Thanks, cant see anything much related to Cheltenham in terms of congestion. I have a few friends with virgin in the area and they all report no trouble. One mentioned that peak it dips from 200 to closer to 100 but that would still be 60 meg faster than I currently have.
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Thanks, cant see anything much related to Cheltenham in terms of congestion. I have a few friends with virgin in the area and they all report no trouble. One mentioned that peak it dips from 200 to closer to 100 but that would still be 60 meg faster than I currently have.
Where in Cheltenham? I have a few friends that live there, I could ask around.
I'd also ask some of your friends to put up a TBB monitor graph so you can see the amount of jitter (if any).
You're assuming that upgrading will fix all the issues VM has with it's network.
I believe that this isn't the case, even VM employees are clueless.
Now, if spending an extra £5 fixes all my congestion issues. Then sign me up, but until I see evidence of this then it's just another money making scheme.
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Really really hope they raise the price so I can hopefully get out of my contract, BB has been ok (not great for 200MB though), but TV has been so bad i've just ordered Sky and will have to pay for both for now as I hate TiVo!
I'm only paying so I can make use of the extra upload speed which will save quite a bit of time uploading. Thankfully in my area there is no congestion issues and never has been, been with them since 2002 when NTL owned it.
Of course it's another money making scheme, but if I want a faster upload I don't have much choice.
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You can get out of it right now as prices are already going up. Letters have been going out for the past week or two but you don't need to wait for it to arrive.
Just call 150 and go through the options to thinking of leaving us.
Thanks, I'm near PC World. To be honest Jitter isn't a huge concern I don't really game much online these days my main requirement is a solid upload for Plex media streaming and cloud backup.
I got the email a few days ago:
So if I'm still in-contract I can cancel? Thinking of downgrading to broadband only as never use home line.
Yep, you can either cancel or renegotiate a better deal if you recontract. It used to be a once a year thing but now it's getting silly and twice a year.
You may be fine with the new gamer package then.
Just rung VM up and switched over the gamer package, though I don't think some of the sale people know about it yet as she had to get a manager to confirm it.
Apparently all I need to do is reboot my hub when I get home and I'll be on the new package. Got 14 days to see if it's any better, if it's not then I'll just drop it back down to the normal 200 vivid.
Apparently all I need to do is reboot my hub when I get home and I'll be on the new package. Got 14 days to see if it's any better, if it's not then I'll just drop it back down to the normal 200 vivid.
It's up on their own website now so looks that way:
"Up to 200Mbps download + Up to 20Mbps upload + No traffic management"
"Up to 200Mbps download + Up to 20Mbps upload + No traffic management"
For £13 more you can get 300 download/ 20 up and no bandwidth control at all as well & a few other extras with the homeworks + add on.
Was about to upgrade from 200mb to the 200mb gamer package, but I was offered 300mb with a £6 rolling discount. So hopefully around £52 a month (broadband only) if they can put that through with their system issues.
Was only a tiny bit extra so it was worth it.