Virgin Media increasing broadband speeds by 20 - 200% starting February
- Thread starter demonix
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i've been back with VM since september and I think there crap.
Im on the 50mb and only ever get 50mb when students in my area sod off back home.
I have to wait until july for the upgrade in my area to get this "Double Speed"
which means Im going to get it for 2 months and I'll probably chuck this garbage and go infinity.
I don't know how people are going yipppppeee free speed upgrade when you probably won't even see the difference most of the time.
There network is crap
Im on the 50mb and only ever get 50mb when students in my area sod off back home.
I have to wait until july for the upgrade in my area to get this "Double Speed"
which means Im going to get it for 2 months and I'll probably chuck this garbage and go infinity.
I don't know how people are going yipppppeee free speed upgrade when you probably won't even see the difference most of the time.
There network is crap
the problem is you are only seeing it from you perspective. Some areas are great. I'm on the Aztec west hub and my speeds are great. As is many areas of. The uk. Not all areas are oversubscribed with students.
A free upgrade is great, can download stuff even quicker and that's why I'm with virgin. Not for the sheer amount I download, but when I download something i want it as fast as possible and virgin in my area and other areas I've lived have delivered this.
Caporegime
great when hosting on games like COD. Server hosting is all about the upload.
Have to say I agree. My connection couldn't be better:
And now they are upgrading it to 100mb for free ?
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Caporegime
Are we going to have to give our old equipment back ?
I kind of like my current router as i've got the dd-wrt firmware on it and it does all i want it to, and more.
Ideally id like to be able to use the super hub as a modem and keep my existing router ?
And now they are upgrading it to 100mb for free ?
not fair test as its 1am but down and upload both faster than advertised, albeit by not a lot
sorry no idea, well have to wait for more info.
They just left me the Dlink router...told me to do what I want with it.
Caporegime
Cool. looks ilke i get to keep it then
I get the same through peak time as well. I honestly don't have any complaints.
Having said that though we had virgin media in our student house in Middlesbrough. I went to teesside uni and the whole area was full of students leaching 24/7 and the network was horribly over subscribed. VM there really was terrible and we never got advertised speeds.
Caporegime
I have a good'un. Cant wait for the speed doubling!
me (near Reading)
i started with virgin media around 10 years ago on the 512k broadband cable!
ive gone from
512k> 1mb > 10mb > 20mb and soon > 60mb
all on the same package with no extra cost
yeah me too, althou dont forget the 600k they had for a short time too
i guess thier making up for the fact we had to buy our own modems back then
Associate
my speed right now (13:04)
I always get full speed no matter what time of day it is. I'm lucky enough to live in an area thats pretty quiet and free of dirty students.
No speed upgrade for me till October at the earliest, but could be as late as june 2013
I always get full speed no matter what time of day it is. I'm lucky enough to live in an area thats pretty quiet and free of dirty students.
No speed upgrade for me till October at the earliest, but could be as late as june 2013
the price i pay for the broadband part never has no, the tv services and phone have but they are seperate parts of the package
i never bought a modem just a nic card?
Man of Honour
Sod it, I spoke to a mate who live a few miles down town and doublespeed website says he is getting upgraded in March-April and he's on 20Mb as of right now.
Seems odd that I'd get upgraded in October onwards and he's so soon according to the website.
He connects to the Cosham UBR whereas I connect to Fareham.
I need explanations dammit!
I am 90% tempted to phone up and upgrade to 50Mb and sit it through till October and then get upgraded to 100
Seems odd that I'd get upgraded in October onwards and he's so soon according to the website.
He connects to the Cosham UBR whereas I connect to Fareham.
I need explanations dammit!
I am 90% tempted to phone up and upgrade to 50Mb and sit it through till October and then get upgraded to 100
Associate
put simply
yes they shape p2p traffic and newsgroups on all packages. and you only have unlimited download limits on the 50mb and 100 mb packages at the moment
yes they shape p2p traffic and newsgroups on all packages. and you only have unlimited download limits on the 50mb and 100 mb packages at the moment
Man of Honour
Well looks like the VM engineer I spoke to at the petrol station was right. I just phoned up to upgrade to 50Mb from 30 and I asked multiple times in various ways and the guy went away twice to confirm, my area is being double speed upgraded at the end of Feb this year, I confirmed once again that at the end of Fed I’ll be on 100Mb and paying current 50Mb price and he confirmed this once again.
The doublespeed website states my area is due the upgrade October onwards…
Happy days An engineer is booked on the 25th to come round with a superhub as I have the VMNG300 at the moment, I’ll be running it modem only mode so no idea why they didn’t just post me one but apparently the line needs to be checked for calibration even though I had a superhub here before the modem swapout but ah well, not complaining. Plus I can go home early that day
The doublespeed website states my area is due the upgrade October onwards…
Happy days
An engineer is booked on the 25th to come round with a superhub as I have the VMNG300 at the moment, I’ll be running it modem only mode so no idea why they didn’t just post me one but apparently the line needs to be checked for calibration even though I had a superhub here before the modem swapout but ah well, not complaining. Plus I can go home early that day