Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

[thenry]

my point in asking was because it, having Bolts ads feature would boost revenue or at least have some form of positive PR going on

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by thenry

having Bolts ads feature would boost revenue or at least have some form of positive PR going on

But getting sued may not

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/sp...ng-police.html

[Telly_]

How is the speed doubling going?

After all negativity when it was announced about how they would never stick to the dates it would be good if this time they are running on time. So how's it going??

Well, since we don't have the original (or the revised) national roll-out plan, it may be difficult to comment, except on area by area basis (where people had gone online and saw a date previously, which may now have changed).

Personally, my area (Leeds) originally stated "from July onwards" - it now states "between December 2012 and February 2013".

However, I took another option, and changed my previous package (which included 30Mb/s BB) to Premiere Collection (which has 60Mb/s), whilst saving over £11 per month.

[Telly_]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Well, since we don't have the original (or the revised) national roll-out plan, it may be difficult to comment, except on area by area basis (where people had gone online and saw a date previously, which may now have changed).

Personally, my area (Leeds) originally stated "from July onwards" - it now states "between December 2012 and February 2013".

However, I took another option, and changed my previous package (which included 30Mb/s BB) to Premiere Collection (which has 60Mb/s), whilst saving over £11 per month.

Is that a 60/6 connection? Not bad with an £11 saving plus higher traffic management allowance as well.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Telly_

Is that a 60/6 connection? Not bad with an £11 saving plus higher traffic management allowance as well.

No it's 60/3 at present. Upstream increases haven't started yet, only downstream

But it will be 60/6 by the time the upgrades are complete

[thenry]

after all downstream upgrades or area by area?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by thenry

after all downstream upgrades or area by area?

I would expect it will be area by area

[thenry]

theres been signs of upstream bonding posted by customers on the VM community forum. not sure if their upstream speeds have been doubled with bonding. could you find out Ben?

[ileikcaek]

someone I know on 100Mb has had a lot of dropouts recently and just had his modem reboot and when it come back it had a new config that shows the upstream as 16.25Mb *scratches forehead* I am starting to wonder if 120Mb will be 120/16

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by thenry

theres been signs of upstream bonding posted by customers on the VM community forum. not sure if their upstream speeds have been doubled with bonding. could you find out Ben?

Virgin normally do some tests before any rollout to make sure things work, so it's possible

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Virgin normally do some tests before any rollout to make sure things work

thanks for giving me my laugh of the day. That has got to be one of my favourite all time quotes

[carlwaring]

As does your sig every time I look at it. Talk about flogging a dead horse

[General Maximus]

I am glad you find it as amusing as I do. It is a testament to VMs standards, competancy and level of customer care

[carlwaring]

No. Amusing as in "get over it"