Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I think the fact your account is pending a disconnect is the more shocking part of it all.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Yeah - How exactly did this come about :( When I first saw it I thought it was some kind of early termination fee cause they think you're leaving them.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I guess we will find out when Jordan returns.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I only managed to get £10 off out of them before my phone quit the call due to me having no credit and then tell me i have 140 megs left of data, what a great day this is.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Can't they give you a cheap sim only deal to go with your BB? then you wouldn't have that problem.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I already have 3 phones each locked to either EE ID or Vodafone so that would be a pain in the ass.Not to mention every time i try to call in it just cuts off after i enter my account number now i will probably just use someone else's phone.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

ah fair enough i thought you had less minutes and that would benefit you

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Scratch that just got payed so i'm just going pay them to get this over with, having no internet is killing me.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Do you not have a home phone to call them from?

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

No but i just can't be arsed at this point i payed and i got my internet back all that matters to me.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Wait never mind that, what number did you ring? 0800 numbers should be free even from mobiles now.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I found the 0800 and am kicking myself now but oh well lesson learned.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

i get free 0800 and 0345 on 3 but yes i was thinking the same. I am glad Kushan pointed that out.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

All UK Mobiles get free on 0800. 03 numbers are charged at national rate and are included in minute allowances, but some companies may give 03 numbers as free.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Did they say why your account was in a disconnect state? that's more important than any of it. Was it a billing issue or something they cocked up?

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Unpaid bill, this whole situation was a giant fluster cluck but it's over now thank christ.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I'll make a mental note to keep my FTTC running even if/when I have a VM connection running.

I was planning to anyway for a few reasons.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Probably a good idea.

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I have a friend that does. They don't like it when tech goes down.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

When I worked from home a lot, I always had two suppliers - my VM home service, and the company paid for a BT Broadband line.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Only reason I don't right now is that it wouldn't supply much resiliency. Same cabinets, same cable bundles, etc.

Did explore alternative options but ran into issues due to lack of road adoption, and that a company I spoke to became so fed up with issues with an Openreach product they stopped offering it.

Still have a router to bond lines, and I have a work supplied SD-WAN unit.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I once had ADSL and FTTC as I couldn't get cable and my thinking was that if someone took both my cabs out it would be a bummer as they are about 50M apart.

I had cable in last week but it's dire in the evenings so I have called up to cancel. I might well do that again with ADSL and FTTC. I also have a load balancer thing which is meant to go in a rack but i've never used it.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Yes, as you only have ADSL from both at the moment - I had VM Cable and BT ADSL...

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I've VDSL. ADSL here is excruciatingly slow.

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Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Ouch!!!

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Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Was great fun trying to work from home on that, believe you me.

Once VM arrives here, if VM arrives here, I'll be set. Still a bit of uncertainty!

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Dealt with and advised on the BT Forum.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

My sister-in-law lives not too far from you and her ADSL is dire - my VM 3G blows it away! Her road has just been done as part of the expansion works and she's patiently waiting for it to go live.

Cheers

Grim

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Excellent!

Considering I have never been on the BT forum then I would be hard pressed to have anything Dealt and advised with.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Ooops. there is someone with a similar username. Apology offered.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Apology accepted although it was not necessary it was nice of you to do so.

There might be more many reasons of course. I put more info into my reason but then removed it hence the edit

I am glad that FTTC is going up to 52mbps as I want to drop down anyway.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Geez.. Is that an internet connection or a wet piece of string? Hard to see the difference.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Over 6km line with the near side (from the exchange point of view) suffering from REIN.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

My account now shows £9,99 for "homeworks + up to 300mbps"

Has there been a price drop?

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Seems so showing £9.99 for me.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Or its just Plusnet in general.

Here in Wales im yet to see a connection over 5mb on Plusnet.

A friend recently moved to them from Sky to save money, his line went from 11mb and he now has around 3.5mb and Plusnet says no problems can be found.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I cant seem to find the specific cost for homeworks on my bill i will have to wait for the next billing cycle

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Just upgraded to 300/20 But will be downgrading tomorrow as you can see the upload has not improved

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Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

At least it's not traffic managed upload. Guess you're still on 16 QAM upstreams?

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It was in no way related to Plusnet.

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Seems to have improved a little to me. Speeds can and will vary.

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It was a 64 and a 32 when last copy/pasted.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

LLU to ADSL?

Plusnet in Rhoose..

