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General Maximus · 20-05-2016, 17:48

I wouldn't hold my breath. All they are doing is trialling it atm which is completely unnecessary because they can slap together 3 bonded channels in a jiffy because they have already got that in place from the work they did last year. Once again it will be a PR stint to give the impression that they are keeping up with the competition.

They are way behind on the downstream upgrades atm and my crystal ball tells me that they'll finish them this year, early next year they'll announce the upstream upgrade rollout (to make it sound like we getting another upgrade for free) which will bring us back to 10:1 and by the time they have finished that they'll be announcing the next round of downstream upgrades/docsis3.1 rollout which will involve downstream only upgrades and undo everything they have just achieved in making brining everyone up to 10:1.

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General Maximus Ran Away Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Virgin Media UK Confirms Trial of Faster Broadband Upload Speeds I wouldn't hold my breath. All they are doing is trialling it atm which is completely unnecessary because they can slap together 3 bonded channels in a jiffy because they have already got that in place from the work they did last year. Once again it will be a PR stint to give the impression that they are keeping up with the competition. They are way behind on the downstream upgrades atm and my crystal ball tells me that they'll finish them this year, early next year they'll announce the upstream upgrade rollout (to make it sound like we getting another upgrade for free) which will bring us back to 10:1 and by the time they have finished that they'll be announcing the next round of downstream upgrades/docsis3.1 rollout which will involve downstream only upgrades and undo everything they have just achieved in making brining everyone up to 10:1.