Engineer chat about 152++ speeds
 

Had an engineer out today to diagnose my superhub 1 which was losing LAN both wired and wifi and needing regular resets (probably the 21 clients! talk about the digital age).

The end verdict was that the Router part of the Hub was borked and I ended up with a SH2.

While talking about speeds etc he said quite categorically that there is another speed increase in the pipeline that would see my 152 upped to around 300 in the next few (or more) months.

Is this Engineer BS softsell (which isn't needed, i am a sap for tech) or feasible?

Just wondered. To be honest my connection has reached a stage now where blooming fast and blooming faster are pretty much indistinguishable anyway and the main limiting factor is actually how fast the web host can serve it to me!

So has anyone else heard any "rumblings"?

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Just noticed my post count.... I don't want to talk anymore or I will ruin my "Lucky" number

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The next speed increase is subject to much dicussion. I recently received a survey from VM that mention 200Mbps service so take what you will from that. Going from 152 to 200 hardly seems like a big enough increase for Virgin to wave their willy around, so perhaps 50/100/152 becoming 100/200/300 is a possibility. However, who knows.

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That didn't stop them going from 100 to 120, or 120 to 152.

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I believe that would be because both of those involved the lower tiers getting a significant speed increase - 30 becoming 60, 10/20 becoming 30 and then 30/60 becoming 50/100. Relatively speaking, that was a fair jump. You're not wrong though, even if there is a small increase, Virgin will still do the willy-waving.

I remember there being significantly more press with the great doubling than the "supercharge" or whatever they billed the 50/100/150 at.

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Techncians waffling again, not sure why they do this

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In this case presumably because it's true :)

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Will virgin at some point go faster? Yes

Everything else is guesswork

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Personally I couldn't care less about headline speeds.

I want reliability of connection, internet speeds that actually relate to those advertised and a TV anywhere app that works on not just Apple and a handful of Android devices.

Oh and world peace (which will probably happen before Virgin do the above!)

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Not this time - ask around.

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Coming soon....

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I have a planned month for it :angel:

Soon-ish for sure!

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Has it got an "R" in it? ;)

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Talk about hedging your bets!

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Still wouldn't be surprised if it happened in August as a resut.