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Old 01-02-2011, 18:08   #916
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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My apologies, I read it (mistakenly) as it was a £40 increase in monthly rental that was being objected to (hence my "freebie" comment), rather than the one off cost.
i see, sorry my bad.
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Old 01-02-2011, 18:08   #917
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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Even just basic browsing you can tell the difference in the way a page loads or a video plays so a 50% increase in speed should really be noticeable for a few days at least.

Then again I have my Firefox running at full speed as well by playing around with it.
once you get to about 2mbit, speeds above that make little real difference to web browsing on other than maybe media heavy sites. Like gallery's with dozens of images on or high res images. Certianly wont be a difference between 20 and 30mbit.

30mbit of course helps for torrenting, iso downloading etc.

What will make browsing faster is uncongesting people's upstream's.
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Old 01-02-2011, 18:08   #918
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

Home now.

Will I need to call up to confirm everything today?
and also is the SuperHub ETA Thursday?
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Old 01-02-2011, 18:16   #919
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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once you get to about 2mbit, speeds above that make little real difference to web browsing on other than maybe media heavy sites. Like gallery's with dozens of images on or high res images. Certianly wont be a difference between 20 and 30mbit.

30mbit of course helps for torrenting, iso downloading etc.

What will make browsing faster is uncongesting people's upstream's.
It will help with videos as I mentioned above.
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Old 01-02-2011, 18:30   #920
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

Told me Thursday 8-12 will this be courier or VM Tech.
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Old 01-02-2011, 18:32   #921
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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Told me Thursday 8-12 will this be courier or VM Tech.
Cheers, shall I give a call to customer services, or is there no need?
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Old 01-02-2011, 18:32   #922
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

I'd be amazed if they were prepared to shell out what it would cost to get a delivery time that precise from a courier. It will have been put onto your local tech's job sheet for that day.
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

Chris they are allowing morning or afternoon and is via UPS.
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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I'd be amazed if they were prepared to shell out what it would cost to get a delivery time that precise from a courier. It will have been put onto your local tech's job sheet for that day.
HDNL/YODEL are trying to become more efficient by giving timeslots where possible and the opportunity to change the booking online if required.
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

I've got to wait until the 9th Feb for mine
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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Chris they are allowing morning or afternoon and is via UPS.
We no longer use UPS we changed to HDNL/YODEL months ago..
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

Yodel is an awesome name for a delivery service!
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Old 01-02-2011, 19:04   #928
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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Yodel is an awesome name for a delivery service!
YODEL corporate website click HERE

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Old 01-02-2011, 19:05   #929
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

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What misinformation??? Check my sig and see who I work for.

It will happen but maybe not for a while yet. But as they are replacing 20Mb with 30Mb, all customers with elligable equipment will eventually be moved to 30Mb.

You will only stay on 20Mb if you have an older modem or hub.
Then the company you work for is guilty of misleading advertising

http://shop.virginmedia.com/existing...broadband.html

No mention of existing superhub users. If any "activation" is involved then those who have superhubs should also need it surely.

Unless of course "activation" is a misnomer meant to mislead.
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Re: 20 Mb/s to 30Mb/s free upgrade

Still happy with speed all day - very solid 31 Meg down and 3.1 Meg up

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