Virgin doubling broadband speeds

[dTEA]

I can't get fibre optic from BT or Virgin.  Seriously not fair    I live in the third biggest city in the UK for gods sake!

I was BT then Be and only ever got 6mb of 24mb so when asking BT if theirs would be quicker than virgin they still said no...and overall that seems the case though some people are lucky with BT.

[R32UK]

I can't get fibre optic from BT or Virgin.  Seriously not fair    I live in the third biggest city in the UK for gods sake!

You live in Leeds?? 

I got a nice 50MB  any increase is always welcome though 

[Jay]

Still only sync'ing at 8Mb and my ADSL2+ capable router is reporting it's using annex A which is ADSL, not annex M which is ADSL2+ Lets see what PN have to say!

[jamie_pyrite]

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 

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   

Mmmm.. 100mb synchronous.. get some speedtest.net tests done please! BT 100mb leased lines aren't exactly cheap..

[Jay]

Nope, they're not cheap, but we've got big plans to cover most of the costs and already more than halved our bill 

If it does go live tomorrow I'll get a speedtest done, though I never got above 56Mb, if I remember, from our London datacentre using speedtest.net which is on a 1Gb link


Just got off the phone with PN and the order didn't go through automatically with the BT system so that's been placed for me and should take 5-7 working days... should have guessed, the might BT system letting us down again. I know it's BT because at work our migrations sometimes fail "unexpectedly" or not at all in BT's systems.

He did try fobbing me off at first saying my exchange wasn't ADSL2+ enabled, until I told him about my digging I had done to find it was ADSL2+ enabled

[The Doc]

50meg here, don't we'll get doubled 

[The Doc]

How wrong was I.....


Subsequently, Virgin Media representatives have been back in touch to clarify matters, saying:

"Following our announcement last week that we are doubling the broadband speeds our cable customers receive, we’ve started to write to let them know how it will work and what to expect. Our first email, intended for our 100Mb customers, was accidentally sent to some customers on other tiers which may have led to some confusion.

We’re sorry for any misunderstanding and will be writing to customers again soon to clarify how the upgrade will affect them. In the meantime, as part of our double speed programme we are delighted to confirm that 50Mb customers will actually be upgraded to 120Mb, meaning even more Virgin Media customers will be able to take advantage of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK."

Some 50Mb/s customers will see an initial rise to 100Mb/s before moving up to the full whack 120Mb/s, the telco spokespersons added.

[R32UK]

How wrong was I.....


Subsequently, Virgin Media representatives have been back in touch to clarify matters, saying:

"Following our announcement last week that we are doubling the broadband speeds our cable customers receive, we’ve started to write to let them know how it will work and what to expect. Our first email, intended for our 100Mb customers, was accidentally sent to some customers on other tiers which may have led to some confusion.

We’re sorry for any misunderstanding and will be writing to customers again soon to clarify how the upgrade will affect them. In the meantime, as part of our double speed programme we are delighted to confirm that 50Mb customers will actually be upgraded to 120Mb, meaning even more Virgin Media customers will be able to take advantage of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK."

Some 50Mb/s customers will see an initial rise to 100Mb/s before moving up to the full whack 120Mb/s, the telco spokespersons added.

 


Just wondering why I never got the email 

Anyway... I have seen speed easily go over the 50MB mark... so pretty sure this isnt fixed anyway.

[Jay]

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 

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   

Mmmm.. 100mb synchronous.. get some speedtest.net tests done please! BT 100mb leased lines aren't exactly cheap..

We've had the equipment installed downstairs, waiting for it to be sorted at the other end... but looks like it should be done by the end of the day, not sure if I'll get a speedtest done today though, will as soon as I can though   

[Jay]

Mmmm.. 100mb synchronous.. get some speedtest.net tests done please! BT 100mb leased lines aren't exactly cheap..

Fast enough for ya? It would be faster IF the test servers could keep up.








Just copied a 2Gb file to our London servers at 100Mbps    we can get 20 x the porn now 

Using my work PC remotely and it's almost like using it on the same network locally, and I'm only on 8Mb down and 0.4Mb up for the next week when I get ADSL2+ 17Mb estimated.