Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Telford area never get 100Meg upload as my nephew just told me

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Yeah got my boost on Friday with a lot of the rest of the country, but looks like it hasn't hit some areas yet still

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...-national.html

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Yawn!!!!

My 5G beat that! 1333Meg down and 146Meg up! £12 a month for no contract with smarty social tariff total unlimited! :D:D

https://i.ibb.co/h90MWdj/Screenshot-...-Speedtest.jpg

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

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Who gives a flying feck what speed you're on compared to others........

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Not really, it all about how greedy virgin media are. 1Gig cost £52 a month compared to smarty 5G £12. Smarty are bloody bargain!

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I am going to be the only one in this thread without it, arent I. :)

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

£12pm for those not working, the hard grafters need to pay £18pm.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Nope they can get it for £15 or £16 on some website smarty offer! Social tariff is £12 but I think VM should offer social tariff 1Gig for £10!

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

are you using the sim in a mobile or on a sim router for them speeds

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Not sure why others should pay more to subsidise for someone not working to get it cheaper.

I lost my job once before and either did without or paid if I could.

A smartphone and fast BB (1Gb/s @ £10 LOL) are still a luxury today.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Seems it is about 94% of the customer base, with the rest waiting on upgrade works before getting the switch.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I'm just wondering if there are plans in the pipeline for Virgin to Increase the upload on 1GB.

I'm a content creator and upload video so an upload boost would be greatly beneficial for me.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Did you even read the thread, that is the topic the past few pages, 1Gb/s now has 100Mb/s upload so that will be it for a while?

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Yep I just rebooted my Hub and I have 100mb upload.

Primary Upstream Service Flow

SFID 19193
Max Traffic Rate 110000274 bps
Max Traffic Burst 42600bytes
Min Traffic Rate 0 bps
Max Concatenated Burst 42600bytes
Scheduling Type Best Effort

https://www.speedtest.net/result/14765873144

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Mine updated to 100Mbps upstream without any reboot (from me).

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

500mbps customers are also starting to see upload speeds increase from 36mbps to 50mbps

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Just got my 1Gig upload increase to over 100mbps in Nottingham

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Any plans to boost M250?

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

M250 is already on the 10:1 ratio, so until such time as the network moves to symmetrical speeds, I doubt it.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Good point.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

VM and Openreach both will never get symmetrical speeds and still rip off.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Good to see the 10:1 back

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Should be 1:1 symmetrical speeds

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Great news to see 100Mb downstream going live as we speak. However, this will not attract me back from Vodafone/CityFibre 900. As I type, I have 10 clients using my free Plex server peaking around 110Mb upstream.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Good to know, I may look at upgrading in the next month.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I was a happy bunny, but if this isnt live when my contract expires and CF is finally ready I would probably sign up to CF. So they got about 11 months to get the works done needed for it for me.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

The worst kept secret is now official 500Mbps & 1Gbps customers will see upload speeds boosted to 52 and 104Mbps respectively from next week

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...and-1gbps.html

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

just read this, checked mine, N1 got it.
uddingston area, for any 1 there

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Haven’t visited for a while, just done speedtest on my iPad. I still only get about 600 down (limitation of WiFi on the iPad?) but got 100 up which is nice.
GU22

Edit: tried on my iPhone and got 800 down 95 up
My other iPad got 735 down 96 up, tried again on this iPad and am getting 300-350 down and 90-100 up.

Oh well, plenty fast enough on my iPad. The upload increase will help though.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

just got my 104mbit upstream upgrade. back to 10:1

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yeah and my arse can snipe shoot on the moon

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

From next week, but most people seem to have got it last week, did someone flick the switch a bit early maybe :D

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Nice boost and all, but any news of them expanding their tiny (in N.I.) FTTP/FTTH pilot out to something better than a shack between Lurgan and Lisburn?
Might have a mild bit of envy at my mates in the mainland who can get 500/500 or 1/1gbit FTTP from the new companies springing up all over the land, apart from Northern Ireland :/

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

hey lad, i'm 1056/104 here in east belfast. can you get BT full FTTP? they do 900mbit i think

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

It's not the download speed that's the issue, its that they all suck over here for uploads. All the new AltNet FTTP providers in the mainland seem to offer 1000/1000 or 500/500 (down & up) .

I mean I'm happy that we finally have 100 up on the gig package now, but I'd love for them to get off their arses and wire up more than Magheralin for FTTP.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

So VM confirmed up to 6 months before its nationwide, thats good to be transparent.

ISPReview did jump the gun a bit on their first article, it made people assume it was everywhere or about to be everywhere very quickly.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Whoops! Just spotted my own error from a couple of days ago. Too late to edit. I meant 100Mb upstream.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

its actually 104mbit

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yes. they seem to be surprising slow in rural areas. but if you look at the stats NI has per head of population some of the fastest connections in the UK

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Virgin Media has been named the fastest UK broadband company for both download and upload performance by analyst firm Umlaut

BT came second with Vodafone 3rd, EE 4th, TalkTalk 5th, Sky 6th and Plusnet 7th

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

It is officially 100Mb/s but due to Ofcom you get 10% extra that does not make my tier the 1.1Gbs/110Mbs Tier.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Not sure how VM are going to handle this officially on the product spec, they released a press statement, which after a push from Mark at dslreview admitted its going to take up to 6 months for everyone to get it.

