Virgin Media to double the speed of customer broadband

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  1. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #11

    jimbo45 said:
    kado897 said:
    It is good news and Virgin doesn't have a download limit but it does apply traffic management to reduce your speed if you exceed defined limits. Last time I looked a 10Mb line allows 3GB during the day and 1.5GB during the evening. No cap at night. The speed is reduced to 20% for 5 hours f you exceed this.

    The reduction is to 25%,
    The day period is 10am to 3pm
    The evening is 3pm to 10pm
    Hi there
    This is EXACTLY the srt of problem I was mentioning


    3GB is NOTHING these days if you want to start watching HD movies etc etc directly from the Internet -- which is easy to do with decent fast download speeds -- 3GB is about 60 mins of movie !!!!!

    As I said before it's POINTLESS if they start capping or reducing speed -- as I mentioned before --you'll reach your monthly limit in say 2 days instead of 22.

    This mega fast stuff only makes sense if they will provide you with essentially an unlimited service -- otherwise a bog standard 6GB is fine.

    Cheers
    jimbo

    You misunderstand jimbo. The limits are for the period specified each day and they say they are going to double the limits along with the doubling of download speed. So I will have 6GB every day between 10am and 3pm and 3GB between 3pm and 10pm without any speed reduction. It should be enough for most purposes.
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  2. Posts : 3,960
    W7 x64
       #12

    I'm not in a Virgin area, and I wouldn't wish to have them as an ISP based on all I hear about them.

    Modems that nobody can program, less still understand, made by the cheapest Chinese plant production centre and that instructions have never been written for! Many Virgin customers I know personally are getting lower speeds on cable than I do over copper with ADSL2+... well, need I add more?!?

    BT are rolling out FTTC gradually, and even many rural parts will benefit within 2/3 years. Just as an FYi, I'm not a BT customer or fanboi, I'm using another provider myself...
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  3. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #13

    I get 10Gb, which is what I pay for, if the source site supports it. The router is a D-Link DIR-615 which has given me no problems at all. In the 18months I have had Virgin broadband it has only been down three times and then only for short periods.
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    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #14

    kado897 said:
    jimbo45 said:
    kado897 said:
    It is good news and Virgin doesn't have a download limit but it does apply traffic management to reduce your speed if you exceed defined limits. Last time I looked a 10Mb line allows 3GB during the day and 1.5GB during the evening. No cap at night. The speed is reduced to 20% for 5 hours f you exceed this.

    The reduction is to 25%,
    The day period is 10am to 3pm
    The evening is 3pm to 10pm
    Hi there
    This is EXACTLY the srt of problem I was mentioning


    3GB is NOTHING these days if you want to start watching HD movies etc etc directly from the Internet -- which is easy to do with decent fast download speeds -- 3GB is about 60 mins of movie !!!!!

    As I said before it's POINTLESS if they start capping or reducing speed -- as I mentioned before --you'll reach your monthly limit in say 2 days instead of 22.

    This mega fast stuff only makes sense if they will provide you with essentially an unlimited service -- otherwise a bog standard 6GB is fine.

    Cheers
    jimbo

    You misunderstand jimbo. The limits are for the period specified each day and they say they are going to double the limits along with the doubling of download speed. So I will have 6GB every day between 10am and 3pm and 3GB between 3pm and 10pm without any speed reduction. It should be enough for most purposes.
    Hi there

    I don't think so

    Just try streaming an HD Movie or even watching 2 or 3 programs from Sky GO via the Internet LIVE -- You'll be surprised how quickly you reach 6GB -- Streaming Movies etc counts as Bandwidth download !!!!!

    Once you start using HD quality video LIVE via the Internet you really need of the order of 20 - 30 GB a day -- min 600 GB a month.

    A Live football match on Sky Go will eat up your allocation almost before the ref blows his whistle for half time !! - especially in HD mode.

    6GB won't cut it in any shape or form !!!!

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  5. Posts : 92
    Windows 7/Linux
    Thread Starter
       #15

    I'm not in a Virgin area, and I wouldn't wish to have them as an ISP based on all I hear about them.

    Modems that nobody can program, less still understand, made by the cheapest Chinese plant production centre and that instructions have never been written for!
    I have been with virgin a few years now and have had 3 routers from them during this time, all have been Netgear and have been without any restrictions and fully configurable, they come as made for retail.

    If I remember correctly the traffic shaping depends on the package, the 50mb package has no restrictions. I regular download linux ISO's, sometimes 3 or more a night for different spins of a distro and my connection speed holds the same steady 50mbs.
    Last edited by Cookieman; 13 Jan 2012 at 02:57. Reason: Typo...!
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  6. Posts : 3,960
    W7 x64
       #16

    Cookieman said:
    I have been with virgin a few years now and have had 3 routers from them during this time, all have been Netgear and have been without any restrictions and fully configurable, they come as made for retail.
    There are huge numbers of Virgin subscribers with rubbish Thomson, or totally unbranded, modem-router equipment. Many of them were previously clients of Blue-yonder or one of the other providers which were taken over by Virgin.

    Personally I cannot regard Netgear as seriously good equipment manufacturers, they've released so many bits of kit without decent, or even functional, firmware that most IT professionals shun them in favour of an alternative manufacturer (like Draytek, Mikrotics, D-Link, ZyXEL, Billion, etc).

    Their own user forums attest to huge numbers of 100mbps clients being far from satisfied with their service or equipment.
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