Double Speeds or not?
 

I thought this new speed upgrade virin was doing was double, so 50 would become 100?

well my page when i login to billing says
"Your connection speed will increase from up to 50Mbps to up to 70Mbps. It's all thanks to DOCSIS® 3 - the magic in our cables"

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

It was an 'urban myth' ; apparantly VM never said speeds would double.

Personally think they have miscalculated with the top 2 tiers (150 &200). Very little difference in real terms and a lot on the top tier will see this as an opportunity to downgrade, get the same speed and save money.

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

The new broadband customer tiers are 50, 100 and 200. 150 is an existing broadband customer tier only, as is 70.

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

They can't match their rivals on upstream speed despite the magic in their cables.

Roffles!

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

The new dowmload speeds are 70, 150 and 200.

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...MER_TYPE=Cable

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

For existing broadband customers. New broadband customers have a choice of 50 / 100 / 200 http://store.virginmedia.com/broadba...n-its-own.html

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

Hm, this is interesting.

I was originally on 50MB, I got doubled to 100MB (well 112MB actually according to my current config).

Does this change mean that they are going to drop me down to 70MB?

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

No, you'll go to 150.

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

Awesome. Thank you.

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

not seen any thing about the uploads yet ?

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

You aint looking too hard: 5, 10 and 12.

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

The fact that customers on 50Mbps are going up to 70Mbps makes me think they'll get another boost up to 100Mbps when VIVD 300 becomes available and the 100 / 150 and 200 customers get boosted.

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

Where have VM said that anything is going to happen further to what has been announced?

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

There's a price hike to get in before that happens, look at VM's history.

Re: Double Speeds or not?
 

that isn't going to happen till at least this time next year. They need to trial a 16 channel modem first. I imagine it will be this time next year as it will give them time to get extra capacity in place and they like to announce some sort of upgrade every year. After that will be in 2017 with docsis 3.1 and 500mbits.