Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Sounds great the high bandwidth users will jump at 50MB and get off the very Bandwidth that cant cope with them and that I’m on….its a win win. :D

Lets face it if your on the highest level and you want the Dog’s your going to move and that frees up bandwidth for us bargain basement users as it was put. I’d like to thank all those 20MB users who paid for this even when there service was nothing like 20mb.;)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Just got a note through my door this morning confirming the upgrade process will start end of the month, we're usually pretty early on in the upgrade cycle so finger's crossed.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

When the Luton area gets upgraded, I too will drop from 20mb to 10mb -- until the 50mb is rolled out. The price difference between 10 and 20 is too much to justify staying on 20mb.

I know a lot of people complain about not getting 20mb, but I do get it most of the time (except Sundays) with the use of a good download-manager, I'll miss that, but live and have a few pounds in my pocket!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

My M8 just got the letter too saying that he will be upgraded from 4mb to 10mb within the next 7 days. Port Talbot area

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

According to the engineer who swapped mine for a 255, the 120 is incapable of taking the latest updates.I wouldn't know how accurate that is, I'm no tech. I do know I've had full speed since the update.
If you think otherwise, that the 120 is fit for purpose that's your privilege.I do know I spent 3 months complaining of the rubbish speeds prior to my modem being updated, and that the previous engineer told me there was nothing wrong with my modem--- which was very obviously not true.
As he hadn't even come in to look at it, I fail to see how he could have known anyway!

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Iirc, the 120 is fairly incompatible with QAM256, perhaps your area has been "updated" to this standard, and this is what was causing the problem.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

They'll still be on the same network though right? Out of curiosity, At what point in the topology will 50M traffic merge lanes with the rest?

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

just had a letter from virgin today about the upgrade phoned them and thay are sending me a new modem(free of charge) as my stb will only do 4mb.

also the techie told me to connect the new modem within 24hrs of receving as the update could happed in the next few days (cosham area)

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I have STB too so I guess I'll be giving them a ring. My desktop's a fair distance away from the STB. Anyone know if it comes with decent lengths of cabling or will I be able to use my exisitng ethernet cable (cross-over I think?)
Where does it plug into?
Machine--> modem--> ? If it's that white box on the wall, will I need/get a splitter?
:confused:

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

yea it goes into the white box and thay are also sending me a splitter

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

Ah, nice one.
Hope I can use existing ethernet lead then.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

If its a cross-over one, it wont work unless you get an adaptor.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I was using a cross-over Ethernet cable from the cable Modem to my ethernet port & it worked perfectly, full 10Mb speeds 24/7

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

I think it is. I have an adaptor somewhere.

Well, I'll give it a go. I can use the adaptor if it doesn't work.

Re: Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer
 

maybe im wrong then! sorry