Virgin Media’s New 200Mbps Package Drops to 130Mbps at Peak Times

[jb66]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I don't pay any extra.

Some people do

[Synthetic]

Originally Posted by jb66

150 comes with 10meg upload, I dont think an extra 2meg upload justifies £7 extra per month for 200meg

Yep not worth the £7/m extra, 150 will do us (more than) fine

[Gobble]

I've got my letter now to say the bill is going up and was going to ring and kick off and try and get the 200MB early, but not sure I will ever see it if I even bother.

I also seen that guy you're talking about Stop It, seems to have hushed up a little.

[djfunkdup]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

Interesting, I'm moving back to a VM cabled area shortly and was planning to go for the 200Mbps package, I'm thinking I might as well go for the 150 now...

There is no 150 package now .. it's 50 100 and 200

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And just to let anyone that's on Vivid200 know . if you were on 152 and got upgraded to Vivid200 then there is no going back to 152 if you have problems with the 200 service. They don't have access to 152 config codes anymore so you need to go down to Vivid 100..

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by djfunkdup

There is no 150 package now .. it's 50 100 and 200

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And just to let anyone that's on Vivid200 know . if you were on 152 and got upgraded to Vivid200 then there is no going back to 152 if you have problems with the 200 service. They don't have access to 152 config codes anymore so you need to go down to Vivid 100..

I thought the new speeds were 70mb , 150mb , 200mb is that not correct ?

[djfunkdup]

SuperFibre 50

Vivid100 and Vivid200

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

I thought the new speeds were 70mb , 150mb , 200mb is that not correct ?

We've got a solid 70, actually topped out at 73Mbs when I saturated the link with torrents today.

[djfunkdup]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

We've got a solid 70, actually topped out at 73Mbs when I saturated the link with torrents today.

The guy was asking about new speeds . if you were on 50 you got upgraded to 70 but you cant order 70 ..


http://store.virginmedia.com/broadba...u_click_bbonly

50 100 and 200 are the only 3 speeds new customers are able to order

[jb66]

I've been able to upgrade customers to xl150

[djfunkdup]

Originally Posted by jb66

I've been able to upgrade customers to xl150

Just going by what i was told today when i called regarding issues with my Vivid200 connection .. i was told by 3 different people that i could not be put back on 150 if i decided i never wanted Vivid200 anymore.First call was to retentions the other 2 were to the tech guys..

i had a rock solid connection when i was on the 150 before.The Vivid 200 is borked and has been since day one..

[jb66]

Originally Posted by djfunkdup

Just going by what i was told today when i called regarding issues with my Vivid200 connection .. i was told by 3 different people that i could not be put back on 150 if i decided i never wanted Vivid200 anymore.First call was to retentions the other 2 were to the tech guys..

i had a rock solid connection when i was on the 150 before.The Vivid 200 is borked and has been since day one..

If your on bug kahuna then you can't downgrade to 150

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by ianch99

This is far worse than the "average of 130Mbps" during peak periods .. I have requested to join the SK project and I suspect I will get a similar graph.

I have tried in the past complaining to the VM CEO but since we are into the 4th year of overutilsation, this did not have the desired effect

Should we email the CEP of Liberty Global to see what happens?

Well an average is an average. If the average is 130Mbps then you know 50% of people are getting less than 130Mbps. You could reach that average by 50% of people getting 200Mbps and 50% of people getting 60Mbps.

[mmm]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Well an average is an average. If the average is 130Mbps then you know 50% of people are getting less than 130Mbps. You could reach that average by 50% of people getting 200Mbps and 50% of people getting 60Mbps.

That's not what I learnt at school, remember mean, mode, median all have definitions of 'average'. You are using median, the default is usually mean?

[djfunkdup]

Originally Posted by jb66

If your on bug kahuna then you can't downgrade to 150

Yea i know that bud lol if you look at my sig you can see i'm on standalone bb here.. They were adamant on the phone to me today that they don't have access to 150 config codes anymore.They have a choice of 3 codes now and that's it .50 100 and 200 ,


If you think that is incorrect then that's good news for me lol if you can confirm that then i will have a go at them again tomrw and try and get put back on the 150 product again

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by mmm

That's not what I learnt at school, remember mean, mode, median all have definitions of 'average'. You are using median, the default is usually mean?

Given the normal distribution of these things the three are close enough for most people, especially in the absence of more accurate figures.