Broadband ISP Virgin Media has announced its plans for upgrading customers' broadband systems. Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service. Completion is expected by late summer.
Virgin Media have also said it will be extending its top-of-the-range 50Mbit/s service, offering it to customers who currently have a 20Mbit/s connection.
View: The full story @ vnunet
Virgin Media have also said it will be extending its top-of-the-range 50Mbit/s service, offering it to customers who currently have a 20Mbit/s connection.
View: The full story @ vnunet
I'll still need a modem upgrade tho
Once they roll out docsis 3, however, I doubt there would be many people who wouldn't receive the full 50mbit 24/7.
Anyone that's on Virgin media will know just how terrible their service is. When we got switched over to the 20Mbit service it was great for about 3 days. Then it went down for a whole week, completely down.
When it came back, we were barely able to hit 3Mbit and that was a good day.
A phone call to virgin revealed that apparently there was no problem at all, so they were completely unwilling to help.
What's more, I actually know someone that works for Virgin (formally Blueyonder) and they were telling me that the entire network is stupidly overloaded beyond capacity and their big router systems (there was another name for it, I forget what it was, though) are constantly going down because of it.
This is only going to make things worse for everyone. Get your capacity issues fixed FIRST, virgin and remove that stupid fair use policy while you're at it.
By the way is there any word of 2MB customers getting upgraded? Any word of a 4MB upgrade for us? It makes sense if current 4MB is going to 10mb.
It says in the post "Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service. Completion is expected by late summer."
It says in the post "Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service. Completion is expected by late summer."
Yeah I'm on 2Mb, I was asking if we would be upgraded to 4?
We're watching....
I believe it is Docsis instead of Dosci
Data over cable ... service interface something
Last edited by Xsabin on 28 Jan 2008 - 15:24
I believe it is Docsis instead of Dosci
Data over cable ... service interface something
yeah that's the spelling of it lol
Fine, I'll just speak for the people in most of Liverpool (where I currently am), a place that used to be covered by Blueyonder, a company with a previously flawless record.
I'll also speak on behalf of someone who still works for them, who's watched them fire 30 staff one month, then hire 50 the next to do the same job. Who's watched them downsize the call centres here and open up massive ones in india, filled with people who are poorly trained and cause more trouble than they fix. And you know what's funny? Where she is, she actually gets a proper service, but she knows how **** the company is because she works for their second line support. But sure, I'm spreading poop because we've all had a terrible, terrible service from them, that's right. You're part of the lucky few who actually get what's advertised, I guarantee you that there's a lot of people out there who don't, myself included, so I've got a right to be ****y.
I hope this includes us who are getting 20mbit on their VIP package.
I hope this includes us who are getting 20mbit on their VIP package.
nah i bet they'll increase the price like they did when it use to be 24.99
I must be one of the lucky few who gets 20mb service, well I get it outside the capped hours of 4pm til 11pm. Average 2.4megabyte per sec out of the capped hours.
I wouldn't have minded so much, but I had switched from 8Mbit ADSL with the exchange practically across the road.
I'd be very surprised if Virgin Media's upgrade announcement happens to all its customers. It'd be be great if they could, for at least then I could pretend I had made the right decision in switching to them, even if it is somewhat belatedly.
regardless of whether the company has a bad rep or not
this is the stuff that has needed to be done for years now
i hope other ISPs in north america follow in this now and we can rid ourselves of the third world grade speeds we have currently
50mbit should be 5mbit upload imo.
10mbit - 1mbit
2mbit - 256kbps.
Sounds fair to me but i'm doubtful how good there network will be after these upgrades. Lets just hope Virgin Media have been patching up the crap they got when they bought blueyonder.
4Mb is fine here though, except for the silly caps.
I hope they have improved a lot!
The 4mbps (10mbps to be package) will probably get 768k.
Haha, we already have Gbit internet here in some areas.
Last edited by JunkMail on 29 Jan 2008 - 13:00
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