120M : Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by MUD_Wizard

Yet if one of the VMNG300's in each of the 4 DS channels take 120Mb then the other VMNG300 in your example can only achieve the remaining 80Mb. So only half the VMNG300's achieve full speed. i.e. two modems.

Compare that with 8 DS channels where 3 Superhubs can achieve the full 120Mb with a remaining 40Mb left over.

I'd say that's getting less speed.

If you mix VMNG300's into already saturated channels then the situation can be even worse where none of them achieve full speed.

then that would be a fail on VMs load balancing.

Instead 3 vmng300s on a 8 DS system should be something liek this,

modem 1 channels 1,2,3,4
modem 2 channels 5,6,7,8
modem 3 channels 3,4,5,6

if one out of 3 is maxed out the other 2 dont get screwed.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

then that would be a fail on VMs load balancing.

And that would surprise you how?

[MUD_Wizard]

Originally Posted by oscar87ni

Anybody else on broadband only package? Any letters yet?

120Mb BB only here (since January 2013) and no letter.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

And that would surprise you how?

no.

[kwikbreaks]

Originally Posted by oscar87ni

Anybody else on broadband only package? Any letters yet?

No notification.
60Mbps BB only.
Complained about last BB only rise and ended up with a substantial discount and a new minimum term. That won't stop me complaining again if I do get a notification and imo it shouldn't stop you or anybody else. VM seem to enjoy running their business like a car boot stall so I take advantage of that and haggle.

The truth is that with everything else requiring a phone line the only way I'd better the price is by taking plain ADSL and even then the saving would be small so I stick with them. Anything higher and I would certainly go.

[oscar87ni]

Perhaps they saw I just got new contract and decided to screw me over. As I said earlier I escaped price increase in October by taking out new BB ONLY contract. But it is hard to believe if they would look at each case individually or apply price increase to new contracts only. That's weird. Might need to give them a call.. In the meantime if you get any letters guys please get it posted here.. Thanks

[Sephiroth]

Have any of you also complained about energy price rises? Train fare price rises? And so on?

What's the big deal here?

[kwikbreaks]

errrr..

This is a forum about VM cable broadband. I think if we started posting about the above inflation increases for power and train fares (both of which have an element of government inflicted increase) we might have the mods suggesting they were off topic.

Above inflation increases in the product the forum is devoted to otoh are quite possibly on topic. They may not be justified of course especially as it seems most VM price increases are purely optional and only apply to those who cba to ring in and complain in a civil fashion so they get discounts instead.

[oscar87ni]

I don't really care much about price increase as I can always either cancel my contract or call them up to renegotiate. Just being curious to see whether really standalone package will see increase twice in just 6 months.

A lot of people also probably do not understand that price actually does not increase. It's been about the same for many years in fact I think it's probably cheaper.

Compared to increase in food, electricity and so on price for Broadband have barely increased at all, in fact what has increased is Download and Upload speeds.

It's the price during contract which is being artificially lifted to make up some money.

I remember paying 50quid+ XL broadband and the phone back in 2007.

In regards to 152 Meg product I think it would be great value for money for those that live in congestion free areas. But with Upload speed staying the same I would need to find a good timing when signing up for another 12 month contract.

[Sephiroth]

Oscar makes a good point about how broadband prices have fallen in real terms. As I said, what's the big deal here?

[kwikbreaks]

It's no big deal. Prices rise.

The thing that people have picked up on is that there is a "free" speed doubling announcement and a price increase announcement. It is 100% certain that everyone will see the price rise before the speed rise and if it's the same as last time around quite a few will see a second price rise before they get their speed rise.

The point I'm trying to make is that the price rise is probably optional - mine and many others on BB only actually ended up with discounts instead and certainly last time around you could get an early speed upgrade simply by picking up the phone - I did that too and was on 60/3 a year before my sons 50/5 for which he paid considerably more got uplifted to 100/5 - he should have 120/12 by now but I'm pretty sure he doesn't and all because he cba to pick up the phone..

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

It's no big deal. Prices rise.

I used to sign up for VM contracts (well, in the days before VM) and kept the same broadband price for years on end.

Hell, train fares where I used to live normally rose no more than 2-3% per year even during 5% inflation, now it's the other way round, 2-3% inflation and 5-10% price rises.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

I used to sign up for VM contracts (well, in the days before VM) and kept the same broadband price for years on end.

Hell, train fares where I used to live normally rose no more than 2-3% per year even during 5% inflation, now it's the other way round, 2-3% inflation and 5-10% price rises.

its got to the point where you wonder what are the basis of the 2-3% inflation figures, because everything I spend money on aside from electronics/entertanment is way above 2-3%.

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

its got to the point where you wonder what are the basis of the 2-3% inflation figures, because everything I spend money on aside from electronics/entertanment is way above 2-3%.

Detail from page 5:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/cpi/co...efing-note.pdf

[MaverickJesus]

I'm sure they diddled the calculation a few years back to conveniently remove items with rampant inflation (read: house prices) so it doesn't surprise me that the figure is meaningless.