Virgin Media Business 300Mb announced

[MUD_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Post speed tests showing off that you have 300Mb and win Internet points.

Why would someone want to do something lame like that.

[heero_yuy]

I suspect that they think it enhances their manhood. In reality I think it's an inverse relationship.

[alanbjames]

I just want an increase in upload so i can start using the cloud more but the fact it takes so long to back things up is why i went the NAS route instead.

[Ignitionnet]

I'm not sure going from 12Mb to 15Mb will feel that different.

The 20 I have still makes me more inclined to use local storage.

[23prince]

Yes I get about 1.8MB/sec upload. Hardly ground breaking.

If someone takes out 300 in an area which can support it but they get lame speeds, is it tough?

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by 23prince

Yes I get about 1.8MB/sec upload. Hardly ground breaking.

If someone takes out 300 in an area which can support it but they get lame speeds, is it tough?

That's the correct upload speed for the 300Mbit service.

[23prince]

I am not on the 300MB service I am on 80/20 FTTC. I meant if someone goes for the 300 but only gets say 50 in the day. What happens then?

[Synthetic]

I think business users get higher priority than residential?.... Someone feel free to correct me though, I can't find where I read that now.

[23prince]

I would also like to know. I didn't get that impression when I spoke to someone. Maybe Mr MUD can tell us seeing as he has it? (or seems like he has)

[Sephiroth]

A birdie told me that VM let us think that QoS is applied to the business service over residential infrastructure. In reality, the birdie said, that is not the case and business users take their chances with the residential users.

The birdie also told me that the peak evening time throttling doesn't occur either and the splurge is weasel worded to induce people into thinking they face penalties if the go mega-downloading in the evening.

[23prince]

Well, all that's done is reaffirm that I need to scrap the idea of wanting that and replace them with FTTC for my backup. I will lose resilience but then again I will gain a decent connection for FTP which I don't have right now

I've told them FTP and single thread downloads are a mess for not just me. See if they do anything about it.

Thanks Seph for that info.

[Synthetic]

Cheers Seph (and your birdie )

I've not noticed any throttling on torrents in the evening, or any time for that matter. Seem to be able to max out our 200meg whenever, even on torrents.

[23prince]

Is that business 200? Or res 200?

[Synthetic]

Mine is residential, could be because there's no congestion in my area.

I've definitely just jinxed myself now though haha *touch wood*