Virgin to Increase speed for free

The 50Mbs will take forever, been waiting for my 10Mb upgrade for months, looks like the Sheffield area will be the last. :)

Are they upgrading 20mb users to 50? or just offering a higher package?
 
50mbit is a waste of money if you ask me. So few ways you can use it. Saying that I do have 20mbit :)

I've always been very happy with Virgin/NTL though, never had any problems with capping or poor performance. Don't think there can be many other users in my area.
 
i'm to innocent to be a virgin.. customer.
i dunno this whole marlarkey with "fibre optic broadband" just does my head in. fibre to the home is not here yet but virgin insist on calling it fibre optic even tough it runs on copper from the exchange.
or maybe i'm just sour cos i can't get it yet.
anyways 50mb would blow my head off with that much power muhaha.
 
yay upgraded haringey area london

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All Virgin have done is upgrade the connections from their systems to the interchanges with fibre optic, but the connections to houses are still all copper. It'd be a huge operation to get the country on fibre optic.
 
Gotta wonder what virgin are playing at. They have many over subscribed areas, they enforce traffic management at peak times to make the system run better for everyone else, yet they offer 50meg BB so everyone can download even more stuff faster than before and slow the system down even more. That's really going to help! Nice move Virgin! Im wondering if this is just some marketing BS just like the fibre optic they keep mentioning.

Virgin media have the best technology in place by far. It's just a pitty they dont maintain/upgrade it as much as they should!

As for VM advertising the speed you get, i've never got the advertised speed of 20. Most i ever got was about 14 with a direct link between modem/pc. I may as well go with O2 and get 11megs for £22 less per month. At least i get a solid 11megs 24/7, unlike Virgins 20meg that drops to 3-5megs for most of the day.
 
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Aekeron said:
Lol. Good joke there.

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ah u know what i mean, at least it is possible to get the advertised speed :p

i haven't got any complaints against virgin tbh, they make their policy clear, and i'm not stupid enough anymore to download more than their limits and then complain that i've been speed restricted.
 
P_A_N_I_C said:
ah u know what i mean, at least it is possible to get the advertised speed :p

i haven't got any complaints against virgin tbh, they make their policy clear, and i'm not stupid enough anymore to download more than their limits and then complain that i've been speed restricted.
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It's true. I don't know how I get by on my lowly 22mbit ADSL connection :(
 
RobRX-7 said:
Gotta wonder what virgin are playing at. They have many over subscribed areas, they enforce traffic management at peak times to make the system run better for everyone else, yet they offer 50meg BB so everyone can download even more stuff faster than before and slow the system down even more. That's really going to help! Nice move Virgin! Im wondering if this is just some marketing BS just like the fibre optic they keep mentioning.

Virgin media have the best technology in place by far. It's just a pitty they dont maintain/upgrade it as much as they should!

As for VM advertising the speed you get, i've never got the advertised speed of 20. Most i ever got was about 14 with a direct link between modem/pc. I may as well go with O2 and get 11megs for £22 less per month. At least i get a solid 11megs 24/7, unlike Virgins 20meg that drops to 3megs for most of the day.
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You may want to read up on DOCSIS 3 before you make knee-jerk reactions to the 50Mb introduction. Its far more efficient than DOCSIS 2.1 and when they eventually move over to it (for all speeds) youd be surprised the bandwidth released...

Unfortunately it just seems to be the norm for large companies (c.f. rail network) not to reinvest in their tech to support gradual and effective rollout of newer speeds - hell the majority of POTS is still using 50yr old copper cabling :p - I personally cant wait for 21CN...

As you said cable really is the way forward (well full fibre-optic is but we wont get that investment anytime soon) it just seems VM only want to position themselves for short-term gain rather than long-term market share. I wonder what theyll do when they dont have to support ATV via cable...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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Erm Psuedo, you do realise that 21CN is just BT updating their POTS backbone, it won't make any difference to the end user, at least for internet (all it's basically doing is moving voice traffic over to fully digital from the exchange onwards - about the only difference it'll make for customers is that the exchange should be able to handle more calls at once).

It's main advantage will be in how much it'll save BT every year, as they won't be maintaining 2 different backbone networks, one being based on rather old tech (I've heard it suggested that BT will recoup the cost in savings within about 3-5 years or less).
 
My area has finally been updated as complete on the website so I decided to reset the modem. Turned it back on and I've found out instead of getting 480k i'm now getting around 550k at most. I should in theory be getting 1mb/sec shouldn't if i they've upgraded me to 10mb? Should I just wait it out for a week to see if things change?
 
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