Virgin Media Doubling Your Broadband Speeds
- Thread starter SieB
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I think they have already started updating my area. Just look at my speed test result. when i first got virgin i could only achieve 90-95Mb/s which is not bad at all. But now i always get over 100Mb/s and when downloading have achieved about 14megabytes a second down which is closer to 110Mb/s.
Virgin must be doing something.
Virgin must be doing something.
nex-s
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What's the point if theres so few areas where you can actually get fibre optic broadband? I've lived in several places VERY close to city centre, well, basically it almost was city centre, and there are no options of fibre optic broadband. And this seems sad actually, cause a country this developed has much slower broadband than the country I come from (Latvia) where you could get fibre optic even on the outskirts of the city...
Don't blame virgin for that, if it was up to them they would have rolled out the fibre broadband to all parts of the country by now they have wanted to for years now but BT has priority in the governments eyes so if BT say no virgin has to listen to them. Basically BT wont let them do it because they want to be first to put fibre in the areas that don't have it. But BT are doing it on a go slow like always.
Virgin are expanding to some areas but very slowly thanks to BT.
dipzy
Active member
o2 is ok but i hate the fact that my router randomly restarts itself, o2 replaced still the same problem.
Im stuck with o2 until Virgin is available in my area but i won't get my hopes up anytime soon
I crave for virgin fiber optic broadband but unless i move house, i don't think i will ever get to use it
F**K**G BT and their monopoly
Im stuck with o2 until Virgin is available in my area but i won't get my hopes up anytime soon
I crave for virgin fiber optic broadband but unless i move house, i don't think i will ever get to use it
F**K**G BT and their monopoly
yassarikhan786
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o2 is ok but i hate the fact that my router randomly restarts itself, o2 replaced still the same problem.
Im stuck with o2 until Virgin is available in my area but i won't get my hopes up anytime soon
I crave for virgin fiber optic broadband but unless i move house, i don't think i will ever get to use it
F**K**G BT and their monopoly
Lol, I feel for you man. It must be gutwrenchingly hard seeing so many of us getting double what are already pretty high speeds.
dipzy
Active member
I hate the feeling also because my exchange is fiber enabled, i see the affect at times lag in games and movie streaming.
my dad's prepared to pick up the phone and order a packaged but we can't so just gona wait
yassarikhan786
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lewwatt
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Virgin can have all my money if they start coming into North East Scotland! I'm on 15Mb/0.67Mb which is fairly consistent but as soon as fiber optic hits my area I'm switching to Virgin. Sick of UK ISP's deliberately holding back development in the UK's infrastructure. I want that 50Mb so much...
Also I noticed that 'for the top 5% of bandwidth users' they drop the speeds, have any of you been affected by that? It's understandable that they want to keep it fair but still annoying for geeks like ourselves.
Also I noticed that 'for the top 5% of bandwidth users' they drop the speeds, have any of you been affected by that? It's understandable that they want to keep it fair but still annoying for geeks like ourselves.
I never get speed drop on virgin. it is constantly over 95Mb/s for me. I no at least five people with virgin now and they don't get throttled either.
lewwatt
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You're probably on the 100Mb package though, you remain unaffected. 50Mb users can have upload speed throttled, anything below those packages can have both download and upload slowed down. I can't see them overusing it though as they seem pretty open about it.
SWAT Strachan
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For two years I've been on their 20mb package, even though it doesn't exist any more (10, 30, 50 or 100 now) but it's still been costing me as much as the 50mb package. A quick call to VM today has resulted in my TV being upgraded to HD, broadband being upgraded to 50mb, free caller ID on the phone, and all for less than I was paying before
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Oh, and I'll be further upgraded to 100mb in March. Sweet
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Oh, and I'll be further upgraded to 100mb in March. Sweet
Dandaman91
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My area is getting boosted from 50mb to 100mb in march then 120mb in june so can't wait for that
I currently max out my 50mb connection and hoping I can max out the 100/120mb aswell
I currently max out my 50mb connection and hoping I can max out the 100/120mb aswell
I'm on the 30Mb service. I'll tell you what though, virgin are definitely the fastest but they are by no means stable in terms of packet loss and high jitter. I use to have a flawless connection until may last year. I couldn't game at all because I was getting packetloss and insane jitter. Luckily now it's fine although I still get packetloss. I know lots of guys who are on adsl and their speeds are low BUT their net stability is much better. This is because virgin are oversubscribing on their UBR's (exchanges). One of my mates who is on an adsl connection gets no more than 1 jitter on ping tests. You can also head over to virgin media's forums where you will see countless threads about people suffering from dropped connections, high jitter and packetloss.
My area is getting boosted from 50mb to 100mb in march then 120mb in june so can't wait for that
I currently max out my 50mb connection and hoping I can max out the 100/120mb aswell
If your on the 50Mb/s now you wont get the 120Mb/s, thats only for people that are on the 100 meg connection now.
