Virgin Media Discussion Thread

Captain Planet said:
Yeah I do. I have no problems :)
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Yeah I knew you did Captain Planet. I recognise your sig from the PS4 forum :D

BF4 player if I recall? That's the main game I play online alongside FIFA.

BT Infinity has been brilliant for me, but I pay £41 a month just for my phone and broadband and I have Freesat for TV (left Sky years ago). But for £41.99 a month (for 12 months) I can get the VM Premier collection with 100mb broadband!

Seems like a no brainer, but it was a bit of an impulse and now I'm worried that a VM connection will be no good for gaming. If it's as good as BT Infinity I'll be happy.
 
Whether or not your connection is any good is all down to the area you live in. For me, living in Bath my connection has always been rock solid (7years) no YouTube issues and always a low ping. Only time I had an issue was when a cable monkey did a pull through for a house a few doors down and disconnected the wrong lines!

Just a shame every area is different!
 
NorthstaNder said:
Just signed up to VM for TV, broadband and phone.

My main question I guess is how are they for gaming on PSN? I'm coming from BT Infinity which has always been very good.
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Infinity will be better for gaming. Cable average latency will probably be similar, jitter will be higher.
 
prob leaving Virgin 2 weeks on Friday - after 14 years of excellent service :(

not had any of the major issues some have had - overall no complaints at all

going from 125mb fibre to "35-40" Fibre :( :( last few weeks been downloading all 250 of my steam games !

going to miss TIVO too - not sure I'm going to be able to watch everything before we leave
 
NorthstaNder said:
How does jitter affect things? Mine is about 20ms at the moment.
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Lag compensation won't be as effective if you have jitter on your line. Serious gamers hate it.

Pingtest.net is pretty useless because it only records latency and jitter over an incredibly short period of time. f8lure & thinkbroadband ping graphs will show the real picture.
 
What is jitter? I've only ever heard it used on pingtest/speedtest.net websites rather than networking in general.
 
Do you defiately need to upgrade from the old Ambit/Foxxcon E08C013 modem to Superhub 2 in order to get 50meg+ speeds? I.e. can you avoid having to upgrade to the FREE £5.99 superhub and just get them to give me the new speed over the phone? Speedtest says I am still on 20 so I guess they still have to manually press a button at their end, new modem or no.
 
Bubo said:
Do you defiately need to upgrade from the old Ambit/Foxxcon E08C013 modem to Superhub 2 in order to get 50meg+ speeds? I.e. can you avoid having to upgrade to the FREE £5.99 superhub and just get them to give me the new speed over the phone? Speedtest says I am still on 20 so I guess they still have to manually press a button at their end, new modem or no.
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IIRC, you do because the Ambit can't do the EuroDocsis 3 needed for the required channel bonding. Even if VM will send you a modem profile for 50meg, I don't think the modem can handle that speed. It doesn't have the processor power.

Why don't you want to replace your ancient Ambit modem?
 
I have just got my 152meg connection today and I am having a little trouble. I am currently using the new sub hub 2 in modem only mode with a Asus RT-N56U router. (I was told by the engineer that installed it that the superhub 2 would be better but I am not 100% convinced). The problem I am having is when connected to the router i can only manage speed of around 80-85meg, nothing near the 152 I am paying for. When I connect directly to the modem I did a speed test and got 140meg so I know it works, I think there must be a setting somewere in the fireware of the asus that i am missing to something? I know the cables are all Cat5e so should be able to carry the bandwidth? any ideas?
 
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