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General Maximus · 06-08-2016, 17:16

nope to everything. The homeworks 300mbit tier is a new service which you pay for and is not part of the vanilla residential tiers or free upgrades. I don't know what the lower tiers are now but as an example, 100 will be going to 150 and the top tier of 152 will be upgraded to 200mbits.
The modulations of the channels and the number available are also independent of the upgrade process. VM have done a tonne of work over the last year in preparation for the upgrades as you have eluded to but some of that got un-done with the wifi hotspot flap. I have gone from 3 upstream channels (two qam16s and one qam64) back down to 2 but the two I have got are both qam64. Because I have got a shub2 I don't know how many channels are available in my bonding group but 16 is by no means the standard. As far as I am aware all areas should be between 10 and 16 now. 16 will be upper limit for heavily congested areas because that is what shub3 can handle but tbh I can see VM only making channels available as needs be because starting from next year all the momentum will be with docsis3.1. As always upgrade work is on going and we are all well aware that VM have no problem pushing through speed increases before the upgrade work has been completed.

06-08-2016, 17:16	#2
General Maximus cf.mega poster Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Area upgrades nope to everything. The homeworks 300mbit tier is a new service which you pay for and is not part of the vanilla residential tiers or free upgrades. I don't know what the lower tiers are now but as an example, 100 will be going to 150 and the top tier of 152 will be upgraded to 200mbits. The modulations of the channels and the number available are also independent of the upgrade process. VM have done a tonne of work over the last year in preparation for the upgrades as you have eluded to but some of that got un-done with the wifi hotspot flap. I have gone from 3 upstream channels (two qam16s and one qam64) back down to 2 but the two I have got are both qam64. Because I have got a shub2 I don't know how many channels are available in my bonding group but 16 is by no means the standard. As far as I am aware all areas should be between 10 and 16 now. 16 will be upper limit for heavily congested areas because that is what shub3 can handle but tbh I can see VM only making channels available as needs be because starting from next year all the momentum will be with docsis3.1. As always upgrade work is on going and we are all well aware that VM have no problem pushing through speed increases before the upgrade work has been completed.