Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
06-09-2017, 16:25
|
#2536
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Services: XL TV
XL Phone
XL 100MB broadband
TiVo
Cat
Posts: 2,269
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Have to agree, it seems to me that Malone is being very greedy compared to previous owners.
|
"We are spending money on our network!"
"Well don't. Don't increase speeds anymore and then you can stop putting your prices up"
"Erm... our network?"
"No stop doing anything just keep prices the same"
"But... but we are greedy..."
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 16:39
|
#2537
|
Guest
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by vincerooney
"But... but we are greedy..."
|
... and faster... whether you want it or not!
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 16:43
|
#2538
|
Virgin Media Staff
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Manchester
Services: 360 x2, Maxit TV, Sky Sports and Sky Cinema. Gig1
Posts: 17,929
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Even if Virgin Media kept the headline speeds the same, data usage is increasing significantly year on year, so there would still be the need to invest in network capacity.
__________________
I work for Virgin Media but all views are my own.
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 16:51
|
#2539
|
Still alive and fighting
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In the land of beyond and beyond.
Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV.
Posts: 56,313
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Yep sorry Vince but BenMcr and jj20x are spot on.
__________________
“The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 17:21
|
#2540
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: between Mars and Venus
Age: 44
Services: Plusnet 40mb unlimited fibre, roku, Verizon, netflix, nowtv, hbogo, hulu, SKY+HD box sets pack
Posts: 3,912
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by jj20x
... and faster... whether you want it or not!
|
Thing is atm VM are currently the fastest widespread provider but firms are now rolling out 1gbs and i think VM will be left behind.
Not for quite awhile yet though.
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 17:32
|
#2541
|
Still alive and fighting
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In the land of beyond and beyond.
Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV.
Posts: 56,313
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by theone2k10
Thing is atm VM are currently the fastest widespread provider but firms are now rolling out 1gbs and i think VM will be left behind.
Not for quite awhile yet though.
|
Well we shall see as plenty can talk the talk but can they walk the walk.
__________________
“The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 17:59
|
#2542
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: between Mars and Venus
Age: 44
Services: Plusnet 40mb unlimited fibre, roku, Verizon, netflix, nowtv, hbogo, hulu, SKY+HD box sets pack
Posts: 3,912
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by denphone
Well we shall see as plenty can talk the talk but can they walk the walk.
|
But companies are already walking the walk hyperoptic, gigabit are offering 1gb speeds already BT are rolling out 300mbs italk are preparing to trial 800mb.
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 18:05
|
#2543
|
Guest
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by theone2k10
Thing is atm VM are currently the fastest widespread provider but firms are now rolling out 1gbs and i think VM will be left behind.
Not for quite awhile yet though.
|
DOCSIS 3.1 can go much faster than current VM speeds and there are other developments such as DOCSIS 3.1 Full Duplex. The future path adopted by VM remains to be seen but there's no reason why they should be left behind.
Quite a while a quite a few more price increases ahead to keep up.
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 18:25
|
#2544
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: between Mars and Venus
Age: 44
Services: Plusnet 40mb unlimited fibre, roku, Verizon, netflix, nowtv, hbogo, hulu, SKY+HD box sets pack
Posts: 3,912
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by jj20x
DOCSIS 3.1 can go much faster than current VM speeds and there are other developments such as DOCSIS 3.1 Full Duplex. The future path adopted by VM remains to be seen but there's no reason why they should be left behind.
Quite a while a quite a few more price increases ahead to keep up.
|
Tbh mate i'm more than happy with the 38mbs i get at mo that's plenty for me.
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 20:42
|
#2545
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 1,641
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by theone2k10
Tbh mate i'm more than happy with the 38mbs i get at mo that's plenty for me.
|
I have 200mb in theory - in practice 12 to 15mb as my PC is wifi connected to the hub.
So all talk of high speeds is b*||*#^t in my opinion
|
|
|
06-09-2017, 22:08
|
#2546
|
Guest
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider999
I have 200mb in theory - in practice 12 to 15mb as my PC is wifi connected to the hub.
So all talk of high speeds is b*||*#^t in my opinion
|
There's not much point taking the highest speed if all of the customer equipment on the network is connected by wi-fi at low speed. Most of my equipment connects on 5GHz channels at relatively high speed. Generally at speeds above the broadband rate. Having said that, I don't use the superhub for wi-fi.
|
|
|
07-09-2017, 00:51
|
#2547
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: between Mars and Venus
Age: 44
Services: Plusnet 40mb unlimited fibre, roku, Verizon, netflix, nowtv, hbogo, hulu, SKY+HD box sets pack
Posts: 3,912
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider999
I have 200mb in theory - in practice 12 to 15mb as my PC is wifi connected to the hub.
So all talk of high speeds is b*||*#^t in my opinion
|
I agree although my network is wired but i live stream my gaming and the 38mbs down and 10mbs up speeds are fine i have no issues at all.
|
|
|
07-09-2017, 01:00
|
#2548
|
cf.member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: London
Services: TV Maxit TV with V6 box + phone, M500, VM Hub 3.0
Posts: 94
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
VM provides a good, fast broadband service in my experience, but the upload speeds suck. I'm on VIVID 200 which means 12Mbps upload, so my cloud backups take days. I'd be most interested if I could get Hyperoptic's fibre 100Mbps (it's the same speed both down and up).
|
|
|
07-09-2017, 14:23
|
#2549
|
Bah Humbug!!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Glasgow
Age: 43
Services: Sky Q 2Tb, Sky Q mini, boxsets and Sports & Movies HD, Sky Fibre unlimited
Posts: 13,810
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Can we get back to the topic please, this thread is a coming soon to VM TV thread, and not for BB speed discussion.
__________________
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 | 32GB DDR5 6000 | RADEON 7900XT | WD 2TB NVME
|
|
|
07-09-2017, 16:45
|
#2550
|
cf.geek
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 544
|
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
Hi its because there is not a lot coming to virgin media and people making there own fun
The virgin media store has launched but sign up not working
https://virginmediastore.com/sign-in
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 3 (0 members and 3 guests)
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 01:49.
|