Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

[Phil-ntl]

Originally Posted by thenry

Use Google Chrome to access the site > http://my.virginmedia.com/doubletick...art=Tickles_11

Tried using Chrome, FF and IE10 Dev Preview and just get the coming soon page

Phil

[Peter_]

The correct page will not be live until tomorrow.

[thenry]

PM me your postcode or post it in this thread, your areas massive with afew different dates/ETAs

[Phil-ntl]

Originally Posted by Masque

The correct page will not be live until tomorrow.

As I thought then, I guess anyone getting the original double tickle page must have it cached.


Phil

[davidthornton]

Originally Posted by Phil-ntl

Tried using Chrome, FF and IE10 Dev Preview and just get the coming soon page

Phil

Tried going in from a non VM IP address?

[Phil-ntl]

Originally Posted by thenry

PM me your postcode or post it in this thread, your areas massive with afew different dates/ETAs

Cheers

NG11 9AJ


Phil

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by davidthornton

How many areas remain less than 10:1?

You can that here www.virginmedia.com/fasteruploads

Given that 120Mbit isn't coming for a while it should be quite realistic for VM to consider a better than 10:1 ratio on this new top tier tariff for when it is available.

It's not going to happen

[Phil-ntl]

Originally Posted by davidthornton

Tried going in from a non VM IP address?

just tried it and same page oh well.


Phil

[telfordcable]

Blackburn ETA is Nov 12-Jan 13

[thenry]

Originally Posted by Phil-ntl

Cheers

NG11 9AJ


Phil

Feb - Jun 2013

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

Blackburn ETA is Nov 12-Jan 13

Here we go again

May i suggest you all wait till the real dates are released not some dates from a person who is known to stretch the truth.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

No it really couldn't handle it easily. The unbonded upstream is already dying under the load from torrent monkey 100Mb users eating over half an upstream.

Releasing 12Mb upstreams on the current system would mean a single torrent monkey on 120Mb could degrade the service for everyone on the port single handedly.

I did specifically say that Channel bonding would cover it. And a single upstream is what's currently used, so yes it does cover it, "torrent-monkies" aside.

[Phil-ntl]

Originally Posted by thenry

Feb - Jun 2013

Cheers for that, I can get a couple of people off my back now lol.

I'm already on 100mb so an extra 20mb isn't going to be earth shattering for me but the reduction in price will be welcome as will the extra 2mb upload.

Phil

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Phil-ntl

Cheers for that, I can get a couple of people off my back now lol.

I'm already on 100mb so an extra 20mb isn't going to be earth shattering for me but the reduction in price will be welcome as will the extra 2mb upload.

Phil

Indeed

[virginruinedntl]

Originally Posted by davidthornton

Any chance of seeing an upload speed significantly greater than 10Mbit anytime soon? I'd like at least double that (i.e. 20Mbit). Would rather have that than a jump from 100Mbit > 120Mbit but both is fine. 12Mbit won't suffice when Infinity and similar will soon offer nearly 20Mbit.

Virgin have no competition for upload speed faster than 10mb atm, once BT increase their THEN maybe virgin might think about increasing for tiers of similar prices to bt infinity, no chance of them increasing before BT.

Only a very small number of torrenters and also businesses would need 20mb upload, can't see many people going with bt just because of that. Broadband companies don't do any marketing about upload speeds either although BT may talk about "faster uploading of photos" and stuff in their adverts once they are on 20mb. I would do that if i worked in their marketing dept.

All i want from VM is for the speed drops to be increased on 20mb and download limit before speed drop increasing and i'll be a happy vm broadband customer. Adding 802.11ac to their superhubs would be nice too but i wouldn't expect that in 2012 as a lot of testing would likely need to happen before vm rolled that out.