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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Tbone-77 View Post
    I'm on virgins 300Mbps package and regularly get 380Mbps
    Sounds like a fault, you should have them fix it

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Tbone-77 View Post
    I'm on virgins 300Mbps package and regularly get 380Mbps
    Exactly the same here, some of us lucky ones are in areas where we were put on 350Mbps under the 300Mbps pricing as a test run, yet it runs even faster than that.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by EvilCycle View Post
    Exactly the same here, some of us lucky ones are in areas where we were put on 350Mbps under the 300Mbps pricing as a test run, yet it runs even faster than that.
    Virgins network could give you a 1Gbps connection tomorrow if they were so inclined, but they're not, so they keep on rolling out incremental upgrades every couple of years, allowing them to bump up prices as they go.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    I've been on their 350mbps package for a good couple of months now. Is this them officially rolling it out?

    I see some mention of beating BT's top advertised speed, but there's one major difference between the two. Virgin often achieves speeds higher than their advertised, whereas BT have literally never actually delivered the advertised speed, to anyone, ever. Maybe close, but never on or above.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Bagpuss View Post
    Virgins network could give you a 1Gbps connection tomorrow if they were so inclined, but they're not, so they keep on rolling out incremental upgrades every couple of years, allowing them to bump up prices as they go.
    Aren't the cable lines only capable of 450-500mbps?

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Oh good, another Virgin Media package that I *can't get*, in the absolute middle of Manchester City Centre.

    I'll just fill in another "register your interest" form for the 6th year running.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Whooooo, 350 meg..... in 2020.....

    We're about to be offered up to a gig, already.
    Good for you.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    Whooooo, 350 meg..... in 2020.....

    We're about to be offered up to a gig, already.
    What are you getting right now?

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Hoonigan View Post
    What are you getting right now?
    0.7Mbps, average.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    I'm on BT Infinity 2 and get a pretty standard 35Mbps, but pay for "up to 76Mbps". It does, however, allow me to 'just' watch 4K streaming via Netflix, etc. Though sometimes it will buffer and look like I'm watching good old 80s telly again.

    Meanwhile, Virgin is currently digging our street (cul-de-sac) up and getting cable down (Chineham, Basingstoke). Which is brilliant. I don't care about 500Mbps either way, as we'll get 200Mbps (apx£500 per year). It's approximately an extra £5 per 100 meg. So 500 meg would no doubt cost around £700 a year!! Is it really that important at this point to go from 300 to 500 meg? not relly.

    35 meg to 200 meg? Now that's an improvement.
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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    35 Mb/s should be sufficient for 4K TV, but remember that the 35 Mb/s is the line speed to your exchange, so you could be getting contention issues or a bottleneck downstream somewhere.
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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Midas View Post
    I'm on BT Infinity 2 and get a pretty standard 35Mbps, but pay for "up to 76Mbps".
    You should probably get onto BT. I was getting 48Mbps on an "up to 76Mbps" package and Sky insisted on sending an OpenReach engineer to investigate. He identified a wiring issue and got me up to 62Mbps in less time than it took him to drink a brew.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    I had already had the engineer out to investigate, and they said it was due to the cabinet (FTTC) being too far from my home.

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    0.7Mbps, average.
    So you're going from 0.7Mbps to over 700Mbps?

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Hoonigan View Post
    So you're going from 0.7Mbps to over 700Mbps?
    Hopefully, yes.
    Friend of mine currently has 74Mbps, the fastest I've personally known. He takes the mick summat chronic, so looking forward to gloating when he comes round!!

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    Re: Virgin Media UK to intro 350Mbps broadband package

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    Hopefully, yes.
    Friend of mine currently has 74Mbps, the fastest I've personally known. He takes the mick summat chronic, so looking forward to gloating when he comes round!!
    Aye, if you can wave a Gigabit connection in his face, he ain't gonna be happy! Roughly 13x faster?

    Plus, you'll be able to get around 120-130MB/s from Steam, providing their servers are good enough. I can get around 49MB/s on a 380mbit connection. Absolutely awesome being able to download a 30GB game in little over 15 minutes.

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