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Originally Posted by InsaneNutter
I've been with Virgin (NTL) since 2000 and had broadband with them since 2001. In the last 17 years BT or any other ISP have offered no real competition to Virgin Media, it wasn't until last year BT / any other ISP was able to offer any more than 2mbps in my area.
Now i'm fully aware no other ISP (in my area anyway) can really compete with Virgin until they start offering FTTP, which i bet is easily another half decade away, if not more going by the amount of time it took FTTC to become available in my area.
That said I am starting to think i might be happy enough with FTTC, the box on the street is two houses down from me, so i'd probably get near enough the estimated speed.
Plusnet estimate this to be 79/80Mb down and 19/20Mb upload for £33.50 a month.
Come this November Virgin will charge:
£38 - 100Mb down, 6Mb upload
£43 - 200Mb down, 12Mb upload (Pretty sure I get 10Mb though)
£48 - 300Mb down, 20Mb upload
I'm currently on the 200Mb package, the download speed is nice for those occasions i download a new game on Steam or the Xbox One, however is not really essential. I think anything above 100Mb is fast these days.
Its more the upload speed that bothers me, especially as i'll randomly host a game server and have started to make backups to the cloud.
Yet i know with any other ISP whatever they offer now will still likely be the same in 5 years time.
It's just ashame Virgin keep having price increases and don't seem to care about loyalty, or the things i do such as upload speed, IPV6 and a static ip on home connections.
I'm curious as to what others think, do you still think Virgin are worth it in 2017?
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As you are so near the cabinet you'll be looking at 1Gb speeds within 5 yrs under G.fast which is being rolled out now. I don't know what the upload will be for it but it will be better than VM can offer ATM.
At the least under G.fast you would be able to get the 300/30 service.