120M : Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014

[alanbjames]

ive just blagged the free 152mb free early and its dropped my overall package price by £2.43 a month but i had to sign a new contract.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedt...31307973219267

[General Maximus]

it's all good dude. I don't mind agreeing to a new 12 month contract because if we were going to switch to Infinity (etc) we would have done it by now.

[peanut]

I'm sure it's been asked before but if you have a few months left on a contract and if you renew it does it add on or start again from 1 year (max)?

[Kabaal]

Originally Posted by peanut

I'm sure it's been asked before but if you have a few months left on a contract and if you renew it does it add on or start again from 1 year (max)?

Any time you go into a new contract with them it's starts fresh, it's not cumulative

[peanut]

Originally Posted by Kabaal

Any time you go into a new contract with them it's starts fresh, it's not cumulative

Thank you.

[tanny]

Originally Posted by alanbjames

ive just blagged the free 152mb free early and its dropped my overall package price by £2.43 a month but i had to sign a new contract.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedt...31307973219267

Which department did you ring to get this deal?

[peanut]

Originally Posted by tanny

Which department did you ring to get this deal?

I just called retentions (150), I got rid of unlimited calls as I never made any use of it (I have a good mobile package which covers it), they upgraded me to 152mb there and then, and I saved £15 a month in the process. I'm happy with that.

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by peanut

I'm sure it's been asked before but if you have a few months left on a contract and if you renew it does it add on or start again from 1 year (max)?

That is a good question because when you renew your mobile contract the new contract gets added to the old one. So if you get an early upgrade 3 months in advance of your contract finishing, your new contract starts in 3 months time when the old one finishes.

[peanut]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

That is a good question because when you renew your mobile contract the new contract gets added to the old one. So if you get an early upgrade 3 months in advance of your contract finishing, your new contract starts in 3 months time when the old one finishes.

Luckily my mobile isn't with Virgin.

Just paid the line rental saver off as well so will be now saving £20.57 a month.

[Dush]

I got an early upgrade to 152Mbps, also upgraded to Sky FTTC 80/20 and getting their maximum for £20 a month

Just ran a usenet download and achieved this as a peak



222Mbits, cannot believe we can now get this speed in our homes.

[General Maximus]

have you got some sort ether channel going on?

[Dush]

What's an ether channel?

I've just got a Dual WAN router (Cisco) and configured the rules so that a usenet server tunnels over Virgin and Sky. I setup this up within the router via Port based rules.

I had to use NZBGet to achieve the speed though, SabNZBD runs too slow on my Microserver. Can only get 120mbit on though Sab.

[General Maximus]

it is basically the same thing. Ether channel is when you tell the router to bond a specific amount of ports so that three 100mbit ports to the same destination are bonded and shown as one 300mbit line. It sounds like you have done the same thing with your wan connections and it certainly looks sweet. All hail Cisco

[Dush]

Ah I see. It's not that fancy, it's not bonding. The only area the connection teaming works on is on usenet as I can specify that say port 5859 will go over WAN 1 and port 4849 will go over WAN 2.

The TP Link and Draytek Routers also do it. I used to have the Draytek 2920, great Router but WAN-LAN throughput was only 120Mbps.

[General Maximus]

k i understand now. It isn't load balancing between the two connections, it is simply dividing the traffic between the two and because you have been downloading so many individual files you have been able to max out your connection. Still sweet though.