100M : Small Download Speed Upgrade

[morley04]

It would be nice to see a little increase of some sort hopefully they wont take months to roll these new config files.

[Rob King]

i got 100mb but really get over 97 mb on speed tests

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by rickymallory

Kinda hoping for a slight bump on 30Mb but I think that is less likely with most 30Mb customers being ex 20Mb customers and that was a "free" upgrade minus the £30 activation/superhub fee. Still a bump to 40Mb would be nice! I guess people in the know cannot say too much, like usual, there's probably an NDA on the upgrades VM are doing.

Be a tad more than a 'slight bump'.

You get nothing as part of the smaller increases as the 30Mb already has 10% on it, but do look forward to a speed increase next year

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Originally Posted by Rob King

i got 100mb but really get over 97 mb on speed tests

Which is exactly why VM are pushing the rate cap from 102.4Mb to 110Mb, you will see over 104Mb after.

[morley04]

So will 50mb see an increase next year aswell ? Im just hunting for answers as im bored at work.

[General Maximus]

great, i could have kept my vmng300 and had a free speed boost that worked

[Skie]

I can see them turning 100meg into something silly (150/15?) to one-up Infinity and 50meg turn into something that matches Infinity.

[morley04]

I think 50 will just see the 10% fluff on top so instead of 53mb max it will be 55mb I suppose unless they have some tricks up there sleeve

[kwikbreaks]

Ignore DOCSIS1 (10 +20) because VM do and you have...

33Mbps nnMbps 104mBPS with nnmBPS costing ~ £7.50 more than 33 and £10 less than 104.

To coin an (idiot) phrase - do the math.

Currently 50Mbps is poor value over 30Mbps imo and if 30Mbps had been announved at the time I'd have taken it when upgrading from 20 rather than upgrading to 50Mbps.

I'd far rather they sorted out the oversubscription issues than pushed headline speeds higher. I was told that my area upgrade was complete but almost immediately it became just about as bad as before - a single 100Mbps high volume user can easily stuff up the current low capacity local pipes. I'm obviously no network genius but I think if asked I could have predicted that no sanctions, unlimited 100/10 on 200/18 pipes would lead to this in some areas. I'd just have hoped I didn't live in one but sadly I do.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by morley04

So will 50mb see an increase next year aswell ? Im just hunting for answers as im bored at work.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

50Mb is already capped at 53Mb and is receiving a different upgrade.

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

I'd far rather they sorted out the oversubscription issues than pushed headline speeds higher.

You should come and live in my area dude, when I rang up the other day they said the utilisation on my UBR was negligable and I was the only 100mbit user on it (not that I believe them) but perhaps that is why I have always got my max speed (up and till now )

Originally Posted by Skie

I can see them turning 100meg into something silly (150/15?) to one-up Infinity and 50meg turn into something that matches Infinity.

it would be nice if they made them 80/8 and 150/15, it ain't gonna happen though. I can see it going to 60/6 to make it more of a jump from 30 but still significantly less than 100

[kwikbreaks]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I can see it going to 60/6 to make it more of a jump from 30 but still significantly less than 100

That would be the sort of increase I'd expect to see. You're lucky that your area isn't busted - around here you'd probably only get the 10Mbps I downgraded to regardless of which on you picked. I guess they'll sort it out eventually but their track record on theses issues isn't good.

[Ignitionnet]

Just to clarify 100Mb is not getting uplifted to anything bar the 110Mb downstream to give extra fluff for overheads, so no point in speculating on what it may or may not be going to

All other tiers, however

[General Maximus]

I wonder how much fluff you could download in a day with an extra 10mbits?

[Jayster]

I am guessing upstream is left out in the cold as normal?

[morley04]

Is there a time frame for these minor updates ?