re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

I wonder if this also includes congestion fixes in any given area too.. I'd like to think they'd roll them into one and kill both birds with one painful stone..

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

Presumably at 100Mb my ol faithful DIR-615 will need to be replaced, wonder if there's something suitable in a similar footprint.

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Yep, I'm technically on the 152 atm, but I dont get that as both my DIR-615 and Dual WAN routers only have 100 Mbit ports.

Its not a major concern to me atm as I'm on the tier more for the upload rather than the download, but when it eventually switches to 300/16 I'll probably look at a new router with Gbit ports.

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Both my PC & Android box have Gigabit ethernet, I just used the 615 primarily because at the time it was cheap and the wi-fi was a degree of magnitude better than my shub1 (Which I've still got incidentally)
Maybe upon upgrade whenever that'll be, I'll get a shub3 or whatever is around then, and the wi-fi will be better anyway.

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SH1 since when? Have VM not offered an upgrade of some sort since then?

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Guess not, I had a shub1 when they first came out, I've been on the lowest tariff since then & no ones tried to swap it out for anything.

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Surprised that nobody's mentioned that in many areas (including mine) 50mb tier customers have had several weeks at 100mb, presumably as a test run for this.

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Some others have been on 200Mbps+, it has been mentioned

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the new shub had better have modem mode

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I don't think VM dare remove that option. So many of us have invested tidy amounts into our own routers to give us router features that no version of SH ever will.

re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
 

BT, sky etc really need to start advertising their better upload speeds. Even with a pointless 300mbits from virgin, it looks like a BT Infinity user will still have better upload speeds.

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Very few customers in that enterprise for right now.

BT, Sky, etc, could try leaning harder on Openreach to provide more competitive technology and indicating a desire to pay for it, rather than in the case of Sky and especially TalkTalk complaining about the price Openreach charge them for FTTC.

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Didn't one of the companies moaning at Ofcom to split off Openreach also say they would totally invest a lot of money into Openreach if it was separated?

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Vodafone.

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Which shows how silly the EU 5ghz channel range is.

Although more than 8 channels are available, lots of vendors are locking them off as they dont want to implement complex restrictions on the radar channels.