Virgin Media to switch on Gig1 Fibre for 1m homes next month

[3dcandy]

About 560 meg down here on 500 meg package...
But I'm lucky and not many subscribers

[Gentle Viking]

I don't understand people saying we got 1 gig but only get 500 mbit, or something like that.
I have been on 1 gig ( cable docis 3.1 ) for a few years now, and no matter the time of day i test it i always get + 950 mbit
The same was also the case when i had a lesser speed on fiber in my house, actually it was mostly 40/40 mbit and i paid for 30/30, which back in those days ( 10 years ago ) was a high speed.
i got to get what you pay for, otherwise that's stealing from you, and they cant say well that's due to traffic in peak hours, cuz like airliners that mean they have oversold their capacity, and again that's their fault and something they must correct, and not by stealing from you.

Guess the Danish backbone are better, and why evil companies build huge data centers here.
Cuz they cant have your facetwtt post go " thank you for posting it will be up some time tomorrow so your stalkers can see it"

[Corky34]

I'd like cheaper BB better than faster, odds on shortly after they start rolling this out they'll jack up prices yet again.

[3dcandy]

I'd like cheaper BB better than faster, odds on shortly after they start rolling this out they'll jack up prices yet again.

Not exactly expensive really. If you get the right deal, of course...
If not other providers will give you a lesser service etc.

[3dcandy]

I'm also interested in the better hub... bet I can't just have one of those though

[Corky34]

Not exactly expensive really. If you get the right deal, of course...
If not other providers will give you a lesser service etc.

£50 PCM is expensive in my books.

[Hoonigan]

I don't understand people saying we got 1 gig but only get 500 mbit, or something like that.
I have been on 1 gig ( cable docis 3.1 ) for a few years now, and no matter the time of day i test it i always get + 950 mbit

So, because you get the correct speeds, you can't think of a single reason why others might not? I can't help but laugh at your posts sometimes.

[3dcandy]

£50 PCM is expensive in my books.

£99 a month for 2 x V6 boxes, 500 meg tinternet and a mobile SIM with unlimited calls, texts and data. Home phone with unlimited calls if you hang up before an hour

Boxes have nearly all the channels including movies, sport etc.

So I guess that's not a good enough deal? Like I said "if you get the right deal"

Each to their own, Virgin broadband on it's own has never been a good deal

[bitbucket]

I have the 1Gig service in Manchester and I gotta admit it's incredible. My only (very minor) criticisms are that

A) The router's ethernet ports are 1Gbit, which makes advertising 1,100Mbit/s rather pointless when you can only really take advantage of around 970Mbit/s

B) 52Mbit/s upload speed is good enough I suppose, but seems a little lacklustre compared to the download speed

[3dcandy]

I have the 1Gig service in Manchester and I gotta admit it's incredible. My only (very minor) criticisms are that

A) The router's ethernet ports are 1Gbit, which makes advertising 1,100Mbit/s rather pointless when you can only really take advantage of around 970Mbit/s

B) 52Mbit/s upload speed is good enough I suppose, but seems a little lacklustre compared to the download speed

Ref B - most people download 100 times more than they upload....so I guess that's the thinking

[aniilv]

Upload speeds have always been throttled for virgin, they usually divide by 2, so its actually 26mbps upload if you plan uploading more than 3 selfies...unfortunately

The way around it is to spend more money and get work from home package which would (on paper) be more stable and not get any speed management

[Gentle Viking]

laugh at your posts sometimes.
Thats just fine i have always been the joker.

But yeah i totally get if you are on the end of a mile long piece of poor copper, i was for many years stuck at 6/1 mbit.
But if you are on a fiber then they cant really use the excuse of bad copper and best effort speeds.
Mind you i have also tried a couple of times where my cable was suddenly really slow, but every time a reboot of the modem fix that right up.
Something i never needed when i was on fiber at my house, but then again i was only on that fiber for a good year before the house had to go.
But my friend are on fiber 300/300 but now get 500/500 and he been there for well over 1.5 years, and trust me any IT problems and i will be the first to hear,,,,, and the one with the job of fixing them.

My sympathies are totally with the people that get screwed over some way, especially with ISPs, which i have been to court with myself to get my money back.
The people that actually own the cable i am on, well if they would catch fire - blow up and fall of the earth i would not mind one bit, the world would be a better place.
PS: It is the same company i went to court with back when they had me pay double for the DSL in my house.

[daddacool]

Tapping my foot impatiently for this to role out in Hertfordshire

We're on the 500Mbs package at the moment, it regularly hits 550Mbs, sometimes drops to 100Mbs though. I'd say our set up makes me a power user by the backdoor- I'm a gamer but we often have 5 people watching five different things on streaming services, and stuff downloading to one of the 8 current gen consoles in the house. And that's before we get into the smarthome stuff, and the Arlo cameras etc. Our home network (Synology router with 3 satellites) currently has 28 devices connected to it and everybody is either at school or at work.

Like many, I'd like to see the upload boosted significantly. Not fussed about it being synchronous but 100-200Mbs would be good.

[gagaga]

Tapping my foot impatiently for this to role out in Hertfordshire

We're on the 500Mbs package at the moment, it regularly hits 550Mbs, sometimes drops to 100Mbs though. I'd say our set up makes me a power user by the backdoor- I'm a gamer but we often have 5 people watching five different things on streaming services, and stuff downloading to one of the 8 current gen consoles in the house. And that's before we get into the smarthome stuff, and the Arlo cameras etc. Our home network (Synology router with 3 satellites) currently has 28 devices connected to it and everybody is either at school or at work.

Like many, I'd like to see the upload boosted significantly. Not fussed about it being synchronous but 100-200Mbs would be good.

They're working on it now in Herts. I know that because my service keeps bloody dropping.

[daddacool]

Come to think of it, ours does too. It's really annoying the eldest as it's interfering with his Overwatching

[PeteSmith]

But i just want 50/100mb at a reasonable and consistent price... Guess i will look elsewhere for that.