Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

The London server tests are said to be more reliable than the Manchester server

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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Ahem, price rises announced today folks. Still think the upgrades are free?

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

You actually believe that the price rises wouldn't have happened if the upgrades didn't go ahead :rolleyes:

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Well, vm want to force migrate everyone onto tivo, so prices were going to rise, its just now there's larger price hikes because of the "free" upgrades.

Nothing is free, not even death.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Where is it stated that VM will replace everyones V box with Tivo??

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

When vm signed the deal with tivo, they said their whole network would go onto the tivo platform and everyone would need a box that is capabale of running the tivo epg. Hence why we have huge price rises coming to pay for "free" broadband upgrades and to pay "activation" fees to migrate onto tivo.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Yes.

The prices would have gone up anyway, just like they always do.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Fuel prices at the petrol stations go up more frequently and at a higher rate - but I don't see people making such a fuss about that!

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

You can always go elsewhere if you do not want to pay the small increase in price which actually has not doubled the price, you do have that option open to you, BT would welcome you with open pockets.;)

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

Once BT roll out FTTC and a youview box i'll switch to BT or Sky as they will have their youview competitor iptv box. Could save quite a lot of cash I reckon and i wouldn't be on 5mb after downloading a few gig :)

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

I got an email earlier this week saying my bill would go down by £5.75 from 1st April, I'm on 100Mb.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

That's because the 100Mb price has been reduced to the price of 50Mb but by more than £5.75 it's just your tv/phone etc have raised it again

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

apparently the 50>100mb upgrade will be finished by spring instead of summer now. Can't find a link to an updated pdf schedule though, it used to be on here: http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband/up-to-100mb.html

http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/...%2001%2012.pdf

this is 1 month old, wonder if virgin have a newer version?

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

I'm on 50mb and have had the letter about going up to 100mb and then 120mb once it is available,
our area can already handle 100mb already so does that mean the first part will get done quite quick as it's surely just a case of enabling my account to be 100mb because i already have the hardware to handle it.

Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
 

It's not that simple, as it's down to making sure there is enough capacity to support everyone moving up a speed as well as whether the area can technically do the speed