Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Gigaclear & Hyperoptic are still the fastest broadband in UK.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

There was also the price drop those on 100Mbit got in addition to the 100 > 120 increase.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/vir...eed-increases/

Which none of the other tiers got.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

The ispreview had now saying "Generally Virgin says that their existing broadband customers should expect to receive a download boost of “at least 20Mbps“. But uploads will not be improved and you’ll have to sign-up to a new 12 month contract in order to benefit."

So, 152Mb will get the same upload on 12Mb. Pretty pointless to upgrade.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

There is nothing in it to say that the 'no increase to uploads' has come from VM directly http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...s-package.html

If/what is happening to uploads hasn't been confirmed yet

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Even so, 100 had price dropped to match 50, so effectively would have been 50-120-150 (3x increase)

Which in terms of final speed to initial speed a year or two ago is still a worse ratio than 10-30-50 (5x increase) or 20-60-100 (5x increase).

Oh and in addition to the lowest speed increase they (50 & 100) also got the addition of STM, which none of the other tiers got (cause they already had it, whereas 50/100 were exempt). So in fact minimum regulated speeds, at peak times, went from:

2.5 (10 STM'd) => 43 (17x increase)
5.0 (20 STM'd) => 86 (17x increase)
50 => 129 (2.5x increase)
100 => 129 (1.3x increase, and price drop to match 50)

Which makes the top tier look like they're getting ripped off even worse!

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Nobody was ripped off by VM. The mega-downloaders would have ripped me off had they not been STMd.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Some people will never be happy.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Both those statements are as silly as each other lol.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

I'm sure there's some mental disability that covers that nowadays.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

So I suppose top tier 152MB config speeds could be as follows?

Download Speed: 160000000 bps - 152.58 Mbps
Upload Speed: 15000000 bps - 14.30Mbps

And if they are required to spend another 12 months on upgrades that just tells me they will probably gonna have to add max available download channels to 8 and upload to 4.

Just speculating...

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Upload will not be including as part of new 152Mb say Virgin Media: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...nd/m-p/2060120

What about upload speeds? Will these increase too?



The boost is for download speeds only for now.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

absolutely, I am very interested to see what sort of speed I get on my vmng300. I can't see them getting away with not increasing the upload speed, they'll be ripped to pieces for it given the current ratios other isps are advertising. I cant see them maxing 4 upstream channels available just yet given that it has taken them yonks to make two available and they are still rolling the speed increases out to the lower tiers.

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

Doesn't rule out changes completely though

Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014
 

No upload increase is a bit of a joke especially for 120mb customers. The difference between 15MB/s and 18MB/s will hardly be noticable and will mean nothing to most people yet any increase on the upload would have considering it's already so low.