Virgin Media 70, 150 & 200 Mb Upgrades
19-08-2015, 17:11
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11
So what do you guys think about the time frame of around 6 months to do the full upgrade ? Yes / No
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I wonder if this also includes congestion fixes in any given area too.. I'd like to think they'd roll them into one and kill both birds with one painful stone..
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19-08-2015, 20:05
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
Presumably at 100Mb my ol faithful DIR-615 will need to be replaced, wonder if there's something suitable in a similar footprint.
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19-08-2015, 21:18
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Originally Posted by techguyone
Presumably at 100Mb my ol faithful DIR-615 will need to be replaced, wonder if there's something suitable in a similar footprint.
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Yep, I'm technically on the 152 atm, but I dont get that as both my DIR-615 and Dual WAN routers only have 100 Mbit ports.
Its not a major concern to me atm as I'm on the tier more for the upload rather than the download, but when it eventually switches to 300/16 I'll probably look at a new router with Gbit ports.
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19-08-2015, 21:35
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
Both my PC & Android box have Gigabit ethernet, I just used the 615 primarily because at the time it was cheap and the wi-fi was a degree of magnitude better than my shub1 (Which I've still got incidentally)
Maybe upon upgrade whenever that'll be, I'll get a shub3 or whatever is around then, and the wi-fi will be better anyway.
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19-08-2015, 21:55
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
SH1 since when? Have VM not offered an upgrade of some sort since then?
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19-08-2015, 22:25
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
Guess not, I had a shub1 when they first came out, I've been on the lowest tariff since then & no ones tried to swap it out for anything.
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20-08-2015, 10:55
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
Surprised that nobody's mentioned that in many areas (including mine) 50mb tier customers have had several weeks at 100mb, presumably as a test run for this.
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20-08-2015, 11:28
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Originally Posted by Dark Fiber
Surprised that nobody's mentioned that in many areas (including mine) 50mb tier customers have had several weeks at 100mb, presumably as a test run for this.
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Some others have been on 200Mbps+, it has been mentioned
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20-08-2015, 17:39
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
the new shub had better have modem mode
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20-08-2015, 19:45
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
the new shub had better have modem mode
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I don't think VM dare remove that option. So many of us have invested tidy amounts into our own routers to give us router features that no version of SH ever will.
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21-08-2015, 17:21
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
BT, sky etc really need to start advertising their better upload speeds. Even with a pointless 300mbits from virgin, it looks like a BT Infinity user will still have better upload speeds.
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21-08-2015, 17:56
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Originally Posted by Roph
BT, sky etc really need to start advertising their better upload speeds. Even with a pointless 300mbits from virgin, it looks like a BT Infinity user will still have better upload speeds.
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Very few customers in that enterprise for right now.
BT, Sky, etc, could try leaning harder on Openreach to provide more competitive technology and indicating a desire to pay for it, rather than in the case of Sky and especially TalkTalk complaining about the price Openreach charge them for FTTC.
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21-08-2015, 23:48
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
Didn't one of the companies moaning at Ofcom to split off Openreach also say they would totally invest a lot of money into Openreach if it was separated?
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22-08-2015, 00:01
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Didn't one of the companies moaning at Ofcom to split off Openreach also say they would totally invest a lot of money into Openreach if it was separated?
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Vodafone.
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22-08-2015, 11:02
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re: Virgin Media 70, 100 & 200 Mb Upgrades
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
As I understand it 6 / 12 / 16-20 is more likely.
---------- Post added at 09:51 ---------- Previous post was at 09:50 ----------
You can get 400Mb/s of useful throughput out of it but it's not advisable to go beyond 200Mb. If someone is on 300Mb and locked to 8 channels they will be eating, in full, 6 of them, leaving 100Mb for everyone else on that 8.
Makes the statistical contention get messy.
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Which shows how silly the EU 5ghz channel range is.
Although more than 8 channels are available, lots of vendors are locking them off as they dont want to implement complex restrictions on the radar channels.
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