Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

[RB2004]

mines £123 lol

hopefully if I read correctly, it will drop slightly when everyone is upgraded from 50 to 100mbit

but then knowing me I will take the 200Mbit so it will shoot back up.

wondering if I can get it down to though by swapping 1 of my V+ boxes for a TiVo.
As TiVo is only £3 a month but isnt the monthly charge for V+ higher?
Other V+ was a free move when I took first TiVo box.

but might be able to save on the other V+ can anybody confirm?

Thanks.

[BenMcr]

If you are on TV XL (which you say you are) then the cost of TiVo is usually more than for the V+ i.e £3 TiVo fee per month per box on top of any multiroom fee vs £0 a month per box for the V+

Only variation on this is if you are on an old version of the VIP bundles where V+ is £10 a month on top of the mulitroom fee. But anyone with a TiVo and VIP should have had all the V+ boxes and the bundle moved to the current pricing structure

[ccarmock]

Any news is this bandwidth increase will be extended to Virginmedia business customers?

[kwikbreaks]

Originally Posted by ccarmock

Any news is this bandwidth increase will be extended to Virginmedia business customers?

It isn't a bandwidth increase it's a speed increase. VM marketing will be pleased that you have confused the two though. Whether or not you get any speed increase will depend on whether or not VM think giving you one would offer them a competetive advantage.

In fact I suspect the speed increases will coincide with the upgrades to 8 channel downstreams for a 200Mbps rollout and a move to a more draconian traffic management policy.

It isn't clear to me whether or not an 8 channel node will serve the same number of modems as a current 4 channel node or if two 4 channel nodes will be somehow combined and there will be less nodes overall. If moving to 8 channels leads to a doubling in bandwidth as well as supporting higher headline speeds it will be very welcome and might even mean that I'd have some chance of actually seeing the increased speed (although as will no doubt be mentioned I'd need to get my Superhub reactivated and as will also be mentioned put up with the increased latency and jitter that will cause). Perhaps I'll be lucky and Infinity will arrive first so I won't need to choose.

[earth]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

If moving to 8 channels leads to a doubling in bandwidth as well as supporting higher headline speeds it will be very welcome and might even mean that I'd have some chance of actually seeing the increased speed (although as will no doubt be mentioned I'd need to get my Superhub reactivated and as will also be mentioned put up with the increased latency and jitter that will cause). Perhaps I'll be lucky and Infinity will arrive first so I won't need to choose.

I had a Superhub installed yesterday (upgraded from 50 to 100) and although it's early days I can't really see any difference on my TBB Ping monitor graph between the Superhub in modem mode and the old VMNG300.

[kwikbreaks]

TBH I'm not surprised but there are several people here who reckon there is a difference.

[Ignitionnet]

Can't be too long before people start seeing something like this.



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[earth]

Three upstream channels?

[GazCBG]

Hi,

So does anyone know when the speed will be doubling ie 50Mb to 100Mb as I am thinking of downgrading to 50Mb, due to not using 100Mb I am not a downloader, but do play games online which I think 50Mb should be just as good as 100Mb at.

[craigj2k12]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Can't be too long before people start seeing something like this.

presume thats from comcast?

some noticeable differences:
- higher d/s frequencies
- symbol rate is 5.360537 whereas ours is 6.952
- interleave depth is I=32 J=4, whereas ours is I=12 J=17
- 64qam upstreams
- not to mention the fact they have 3 upstreams

oh and why do they have a DOCSIS1.0 16qam, a DOCSIS2.0 16qam and a DOCSIS2.0 64qam upstreams? seems strsnge to have a load of different upstream channels bonded

and also, why do you say "Can't be too long before people start seeing something like this." - do you have some information to tell us??

[Ignitionnet]

Yes it's Comcast and nothing I haven't already, upstream bonding is coming pretty soon, once upstream line cards compatible are in place, and >4 downstreams is already showing its face.

[MaverickJesus]

I'd be happy if they just installed the bloody upload/100mb upgrades in Stav.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by MaverickJesus

I'd be happy if they just installed the bloody upload/100mb upgrades in Stav.

Ditto for Mortlake, oh well, they're too busy doing other sites early to bother with my overdue one.

[thenry]

ignition, your the daddy on all this so why the hell are you not upgraded? VM have their own plans as you say but with all the knowledge you've got which is probably down to you being out and about here there and everywhere surely you could pull strings?

That would assume he worked for VM......