So far its starting to look the entirety of Leicestershire (not just the city) doesnt have it, thats quite a big area if its going to have an official product spec of 100mbit upload, is reports from Derby, Portsmouth and Telford as well I have seen but not sure if those are as widespread.

Wouldnt surprise me if they just kept it as 50mbit upload in the t&c until everywhere is done. Maybe also postcode checker to give different result based on which VM area you in.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I am on 350Mb's but got the bump to 500 due to my volt package.Will I get the upgrade to my upload speed?

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Yes. You will go to 52 Mbps

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Thanks very much👍

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Pointless and worthless Umlaut.

vodafone seem much better overall.

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2023/06/2.png

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Vodafone upload is good but download is only half of Virgin.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Are you sure? Perhaps I am misunderstanding you. I constantly get well over 900Mb up and downstream on Vodafone. Ping is consistently 6ms.


https://1drv.ms/i/s!AhlpLoG7kfyGqedt...Uei3A?e=hFRBsb

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I was just going by the screenshot provided.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

By who?

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Post #144 in this thread about Vodafone speed.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I have that user on 'ignore' because he posts nonsense most of the time, but just to see what you were looking at, I un-ignored him.:D

The screenshot he posted appears to be for the Vodafone/CityFibre 500Mb product, so you would only expect roughly half of VM's top shelf product. I am on VF's 900Mb product. In practice I get >940Mb in both directions, in non-peak times. The downstream speed is similar to what I got when I was with VM taking into account overheads and that my switches and cards can't handle more than 1Gb.

His ping of 20ms is poor. I can only assume that he was using wifi during his test.[COLOR="Silver"][COLOR="Silver"]

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Where i live there is no alternative to Virgin at higher speeds., I will look at what is available when my contract runs out, but that’s not for another year yet.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

No alternative to Virgin 1GB here in Swansea. BT have been saying they are updating their network for 2 years but nothings come of it.

Here is my speedtest on 1GB Product....

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2023/06/3.png

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Virgin received the accolade of being the fastest ISP because of the large population able to receive it's top speeds. There are other ISPs offering faster speeds all around, but they don't yet have so many customers.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Agreed but there needs to be a network in place to support the faster speeds for other providers and Swansea doesn't have that yet.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I think that was Vodaphone mobile (5G ?) given the upload speed.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Not sure about that, I got a Vodafone SIM as they show 5G coverage here in Woking. Their coverage checker is wrong. They were supposed to go live in Woking when they went live in Guildford but didn’t. Why bother updating the coverage checker so it actually reflects reality?

I still get 200 Gb for less than £9 a month and get 5G elsewhere and, as no one else does 5G round here I can’t do much about it anyway.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

ee have today soft launched the UK's first 1.6Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband using the Openreach network the speeds will be brought via a Wi-Fi 6 capable Smart Hub Plus

Whilst it will offer 1.6Gbps download, the upload speed will be limited to 120Mbps

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I'm quite looking forward to the Openreach infrastructure being finished by me, it'll be good to see the other opportunities open to me.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

We've got Openreach fibre, but I'm waiting for Cityfibre to hit my area personally, looking at the planned works they aren't far from me now.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

It didnt take VM long it seems, advertising 100mbit upload in 50mbit areas, and shows 104mbit in portal to people who havent got the upgrade yet. I guess old habits dont die.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Virgin Media have today announced the rollout of XGS-PON technology for all new connections supporting speeds of up to 10Gbps.

New connections do not include areas which are already on the older VM network using DOCSIS 3.1 or RFoG

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Here's a link. https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...20Coax%20(HFC)

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

So if I read that right, they are also upgrading all the existing HFC areas by 2028.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

From what I’ve read yes it’ll be available, but the networks will co-exist for a period there isn’t an end date for HFC.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

That development alone gives me, and some others, a number of symmetrical connection choices:

1. CityFibre local network linked to its national network,
2. CityFibre local network linked to Vodafone national network and, by 2028,
3. Virgin Media symmetrical FTTP.

Either way, I would be very happy with a low ping, low jitter, symmetrical 1Gbps. ATM City Fibre's national network combined with local seems the most promising, given that they are building from scratch with future-proofing at the heart of the network. So, when my VF contract runs out in Spring 2024 I may well swap to an ISP the uses that. VF's national network is beset by load balancing issues where, without warning, users find themselves with high pings on a BNG located at the other side of the country. I'll look at VM again when they upgrade our HFC to FTTP, but without TV or phone.

Most of residential customers have absolutely no need for a symmetrical 10Gbps, but we have seen broadband upgrades spawning applications that need that capacity, so who knows?

