Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

then that would be a fail on VMs load balancing.

Instead 3 vmng300s on a 8 DS system should be something liek this,

modem 1 channels 1,2,3,4
modem 2 channels 5,6,7,8
modem 3 channels 3,4,5,6

if one out of 3 is maxed out the other 2 dont get screwed.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

And that would surprise you how?

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

120Mb BB only here (since January 2013) and no letter.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

no.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

No notification.
60Mbps BB only.
Complained about last BB only rise and ended up with a substantial discount and a new minimum term. That won't stop me complaining again if I do get a notification and imo it shouldn't stop you or anybody else. VM seem to enjoy running their business like a car boot stall so I take advantage of that and haggle.

The truth is that with everything else requiring a phone line the only way I'd better the price is by taking plain ADSL and even then the saving would be small so I stick with them. Anything higher and I would certainly go.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Perhaps they saw I just got new contract and decided to screw me over. As I said earlier I escaped price increase in October by taking out new BB ONLY contract. But it is hard to believe if they would look at each case individually or apply price increase to new contracts only. That's weird. Might need to give them a call.. In the meantime if you get any letters guys please get it posted here.. Thanks :)

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Have any of you also complained about energy price rises? Train fare price rises? And so on?

What's the big deal here?

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

errrr..

This is a forum about VM cable broadband. I think if we started posting about the above inflation increases for power and train fares (both of which have an element of government inflicted increase) we might have the mods suggesting they were off topic.

Above inflation increases in the product the forum is devoted to otoh are quite possibly on topic. They may not be justified of course especially as it seems most VM price increases are purely optional and only apply to those who cba to ring in and complain in a civil fashion so they get discounts instead.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

I don't really care much about price increase as I can always either cancel my contract or call them up to renegotiate. Just being curious to see whether really standalone package will see increase twice in just 6 months.

A lot of people also probably do not understand that price actually does not increase. It's been about the same for many years in fact I think it's probably cheaper.

Compared to increase in food, electricity and so on price for Broadband have barely increased at all, in fact what has increased is Download and Upload speeds.

It's the price during contract which is being artificially lifted to make up some money.

I remember paying 50quid+ XL broadband and the phone back in 2007.

In regards to 152 Meg product I think it would be great value for money for those that live in congestion free areas. But with Upload speed staying the same I would need to find a good timing when signing up for another 12 month contract.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Oscar makes a good point about how broadband prices have fallen in real terms. As I said, what's the big deal here?

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

It's no big deal. Prices rise.

The thing that people have picked up on is that there is a "free" speed doubling announcement and a price increase announcement. It is 100% certain that everyone will see the price rise before the speed rise and if it's the same as last time around quite a few will see a second price rise before they get their speed rise.

The point I'm trying to make is that the price rise is probably optional - mine and many others on BB only actually ended up with discounts instead and certainly last time around you could get an early speed upgrade simply by picking up the phone - I did that too and was on 60/3 a year before my sons 50/5 for which he paid considerably more got uplifted to 100/5 - he should have 120/12 by now but I'm pretty sure he doesn't and all because he cba to pick up the phone..

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

I used to sign up for VM contracts (well, in the days before VM) and kept the same broadband price for years on end.

Hell, train fares where I used to live normally rose no more than 2-3% per year even during 5% inflation, now it's the other way round, 2-3% inflation and 5-10% price rises.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

its got to the point where you wonder what are the basis of the 2-3% inflation figures, because everything I spend money on aside from electronics/entertanment is way above 2-3%.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Detail from page 5:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cpi/co...efing-note.pdf

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

I'm sure they diddled the calculation a few years back to conveniently remove items with rampant inflation (read: house prices) so it doesn't surprise me that the figure is meaningless.