mb Service
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£40/£50 I think and I wont be paying for that again.
Thats putting me off aswell,quite happy to pay the activation charge but not both.
Tell me about it,ive recently moved into a small village and this is the best i can get here with a 40gb per month limit.
Ive got a download box with remote connection at my parents house running off a virgin 50mb line so will be moving upto 100mb when available.
Haha, you should be happy with that
I live in the real country side 
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the only damned thing that puts me off from going to VM is that the phone line thing paying an extra 11.99 which i won't even use! doh!
You can get internet only I think, unless they have changed it I used to get internet only at my old address.
How did you find out what month it was coming for you?
For me it just says "Coming soon"
Do you have to register interest?the problem is that I havn't seen any mention of them rolling out new fibre to anyone. So while people that have access to Virgin will now be able to get 100mb, those that don't are still struggling by on 0.5mb or worse.
My exchange is connected to Virgin but they didn't run a fibre to my area. As a result my Exchange is super fast but everyone in my area is limited to 4mb.
Meeting the EUs targets by just giving a lot of people 1gb/s and leaving everyone else in the cold isn't quite the right way to go about it.
My exchange is connected to Virgin but they didn't run a fibre to my area. As a result my Exchange is super fast but everyone in my area is limited to 4mb.
Meeting the EUs targets by just giving a lot of people 1gb/s and leaving everyone else in the cold isn't quite the right way to go about it.
i'll be upgrading to it if it's £35 + £11.99 phone line, but if they try to get me to pay the activation and installation charges again they can forget it. i'm already on the 50Mb, i don't see why i should pay for activation and installation.
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On 50 meg atm its not bad but faster is always better imo and the 10meg upload speed would be really handy. looks like I wont be getting it til next year probably tho as it only says available soon in my area.
Is the superhub the modem/router combo that forces you to use their router? If so, is there any way to disable all functionality of the router other than the basic NAT and still use my current router for firewall, filtering, port fowarding, network monitoring etc...?
I hope it will be something similar to the 50mb price.
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Absolutely love my 50mb so can't wait for double that!!
How did you find out what month it was coming for you?
For me it just says "Coming soon"
its not for me thats just in general
http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=205406&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1487663&highlight=
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As if I'm going to use the Virgin Media supplied "superhub" over my WNDR3700!
I'm interested, I manage to get a yearly price deal and atm am paying £29 a month for 20MB as a sole product since I don't have any other VM service. It's about the time of the year to re-negotiate a deal price too and I have submitted my details as 100MB is available from December in this area!
If anything I'm hoping for the 50MB pack for a similar price as I am on now.
50MB down + 5MB up is a nice package!
I'm interested, I manage to get a yearly price deal and atm am paying £29 a month for 20MB as a sole product since I don't have any other VM service. It's about the time of the year to re-negotiate a deal price too and I have submitted my details as 100MB is available from December in this area!
If anything I'm hoping for the 50MB pack for a similar price as I am on now.
50MB down + 5MB up is a nice package!
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What useage caps will there be on this, if any? Surely there'll be something, hopefully sensibly defined. I can't see people being happy to have the same cap as the 50MB package if VM try to do this.
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Superb pricing on virgins behalf... 2 1/2 times the speed of BT, most likely more reliable and higher delivered speeds.
Looks like it's coming to SE and London first... so I can't wait!
Looks like it's coming to SE and London first... so I can't wait!
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I agree, same here as I pay £50 for installation and £50 for activation fee and £52 for first month in advance service of 50Mb.
I will not accepting another installation and activation fee (that's just Virgin Media profit money themselves)
I might stick with 50Mb if Virgin won't let me to have free activation and installation charge as a goodwill offer for customer loyalty (50mb)
I just saw on thinkbroadband and 100Meg will be on traffic management
Traffic Management–Network-level protocol based traffic management will be in place which protects the quality of service for quality-sensitive applications such as video streaming. This will mean that during peak times (5pm-midnight on weekdays and noon to midnight on weekends), peer-to-peer protocols and newsgroup downloads may be shaped to manage capacity, however it is not expected that subscriber-based traffic management (i.e. managing heavy users) will be in place at this time.
So, it pointless to have 100Meg if traffic shaping 5pm until midnight mon-fri and 12pm until 12am for weekend
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You don't have a choice. The superhub has the cable modem in it. I just hope that it is possible to disable as much of the superhub router functionality as possible so that it is still possible to use an even better 3rd party router in between the superhub and the LAN.