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Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I have modem SNR. We are Now on our 3rd engineer appointment and this is still ongoing they just can't seem to be able to fix this

2 31000000 ATDMA 42.8 64 qam 6400000 5120
3 24400000 ATDMA 42.8 32 qam 6400000 5120

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I haven't upgraded to the 300mbit package but Ive just found that my sync speed is 300bit down and 40 up, but capped at the 200mbit package I pay for. maybe virgin are starting to move people to 300mbit anyway.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

That's the first time I have seen anyone synced higher than their line speed. Is this something new? I thought with VM you got the speed you synced at?

Igni! ?

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Post your modem stats.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

removed them because I was wrong :dunce:

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Your kit is set for a 200Mbit download with a 12Mbit upload as expected for your tier (2nd image)

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

/me is a :dunce:

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Basically, the first image doesn't have anything to do with speeds.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

/me is a :dunce:

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

The first image is the initial channels your CM connected to, and refers to their frequency, not the speed.

If you look, the 2nd image shows your speeds you are provisioned against.

You are NOT on 300/40, no such service exists in any case.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

ok thanks, understood.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

No worries.

If you're not au fait with how VM/DOCSIS equipment works it can all look a little bit confusing!

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

yeah it certainly does look confusing :dunce:

at least I've learned something new today and you've had a laugh, so so it hasn't all been bad :)

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

LOL :) fair play.

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I wouldn't mind 400 or more.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

im on Qam16 uploads and get full 20mb.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Same here

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Patience young Bandwidth Jedi.. Come it will!

Never seen starwars so that is probably a crap quote ha!

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

It just seems like im so out of place with my wants.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

There's never too much bandwidth; it's always nice to have more.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

After spending the day with my dad on his 3 meg ADSL yeah i appreciate that fact.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

full speed FTTC no longer has any advantage now VM is level with upload etc. The speeds seem solid most of the time.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Ping is better download is many times better and now upload is on the same level so really for £11 more then 76 meg fiber Virgin had me sold.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Agreed.. £47,99 is what I pay for 80/20 full speed and phone line. That will be £51,99 once the prise rise comes into effect
vs £57 for 300/20 and no phone line.

I've given notice to BT although my max has gone from 89/21 to 107/30 so I might well try it again in the future.

My pings are 9-15 when I do things, I am not someone who needs a low ping so the 25-30 I get on VM is fine.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

But again if i could flash some more cash Virgins way i would for more.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Well I am sure that's on the cards.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Isn't Jitter worse on VM?

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

It is for me... VM does not seem to have the same sort of responsiveness than FTTC. It's almost like VM is stickier in it's performance. Yes there is raw speed. But I can personally tell the difference.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Yes. Repeatedly proven.

To be fair to VM though you could remove them from that statement and replace it with 'cable'.

Only time I've had jitter that matched xDSL was when I was the only person on the cable segment. Yes really. First person on my hub on DOCSIS 3.0 so sharing the bandwidth with no-one. The jitter and latency were flawless :)

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Yeah if I am honest, unless someone had said to me about the jitter, I wouldn't have noticed. I've generally had nothing but good experiences gaming on VM (faults aside).

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Me too, but I don't play anything that I can't play on 100ms + so to get 20-30 is good. I hit about 12 on FTTC

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I get 130 ping to the west coast compared to 155 on my old 76 Meg FTTC connection and that's to the same server so that's why i just assumed it was better.

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Odd

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Well that's as much about peering as well.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Overall to pretty much everything my ping has been better.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Well I've decided to keep the FTTC line as a backup and it's going on SSE's £21 a month deal. Much better than the money BT want. And Virgin Will take main connection status for now.

I am impressed I must admit.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I got this installed earlier this week. I work from home 2-3 days a week and I do a lot of heavy data moves of GIS material which my internal system at work can't handle efficiently.

Download is steady at around 310Mb during working hours, dips a bit in the evening but that's no big deal as I'm off the clock by then. The uploads are at about 15Mb, a little lower than I'd hoped but personally that's not a big deal as my data uploads just chunter away in the background and I'm not a gamer.

Overall I'm pretty happy as my work has offered to pay for 50% of my broadband costs so I'm actually a little better off now.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Yeah I remember those days back in 2013. When everybody else was on BT or Sky in my area with ADSL.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

In which case I would switch to the 300 business service - which is £80 or £40 to you (cheaper than the homeworks) and you get better service levels I believe.

So you get to be even better better off :)

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Standalone Homeworks + 300Mbps is £57.24. If you have broadband with other services it would be cheaper in the bundle deal.