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Virgin Media have today boosted their fastest Wi-Fi guarantee from 20Mbps to 30Mbps it applies to all Virgin Volt or Gig 1 broadband bundles M50-M500 packages can take the guarantee for an extra £8 per month

If you fail to get 30Mbps in a room, you can up to three Wi-Fi Pods at no extra cost and if they don't work you'll get £100 credit on your next bill

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I'm getting almost 400 Mb from my 350

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

OfCourse you as there is 10% Contention on added of the Config file due to Ofcom rules.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Virgin Media are expanding their XGS-PON network to Crewe via its wholesale partner nexfibre

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Have the 100mbit upload now, didnt get an email and it wasnt automatic, rebooted the modem and its now there. I maybe last rebooted about 3-4 weeks ago so the activation would have been somewhere in between.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I have the 1G now, but so far the fastest I've seen is 750M.
I've managed 100M on the upload a couple of times, briefly.

At some point I'll cut out the router (for a test) to see if thats limiting my download.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Maybe as speeds increase such as 1G, downloading could be faster than your hard drive can write so it'll be bottlenecked at that point.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

hard drive? you living in the noughties hahaha

My download drives theoretical maximum is over 5 gig

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Some people are still using 5400rpm drives.

I have SAMSUNG 990 PRO M.2s so no I ain't living in the noughties... haha.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I was only joking hahaha I serviced a laptop with a mechanical drive the other week. By golly I dunno how we ever coped with them haha

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I have a lot of external USB 3.0 mechanical drives (probably around a dozen of them) and a few external SSDs, all mainly for storage. I'm a bit of hoarder.

I agree with you, what used to be the normal they are now a real chore to use.

My last PC had only SSDs and mechanical drives. I used to download to the mechanic drives as they were bigger in capacity obviously (costs) but my download speeds were affected, it just seesawed with buffering and never quite reached it's maximum speed before dropping off to the buffer. So it can affect download speeds in general. Some cheap SSDs can also have this effect too. (It could also be drivers etc too that affect speeds).

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Even the WD RED drives at 5.4k will be fine as they are far faster than 1Gb/s (112-125Mb/s).

I use all SSD's apart from extremal backup which is WD Red Plus 7.2k in Raid 0.

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2023/08/3.png

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I think all my drives are faster than that.
I'm also testing with the thinkbroadband speedtest, I dont think that uses any drives ?

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Have you tried SamKnows?

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I took a look at the RealSpeed test, but it failed, then I saw this ;
I run in Modem Mode, so thats going to have to wait.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I used to run in modem mode with an ASUs router but when I upgraded to 1Gb I found the new hub did a pretty good job so I no longer need the router.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Tested using the Samknows realspeed, and got the full 1G, so as suspected its the router (and probably internal network) that slows it down.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Great news.
I’m looking to move house and found a great place but no Virgin.
Max speed is 11Mb - somewhat down on the 1Gb I’m used to, I’ve no idea if this is going to be fast enough for me to work from home!

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Never buy a house if it doesn't have a good broadband speed.....

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

+1, no house in the countryside for me for that reason (even if I could afford it).

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Low down in the things to consider for me. The view, the neighbours, the space, the garden and quality of life come before BB speed. Life existed before the interweb.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

The world has also changed a lot since the internet, some people make a living thanks to the internet, some banks don't have physical branches for example, some people only stream and don't watch live tv anymore.

If you have had good internet for the last two decades you'd soon be pretty fed up going back to 2meg ADSL2 i imagine.

Granted I'd consider everything you mentioned, however internet would certainly be a deal breaker.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

But, with Starlink, you can get internet at a speed that is usable anywhere.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

OpenReach are moving fast with making many areas not possible before to have fibre speeds. The days of sloooow internet are definitely numbered.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Still haven't received the upload speed increase (postcode WS15), anybody know any other areas affected and how much longer i might have to wait? All my friends in the area are still seeing 50Mbit/sec upload on the 1GBit package. Rebooted my modem a ton of times since the announcement of faster speeds and always check via the modems "Max Traffic Rate" in the config pages (albeit have also done speedtests just to double confirm).

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I live in WS10 and I'm getting 1143 d/l and 80 upload on samknows

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

WS10 and WS15 are unrelated areas on the VM network. WS10 was Telewest, but WS15 was NTL.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Sorry in my rush I didn't notice 15 I just saw the WS

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Virgin Media have expanded their FTTP XGS-PON network to 24,000 more premises in Wakefield

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Will this be symmetrical or still stuck at 10:1 at best?

I see that Coventry is on the upgrade plan for FTTP XGS-PON network, so I am keen to know if it is going to be symmetrical or not by the time my VF/CityFibre contract ends in March 2024.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Maybe in the future but for now speeds on the network remain maxed at 1130Mbps download and 100 upload on the Gig 1 service

For the vast majority, though, 100Mbps upload is more than fast enough unless you're a YouTuber or similar

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

I run a free Plex media server, so frequently need more than 100Mb.

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

Nexfibre have connected 17,000 properties to the Virgin Media O2 network in Scarborough, offering gigabit broadband for the first time with speeds of up to 1,130Mbps

Re: Virgin Boosting Speeds
 

They can't afford to both heat and eat in Scarborough,so gigabyte broadband might be low down the list of priorities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-64066374