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Offline dTEA

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Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« on: 16 January 2012, 08:43 »
2 of my friends have been told that their broadband is being doubled as Virgin up their top end speeds to 120mb. So All the lower packages will go up for free! :cool:

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Offline Kerrse

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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #1 on: 16 January 2012, 09:01 »
not much chance of me getting it where i live  :cry:

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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #2 on: 16 January 2012, 09:23 »
Up speeds are still low though I find it painfull uploading to Photobucket it max's out @ 4Mbps

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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #3 on: 16 January 2012, 10:38 »
^yeah the uploads and D/ls are still better than BT though.

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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #4 on: 16 January 2012, 11:53 »
^yeah the uploads and D/ls are still better than BT though.

Are they? I get 38 down, 8 up on Infinity. I'm hoping BT do something similar!

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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #5 on: 16 January 2012, 12:56 »
I was meant to get my ADSL2+ activated yesterday, was still waiting this morning before I went to work... Most likely because it was a Sunday it didn't go live. No VM in my street and no Infinity till at least 01/06/2012 - which was originally 01/12/2011 but got pushed back again  :rolleyes:

oh well got new interwebz arriving at work tomorrow (if BT don't f#ck up again and push it back AGAIN), should be able to live with downloading at work with 100Mb up and 100Mb down, burstable to 1Gb  :cool:  :laugh:
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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #6 on: 16 January 2012, 13:10 »
I've recently noticed by internet connection icon on the bottom right tells me 1Gbps, it used to say 100Mps  :tongue:
I'm finding I would like 10MB upload I'll be happy for them to take 10 off my download sometimes  :laugh:

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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #7 on: 16 January 2012, 13:50 »
That 1Gbps is the connection between your PC and  the router, not your internet speed  :wink: Just means you can transfer files on the local network quick than before, if you ever do do that.
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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #8 on: 16 January 2012, 14:36 »
That 1Gbps is the connection between your PC and  the router, not your internet speed  :wink: Just means you can transfer files on the local network quick than before, if you ever do do that.

Haa I know Jay I was shinning my cock that I've never seen 1Gbps  :tongue:
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Re: Virgin doubling broadband speeds
« Reply #9 on: 16 January 2012, 15:00 »
I got that email....then got this one-

"
Hello there,

Oops! That last email, 100Mb Broadband Announcement, was sent in error.

Please ignore this, and rest assured current Virgin Media Cable Broadband customers will be receiving some good news about their broadband in the next 2 weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The Virgin Media team
"

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