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Originally Posted by Bonglet
Virgin seem to be playing catchup now, my friend recently had infinity installed and is currently getting more than me on 30mb (he gets just under 40, 10 upload) and he is getting a free upgrade on the 8th may to about 75.5mb and upload to 20mb, when i eventually get this free upgrade to 60mb with a terribad upload god knows when and its already behind :S.
I think virign really need to look again at there current pricing structure or i can see a big wedge of customers migrating over to BT in the very near future ;s.
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Your friend must be on the highest package for infinity. If you were on VM's highest they you would be on at least 100mb, upgrading to 120mb.
I know VM are far from perfect, but you have to remember that BT's fibre network is new, and VM's is an old network that is gradually being upgraded.
Apparently years ago, some bright spark decided to cut costs by using aluminium cable between the node and the cabinets on what is now VM's network, as aluminium was cheaper than copper. And now they are getting corrosion problems, so all this cable is gradually being replaced. And this should solve a lot of the signal problems in many areas. BT also used aluminium cables in some areas, but because their speed was much slower before infinity, then it wasn't much of a problem. But with the fibre being installed new by BT, they are getting around this problem.