Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
18-03-2012, 22:59
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Should point out again, it's still only a preliminary (half) upgrade, and while you get a higher download speed, STM and upload speed aren't upgraded to what they should be until later.
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yeah that explains why I got a low STM, as I am on I guess the same STM as what 20mbit users get.
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19-03-2012, 00:45
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by mike24
In the Southsea area it's from July onwards.
Have Super Hub on 30Mbps which will increase to 60Mbps & no charge for installation, as i am an exsisting customer, as my latest bill states:-)
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just seen my bill & have been charged £30 for installation 
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19-03-2012, 00:50
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by mike24
just seen my bill & have been charged £30 for installation |
i think if you upgraded online, the system makes a mistake and charges you, call up CS tomorrow and get it checked
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19-03-2012, 17:57
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by thenry
60s unmanaged atm
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hey thenry, i can back up your statement too as was what i was told.
this is what i posted in the other thread:
tried finding out information for traffic management on 60Mb, lady told me the info for 30Mb package, i explained a couple things to her, and she said she will talk to her 2nd line support to confirm any information
she came back and got information from 2nd line support who said there is currently no traffic management on speeds above 50Mb, including the new 60Mb package until the policy is updated in April.
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19-03-2012, 18:06
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
yeah just saw your post. care to test zee?
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19-03-2012, 18:10
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by thenry
yeah just saw your post. care to test zee?
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yes im testing now, will update in either one of these 2 threads. 
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19-03-2012, 18:45
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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hey thenry, i can back up your statement too as was what i was told.
this is what i posted in the other thread:
tried finding out information for traffic management on 60Mb, lady told me the info for 30Mb package, i explained a couple things to her, and she said she will talk to her 2nd line support to confirm any information
she came back and got information from 2nd line support who said there is currently no traffic management on speeds above 50Mb, including the new 60Mb package until the policy is updated in April.
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That's not right. 60Mbit does have traffic management
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19-03-2012, 18:52
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
I assume you can only ring up and ask for an early upgrade (to 60mb) if your area already has 100mb?
My area i supposed to be ready for 100 in May, one of the last ones and ready for the speed doubling in July.
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19-03-2012, 18:57
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by adzzzbatch
I assume you can only ring up and ask for an early upgrade (to 60mb) if your area already has 100mb?
My area i supposed to be ready for 100 in May, one of the last ones and ready for the speed doubling in July.
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call up and get through to the upgrades team, they should upgrade your down speed early, upload speed will follow afterwards. My area is due July onwards but was 100Mbenabled a few days ago, requested 60Mb and got it.
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19-03-2012, 18:57
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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That's not right. 60Mbit does have traffic management
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how professional
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19-03-2012, 19:00
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
That's not right. 60Mbit does have traffic management
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Could you tell us the traffic management policy then please, as i've just downloaded a 7GB+ file on utorrent, started it around 6pm and its just finished and still getting 62Mb on speedtest.net 
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19-03-2012, 19:07
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
For the double speed tiers, the management is roughly double the tier it was
So for 60Mbit, that's double XL 30, so you'll have around 10GB downstream - as XL 30 has 5GB downstream
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19-03-2012, 19:09
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
For the double speed tiers, the management is roughly double the tier it was
So for 60Mbit, that's double XL 30, so you'll have around 10GB downstream - as XL 30 has 5GB downstream
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and how sure are you that it is currently being implemented right now?
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19-03-2012, 19:13
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
test zee. download little by little though adding to your current 7Gb.
youve got your infinity connection to fall back on if you get managed
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19-03-2012, 19:13
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed
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and how sure are you that it is currently being implemented right now?
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100%.
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