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yup and Business 300mbps is £80 so he would pay £40 personally. Not sure if that is better apart from the STM outside of working hours.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Personally, I would like the 300 meg connection, but I object to paying for all the unnecessary crap (for me anyway) that comes with it.

I don't need tech support for all my devices. If they go wrong, I fix them. I don't need advice on security, as I stay up to date on security as part of my job. As for configuring your network for optimum efficiency, unless you change something physically (like building layout), shouldn't that only need to be done once? And it's not as if your average home user is going to need a particularly complicated setup with multiple vlans, subnets and complicated routing setups.

F secure SAFE? Avast does much the same for free..

F secure key? You can buy a subscription for 50 euros for two years. or buy 1Password for 1 person for £44.21

The deal with GoDaddy is only really worth it if you need to run your own website and email servers. A lot of people who work from home for other companies won't need that (I don't when I work from home), and the money off only lasts 1 year.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Hello everyone, i'm slightly confused, is the price for the 300mbit line an extra £13.99 or £22.98? i tried asking on the live chat but was told i needed to phone.

EDIT: I spoke to virgin again and was told it's £22.98 but after reminding them it say's £13.99 quid on there site they then agreed it costs that amount but said my bill would be £63.24 but i will get a £6 discount so it will cost me £57.24, i still feel like there trying to scam me

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I'm paying £57 for homeworks and after 12 months it will go up to £63 unless you cancel or downgrade of course.

So £57 is about right and some others on here are paying the same.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I'm paying £57 which is normal.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

How do most of you rate the 300mbit connection? i only seem to hit that speed when i pick the virgin servers on speedtest.net but downloading games on steam/origin/uplay/battle i might hit 290 for a second then slow down really fast and sit stable around 250mbit.

I've tried other methods of downloading popular files and its the same, i get around 30-31MB which is around 250mbit

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

On origin and steam i sit around 313 most of the time regardless of time of day speedtest i get 314.

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Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I'll try and download a few games tonight, in the morning and tomorrow night and see what speeds i get but i did reinstall a few and was lucky to be over 260 for more than 2 seconds, usually says peak was 30MB

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

It's also effected by hard drive speed.

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Game's are installing on 2 Samsung 840 evo ssd's which i thought would be fast enough

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

I install most of mine on a 850 pro.

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Those drives on their own are more than fast enough and as you have two im assuming its in a raid 0 config. I wouldnt say its a drive speed issue

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

300Mbit equates to about 37.5MB/s, call it 40MB/s for all I care. Even spinning rust should be capable of much greater than this, 50MB/s is bad even for them, a 5400RPM laptop drive can hit ~100MB/s so I don't think hard disk speed is the issue, not unless you've got other stuff going on as well in which case yes you will kill performance.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

You would be surprised even my WD blue can cause the download to tank even when i'm not doing anything else, mostly to do with games unpacking as they download.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

According to reviews and benchmarks my ssd's read and write speeds are over 400MB not mbit so they should have no problems.

Everytime i do speedtests on virgin servers i always hit 313mbit but other locations, game downloads/updates and other things bounce around and usually end up about 250mbit.

I'll try some more tests and see what i get but if i cant get 300mbit then i'll downgrade, it's not worth an extra £17 quid

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

Change the download serve to Manchester or Paris and see if that helps.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

4:22pm-4.29pm
Manchester Virgin
13ms - 260.14mbps - 20.35mbps

Manchester TNP
12ms 230.57mbps - 20.37mbps

Carlisle Gemini Group
42ms - 77.91mbps - 20.32mbps

Glasgow Virgin
20ms - 225.52mbps - 20.34mbps

Dublin Vodafone
31ms - 16.70mbps - 20.38mbps

Basildon Virgin
20ms - 212.17mbps - 20.38mbps

Douglas Manx Telecom
43ms - 78.25mbps - 20.23mbps

Telford
31ms - 110.76mbps - 20.26mbps

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

300MB Homeworks+ here.

Newsgroups throttled to 2MB/s

Just a headsup to people.

Looks like it is subject to the same Newsgroup & p2p throttling as the other high tiers.

I use my dedi in France and connect with identical settings to the same news server and it reaches 40MB/s so traffic shaping for certain.

Not really that bothered, just info for others really, it ends at midnight according to VMs webpage.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

They already tell you that and it's not on P2P i still get 40MB/s on P2P.

Re: Virgin Media Homeworks 300Mb
 

You should contact your news provider to see if there are any peering issues between them and VM, I get over 10 times that speed day or night and I'm only on the 200 meg connection