Bump in speed
 

Internet went off about 2 hours ago, seemed to have been bumped in speed

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That looks like a 650Mb/40Mb connection, allowing for overheads.

What do you get on speed tests when connected by Ethernet?

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Are you on the Oomph package, or standalone 500Mbps?

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I am on Ultimate Oomph, actually checked the contracts and bill and is says M500.

Actually have a SamKnows modem and screenshot shows, one before and 2 after manual speedtests BUT that is with me logged into work, niece logged into school and streaming podcasts.

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Yep definitely 650Mb.

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customers of Ultimate Oomph got a upgrade to M600 as and when it rolls out in your area when M500 became standalone it still reports as M500 for a lot of people who's been upgraded will probs change eventually

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Account page at VM now shows M600

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Spoke to Virgin's SMS chat thingy earlier, they confirmed everyone on 500M will be getting a free upgrade to 600M regardless of if they're on Oomph or not.

If that's correct or not is a completely different matter of course....

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Good to know. I have added 600M as a prefix.

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I wonder why VM have allowed so generously for overheads. Config is at 690Mb, downstream max.
The user will regularly get <650Mb. It would have been sufficient to have it set at 620Mb, for example.

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Interesting yeah I thought M600 was exclusive for Oomph once 500 went mainstream.

Just had my upgrade to 600 last night (I’m on Oomph) getting 662 on Speedtest :-)

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interestingly it appears my upload is consistently lower since the upgrade today - around 23 (has hit 40 highest)

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I have been having the same problems since I took the 1gig package.

But in my case the upload speed reduces between 5:00 and 8:00pm, every single day.

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We are on the standalone M500 here in Swansea and no speed increase yet.

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Just had an email, with the following as part of the content

Your new package now includes:
Broadband: M600 Fibre Broadband - Intelligent WiFi Plus service - Intelligent WiFi Pod 1
We've removed:
Broadband: M500 Fibre Broadband

I have been invited on a trial for the "pods", but may be I should be getting a set anyway ?

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That says you are getting one WiFi Pod (to start with).

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Will wait and see, nothing turned up yet.

They cannot be as bad as the powerline adapters I got as part of a trial a few years ago and actually made things worse.

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I checked online and it says M600 is available but I’m still on 509. Any idea how long they take to upgrade? On 500 I get between 160 and 290 - any idea what I can expect on 600?

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unless your on ultimate oomph u wont get it I've had M600 show up since last year but im on standalone so wont get upped unless i upgrade. if ur only getting them speeds on 500 you wouldn't get any better on 600 anyway

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I am on ultimate Oomph.

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ahh didn't realize sorry have u tried to reboot your modem to see if the new config gets pulled

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Thanks for the suggestion. Rebooted this morning and still get 35 up and a massive 123 down....

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I believe that the 600mbps upgrades are due to be completed by the end of March.

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I have a SH3, running in modem mode but with wifi turned off because I use a Unifi AC Lite.

Adding 2 jpgs from the Samknows modem plugged in and these show the average speed for the last month and week.

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My Samknows shows slower speeds than I get on WiFi...

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Can confirm the speed bump, I am on the ultimate oomph package and my account shows M600.

I have run a few speed tests on different servers and this was the max throughput I saw, others were ~650 Mbps.