20Mb virgin media BB

[Dink]

any one on it yet?

if so is it a good speed?

can check here when your area will be upgraded

 

[Matt 16v]

how much dollar will that cost?? i'm on virgin BB at the moment, would be interested to see what its like, the contention ratio's are key to getting a good level of service tho arent they, if you've got a p**n hungry next door neighbour or a serioius gamer (or both) on the same service you might not get very good speeds

 

[KDF]

im on 10mbit.. due for upgrade soon but not happend yet.. (edinburgh based)

 

[Day]

The old man trialled it for a week.

Was uber quick during twilight hours but during peak times it felt no faster than 4Mb tbh.

 

[sneeks]

No change in Glasgow and I do not even see my area listed on their site. They did send me a letter to tell me that I would recieve the upgrade soon.

 

[Munson]

My area is listed as 'To be confirmed'

 

[Toypop]

They haven't done Bristol yet. No idea if I will need a new modem or not as they haven't posted the info yet. Mine is the SB4100.

 

[Evil Ally]

VM are rolling out 20 meg and at the same time uping the price of their "XL" package by £2. In addition, users are now subject to traffic management in the evenings.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

I've not got 20meg here (Renfrew UBR) but a mate down the road in an ex-Telewest area has. He gets 20 meg but quickly falls foul of traffic management and gets throttled down to 5 meg. Since the VM re-branding I'm lucky to see 4 meg these days anyway, used to get 10 anytime of the day :dapprove:

 

[KDF]

TBH you dont want the upgrade.. as soon as you get 20mbit you will start to be traffic shaped if you download more than 3 gig between 4pm and 12am

 

[Evil Ally]

...and potentially to 4am if you breach your allowance at say 11:59pm :dapprove:

 

[Munson]

TBH you dont want the upgrade.. as soon as you get 20mbit you will start to be traffic shaped if you download more than 3 gig between 4pm and 12am

Yes but down to what?

 

[Evil Ally]

20meg goes down to 5, check the above link for all the details. And strictly speaking its "traffic management" they are implementing, which means all protocols/traffic are throttled down. "Traffic shaping" would allow for specific protocols (P2P etc) to be shaped and allow web browsing etc to remain unchanged.

 

[KDF]

Your correct, traffic managed would be more appropriate.. still sucks that the XL package gets a 75% reduction in speed but the lower packages only get a 50% reduction.

And on the 2mbit isnt its a 350mb limit then your dropped to 1mbit .. you can hit that just by browsing f**king youtube or somthing..

Been looking into bethere.co.uk but means i'll need to change back from telewest phone line to BT

 

[Griff]

Your correct, traffic managed would be more appropriate.. still sucks that the XL package gets a 75% reduction in speed but the lower packages only get a 50% reduction.

And on the 2mbit isnt its a 350mb limit then your dropped to 1mbit .. you can hit that just by browsing f**king youtube or somthing..

Been looking into bethere.co.uk but means i'll need to change back from telewest phone line to BT

Be rocks..

 

[Adam]

^ it looks to good to be true lol, i would change from virgin to that as I have a spare BT line at home . what you reccon???