Virgin Media has taken its 100Mbps united kingdom

[brianzion]

Virgin Media has taken its 100Mbps service live now in four parts of the country(UK), the lucky areas are:

• Heckmondwike
• Farnborough
• Colchester
• Barry, South Wales

The roll-out will continue across the Virgin Media cable network during 2011 with completion set for 2012, at which point almost half the UK will have the option for a 100Meg service at a reasonable price point. The 10Meg upstream speed is respectable, and given powerful enough video encoding solutions would allow someone at home to transmit video at current HD TV levels.

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[BugMeister]

hope this means a price adjustment for the lower bandwidths..

their deals are great to begin with, but soon become expensive with all the attendant charges..

 

[brianzion]

i think it does im moving next year down the south and cant wait to start using fiber optic. bt is old school here slow and outdated

 

[kado897]

don't be fooled. Those are package prices. Size L is £25 on its own or £18 with XL TV (Which is my package). You only get that price with TV, Phone line and Call plan.

 

[brianzion]

i no what the packages are where i am moving to we have it up and running there already we are happy with what we pay for the service

 

[kado897]

That's OK then. I was just saying in case you didn't know.

 

[brianzion]

thanks no worrys i think virgin is the best supplier with there deals its all down to personal preference but they are leaders in the fiber optic bt are trying to catch up but they will always be expensive service providers

 

[jimbo45]

hope this means a price adjustment for the lower bandwidths..

their deals are great to begin with, but soon become expensive with all the attendant charges..

Hi there
this might be fine for DOWNLOADS but what about UPLOAD speed and also with these types of service they will eventually start capping Bandwidth which will increase your bill MASSIVELY..

Corporate Greed knows no bounds in the current economic climate -- not wanting to get Political but just look at the HUGE profits from UK GAS / ELECTRICITY suppliers which went up MASSIVELY but the poor consumer suddenly at the start of Winter is having to pay out massively more. Strangely enough the only one who (still) seems reasonable is the French EDF which hasn't raised prices (yet) athough if I were a UK citizen I would feel a bit nervous about having such a basic commodity as Energy supply held in foreign ownership.

Rate of Dollar VS pound if HIGH then they say Currency conversion costs account for the rise, if LOW they say the opposite -- stuff is priced in USD so you have to pay more and they say cost of GAS is related to cost of OIL which is TOTAL and UTTER B/S.

Poor old consumer ALWAYS loses out.

I'd stick with the old UNCAPPED tariff's for as long as possible -- you don't need anything like 100 mbs for Internet even with HD movies.

This is a bit like the old MP (Mega Pixels) argument that we saw when digital cameras first appeared.

There were some older PRO DSLR models which nominally had far fewer MP's than a lot of the smaller hand held Point and Shoot models -- but you didn't need to be a Pro photographer to recognize instantly which camera could take better pictures.

As a consumer it ALWAYS PAYS to be extremely cynical these days or you will get hosed up royally.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[kado897]

Yes. I am currently on Virgin's L package which at 10Mb download and 1Mb upload is, at the moment, adequate for my needs.

 

[Tarka Dal]

Who Cares!

Who cares 10mb is fast enough! For now anyway...

 

[brianzion]

Who cares 10mb is fast enough! For now anyway...

if you have a lot of computers running of the same network then im sorry it does matter more bandwidth and speed please

 

[ambidav]

a free upgrade from 10mb to 20mb would be nice

 

[si8mon]

Just a quick question, In the UK (and America) do you just pay for speed (i.e 10 mb or whatever) or do you also pay for data (i.e 10gigs a month). Because in Australia we pay for both.

 

[brianzion]

on the virgin media supplier you pay in a package but only for speed its unlimited download some other suppliers differ though.

 

[kado897]

Although Virgin don't have a download limit, unless you are on the XL package, if you exceed certain limits, depending on the time of day, they will reduce your speed to 25% for 5 hours.

 

[brianzion]

have not heard of that will talk to customer services about it i average 16GB a week !

 

[pebbly]

Even on the 50mb [XXL] you still get capped but not as much as 75% !

 

[kado897]

Look here.Our traffic management policy

 

[Tarka Dal]

Who cares 10mb is fast enough! For now anyway...

if you have a lot of computers running of the same network then im sorry it does matter more bandwidth and speed please

Then you should be paying a lot more! The data you download is far in excess of the data I download. So, logic tells me you should pay more!

Look here.Our traffic management policy

That management policy is not correct as I don't get traffic managed during 10am-5pm...It all depends....


I used to have 50Gb broadband and registered very little difference to the 10Mb service as the 50Gb service was slpit into seperate signals and therefore the speed is still averaging 10mb service speeds. I therefore found that if I wait a little longer I was still getting the same amount in mass down to my computer in relatively a small amount of time extra. Therefore in my opinion 10Mb service is sufficient until they change the fair usage policy...

When you look at the fair usage policy you can see it was put together with such haste as the policy says a Film is 700Mb when we all know that a Film of any quality is 8Gb. So, they have not done their research on the subject that well. The 700Mb size indicates they were aware that this is the average pirate movie size...and not an actual copy size....

 

[kado897]

Well, that is their stated policy. I agree that they don't always enforce it but they could if they wanted to.