Sponge Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 (edited) *if you have their phone line. BBC NEWS | Technology | Virgin unveils next-gen broadband I don't think £35 per month, for those that qualify, is that bad. I'm certainly interested, but it's not in my area yet. 50Mb broadband Edited December 15, 2008 by Sponge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppetboy Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Currently overkill for me but it's great news! Oh and hopefully Virgin will bump us 2meg-ers upto to the long awaited 4mb now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted December 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Talk on the net is that it won't be traffic managed either. I can't find anything official though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 £35/month if you have a phone line from them at £11/month or £51/month if you just have broadband. When it is available in my area I'll go for it, yeah it's overkill but I don't pay for my broadband so I may as well get it. The 1.5Mbps upload would be very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted December 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 (edited) From another forum: Liverpool19-Dec New York(Newcastle area) 15-Dec Hayes 15-Dec Wigan 19-Dec Croydon 19-Dec Bradford 15-Dec Wolverhampton 19-Dec Dundee 15-Dec Glenrothes 15-Dec these are the first areas to get 50mb thanks to my mate in VM More reading and it seems there's a £30 installation fee and £50 activation fee! Edited December 15, 2008 by Sponge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppetboy Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Flippin' heck this has just been on the news on the BBC, is it that big of a deal? :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Yes, it is. My last flat had fibre into the building courtesy of COLT and during the day the internet performance was astonishing - it completely changes the way you use t'internet. I'd be going into the office to copy up DVDs, VMWare images etc. whereas once that was put in it was just as easy to squirt them up the VPN - it was actually our work end that became the bottle-neck. The large scale adoption of high-bandwidth connections will revolutionise how we communicate even more dramatically than always on ADSL IMHO We should see a shift to home publishing within a few years too, which would be good. I mean a few people do it already - I already house my own web site & Exchange systems at home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Hopefully I'll get a free upgrade since I'm XL It's astonishing how you become dependent on a fast connection. There's two PC's, two laptops and an Xbox all bashing away at home. Never do we have a speed issue. It's a right royal pain when the service plays up, which happened last month for a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 I'm currently on 20Mb (XL) and I think I'm paying £35 a month for that (well actually my employer pays £25 towards it!) So it seems it could be a free upgrade. I just hope I actually get the quoted throughput. I wonder how much cheaper it will be if I don't upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby_simon Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 I Too am on XL so hopefully will also get the upgrade; but I bet it takes a lot of time and pain as there will (I believe) ia lot of upgrades such as cabling to optic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriGGa Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Anyone seen the metro today? Pic of Rachel Stevens who was the promo girl for the Virgin Media Broadband Launch. Best thing about the 50mb speed methinks. Rachel on Strictly votes decision | Metro.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_hargreaves Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Virgin's Customer Service is absolutely horrendous and so is their line throttling. A mate of mine has the 20mb cable broadband and at peak times, without fail, they reduce the speed of it to about 11mb. I pay 15 quid a month for 02 20mb DSL broadband and it's never below 19mb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 You lot make me laugh. No, really, you do. I live in the middle of nowhere. BT can't provision any more broadband lines to the village, because they've run out of cable. Everything runs down aluminium cable, not copper (yes, really - it was a cost saving exercise in the 70s). And I get about 300 Kbps from their 1/2 Meg service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Milton Keynes was wired in aluminum, which as you know is a carp medium for ADSL via line I imagine the quality of life in the village outweighs your desire to have high speed bandwidth in the home- your just have to stay at work late to do those streaming videos and high bandwidth d/loads. Have you tried the £15 per month vodafone internet dongle :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted December 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 (edited) It's not that long ago (we're only talking 9/10 years) I was on 56k dial up. As I'm sure many of you were too. It makes me cringe when I think back and compare it to what I have today (20mb). I've actually had no TV, telephone or internet since 11am yesterday. It finally came back on a couple of hours ago. I have no idea what went wrong, but the contractors were in the street all day with wires everywhere. Presumably trying desperately to fix it. Every time I called VM status line the eta for a fix was shifting - 4pm, 8pm, 11pm... It's annoying as hell, but in the grand scheme of things the service hasn't been too bad. This was the first time in a long time something's gone wrong. I'm going to call them tomorrow and demand a refund for loss of service. They always offer something. I totally agree that VM's traffic management is beyond belief and they shouldn't be allowed to call it an unlimited service. I shouldn't have to alter my habits to accommodate it, but I have. I now do all my d/l overnight and have never been throttled. I understand 50mb with have no traffic management, initially. But when the service is nationwide, it will. Edited December 17, 2008 by Sponge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Milton Keynes was wired in aluminum, which as you know is a carp medium for ADSL via line I imagine the quality of life in the village outweighs your desire to have high speed bandwidth in the home- your just have to stay at work late to do those streaming videos and high bandwidth d/loads. Have you tried the £15 per month vodafone internet dongle :confused: My kids use t'Internet at home more than I do, but yes, you're right - I'm not bothered about the speed. Ironically we don't get mobile coverage at home either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 I'm more than happy with Be ( O2?) to want to change. In fact Be Internet have just announced a new service they are about to offer. They are bonding 2 phone lines together to get 48mbs, not sure how much it is but worth while if you don't want to go with Virgin. Be Readies 48Mbit DSL Service - Networking News - TrustedReviews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted December 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 Update: Postcode check resultsGreat news! 50Mb broadband is available where you live Cable services Because you're in a fibre optic cable area, you can get all this. * Up to 50Mb broadband * Over 165 digital TV channels * Great value home phone packages To order 50Mb broadband now just give our team a call on 0800 052 0783. I keep meaning to call VM to negotiate a new deal. Maybe I should ask for 50mb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 It's not in my area yet but I did notice : Upgrade to Virgin Media broadband: Size XXL £52 per month subscription I'm not paying that !! I'll stick to my XL 20Mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_hargreaves Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 I'm more than happy with Be ( O2?) to want to change. In fact Be Internet have just announced a new service they are about to offer. They are bonding 2 phone lines together to get 48mbs, not sure how much it is but worth while if you don't want to go with Virgin. Be Readies 48Mbit DSL Service - Networking News - TrustedReviews Will look into this, sounds good. And yeh Be are owned by 02. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzbitt Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Cousin got this installed a couple of weeks ago and its silly quick! Was downloading full albums in a matter of seconds... I too remember the days of thinking i had a good download speed when i hit 5kbs! haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Re: Bond 2 x exchange lines. Would that inncur 2 x rental charges from the non BB provider / BT line supplier :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobK Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 It's not in my area yet but I did notice :Upgrade to Virgin Media broadband: Size XXL £52 per month subscription I'm not paying that !! I'll stick to my XL 20Mb Yikes, £600 a year just for broadband! No thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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