Virgin 4Mb to upgrade to 10Mb February - Summer

[DJTekno]

Originally Posted by webcrawler2050

You say you dont care when they do it but yet you said as long as they dont do it soon you will change - oh and those USB dongles cost about £2.00 per MB so good luck with that!

Wrong....... T-Mobile, 3 and Vodafone all are doing £15 a month price plans with a 3Gb/month 'Fair Use' limit. I use the T-Mobile one for accessing the net 'Out and About' - as i got a good deal a month or so ago that they included free connection to any of T-mobile's Wireless hotspots....handy if you use Starbuck's a lot!!!

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobil...webnwalk-plus/

http://www.three.co.uk/personal/prod...nd_/detail.omp

http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatc...pageID=MB_0001

(PS - Sorry for being slightly OT - Just wanted to point out that 'Webcrawler' was wrong with their assumption about mobile BB)

On topic - The speed increase gets here when it gets here. It's for free......so next week or next month doesn't matter to me!!!

[fusey]

Its not free, we pay VM above average prices for broadband. For that I expect faster speeds and less limitations.

I definitely wouldn't be with VM if my ADSL line was more stable.

Its only the poor quality of ADSL infrastructure in this country that is keeping VM in users.

[spidiweb7]

no sign of any of the Leicester area being upgraded yet seems everywhere around it has been :P

[frogstamper]

Seems to me that people who really cant wait for the 10mb upgrade should look at getting XL-BB, if you have a phone as well the difference between L and XL is just £4, just a thought.

[Welshchris]

Originally Posted by fusey

Its not free, we pay VM above average prices for broadband. For that I expect faster speeds and less limitations.

I definitely wouldn't be with VM if my ADSL line was more stable.

Its only the poor quality of ADSL infrastructure in this country that is keeping VM in users.

I Totally agree with u on that, they state their network is capable of so much more than what BT's is yet it seems to be performing worse than BT.

yes i admit connection speeds are faster than what a lot of ADSL Companies but u dont see ADSL Companies saying u can only download 2GB between 3-9pm usually. I have been looking at an ADSL Company which yes its more expensive at £29.99 a month for upto 8mb but i can get 60GB on peak downloads and 300GB off peak downloads with NO STM.

[tay77]

Originally Posted by cleshe

I sympathise, believe me. Mine took a while to sort , after the upgrade happened in Stafford.Some of it down to Virgin, mostly down to my router not being good enough for the upgrade.If you are still using a 120 modem that can be part of your problem, far more likely the upgrade is not totally complete. It took a fortnight to settle down here. Even now I'm not totally sorted, I'm having problems (again ) accessing my FTP server files, and this time Abyssunderground has not been able to help, I do know it can work, for 10 days after replacing my router with a newer one,I had all the speed I should, and everything connected
Hopefully this too will pass. I still have the speed correct!
However frustrating waiting is,I still think Virgin and cable a better bet than ADSL. I hear much worse horror stories from freinds stuck with phone line connections via the BT network.They envy those able to choose cable.

I've restarted my modem quite a bit, and it's still saying 10mb, same with people I know in the area. But I'm still getting very varying speeds - anything from 2mb to 6mb (usually the lower), while mostly everyone else is getting 9mb/10mb.

We've had a new modem fairly recently (18/24 months), so I wouldn't have thought it was that. My downstream receive power level is 12dBmv (good? bad? alright?).

I don't think it's the router either, as even with a computer plugged straight in to the modem, it's still 2-6mb.

[Jelly]

The upgrades page has been updated today, but no news on the Birmingham area.

[Welshchris]

Still no news about Swansea either, Chief Execs office told me it was supposed to have been done on 14th April.

[cimt]

Middlesbrough area is set to be upgraded next month.

[sjdigital]

Originally Posted by BOB+THE+BRIT

hi ya
one of me kin had problem 5mb when she should have 10mb
took a look she did not realise that her wireless router would only
allow her to download at 5mb being a 54G model
just a thought

Surely a 'G' router should be able to handle 10Mbs as its nominal rating is 54Mbs. Did you mean a 'B' router which is only rated at 11Mbs?

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And out of curiosity, anyone in Belfast been upgraded yet? It's scheduled to be done this month but no sign in BT4.

[Des]

BT13 -- no joy...

[mrsnooch]

BT8 no joy

[Chewits]

In Belfast too. No sign of update. Checking everyday on speedtest :P

Hope its soon April is nearly over.

[Richy99]

Originally Posted by Welshchris

I Totally agree with u on that, they state their network is capable of so much more than what BT's is yet it seems to be performing worse than BT.

yes i admit connection speeds are faster than what a lot of ADSL Companies but u dont see ADSL Companies saying u can only download 2GB between 3-9pm usually. I have been looking at an ADSL Company which yes its more expensive at £29.99 a month for upto 8mb but i can get 60GB on peak downloads and 300GB off peak downloads with NO STM.

that still works out at roughly 2GB per day peak time

[lardboy]

2 3/8 days left of April seems to me Virgin have got a hell of a lot of work to fit in