120M : Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014

[telfordcable]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

Should have asked for a bigger slice lol

Bundle Charges
Broadband XXL (Up To 120mb) Loyalty Customer
Bundle Charges total£37.50
Promotional offer(s)
You'Re Receiving A Loyalty Discount It's For £9. If You Change Your Package You May Lose This Discount Which Will End 22-AUG-15
Promotional offer(s)CR £9.00
Your package total£28.50

Mine is:

Bundle Charges
Broadband XXL (Up To 152mb) Loyalty Customer
Bundle Charges total£37.50
Promotional offer(s)
You'Re Receiving A Loyalty Discount It's For £9. If You Change Your Package You May Lose This Discount Which Will End 28-SEPT-15
Promotional offer(s)CR £9.00 plus discount of £5.00 (six months offer)
Your package total£23.50 (6 months) £28.50 (12 months)

[Neptune_Twilight]

No point whatsoever in upping to 152 while upload stays at 12 esp as I will be out of contract soon & having issues with Tivo - I wrongly assumed that the old system would hold, 120 is fine for downloading it's the up speed I want changing - I have a BT fibre cabinet 6 yards from my drive so have options ~

[telfordcable]

Originally Posted by Neptune_Twilight

No point whatsoever in upping to 152 while upload stays at 12 esp as I will be out of contract soon & having issues with Tivo - I wrongly assumed that the old system would hold, 120 is fine for downloading it's the up speed I want changing - I have a BT fibre cabinet 6 yards from my drive so have options ~

Have both. FTTC and Cable.

I use download for cable only
I use fftc for upload only

job done!

[Neptune_Twilight]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

Have both. FTTC and Cable.

I use download for cable only
I use fftc for upload only

job done!

Hmmmm I will get you to give my other half a bell & you can convince her it's a good idea (best of luck there)

[Kabaal]

Decided to get mine upgraded early today and got a nice reduction in price too.

I was paying £47.49 for 120mb+phone line before because of all the recent price increases. Now i'm paying £35.99 for 152mb+phone line so £11.50 cheaper than before.

Speed test is giving 160/12.2 so nice and solid as usual.

[General Maximus]

sweet, I hope mine goes through as planned when my shub2 arrives at some point today (hopefully)

[General Maximus]

All I am going to say is "holy **** it worked" and I have got it the best part of 9 months early. This makes up for being royally screwed when I got 100mbit.

[Dush]

I got an early upgrade in E17.

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6pm



Ignore the https speeds, my Microserver over RDP chokes with CPU usage. The http is a good indicator.

I also got an upgrade to Sky 80/20 (should be 60/15) from 40/10; that's kicking in soon for £20 a month. I'll team them on usenet, so great speeds regardless of congestion and superb reliability. Shame the old Microserver with Flexraid can't cope with the speeds though!

[Kabaal]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

All I am going to say is "holy **** it worked" and I have got it the best part of 9 months early. This makes up for being royally screwed when I got 100mbit.

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Nice isn't it

I was one of the ones who thought it was an insignificant bump when announced but getting 20MB/s on downloads instead of 15 is much more noticeable than i thought it would be.

Just need better upload speeds now

[General Maximus]

yeah, at the end of the day it is a 33% increase for you so you are bound to notice it. I can remember in the old days when I got bumped from 3mbits to 10mbits and I thought that was stupidly fast. I know it sounds silly but as far as I am concerned the faster the better. Rather than leaving a download ticking along all day at 60k/sec (for example) I would rather have a fast enough connection that I can download it in 30 seconds so I know it is done and then leave my connection idle for the rest of the day. I haven't actually tried downloading anything yet but I am looking forward to tomorrow morning. I maxed out my torrents at 14.6MB/sec this morning.

[Neptune_Twilight]

Well I can't have a situation where you lot are faster than me so I dialed 150 and 5 mins & a modem reboot later are on 152 - No mention was made of any changes to contract so I'll see - Worth it I suppose just to annoy some members of the family who can't get fibre

[General Maximus]

I have just downloaded 3 torrents and it maxed out at 18.85MB/sec = sweeeeeeeeeeeeet

[telfordcable]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I have just downloaded 3 torrents and it maxed out at 18.85MB/sec = sweeeeeeeeeeeeet

I thought virgin had blocked torrent sites?

[General Maximus]

really? If VM havent got anything better to do than sit there and block every single torrent site then there would be something seriously wrong. There are plenty of legit torrent sites which you can access no probs and you still get access to the ones they have blocked.

[JPAC]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

I thought virgin had blocked torrent sites?

Sounds suspicious, VM investigation?