Virginmedia expected to make their 50mb announcement today

Your home is not in a Virgin Media cable area so you can’t get our fibre-optic cable services, but you can get our National services.

.... wonder if that means they'll stop charging me.

I have V+, another STB, Full TV INCLUDING sports and movies and full phone package and 20MB BB for a lot more than £65

Time for a discount I think!
 
Anyone seen any kind of roll out plan yet? Where is being upgraded and when etc?
 
superplay said:
I would just prefer a good 10MB service with not throttles etc.

50MB what is the point if they sell you this and then slam you with throttling?

Marketing!
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Throttling isnt 24/7. There is plenty of time throughout the day to make full use of the 50Mb. Also during the throttling times you can download stuff 2.5x faster then 20Mb, meaning if you just download small stuff, 100mb patches, youtube clips and what not, it will download much faster then 20Mb. Just like the previous tiers of broadband, when they do implement STM for 50Mb, it will be higher then 20Mb, meaning not only can you download faster, but a file that could hit the STM limit on 20Mb might not on 50Mb.

I would rather have 20Mb, or 50Mb with STM then 10Mb without STM.
 
If they traffic manage me down to 12.5 then it's acceptable.

I download loads of Linux Distros so, when I'm halfway through a DVD size download and I get managed it switches it from being complete in 15 minutes to an hour.
 
Cable services

Because you're in a fibre optic cable area, you can get all this.
Up to 50Mb broadband
Up to 165 digital TV channels
Great value home phone packages

To order 50Mb broadband now just give our team a call on 0800 454 111* or 150 from your Virgin Media phone.


Edit: Phoned them up, available to order january 20th for my area and wont cost me a penny extra as I have the phone package anyway. im chuffed with that
 
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Don't see the point of it really not like usenet is inundated with stuff worth downloading.
 
50Mb is not just about downloading bigger stuff. I download lots of things throughout the day, most of which wouldnt hit the STM limits, and being able to download them things 2.5x faster then my 20Mb connection would be great. It may only save a few min download time on each file, but that all adds up and overall i will spend a lot less time just sitting and waiting for a file to finish downloading.
 
Same old Ntl/Virgin, No STM at inital launch, then 6 months down the line when it is fully rolled out and they can see they have enough suckers locked into a 12 month contract, they will drop another ridiculous STM, what next 3gb and throttled down to 56k probably!! "Virgin Media Retro Narrowband" relive those glorious days of 56k for only £52!!. 56 for £52!
 
Dangerous said:
hmmm wont be upgrading - I get everything for £60 so I'd lose my deal.
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yea same here i get landline phone , XL tv package and 20mbit all for 35quid a month, noway im upgrading and ending up paying a fortune again.

i think i got such a sweet deal from retentions because i was with telewest since the 18th of march 2002 :D
 
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DAvE18 said:
Edit: Phoned them up, available to order january 20th for my area and wont cost me a penny extra as I have the phone package anyway. im chuffed with that
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Hmm? Could you be a bit more specific about what you have, and why it entitles you to the 50 meg package?

I have pretty much everything with them, so I'd be interested in getting it for nowt :)
 
it could be 500meg for all i care. When will they give us a decent upload rate, so we can use our connections for I don't know, things OTHER than downloading (which they don't seem to be happy about us doing)
 
They will give a decent upload rate when the majority want a better upload rate. Currently many times more people need faster download then they do upload.
 
People upload videos, photos, files, etc all the time.

<Lame> Mb up is much more of a hinderance to contemporary net usage than 20 Mb down.
 
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Vertigo1 said:
Same tbh - have a "deal for life" until I change my package.

Frankly, 20Mb is fast enough for me - when I can download 8-9GB an hour I really don't see the need for anything faster.
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How can you download 9GB in an hour? Maybe if you didnt hit a cap...
3GB in around 25 mins then hitting a cap which will slow ya down to 5MB, will probably take several hours ;)
 
wush said:
People upload videos, photos, files, etc all the time.

<Lame> Mb up is much more of a hinderance to contemporary net usage than 20 Mb down.
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The vast vast majority of people shouting for increased upstream speeds are those using P2P network heavily, and thus about whom Virgin cares very little.

Upstream bandwidth usage is very "harmful" to the cable network's performance. The people who leave their bittorrent clients running 24/7, maxing their upstream bandwidth are a source of constant aggravation to Virgin and, should they increase this upstream bandwidth, such customers would immediately saturate it.

Whilst there are a few ligitimate reasons for needing high upstream bandwidth, the percentage of customers falling in these categories is few and far between.
 
Trox said:
How can you download 9GB in an hour? Maybe if you didnt hit a cap...
3GB in around 25 mins then hitting a cap which will slow ya down to 5MB, will probably take several hours ;)
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Err, because you do the downloading when the STM isn't in effect, like overnight. That's the whole point of the STM - to encourage you to download at off-peak times!

20Mb/s = 2.5MB/s = 8.79GB/h
 
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