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"We are spending money on our network!"

"Well don't. Don't increase speeds anymore and then you can stop putting your prices up"

"Erm... our network?"

"No stop doing anything just keep prices the same"

"But... but we are greedy..."

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

... and faster... whether you want it or not!

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Even if Virgin Media kept the headline speeds the same, data usage is increasing significantly year on year, so there would still be the need to invest in network capacity.

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Yep sorry Vince but BenMcr and jj20x are spot on.

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Thing is atm VM are currently the fastest widespread provider but firms are now rolling out 1gbs and i think VM will be left behind.
Not for quite awhile yet though.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Well we shall see as plenty can talk the talk but can they walk the walk.

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But companies are already walking the walk hyperoptic, gigabit are offering 1gb speeds already BT are rolling out 300mbs italk are preparing to trial 800mb.

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DOCSIS 3.1 can go much faster than current VM speeds and there are other developments such as DOCSIS 3.1 Full Duplex. The future path adopted by VM remains to be seen but there's no reason why they should be left behind.

Quite a while a quite a few more price increases ahead to keep up. ;)

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Tbh mate i'm more than happy with the 38mbs i get at mo that's plenty for me.

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I have 200mb in theory - in practice 12 to 15mb as my PC is wifi connected to the hub.

So all talk of high speeds is b*||*#^t in my opinion

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There's not much point taking the highest speed if all of the customer equipment on the network is connected by wi-fi at low speed. Most of my equipment connects on 5GHz channels at relatively high speed. Generally at speeds above the broadband rate. Having said that, I don't use the superhub for wi-fi.

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I agree although my network is wired but i live stream my gaming and the 38mbs down and 10mbs up speeds are fine i have no issues at all.

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VM provides a good, fast broadband service in my experience, but the upload speeds suck. I'm on VIVID 200 which means 12Mbps upload, so my cloud backups take days. I'd be most interested if I could get Hyperoptic's fibre 100Mbps (it's the same speed both down and up).

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Hi its because there is not a lot coming to virgin media and people making there own fun

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