Superhub 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey) - Page 29

craigarthur · 05-05-2015, 22:38

Got an email today. Email says "Your broadband has been supercharged from up to 120Mb to a whopping up to 152Mb."

Expect it hasn't. Modem is capped to 112640000. Perhaps the email has slippedout too early? Might phone tomorrow...

Kushan · 05-05-2015, 22:46

I'm more surprised that there are still people out there who've not been upgraded.

craigarthur · 05-05-2015, 22:50

Our area was one of the first to be upgraded last time. I used to be on 120 or whatever it was back then and when 152 came to our area I dropped back to 100 as that was more than enough.

Thinking it's an email cock up rather than a new upgrade, looking back it's exactly the same email as early March last year. Although they did test double speeds on our segment last month and had 200mb for a few days.

Kushan · 05-05-2015, 23:08

Oh yeah, it's definitely a cock up, you'll be on the "new" 100mbit tier from the upgrades as opposed to the "old" 100mbit tier from the pre-120Mbit days.

MagicUK · 06-05-2015, 08:42

Reading the virgin community forums and including myself on the bank holiday weekend I was getting pretty bad speeds Monday evening, 50mbs on the 156 service, was there a blip in the virgin network over the weekend or as the people put on the 300 trial causing load issues for the network in general? When you read these issues and they say it's being reviewed 6weekd later it does make you lose abit of confidence in the service, I know increasing capacity is alot more difficult, will this new hardware roll out make things abit easier going forward?

General Maximus · 06-05-2015, 09:56

It is going to have to because they cant afford to let the network go back to how it was in 2009 ish and all the negative pr.

japitts · 06-05-2015, 10:18

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Originally Posted by MagicUK

Reading the virgin community forums and including myself on the bank holiday weekend I was getting pretty bad speeds Monday evening, 50mbs on the 156 service, was there a blip in the virgin network over the weekend or as the people put on the 300 trial causing load issues for the network in general? When you read these issues and they say it's being reviewed 6weekd later it does make you lose abit of confidence in the service, I know increasing capacity is alot more difficult, will this new hardware roll out make things abit easier going forward?

I've had peak-time congestion on my 50Mb since about 6months now. It became really noticeable christmas/New-Year week, but looking at TBB graphs it had been building for a few weeks prior I suspect. There's good nights and bad in terms of speed, but...long story short... the third review date is coming up in a week, and I'm absolutely confident of being given yet another date.

It does begin to feel like excuse after excuse, although I'm sure there are valid reasons each and every time it slips. Hopefully this will future-proof the area for another couple of years (like last time we had problems).

scoobydoo[uk] · 06-05-2015, 12:29

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Originally Posted by craigarthur

Got an email today. Email says "Your broadband has been supercharged from up to 120Mb to a whopping up to 152Mb."

Expect it hasn't. Modem is capped to 112640000. Perhaps the email has slippedout too early? Might phone tomorrow...

I got an email saying ive been supercharged to 100mb.

Ive been on 152mb for the past year!!!!..

NoCableForMe · 06-05-2015, 18:04

my current speed

Upload seems a bit slow today, I've had it at over 800 as well.

MagicUK · 06-05-2015, 18:15

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Originally Posted by NoCableForMe

my current speed

Upload seems a bit slow today, I've had it at over 800 as well.

Is that a new speed tier there trialing?

Sephiroth · 06-05-2015, 18:44

[QUOTE=MagicUK;35775916]

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Originally Posted by NoCableForMe

my current speed

Upload seems a bit slow today, I've had it at over 800 as well.[/QUOTE
Is that a new speed tier there trialing?

And only 99% faster than the rest of the UK!

General Maximus · 06-05-2015, 18:48

qasdfdsaq · 06-05-2015, 19:01

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

And only 99% faster than the rest of the UK!

Faster than 99% of the UK. Probably a rounding limitation either way. There'll be a good number of folk on gigabit getting 900+ and then there's jokers like me:

Kushan · 06-05-2015, 20:08

Looks like there's congestion in your area, qas - you!

Ignitionnet · 06-05-2015, 20:36

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Originally Posted by MagicUK

Is that a new speed tier there trialing?

Kinda. He's on the Papworth FTTP trial.

They started them off on the DOCSIS network using fibre all the way with no coax.

They are also testing GPON. He's now on GPON

You will not see 500Mb up on the cable network for a long time.