Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

The WiFi service will not use the customer's bandwidth, it will have its own.

The tier uplift isn't related to the WiFi service.

I must ask some questions about this tier uplift. I understood it would come with 'conditions'.

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

As long as the "conditions" don't include STM or worse :(

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

Indeedy.

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

"Conditions" Sounds exactly like STM...

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

I may have missed it as on mobile but what speeds are tiers going upto?

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

l don't know yet as it just says speed upgrades are coming but some of the other lads might have a better idea of what speeds might go up SnoopZ.

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

Yup, at the bottom of the vm blurb is:

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

The current London Underground setup doesn't require a mobile SIM. It is also available to VM broadband customers.
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The Wi-Fi Buddy app isn't just for VM mobile. Eg it works on my Hudl2 tablet. With it at home, I can see another VM broadband customer, a Sky customer and a BT WiFI with FON setup all within range.

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

On BT, you can't generate a BT Wifi or a BT-With-FON hotspot unless you are using a BT HomeHub. Having said that, if you opt in to the service, and then use a third party modem/router that doesn't generate a public hotspot, they don't detect this and you don't lose the ability to use hotspots while out and about.

None of which directly answers your question, but if I was speculating, I would say that some pretty specific settings would be required in order to generate a different hotspot and route it differently, and that VM would almost certainly insist on delivering all that via the Superhub.

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

I think VM support wish one of the conditions would be for all customers to sign the following waiver:

"I hereby understand that although headline speeds will be increased, it is not possible for a 2.4ghz, 802.11n 1x1 stream wifi card on a mobile device to receive 300mbps, ever"

It's bad enough to see people complaining all the time that they can't get 152mbps on hardware that is never going to be capable, I hate to see it when people on even some higher end equipment moan when a 300mbps link speed doesn't get that in reality.

Of course, for the Wi-Fi service itself, I imagine it'll be capped at a level not exceeding 30mbps, probably.

Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion
 

Honestly, tiers like 300Mbit are not really intended for single-user use anyway.

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I hope use of the hotspot facility will be restricted to VM broadband customers only and not include VM mobile. Otherwise a neighbour could be with VM mobile and not broadband but still have access to broadband via somebody else's(eg my) Wifi. They wouldn't need to bother with paying for their own VM BB.

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Absolutely agree.

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I don't particularly care who it's restricted to or not, that's Virgin's business, as long as it doesn't impact my own connection.

I'd say the wifi speeds will be limited to a couple of Mbit anyway.