Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21455795

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442348

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/02/33.jpg

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

and peeps on here blame the speedtest servers for VM slowness :p

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

bravo to them. I think it is a fantastic story that ordinary Joe Bloggs has been able to go out and do what everyone wants to do and that is get fttp everywhere across the country. Having a 1gbit connection in the middle of no where is amazing. I would love to know whether that is per user or if it is a connection designed to be shared by X amount of users who paid into that fund in the village and the dude in the video just happened to be one of the first people connected.

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absolutely, at least we know what the Manchester server is capable of

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

All your small community needs is half a million pounds, some friendly farmers who will let you lay the cables on their land for no charge, lots of free volunteer labour, and a Russell Group professor to manage it....

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

sweet, when I win the National Lottery we are sorted :)

On a serious note though, if they can do all that with £500,000 I wonder how much they could do with £150 million from the Euro Millions.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Looks like those guys will be the favourites at the uSwitch awards next year for Fastest Home Broadband and Best Broadband Innovation.

http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/awards/2013/

Looks like Virgin have some stiff competition :D

Re: Speed doubling?
 

I'll match your nynex and raise you Wigan are the better team!

I'll also add that of the mainstream ISP's (BT, SKY) VM are the only ones with STM.
BTW has anyone thought what will happen when BT and other rivals start offering FTTP?

ATM it is available "on demand" at a cost to providers of £1,500 for the first 500mts what terms they will come up with for users is unknown but as a guesstimate if they wanted to do free install you would be looking at >£35 pm and 18mth min contract.

On the plus side you would be looking at a rock solid 160Mbps down and 20Mbps up (potential to rise to 330/30).

As VM already have fibre "in place" and ducting to their customers they could respond but may/would have to move away from Docsis which would take investment.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

And therein lies the problem.

Big cities and urban areas are generally not full of generous farmers hanging about with empty fields.

(P.S. The "Russell Group professor" was actually an IT support guy rather than an academic :))

VM have experimented with running FTTP over "cheap" infrastructure, e.g. poles and fields.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Mr Bolt said April to June for my upgrade (10MB to 20), but it happened yesterday :cleader:

Now to get the upgrade to 30 MB: Customer Support tell me there's no extra monthly charge, but there's a £20 delivery charge for a Superhub and a new 12 month contract. Got that agreed by Pauls9's budget adviser, called back, got disconnected, called again, got transferred to Technical Support, who couldn't make any changes for 24 hours since the last change.

Ah well, try again tomorrow...

P.S. Could I negotiate better terms?

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

It depends if you're in contract or not. If you're not in contract, just go through to retentions and tell them you're leaving.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Pretty sure I'm not in contract. Thanks Kushan.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

you could do, but tbh a one off charge of £20 isn't bad going for a new router (if you need one) and an upgrade to 30mbit. If you are going to go to the effort of rining retentions I would also enquire what the jump to 60mbits would be. If it is only another £2 a month on something it would be well worth it for you.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

In either case, retentions will give him a far better deal than CS will. They'll probably even save him money and give him the Superhub for free.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Thanks guys. I'll give it a go. What's the worst that can happen? ;)

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Lol, August 2012 they said for me. Now saying Aug 2013... lol... gotta love VM.