20 Meg From June

[grabbi]

One thing is they are doing this, but the last time they eliminated 1MB BB, and auto-switched 1MB/3 for £30 customers to 2MB BB for no extra cost.

I wonder, when the 20MB is done, we will get 4MB...

Also, they are residentially trialing 50MB BB too!

Weyhey!

[kronas]

great! cant wait for this to kick in, looks like ntl/ telewest's (back then) promises are showing some fruition!

[Spooky_uk]

Originally Posted by Simcut

What about the poor buggers that get about 2mbit when subscribed to the 10mbit service? I think Virgin better sort them out before they think about releasing 20mbit ! Seems like they dont give much of a toss about existing customers and are only interested in gaining new ones and being the first for 20mbit cable. Not amused!

agreed, although I have been paying £15 per month since october last year for 10mb (but nowhere near those speeds - took a lot of grief, hassle and telephone calls to get it too). I hear people are getitng compensation now of free broadband until problem is fixed - anyone here this ?

If they do rollout 20mb, and plenty of us still in areas that can't recieve 10mb yet - maybe a class action law suit will make them listen???

[peterxwilson@blu]

I have been on blueyonder many years, 10meg which I get near enough at 05.00am but by 6.30am it drops to 100k or so and reamins there through till midnight. dunno if upgrade to 20 meg means anything, I doubt it, probably they need to dig up the roads and put more cabling in. Am in London and imagine evryone down our street is sharing the same cable now. I initially tried many of the fixes suggested here and there but none helped and the fact that its ok in the night leads me to conclude the service is simply not up to all the users. Oh well. Am tempted to change but its such a hassle and no doubt the same thing happens to all the providers in time

[Paul K]

They won't need to re-lay cable to upgrade the speed. Have you called them to find out why your speed drops to an un-usable level for the majority of the day?

[lauzjp]

great news for some I'm sure, but it'll no doubt mean even more moany threads on CF going 'but I'm only getting 19.99mb!?!?!?!?!!'

[Paul K]

Yeah some people just don't see the words "Up to" Never mind, I'm sure the forum server will be upgraded before then.

[Carl J]

Originally Posted by Paul

They won't need to re-lay cable to upgrade the speed. Have you called them to find out why your speed drops to an un-usable level for the majority of the day?

Actually in some areas where it's not there there is a requirement to lay more fibre in order to resegment areas and split nodes. Loads of fibre went down in Leicester, Southampton and other places.

Some people may see contractors putting string in the ground to do the necessary capacity upgrades to allow for upgrades

[Lee]

Well having just spoken to retentions today I'd like to give you the information I was given which was supposed to make me re-consider leaving...

".. as from next quarter we will be making 50mb available for just an extra £2 / month on what you are paying now."

That would make 50MB £36.99 a month.

Not sure I believe him, but if he's lying to try to stop people leaving, thats pretty dispicable.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by chamoan

Maybe they should try and sort out there current network before promising to overload it more

Well its fine in my area, no overloading here!
I get 1208kB/s (10MEG) 24/7 here, so bring on the 20Meg!!

[Benson]

It seems 20mb is being tested again in my area (Preston) as i just downloaded a tv show at a constant 2400KB,why do i say tested and not rolled out because as many of you will asked i checked my config page and 10mb config remains.

Configuration File
cm-10240-384

I also did a file tranfer to friend to test upload and i uploaded to him at around 80-95KB.

[The Jackal]

AGAIN THIS IS ALL *BULL* ******

Why dont you people get it through your heads that BROADBAND SPEED is just a MARKETING TOY.

You're all just letting them continue to DEGRADE OUR SERVICE.

STABLE FAST LATENT NETWORK is what we want not SO CALLED 100000000x speed BROKENBAND.

Cheers

[Mr Clean]

Nowt wrong with my 10Mb in Derby. Loving it.

Not real fussy on the 20Mb download, but the extra upload will do a treat. I'm quite happy chugging along at 10Mb down.

JG

[Asha'man Jay]

Hoping to get a free bump from 4 to 10

If they're serious about starting TV channels to take on sky they'll try & take em on, on the broadband market as well. Branson loves a fight

Sky offer 16Mb for £10 don't they??? Not sure.

[DarkGashX]

Originally Posted by Rik

Well its fine in my area, no overloading here!
I get 1208kB/s (10MEG) 24/7 here, so bring on the 20Meg!!

Same with me. I get that exact same speed 24/7. RB is making this company awesome .