Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

I had a dig around the site but couldn't find anything. There is a FUP but nothing specific.

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

They have always been vague about this, but as you say no mention of it any longer, unlike the previous web pages which did mention it, though not the thresholds.

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

Hmm, I like the look of this, with the option of multiple IPv4 addresses.....

Traffic management would kill it for me though.

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

Given the allowance for overheads in config., users could get pretty close to 400Mb download too.

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

At present the max is 200 where I live. As and when 350 is available I will consider it.

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

I'm trying to get confirmation from them as to throttling outside business hours and the prioritisation over residential customers that has been mentioned.

But you only have to read through the various T+Cs etc on their website which contradict themselves in the same document and refer to clauses that don't exist to realise this product probably hasn't been fully thought out!

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

The overheads built in on the business service are smaller than those built in on the residential. As an example I max out at 205 Mb/s on the 200 Mb/s business service. It will be interesting to see how they handle that with the 350 Mb/s service

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

VMB pushed the 350 / 20 config to my Hitron router today and it seem this time round they have built some headroom into the config:-

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Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

is there any out of peak hours throttling or FUP on this at all, am very intrested but hate caps lol

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

We have had the Hitron installed on the 350/20 service with 5 fixed IPs and had two issues so far:

1) The main IP address we were assigned must have been reused as we soon found it was in blacklists for mailservers (both Microsoft O365 and Barracuda). We have sorted that ourselves, but it would have been nice if VM had checked this!

2) We are getting big slowdowns in the middle of the day when careful speedtests show speeds of less than 20 Mb/s download but the upload seems fine. Tests earlier in the day show speeds closer to the 350 Mb/s although not quite as good as ccarmock. This is slower than the 50 Mb/s service we used to have. This makes me wonder if either the tunnel used for the fixed IP service is coming out onto the network in a congested place (we pop out near Bristol) or that they are running a throttle which is either setup incorrectly or is a very bad deal.

Anyone had similar problems?

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

I've not experienced this, but there has recently been some capacity improvement works in my area (used to have 12 downstream channels - now 16 for instance) I believe the GRE tunnels break out on equipment with a lot of capacity in the VM network - I'd guess your issue is local congestion. If you log a ticket they should be able to confirm. I have found support good in this respect, but not had to call them recently.

The one issue I did have with the new 350/20 service was variable upstream performance. I did notice that the upstream frequencies were not usual frequencies - as they usually end in 0000 these were offset. That has been corrected by VM and I get a rock solid 20 Mb/s up now too.

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

I have had mine installed today.

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I can confirm by my order manager and the engineer that there are no limits on VM business broadband.

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

Details of no limit now detailed online: https://www.virginmediabusiness.co.u...oadband-Speeds


Quoting the specific bit:

Traffic Management is not enforced on business broadband connections but is enforced on others to help protect network resources. To further protect bandwidths and speeds we operate a fair use policy which is detailed within our Acceptable Use Policy

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

Not sure how I feel about this, especially as that link is dead.

Can anyone do a speedtest on thinkbroadband? I wonder if higher priority means better single threaded speeds.

Does anyone have a BQM on this new service?

Re: New VM Business service - 350Mb
 

Sure here is my BQM

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