20 Meg to 50 Meg upgrade.

boabbyshaft · 21-02-2008, 21:55

I was on the phone to virgin last night as my boradband connection had 'dropped off' and was caput for a little while. Whilst on the phone i asked if the 50 meg was to be a new teir or an upgrade for 20 meg subscribers.

The guy said it was a free upgrade commening this month too so hopefully this will happen and it wont just be the 4 meggers who get the free upgrade.

I mean for £37 a month for XL maybe its about time we start getting value and this would certainly help.............

TehTech · 21-02-2008, 21:57

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Originally Posted by boabbyshaft

I was on the phone to virgin last night as my boradband connection had 'dropped off' and was caput for a little while. Whilst on the phone i asked if the 50 meg was to be a new teir or an upgrade for 20 meg subscribers.

The guy said it was a free upgrade commening this month too so hopefully this will happen and it wont just be the 4 meggers who get the free upgrade.

I mean for £37 a month for XL maybe its about time we start getting value and this would certainly help.............

It has been said time after time, the 50Mb WILL NOT be an upgrade to 20Mb, its going to be a SEPERATE TIER!!!!

You have been lied to by vm!!!

If only I had a quid for every lie Ive heard from vm, I could afford to buy all of the Virgin brand!

Welshchris · 22-02-2008, 01:15

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Originally Posted by boabbyshaft

I was on the phone to virgin last night as my boradband connection had 'dropped off' and was caput for a little while. Whilst on the phone i asked if the 50 meg was to be a new teir or an upgrade for 20 meg subscribers.

The guy said it was a free upgrade commening this month too so hopefully this will happen and it wont just be the 4 meggers who get the free upgrade.

I mean for £37 a month for XL maybe its about time we start getting value and this would certainly help.............

I was told by a staff member at their head office that the 50mb connection will NOT be an upgrade, its gonna be a new connection that you have to upgrade to and they are thinking of charging around £50 for it a month BUT! its not a definate price yet.

|Kippa| · 22-02-2008, 03:20

It would be worth £50 a month if the upload rate is like 5mbit.

TehTech · 22-02-2008, 08:47

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Originally Posted by |Kippa|

It would be worth £50 a month if the upload rate is like 5mbit.

Would it bugger!!!

How many sites can actually give you the FULL 50Mb speeds??

So unless you'r using torrents to download or upload, it'd be pretty useless!

This is what VM fail to inform everyone, that just because they "provide" 50Mb, dont mean to say that any websites do, certainly speed tests would be even more far out.

ShaneC · 22-02-2008, 08:49

To get a free upgrade to 50mb is not so complicated, first of all go to the computer shop and ask for a long weight. whilst your their get some flashing ink and some sky hooks, then on your way home swap your cow for the magic beans.

TehTech · 22-02-2008, 08:51

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Originally Posted by ShaneC

To get a free upgrade to 50mb is not so complicated, first of all go to the computer shop and ask for a long weight. whilst your their get some flashing ink and some sky hooks, then on your way home swap your cow for the magic beans.

I do believe that you forgot the bottled bath water, the inflatable dart board & the chocolate kettle!

**Kymmy** · 22-02-2008, 10:09

CS & TS will say absolutley anything to a customer if they think that's what they want to hear. Just look at all the previous posts from those who were promised the 4Mb to 10Mb upgrade sometime last year.

If you believe that VM will give all the 20Mb'ers a free upgrade to 50Mb then you're living in cuckoo land. Simple Logic dictates that 4Mb, 10Mb, 20Mb and 50Mb is a probably tiering for VM BB and not 4Mb, 10Mb and 50Mb

Kymmy

Bonglet · 22-02-2008, 10:32

There going to crash hard with 50mb then because atm you cant even see 20mb most of the time no matter what your doing once or twice a week anyone?.

So how this super duper 50mb is going to change performance over 20 or even old 10mb is a non starter sure you might see 1 or 2 fast downloads in a week but thats where it stops, upload speed will be nowhere near 5mb look at the upload ratio that was on 10 or 20mb 1.5-2 is about on the money.

p.s enjoy hitting the stm faster

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bigdavep · 22-02-2008, 10:43

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Originally Posted by TehTech

I do believe that you forgot the bottled bath water, the inflatable dart board & the chocolate kettle!

Not forgetting the bucket of steam

**Kymmy** · 22-02-2008, 10:51

Sorry but with the amount of technical posts on the 50Mb technology why do people think that it's going to be anything like the current 20Mb situation. It's running on a different DOCSIS 3 system compared to the old DOCSIS1/2 and will be multistreamed. Also a lot of the 20Mb brigade will either go up to 50Mb or down to 10Mb (when the 4Mb upgrade finally gets completed) so you should have a more flattening of the usage on the old tiers which will mean on average people getting closer to thier max (dId that sound liek a PEPSI advert to you as it did to me when I was typing it???)

For those though that want a simple analogy think of the M6 Toll road (50Mb). For those that want to pay it's fast, smooth and rarely gets clogged up, where as it's effect on the M6 round the north of Birmingham (2/4/20Mb) was a bit less congestion which meant slightly higher average speeds.

Kymmy

Griffin · 22-02-2008, 11:01

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Originally Posted by boabbyshaft

The guy said it was a free upgrade commening this month too so hopefully this will happen and it wont just be the 4 meggers who get the free upgrade.

Looks like some people with 20mb connections have either forgotten or just don't know that 10mb was the upgrade to 20mb & 4mb to 10mb is the second phase of upgrades. Everyone on 20mb has already had the upgrade.

darthlinux · 22-02-2008, 11:02

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

Sorry but with the amount of technical posts on the 50Mb technology why do people think that it's going to be anything like the current 20Mb situation. It's running on a different DOCSIS 3 system compared to the old DOCSIS1/2 and will be multistreamed. Also a lot of the 20Mb brigade will either go up to 50Mb or down to 10Mb (when the 4Mb upgrade finally gets completed) so you should have a more flattening of the usage on the old tiers which will mean on average people getting closer to thier max (dId that sound liek a PEPSI advert to you as it did to me when I was typing it???)

For those though that want a simple analogy think of the M6 Toll road (50Mb). For those that want to pay it's fast, smooth and rarely gets clogged up, where as it's effect on the M6 round the north of Birmingham (2/4/20Mb) was a bit less congestion which meant slightly higher average speeds.

Kymmy

Also there MAJOR upgrades on UBR's that need the extra bandwidth soooooooo many and this is mainly for the 10MB upgrade.

ROLL ON 50MB ON DOCSIS 3.0

Zee · 22-02-2008, 13:14

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Originally Posted by Bonglet

There going to crash hard with 50mb then because atm you cant even see 20mb most of the time no matter what your doing once or twice a week anyone?.

So how this super duper 50mb is going to change performance over 20 or even old 10mb is a non starter sure you might see 1 or 2 fast downloads in a week but thats where it stops, upload speed will be nowhere near 5mb look at the upload ratio that was on 10 or 20mb 1.5-2 is about on the money.

p.s enjoy hitting the stm faster

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Speak for yourself.

I always get 20Mb, no matter what time of the day it is.

Paranoimia · 22-02-2008, 13:59

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Originally Posted by Zee

Speak for yourself.

I always get 20Mb, no matter what time of the day it is.

Same here, pretty much. The occasional dip to around 15Mb, but hell... I can live with that!

I doubt I'd bother moving to 50Mb, but I wish they'd increase the upstream on 20Mb a bit.