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Superblade7 · 30-09-2015, 17:44

Hi guys,

Not been on for a while so hope everyone is well. Just popped by and saw this thread about the speed upgrades. Pretty cool that they are doing 'free' upgrades again and whilst it'll not make much difference to me, an extra 20Mb of bandwidth is a nice little bonus!

Can't help but think VM missed a trick with this one though as obviously their lowest tier is now going to be 70Mb. With all this willy waving going on about them being fastest, I'm surprised that they didn't make the bottom tier either 76Mb or 80Mb so they could advertise that all their speeds are equivalent or higher than BT's (and other ISP's) current top speeds.

I do agree with everyone on here though that with more and more things becoming cloud based, they need to consider a round of upload speed upgrades as its now getting to the point where the vast majority of customers won't care about download speeds getting any faster than they currently are.

30-09-2015, 17:44	#431
Superblade7 cf.geek Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Sheffield Services: Sky Q 2TB & Sky Q Mini (Box Sets with Cinema & Sports HD) with VM VIVID 100Mbps Broadband & M Phone Posts: 582	Re: Virgin Media 70, 150 & 200 Mb Upgrades Hi guys, Not been on for a while so hope everyone is well. Just popped by and saw this thread about the speed upgrades. Pretty cool that they are doing 'free' upgrades again and whilst it'll not make much difference to me, an extra 20Mb of bandwidth is a nice little bonus! Can't help but think VM missed a trick with this one though as obviously their lowest tier is now going to be 70Mb. With all this willy waving going on about them being fastest, I'm surprised that they didn't make the bottom tier either 76Mb or 80Mb so they could advertise that all their speeds are equivalent or higher than BT's (and other ISP's) current top speeds. I do agree with everyone on here though that with more and more things becoming cloud based, they need to consider a round of upload speed upgrades as its now getting to the point where the vast majority of customers won't care about download speeds getting any faster than they currently are.