Virgin Media 50mb Roll out - anyone know where list of progress is?

JBod · 15 Oct 2008 at 22:52

Well I think most of us know that 50mb is supposed to be 40% complete by the end of the year. What I want to know is does anyone have a url showing their progress of POP upgrades?

Previously when doing the 20mb and 10mb upgrades they kept a page showing where had been upgraded and sometimes ETAs for others?

jaybee · 15 Oct 2008 at 22:58

Have you checked the cable forum? Normally they have things like this stickied. When you say by the end of the year... are you saying everyone should be on 50mb by the end of 2008? I hadn't heard this yet. I knew it was on the cards but didn't hear anything official yet. Maybe I've been living under a rock. Im on 10mb currently. Will I go up to 25 or something?

BlackAle · 15 Oct 2008 at 23:39

I read they are starting rollout in a few areas, the rest will be in early 2009. I don't think VM have a page up yet.

Jabbs · 16 Oct 2008 at 08:26

jaybee said:
Have you checked the cable forum? Normally they have things like this stickied. When you say by the end of the year... are you saying everyone should be on 50mb by the end of 2008? I hadn't heard this yet. I knew it was on the cards but didn't hear anything official yet. Maybe I've been living under a rock. Im on 10mb currently. Will I go up to 25 or something?

50 meg is a new tier so could possibly be XXL and rumours are its going to be £10+ more than the 20meg package, 50 will be using there new backbone too, if you are on 10 meg you have had your upgrade from 4-10 thats it for you atm.

JBod · 16 Oct 2008 at 08:49

Apparently there will be no caps or restrictions at initial roll out time (leaked by allegedly VM employees) but they will are likely to introduce one later depending on take up and usage.

Also rumored from the same sources are that VM are considering removing all STM and introducing ALLOT. ALLOT is deep package inspection and likely means they will be blocking or restricting certain ports and programs (Bittorrent etc...).

Tinders · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:55

Ive been selected for a free trial for the 50mb package, I live in Dudley but ive had no dates or anything though.

Jabbs · 17 Oct 2008 at 19:33

Damn wish they would select me, did they email you or something ?

malef!c · 17 Oct 2008 at 19:41

Is it still true that the 20Mb users will be on the same network* as the 50Mb users meaning the speeds may be a bit better in certain areas.

*network possibly isn't the right word, but hope you catch me drift!

dbmzk1 · 17 Oct 2008 at 20:11

malef!c said:
Is it still true that the 20Mb users will be on the same network* as the 50Mb users meaning the speeds may be a bit better in certain areas.

*network possibly isn't the right word, but hope you catch me drift!

That was never true. Only the 50Mb customers will be on the new DoCSIS 3 system. 20Mb and eventually the rest of the services will of course eventually be moved to the new system as its much more efficient, but that wont happen for quite a while.

The only improvement you might see is if a lot of people in your area switch to 50Mb.

As for the service itself, it is £52 a month, has 1.5Mb/s upload and it *DOES* have throttling. You can download 10GB between 4pm and 9pm then it goes down to 7.5Mb/s which I think is disgusting, it's a complete and total rip off.

Dist · 17 Oct 2008 at 20:15

dbmzk1 said:
As for the service itself, it is £52 a month, has 1.5Mb/s upload and it *DOES* have throttling. You can download 10GB between 4pm and 9pm then it goes down to 7.5Mb/s which I think is disgusting, it's a complete and total rip off.

You may think its a rip off, but its quite a big upgrade over 20Mb, and even if it has trottling you can download a large ammount before that even becomes an issue, and 7.5Mb/s is still a very usable speed.

Robert · 17 Oct 2008 at 20:36

dbmzk1 said:
That was never true. Only the 50Mb customers will be on the new DoCSIS 3 system. 20Mb and eventually the rest of the services will of course eventually be moved to the new system as its much more efficient, but that wont happen for quite a while.

The only improvement you might see is if a lot of people in your area switch to 50Mb.

As for the service itself, it is £52 a month, has 1.5Mb/s upload and it *DOES* have throttling. You can download 10GB between 4pm and 9pm then it goes down to 7.5Mb/s which I think is disgusting, it's a complete and total rip off.

Pretty sure it isn't going to have throttling from the off.

Jabbs · 17 Oct 2008 at 20:51

If virgin pushing it as there "Premium" service and the usage etc posted by dbmzk1 is true its a total joke and nothing i would touch.