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Old 08-02-2009, 01:47   #121
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Re: 50Mb areas

am in stoke had email sayin 50mb in my area so ive rang then manage to get 30 pound waved and just payin the 50 pounds actvation and gettin free small tv package and phone to for 48 pound cant moan with that can i wots upload speed any others on 50mb yet want see some speedtests
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Old 08-02-2009, 10:00   #122
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Re: 50Mb areas

Are Virgin Media seriously considering 5mbit uplaod rate on 50mbit connection say within the next 6 months?
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Old 08-02-2009, 10:01   #123
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Re: 50Mb areas

There is some consideration to increasing the upload speed, but I don't think they have settled on any speed or date yet
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Old 08-02-2009, 11:03   #124
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Re: 50Mb areas

Good to see them sticking to their guns regarding the activiation / install costs on the 50Mbit.

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am in stoke had email sayin 50mb in my area so ive rang then manage to get 30 pound waved and just payin the 50 pounds actvation and gettin free small tv package and phone to for 48 pound cant moan with that can i wots upload speed any others on 50mb yet want see some speedtests
I'd suggest using the odd £30 you saved to buy a new keyboard yours seems to be broken, you can't type a 'g' after an 'n'

There are speedtests and a load of discussion on the upload speed here.

Sorry, I just have an extreme allergy to text speak on the Internet, it's there for texts because of the huge cost, horrid keyboard you type with and short message size, none of which apply here
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Old 08-02-2009, 11:20   #125
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Re: 50Mb areas

hmmmm......................belfast enabled for 50 meg? all the ubrs in belfast, i think not. still not availble to me. i suppose belfast is a big enough city, but it is not all cable enabled, so what's taking them so long?
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Old 08-02-2009, 14:29   #126
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hmmmm......................belfast enabled for 50 meg? all the ubrs in belfast, i think not. still not availble to me. i suppose belfast is a big enough city, but it is not all cable enabled, so what's taking them so long?
If you were to click on the Connection tab do you come off the actual Belfast hubsite or another one?

I think Belfast you'd see blfs in there or similar.

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Are Virgin Media seriously considering 5mbit uplaod rate on 50mbit connection say within the next 6 months?
Depending what you read and where 2.5Mbit is the target once upload bonding is in place or the target is 2.5Mbit prebonding and 5Mbit afterwards.

Still rubbish when you think that a lot of providers offer 5Mbit - 10Mbit without bonding.
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Old 08-02-2009, 19:54   #127
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Re: 50Mb areas

5Mb up should be the norm for 50Mb down, maybe they will shock us and give us 10Mb (Yeah Right).

TBH I'd settle for 5Mb though.
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Old 08-02-2009, 20:05   #128
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If they offered 5Mbit up id be biting thier hand off !
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Old 08-02-2009, 20:16   #129
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Re: 50Mb areas

i read somewhere that its starting on 1.2mb and then going up to 2.5mb by the end of 2009.
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Old 08-02-2009, 21:43   #130
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Good to see them sticking to their guns regarding the activiation / install costs on the 50Mbit.

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I'd suggest using the odd £30 you saved to buy a new keyboard yours seems to be broken, you can't type a 'g' after an 'n'

There are speedtests and a load of discussion on the upload speed here.

Sorry, I just have an extreme allergy to text speak on the Internet, it's there for texts because of the huge cost, horrid keyboard you type with and short message size, none of which apply here
your right i do need new key board just spent over 300 pound on case and water cooling kit i didnt get a keyboard were are these speed tests that people got on 50mb got link
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Old 08-02-2009, 21:46   #131
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Re: 50Mb areas

The 50Mb speed test is for testing at install and by technical support only

They have apparently already had to move servers once because people on the lower tiers were using it and skewing the results for the 50Mbit customers
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Old 09-02-2009, 00:51   #132
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Re: 50Mb areas

Doesn't look moved to me Ben - http://www.vmpilot.net/
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Old 09-02-2009, 01:10   #133
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Re: 50Mb areas

KK, guess the people that posted were trying to access the Dudley one then (As that is password protected)
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Old 09-02-2009, 16:06   #134
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Re: 50Mb areas

What does STM mean?
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Old 09-02-2009, 16:48   #135
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Re: 50Mb areas

Stupid Traffic Monitoring


quote from google first hit::
STM is the way Virgin Media restrict the speed of your service if you go over certain upload/download thresholds at various times of the day ...


http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php

see here::

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12/33632966-stm.html

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