Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

[qasdfdsaq]

Hey if it's free, I've got nothing to lose. On the other hand if it costs more than £10 a month, I get better service on my mobile phone for that!

[Kymmy]

Not if you're on Orange (apparently parts of the country have lost orange data due to a fault)

[qasdfdsaq]

Vodafone, O2, and 3 are my main providers, I've boycotted Orange since they treated me like <insert various colourful terms for excrement> about 8 years ago.

[Kymmy]

LOL, I did the same when I had internet with them.. Told me that in September that I had gone over their FUP limit in June and told me unless I reduce usage they would restrict me (weird thing is that they wouldn;t tell me what the limit was).. Then in October they sent me a letter stating that because I hadn;t reduced usage in July they would be restricting me from 6.5Mb (adsl max) to 128Kb during the day..

Did they honestly think I could time travel???



PS.. The limit turned out to be 40GB

[Kabaal]

Literally just got my upload speed upgrade to 5mb/s last night and i'm in the Glenrothes area which is on the March/April list. Was a bit worried that the double speed wouldn't be coming on time but at least the upload finally being done gives some hope.

Oddly my download speed is more stable since the upgrade last night than it's ever been, maxing out at 50.3 within seconds and not budging off it until my download is done no matter the size, it used to fluctuate quite a bit.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

LOL, I did the same when I had internet with them.. Told me that in September that I had gone over their FUP limit in June and told me unless I reduce usage they would restrict me (weird thing is that they wouldn;t tell me what the limit was).. Then in October they sent me a letter stating that because I hadn;t reduced usage in July they would be restricting me from 6.5Mb (adsl max) to 128Kb during the day..

Did they honestly think I could time travel???



PS.. The limit turned out to be 40GB

Sounds exactly like the treatment I got from Leaseweb, for which I'm boycotting them too:

They sent me an invoice on the 3rd of November, dated 1st November. A week later they demanded I pay a 125 euro reconnection fee for failing to pay before 20th of October. I pointed out that would have been impossible because the invoice was generated on 1st November. They said they sent me reminders in October. I said that was impossible, the invoice didn't exist until November. They said I was being uncooperative and would be disconnected.

I told them where to shove it.

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Originally Posted by Kabaal

Oddly my download speed is more stable since the upgrade last night than it's ever been, maxing out at 50.3 within seconds and not budging off it until my download is done no matter the size, it used to fluctuate quite a bit.

Not that odd at all. Downloading depends on being able to send a consistent and reliable acknowledgements back over your upstream.

[Kabaal]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

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Not that odd at all. Downloading depends on being able to send a consistent and reliable acknowledgements back over your upstream.

Does it make that much difference? Before i would be anywhere between 4 & 6.4 ish down from one second to the next, upload was pretty much always the max i should be getting for the 50meg line, a solid 200KB/s. I'd always thought that kinda upload would be plenty especially as it was solid but your comment makes me curious as i was just making assumptions.

I'm probably happier that my download solidified at 50.3 after the upgrade than the actual upload upgrade itself Now i have my fingers crossed that the boost to 100mb goes as well.

[qasdfdsaq]

Hmm, well if upload *was* fine before, it explains it less.

I did used to have bad upload speed in my area (500kbit/sec on 50mb) which limited my download to no more than 20-30mbps. Now I see my download fluctuating and jumping from 5-15mbps randomly after spending the first two seconds at 50mb - so by the sounds of things similar to you.

I'm also in Scotland, ex-TW by the way, so probably similar network architecture too. Glad it made such a big difference to you, though for me too late for VM to keep my custom, they'd been promising this "soon" for 15 months already.

[greeninferno]

Originally Posted by Kabaal

Literally just got my upload speed upgrade to 5mb/s last night and i'm in the Glenrothes area which is on the March/April list. Was a bit worried that the double speed wouldn't be coming on time but at least the upload finally being done gives some hope.

Oddly my download speed is more stable since the upgrade last night than it's ever been, maxing out at 50.3 within seconds and not budging off it until my download is done no matter the size, it used to fluctuate quite a bit.

ah thanks for that

you have the superhub then i take it.

noticed last night the online light flashing on the Tivo about 1 am and the internet failed briefly about midday today again so maybe ironoing out the wrinkles

[Kabaal]

Originally Posted by greeninferno

ah thanks for that

you have the superhub then i take it.

noticed last night the online light flashing on the Tivo about 1 am and the internet failed briefly about midday today again so maybe ironoing out the wrinkles

I don't have the superhub, i still have the one from before that.

I take it you're in the same area fella? For the couple of days beforehand TV and net were a bit glitchy and had some downtime so i guess they were working on it. Outta the blue today I uploaded a .zip file and it zoomed so i started checking and there it was, 5mb upload. Try a modem reboot

[a01020304]

Is it true if your on L 10mb and already have a superhub you will get upgraded to the 30mb speed and not the 20mb speed.
I have heard some people say that but is it true or not?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by a01020304

Is it true if your on L 10mb and already have a superhub you will get upgraded to the 30mb speed and not the 20mb speed.
I have heard some people say that but is it true or not?

No it's not true

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

No it's not true

Ben you have said the following so far.

The new 30mbit config is for a future package.
The new 30mbit config is not been used to give discounts for waiving the speed upgrade.
You have now just said its not going to be used on 10mbit customers.

So what is it for?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Ben you have said the following so far.

The new 30mbit config is for a future package.
The new 30mbit config is not been used to give discounts for waiving the speed upgrade.
You have now just said its not going to be used on 10mbit customers.

So what is it for?

What I said it that isn't not going to be automatically used for customer on BB L 10Mbit with a SuperHub, that is all

[Chrysalis]

Ok.