Virgin Media to double the speed of customer broadband

Cookieman · Jan 11, 2012

Not directly news which is related to windows seven so posted here!

Virgin Media to double the speed of customer broadband

Wahoooo.... 100gb connection on its way! :party:

They seem to have a habit of doubling the connections speeds free of change and this is about the 3rd or 4th time it has happened to me. Thanks Mr Branson!

z3r010 · Jan 11, 2012

I miss being in a Virgin area :cry:

jimbo45 · Jan 11, 2012

Hi there
I've posted a thread that all this is meaningless if they still CAP your Bandwidth -- HD movies etc are fine via Internet but with a monthly limit likely to bear NO resemblance to what a user actually needs this will all go to waste.

This stuff is GREAT for UNLIMITED downloads etc.

Otherwise the only benefit is that you reach your Monthly limit after 2 days instead of 22. !!

Cheers
jimbo

kado897 · Jan 11, 2012

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

boohbah · Jan 11, 2012

i suspect its to combat BT who are rolling out infinity in more areas now, we are just around the corner from being connected, they have spent the last few months putting the cables and junction boxes round our town so not long now,
at last my unlimited bt connection will be worth it.

Joan Archer · Jan 11, 2012

It's OK for some,

round here there's no chance we'll ever get cable and I doubt if BT will ever get around to giving our little corner decent speeds, even though we're surrounded by MoD establishments who I would think would love to have better links.

boohbah · Jan 11, 2012

i would think the MOD have their own internet and satellites etc,
my guess is that in the future there will be legislation about the speeds people receive, then little towns and villages will get the good speeds too. and wales

Joan Archer · Jan 11, 2012

It would be nice, but I won't hold my breath, mind you after today I don't have a lot to hold.

A Guy · Jan 12, 2012

z3r010 said:
I miss being in a Virgin area

Must...resist...the...urge...

A Guy

jimbo45 · Jan 12, 2012

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

kado897 · Jan 12, 2012

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

Click to expand...

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.

Qdos · Jan 12, 2012

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...

kado897 · Jan 12, 2012

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.

jimbo45 · Jan 12, 2012

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

Click to expand...

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

Click to expand...

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

Cookieman · Jan 13, 2012

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.

Qdos · Jan 13, 2012

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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