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Billy-Bob · 17-12-2012, 20:09

I noticed about a week ago that my 50Mb connection had been upgraded to 100Mb. The letter to inform me of this arrived today, but there was no mention of me having to accept a superhub to received full "benefit" of the upgrade - just the promise of a further free upgrade sometime unspecified in the future to 120Mb, when VM were "next in my area" (whatever that means).

I am currently using the VMG300 modem and have no desire to go over to the superhub (I use an Apple Time capsule, so only need a modem, not a wireless router). I had read here a while ago that VM were insisting that customers "upgrade" to superhubs as part of the roll-out in order to get full speed benefits, but since I'm currently getting 104 Mb/s on speedtest.net using my exisiting VMG300 modem, this clearly isn't a valid reason.

Does anyone know whether VM have dropped the whole superhub replacement programme for speed upgrades?

17-12-2012, 20:09	#1
Billy-Bob Inactive Join Date: Oct 2008 Services: Virgin Media XXL Broadband Posts: 58	Free speed upgrade - dropped SH requirement? I noticed about a week ago that my 50Mb connection had been upgraded to 100Mb. The letter to inform me of this arrived today, but there was no mention of me having to accept a superhub to received full "benefit" of the upgrade - just the promise of a further free upgrade sometime unspecified in the future to 120Mb, when VM were "next in my area" (whatever that means). I am currently using the VMG300 modem and have no desire to go over to the superhub (I use an Apple Time capsule, so only need a modem, not a wireless router). I had read here a while ago that VM were insisting that customers "upgrade" to superhubs as part of the roll-out in order to get full speed benefits, but since I'm currently getting 104 Mb/s on speedtest.net using my exisiting VMG300 modem, this clearly isn't a valid reason. Does anyone know whether VM have dropped the whole superhub replacement programme for speed upgrades?