Virgin Media increasing broadband speeds by 20 - 200% starting February

whitecrook said:
Im struggling what to use my 100mb connection for or even the 10 up? Does anyone have good legitimate uses for it ? After pulling down a few tbs of various media etc im now wondering what to do.
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By far its best use is for enabling you to do multiple things at once.

You can game on your Xbox / PC / PS3 and not have to worry about what others in your household may be doing.

Now they can download stuff / stream iplayer / use torrents / do whatever the hell they like and not max out the connection.

And that means you don't end up shouting at them to stop hogging all the bandwidth because its made your game unplayable. That was the sort of thing we had to contend with when we all had 1 /2 /4/ 8 mb connections with only 256kb upload. Now a days with 100mb down and 5 mb up, you don't need to worry.
 
My sister's on 10Mb fibre - so the upgrade will take her to 20Mb.

Is she eligible for a SuperHub?

Currently using some ancient beige Webstar modem.
 
well, they are giving the superhubs away with new 10mb connections now (must be a recent thing, im sure they were using the old modems for <30mb towards the end of last year) so I would say yeah she probably is eligible. give them a call :)
 
14-15MB/sec download rates, that means a full BluRay movie will take less than 1 hour to download, that's 45GB!
 
james.miller said:
well, they are giving the superhubs away with new 10mb connections now (must be a recent thing, im sure they were using the old modems for <30mb towards the end of last year) so I would say yeah she probably is eligible. give them a call :)
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Probably discontinuing the old ones and getting them all binned.
 
Lol. Ive never hada problem with the old surfboards, the other little black one or the superhub. I do not use the wireless. That said, I might give it a go since my new laptop has 'n'.
 
Glaucus said:
This is what I'm thinking, surly there must be a price reduction though for us on 50mb.
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Hope so. I don't want 100MB or 120MB, I want decent capacity for peak usage times, something Virgin cannot provide in the centre of Cambridge. 50MB is more than enough for my needs, I'd rather get a fiver off.
 
platypus said:
Hope so. I don't want 100MB or 120MB, I want decent capacity for peak usage times, something Virgin cannot provide in the centre of Cambridge. 50MB is more than enough for my needs, I'd rather get a fiver off.
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50 is getting upgraded to 120, basically they are getting rid of several tiers. So no price cut for us.
Apparently as part of the upgrade capacity will be sorted as well, but we'll see.
 
If I understand it correctly...

50 is getting upgraded to 100.
100 is being upgraded to 120 and will end up paying the current 50Mb tariff.

This would seem to mean that either 50Mb users will receive a discount on what they are currently paying, or current 100Mb users will receive 120Mb for the same monthly cost as current 50Mb users, like some kind of loyalty/first adopters bonus? The latter sounds unlikely though?
 
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