120M Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014 - Page 4

telfordcable · 11-11-2013, 15:31

Gigaclear & Hyperoptic are still the fastest broadband in UK.

BenMcr · 11-11-2013, 15:32

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

i see the top tier is being ripped off once again with a negligable speed increase.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Indeeed, bottom tier went 10 -> 30 -> 50, mid tier went 20 -> 60 -> 100, top tier went 100 -> 120 -> 150

There was also the price drop those on 100Mbit got in addition to the 100 > 120 increase.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/vir...eed-increases/

Which none of the other tiers got.

telfordcable · 11-11-2013, 15:48

The ispreview had now saying "Generally Virgin says that their existing broadband customers should expect to receive a download boost of “at least 20Mbps“. But uploads will not be improved and you’ll have to sign-up to a new 12 month contract in order to benefit."

So, 152Mb will get the same upload on 12Mb. Pretty pointless to upgrade.

BenMcr · 11-11-2013, 15:52

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

The ispreview had now saying "Generally Virgin says that their existing broadband customers should expect to receive a download boost of “at least 20Mbps“. But uploads will not be improved and you’ll have to sign-up to a new 12 month contract in order to benefit."

So, 152Mb will get the same upload on 12Mb. Pretty pointless to upgrade.

There is nothing in it to say that the 'no increase to uploads' has come from VM directly http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...s-package.html

If/what is happening to uploads hasn't been confirmed yet

qasdfdsaq · 11-11-2013, 16:06

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

There was also the price drop those on 100Mbit got in addition to the 100 > 120 increase.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/vir...eed-increases/

Which none of the other tiers got.

Even so, 100 had price dropped to match 50, so effectively would have been 50-120-150 (3x increase)

Which in terms of final speed to initial speed a year or two ago is still a worse ratio than 10-30-50 (5x increase) or 20-60-100 (5x increase).

Oh and in addition to the lowest speed increase they (50 & 100) also got the addition of STM, which none of the other tiers got (cause they already had it, whereas 50/100 were exempt). So in fact minimum regulated speeds, at peak times, went from:

2.5 (10 STM'd) => 43 (17x increase)
5.0 (20 STM'd) => 86 (17x increase)
50 => 129 (2.5x increase)
100 => 129 (1.3x increase, and price drop to match 50)

Which makes the top tier look like they're getting ripped off even worse!

Martin_D · 11-11-2013, 16:32

http://keepup.virginmedia.com/speedu..._Nov13_Pre_Reg

Sephiroth · 11-11-2013, 16:57

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Even so, 100 had price dropped to match 50, so effectively would have been 50-120-150 (3x increase)

Which in terms of final speed to initial speed a year or two ago is still a worse ratio than 10-30-50 (5x increase) or 20-60-100 (5x increase).

Oh and in addition to the lowest speed increase they (50 & 100) also got the addition of STM, which none of the other tiers got (cause they already had it, whereas 50/100 were exempt). So in fact minimum regulated speeds, at peak times, went from:

2.5 (10 STM'd) => 43 (17x increase)
5.0 (20 STM'd) => 86 (17x increase)
50 => 129 (2.5x increase)
100 => 129 (1.3x increase, and price drop to match 50)

Which makes the top tier look like they're getting ripped off even worse!

Nobody was ripped off by VM. The mega-downloaders would have ripped me off had they not been STMd.

Kushan · 11-11-2013, 17:02

Some people will never be happy.

Kabaal · 11-11-2013, 17:03

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Nobody was ripped off by VM. The mega-downloaders would have ripped me off had they not been STMd.

Both those statements are as silly as each other lol.

qasdfdsaq · 11-11-2013, 17:14

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Originally Posted by Kushan

Some people will never be happy.

I'm sure there's some mental disability that covers that nowadays.

oscar87ni · 11-11-2013, 17:19

So I suppose top tier 152MB config speeds could be as follows?

Download Speed: 160000000 bps - 152.58 Mbps
Upload Speed: 15000000 bps - 14.30Mbps

And if they are required to spend another 12 months on upgrades that just tells me they will probably gonna have to add max available download channels to 8 and upload to 4.

Just speculating...

telfordcable · 11-11-2013, 17:24

Upload will not be including as part of new 152Mb say Virgin Media: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...nd/m-p/2060120

What about upload speeds? Will these increase too?

The boost is for download speeds only for now.

General Maximus · 11-11-2013, 17:25

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Originally Posted by oscar87ni

max available download channels to 8 and upload to 4

absolutely, I am very interested to see what sort of speed I get on my vmng300. I can't see them getting away with not increasing the upload speed, they'll be ripped to pieces for it given the current ratios other isps are advertising. I cant see them maxing 4 upstream channels available just yet given that it has taken them yonks to make two available and they are still rolling the speed increases out to the lower tiers.

BenMcr · 11-11-2013, 17:26

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

Upload will not be including as part of new 152Mb say Virgin Media: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...nd/m-p/2060120

What about upload speeds? Will these increase too?

The boost is for download speeds only for now.

Doesn't rule out changes completely though

Kabaal · 11-11-2013, 17:29

No upload increase is a bit of a joke especially for 120mb customers. The difference between 15MB/s and 18MB/s will hardly be noticable and will mean nothing to most people yet any increase on the upload would have considering it's already so low.