Virgin Media Upload Speed Upgrades

Cuchulainn · 1 Oct 2010 at 20:47

You Tube is always dreadful for me too. Yet up here at my second home in Scotland on Sky 20MB, it flies along; never a stutter or a buffer.

Bit disappointed about the nntp throttling on 50MB. It's an awful lot of money to be paying to have them dictate how much I can download at full speed at certain times, and from where.

oli356 · 1 Oct 2010 at 21:05

Youtube is always a pain in the ass here... sucks as it use to be great

And considering no other website will come more popular... for a long time.... ever?

Qu3 · 1 Oct 2010 at 21:41

Does anyone actually upload 6gb daily?

.. that isn't Bitorrent related..

oli356 · 1 Oct 2010 at 22:13

Qu3 said:
Does anyone actually upload 6gb daily?

.. that isn't Bitorrent related..

Some people will. Especially if uploading things to hosting sites like megaupload for example.

Or a load of YouTube videos.. (long uploading times -.-)

Psycho Sonny · 1 Oct 2010 at 22:16

Qu3 said:
Does anyone actually upload 6gb daily?

.. that isn't Bitorrent related..

its 6GB within 5 hours, so over 1GB an hour.

if you are doing more than that, then you should be throttled, if its affecting other users.

Qu3 · 1 Oct 2010 at 22:19

oli356 said:
Some people will. Especially if uploading things to hosting sites like megaupload for example.

Or a load of YouTube videos.. (long uploading times -.-)

I'd class mega upload at bittorrent related to be honest..

oli356 · 1 Oct 2010 at 22:30

Psycho Sonny said:
its 6GB within 5 hours, so over 1GB an hour.

if you are doing more than that, then you should be throttled, if its affecting other users.

While at full speeds on 50meg service you should be able to up 2.25gb per hour.

Limits suck... but if it affects other users then it needs to be done. Always wonder though how much it actually affects people. Like would someone downloading 24/7 on 50meg have a affect on someone trying to download on say 10meg who lives next door for e,g,

Jayster · 1 Oct 2010 at 23:53

Well at the end of the day if you are throttled down you are only going down to what we have currently. Im more worried about traffic shaping.

allday247 · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:05

Sweet little upgrade, although i don't use BT to download any more but it will still be handy. But BT infinity's proposed upload speeds will trounce this (20Mb)

stigggeh · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:30

Got mine today, I much prefer upload increases to download.

10Mb is fast enough, adding to the upload is welcomed by me

thingemajib · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:47

ca9phoenix said:
no update for me yet

rubbish speeds

some people are just spoilt

Gangster · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:47

Shame they haven't doubled download!

Beansprout · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:57

5mbit upload yippee

Can never get enough upload speed as I often have to upload data for clients etc.

Of course owning a hosting company I tend to use our gigabit-connected servers but sometimes things need uploading from home!

xiphrex · 2 Oct 2010 at 01:44

Still not updated here, but looking forward to it!

Its about time we got some decent affordable upload speed!

Dave85 · 2 Oct 2010 at 03:19

So our totally unmanaged and unshaped 50mb has a chance of being crippled because so many moaning gits want more upload for torrents. Fantastic fail.

100mb better be quick getting released and totally free of all this nonsense. At least we had nearly 2 years without there nonsense.

oli356 · 2 Oct 2010 at 05:10

Wonder how long it's going to take for them to get this put into place then!

allday247 · 2 Oct 2010 at 11:02

Has the Plymouth service had their upload speed bumped yet? btw having more upload speed is better than download speed these days as 10 or even 20mb is fast enough.

Ryan111 · 2 Oct 2010 at 12:21

Im in plymouth mate and am still waiting for this long awaited increase!

Zarf · 2 Oct 2010 at 12:40

allday247 said:
Sweet little upgrade, although i don't use BT to download any more but it will still be handy. But BT infinity's proposed upload speeds will trounce this (20Mb)

Virgin can increase upload speeds whenever they want, Cable is very flexible like that. Docsis 3.0 actually means that they could support 30Mb/s upload already if they wanted, and channel bonding is easy (that's how they are doing the 100Mb/s and faster products, just bonding multiple 50Mb/s channels. As long as their internal network can handle it, they can put uploads up easily.

BT, however, is limited by the last mile infrastructure because FTTC with VDSL isn't as capable as cable.

I don't really care about BT, but I'd love better upload speeds - limited to 256Kb/s on my crappy rural ADSL and it's doing my head in dealing with emailing photos and uploading them to my websiste. I'd love to be able to use a proper online backup service as well.

Jayster · 2 Oct 2010 at 22:12

Zarf said:
Virgin can increase upload speeds whenever they want, Cable is very flexible like that. Docsis 3.0 actually means that they could support 30Mb/s upload already if they wanted, and channel bonding is easy (that's how they are doing the 100Mb/s and faster products, just bonding multiple 50Mb/s channels. As long as their internal network can handle it, they can put uploads up easily.

BT, however, is limited by the last mile infrastructure because FTTC with VDSL isn't as capable as cable.

I don't really care about BT, but I'd love better upload speeds - limited to 256Kb/s on my crappy rural ADSL and it's doing my head in dealing with emailing photos and uploading them to my websiste. I'd love to be able to use a proper online backup service as well.

My understanding is that the older equipment on the street is the limiting factor atm. Hence why it is taking so long for them to roll it out, So in theory easy to upgrade but in practice very expensive. Also 50mb/s is run over 3 or 4 (depending on your ubr) bonded channels just not running at full capacity.