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PJLFC · 19-05-2015, 09:23

Hi all,

Yesterday we decided to sign up for VM broadband and phone after getting bored of waiting for Fibre to be installed (it was originally supposed to be installed in 2012 and was delayed, delayed and delayed again, finally being delayed in March this year until (supposedly) March 2016.

So we took out VM's 100MB service yesterday, received a good deal (£9 + Line Rental for 8 months, then standard £22.50 + LR for the last 4 months, 12 month contract). I made sure to check with work colleagues and friends who were on VM how their service was, and everyone had good things to say about them besides my brother who's at uni with them and says the connection isn't great despite engineer visits.

We put this down to being in a busy student area, which our home isn't, so decided to go with it. However I then started reading round sites such as here and saw reports of congestion and online gaming lag - this has me a bit worried to be honest!

I don't do much online gaming these days, prefer single player - as long as I can watch Netflix and download from Steam at a reasonable rate when needed, that suits me fine. My brother does play online quite a bit though, so is he likely to have a bad experience?

Are there any sites or resources for checking possible congestion in our area, or is it just a case of "wait and see" when we get it installed? My grandparents live nearby and are on VM, whenever I'm there browsing and video streaming is fine, but I haven't tried gaming - so this I see as a positive given they're on the same exchange as us.

If it helps anyone to provide an answer we're on the Prescot exchange, BT cabinet 27 (presumably VM cabinet is different though?).

To rub salt in things a bit, Plusnet and BT appear to have started offering fibre today despite them not emailing us to say so and BT's ADSL checker site still saying it'd be 2016... I think we're going to stick with VM for the year though and see how they are, unless this thread is filled with horror stories as to what we could expect!

Edit: For context I should add, we're currently on Sky ADSL unlimited getting around 6.5mb-7mb speeds, downloads top out at ~1meg/s.

19-05-2015, 09:23	#1
PJLFC Inactive Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 6	Just signed up for VM 100mb - Is there a way to anticipate possible congestion? Hi all, Yesterday we decided to sign up for VM broadband and phone after getting bored of waiting for Fibre to be installed (it was originally supposed to be installed in 2012 and was delayed, delayed and delayed again, finally being delayed in March this year until (supposedly) March 2016. So we took out VM's 100MB service yesterday, received a good deal (£9 + Line Rental for 8 months, then standard £22.50 + LR for the last 4 months, 12 month contract). I made sure to check with work colleagues and friends who were on VM how their service was, and everyone had good things to say about them besides my brother who's at uni with them and says the connection isn't great despite engineer visits. We put this down to being in a busy student area, which our home isn't, so decided to go with it. However I then started reading round sites such as here and saw reports of congestion and online gaming lag - this has me a bit worried to be honest! I don't do much online gaming these days, prefer single player - as long as I can watch Netflix and download from Steam at a reasonable rate when needed, that suits me fine. My brother does play online quite a bit though, so is he likely to have a bad experience? Are there any sites or resources for checking possible congestion in our area, or is it just a case of "wait and see" when we get it installed? My grandparents live nearby and are on VM, whenever I'm there browsing and video streaming is fine, but I haven't tried gaming - so this I see as a positive given they're on the same exchange as us. If it helps anyone to provide an answer we're on the Prescot exchange, BT cabinet 27 (presumably VM cabinet is different though?). To rub salt in things a bit, Plusnet and BT appear to have started offering fibre today despite them not emailing us to say so and BT's ADSL checker site still saying it'd be 2016... I think we're going to stick with VM for the year though and see how they are, unless this thread is filled with horror stories as to what we could expect! Edit: For context I should add, we're currently on Sky ADSL unlimited getting around 6.5mb-7mb speeds, downloads top out at ~1meg/s.